So the requirements of the deck are it must run the 5 favorite cards of the namesake player: Cavern, chalice, winter orb, grizzly, hymn. The first shot to combine these is below, but let me know if you’ve got something better! Second, need to try to find someone to donation stream it...
4 chalice of the void
3 hymn to tourach
1 winter orb
2 griselbrand
4 collective brutality
4 buried alive
4 exhume
4 animate dead
4 thought-knot seer
4 reality smasher
1 triskelion
1 Phyrexian devourer
2 necrotic ooze
2 cavern of souls
4 ancient tomb
3 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
2 city of traitors
10 swamp
2 eldrazi temple
SB
4 leyline of the void
2 helm of obedience
2 unmask
1 thought distortion
3 liliana's triumph
1 winter orb
2 plague engineer
Before even looking at your list, I had a similar idea from those 5 cards.
Buried Alive into Worldgorger Dragon -> Walking Ballista is a quick win with Animate Dead. I like this better than the Phyrexian Devourer combo because you don't need to exile your library.
Reanimator Stompy
//Reanimator: 13
4 Buried Alive
4 Animate Dead
3 Exhume
2 Dance of the Dead
//Stompy: 6
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Winter Orb
//Creatures: 11
4 Chancellor of the Annex
4 Griselbrand
1 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Walking Ballista
1 Necrotic Ooze
//Spells: 7
4 Collective Brutality
3 Hymn to Tourach
//Mana: 23
3 Chrome Mox
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
2 Cavern of Souls
8 Swamp
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Lake of the Dead
//Sideboard: 15
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Helm of Obedience
3 Defense Grid
2 Grave Titan
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
2 Damping Sphere
Chrome Mox synergizes with Winter Orb
Titan is a good plan B through GY hate.
Chancellor + DGrid + Chalice + Orb provide mana denial to stop blue decks from disrupting you.
Last edited by FTW; 02-27-2020 at 11:10 AM.
I like it!
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Yeah, that's a major oversight.
Here's a better fix. Replace Walking Ballista with Trinket Mage.
Buried Alive -> Worldgorger Dragon, Trinket Mage, Griselbrand
Cast Animate Dead or Dance of the Dead on Dragon
Get infinite mana
Animate Trinket Mage
Get Walking Ballista to hand
Cast Ballista X=1000
That makes Cavern of Souls @ Construct relevant, so Caverns is more than just filler.
DotD is weak, but tapped Griselbrand still draws 14 cards (no Reanimate lifeloss!) and tapped Chancellor still stops spells. With Chalice and discard support too, hopefully the tempo drawback is less than in a typical Reanimator deck.
In either build you could also run Unmask for the turn 1 discard.
I like the idea of having an FGC oriented list, but maybe something more like the below?
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Council's Judgment
1 Entreat the Angels
4 Ponder
2 Portent
3 Terminus
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
2 Predict
2 Spell Pierce
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Arcum's Astrolabe
3 Counterbalance
4 Flooded Strand
1 Mystic Sanctuary
2 Prismatic Vista
3 Scalding Tarn
5 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
2 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
1 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Hydroblast
2 Monastery Mentor
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Rest in Peace
1 Surgical Extraction
2 Wear // Tear
As a side note, maybe we should unban Hermit Druid soon?
Hi! This is quite an entertaining post. At the moment I like hermit_druid's idea (the decklist, not the bit about Hermit Druid), and also the idea using Worldgorger Dragon.
You can see Kinda's build live here, momentarily, being streamed now by Ark411. If you miss it, you can always catch the VOD later.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
The Buried Alive combo part looks pretty bad and is easily hated out, while the Black Stompy aspects looked much stronger. The deck looked its best when it was casting discard spells and BigDrazi, and weakest drawing its graveyard-dependent stuff.
Oko is a real problem and monoblack has limited ways to deal with it. Murderous Rider might be good in the board.
Karn, the Great Creator probably belongs in the main and would also help find the Helm of Obedience for the HelmLine kill.
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