Hey everyone!
Been creepin' on this thread but finally got a build together I do enjoy. It's a very aggressive build utilizing Smuggler's Copter and Grim Flayer. My friend and I have been developing it for a few months. Check it out. Give me some insight and let me know what you think!
B/G EverCopter
4x Abrupt Decay
4x Bayou
3x Bloodstained Mire
4x Dark Confidant
4x Deathrite Shaman
1x Dryad Arbor
1x Forest
2x Gatekeeper of Malakir
4x Grim Flayer
2x Inquisition of Kozilek
4x Liliana of the Veil
2x Nameless Inversion
4x Smuggler's Copter
2x Swamp
2x Sylvan Library
4x Tarmogoyf
4x Thoughtseize
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4x Verdant Catacombs
4x Wooded Foothills
Sideboard - Always changes for Meta.
1x Disfigure
2x Dread of Night
1x Fatal Push
2x Hymn to Tourach
4x Leyline of the Void
2x Phyrexian Obliterator
3x Phyrexian Revoker
Link to deck @ TappedOut.net
Looks solid, why inquisition over therapy?
The only reason I’m writing this is because this thread hasn’t seen love in almost a year.
I was going to play Aluren at my local tonight but then I remember how much I loathe casting Brainstorm and blue cards so I decided to give this old school deck a try.
4 Drs
4 Bob
4 Nighthawk
3 Gatekeeper
1 Scooze
2 LotV
1 LtLH
1 Sylvan Library
1 Jitte
4 Decay
3 Hymn
3 Edict
3 Push
3 Tseize
1 IoK
1 Pulse
1 Forest
5 Swamp
4 Bayou
4 Verdant
2 Delta
4 Wasteland
1 Urborg ToY
Round 1 DreadStill W 2-1 - I get paired against my buddy who also happens to be playing an older deck. Turns out a 12/12 on turn two isn’t good enough nowadays in the face of Decays and Pushes. RIP Dreadnought, we hardly knew you. I win game one pretty easily, lose game two due to mana screw and win game three cause my buddy didn’t draw anything action.
Round 2 Eldrazi Stompy W 2-1 - Being on the play was huge as it allowed me to resolve a Drs before CotV came down. I waste him a couple times and then I beat down with Nighthawk equipped with Jitte. Game 2 I get stuck in two lands and can’t recover and game three was similar to game one.
Round 3 Czech Pile L 0-2 - Both games we both end up in top deck mode but you can’t out grind the cantrip cartel.
Round 4 Canadian Thresh - W 2-0 - This match felt unloseable. The edicts, cheap removal and strong mana base are what RUGs worst nightmares are made of.
Ended the night 3-1, deck was enjoyable. If you’re looking to have fun at your local, I’d totally recommend this deck.
Yeah it’s an awesome deck well suited for this meta.
As for the posted list immediately above, I would make the following changes
-4 Nighthawk
-1 Jitte
-1 Edict
-1 Push
-1 Pulse
-1 Wasteland
+4 Gifted Aetherborn
+2 Goyf
+1 Hymn
+1 Hexmage
+1 Obliterator
Lowers the curve, ups the threat count, Obliterator is an auto win against any deck that doesn’t play StP and Hexmage deals with a ton of cards including Planeswalkers
Well this is the list I posted in the 2 Green thread, but it's kind of Eva Green like.
Maindeck (61)
1 Deathrite Shaman
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Tarmogoyf
2 Ramunap Excavator
1 Reclamation Sage
4 Thought-Knot Seer
2 Reality Smasher
1 Shriekmaw
3 Fatal Push
3 Green Sun's Zenith
3 Collective Brutality
1 To the Slaughter
4 Mox Diamond
3 Smuggler's Copter
1 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Ancient Tomb
2 Bayou
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Forest
2 Hashep Oasis
2 Hostile Desert
3 Llanowar Wastes
1 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard (15)
3 Faerie Macabre
1 Thragtusk
2 Duress
2 Krosan Grip
2 Massacre
1 Batterskull
2 Choke
2 Engineered Plague
I played it at a few local weeklies to 3 3-1 finishes I believe and a monthly with a 1-2 drop. It's been awhile since then don't quite remember what the match ups were. I do remember games where a turn 1 3 mana spell won me games, and I did dominate a lands player with a turn 1 crucible snake. That and against elves turn 1 engineered plague was really good followed by a thought knot.
It is unique enough. Besides you swap a one shot 3 damage of red death to a mostrosity which is tarmogoyf. Nuff said.
Took this thru a league:
Creaures (14)
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confidant
4 Grim Flayer
2 Scavenging Ooze
Spells (29)
4 Thoughtseize
4 Fatal Push
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Inquisition Of Kozilek
3 Hymn To Tourach
2 Uneart
4 Mishra’s Bauble
2 Bitterblossom
2 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Liliana of the Veil
Lands (17)
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
3 Polluted Delta
2 Swamp
3 Bayou
1 Forest
Sideboard (15)
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Dread of Night
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Krosan Grip
4 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Pernicious Deed
1-2 Aggro Loam
0-2 Goblins
2-1 Storm
2-1 Infect
0-2 Show & Tell
Not great results but fun. Aggro Loam and Goblins kind of are just this deck but better. Grim Flayer is the real deal though. Gonna keep trying.
Assassins Trophy may have a place here? It's a vindicate against delver decks which is sick. Otherwise more flexible removal is great. I guess I always feel like this deck is good, but it probably isn't.
Well, this is a necro but I have picked this classic up as my “fun” deck, I’m playing lands “seriously” and want something to play occasionally to keep things fresh. This is what I am starting with tomorrow:
4 Thoughtseize
4 Tombstalker
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Fatal Push
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Polluted Delta
4 Nantuko Shade
5 Swamp
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Dark Ritual
4 Wasteland
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Hypnotic Specter
4 Bayou
4 Sinkhole
Sideboard
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Marsh Casualties
3 Choke
3 Thorn of Amethyst
The changes from the OG list are -Tombstalker +Dark Confidant, I only own 3 Tombstalker so I could get the 4th and try it out.
Also
- 3 Seal of Primordium -4 Snuff out
+3 Fatal Push +4 Abrupt Decay
There are a ton of cards I want to try out to try and modernize the list, but I am starting OG
Edit: immediately put Tombstalker back in
Last edited by lavafrogg; 05-29-2019 at 02:07 AM.
"eggs... why'd it have to be eggs"
I can't help but love OG Eva-Green, always had a soft spot for Bg agro-control. I would probably cut a Dark Ritual and an Abrupt Decay for a couple Sylvan Libraries, but other than that this thing is like Raquel Welch in a fur bikini: classic and sexy.
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
We are playing at Amazing Discoveries Gilbert, there is Legacy most nights in AZ...
I went 1-2 in a small 3 round league with 14 players(they just do 3 rounders on weekdays), losing to Storm and Mono Red... games against storm were super close and the games against Mono Red were basically all about the die roll as we both did good things turn 1.
I never got to a fast dark ritual hand in any game... which would have changed things.
"eggs... why'd it have to be eggs"
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