Mono+Black+Scepter+Control

[Tangle.Wire]

Hi guys, the title says it.

I am around to build a Mono Black Scepter Control and had following idea:

3 Tombstalker

4 Duress
4 Hymn to tourach
4 Extirpate
3 Smother
4 Diabolic Edict
4 Tainted Pact
4 Isochron Scepter
4 Mox Diamond
2 Crucible of Worlds

3 Wasteland
4 Mishras Factory
3 Urborg
14 Swamp

I had some more other ideas with techs around Shallow Grave and creature callback with bottle gnomes and ticking gnomes like on the tempest times with corpse dance+gnomes which works really nice aggainst aggro and discard stops control.

what u guys think?

[scrow213]

Hi guys, the title says it.

I am around to build a Mono Black Scepter Control and had following idea:

3 Tombstalker

4 Duress
4 Hymn to tourach
4 Extirpate
3 Smother
4 Diabolic Edict
4 Tainted Pact
4 Isochron Scepter
4 Mox Diamond
2 Crucible of Worlds

3 Wasteland
4 Mishras Factory
3 Urborg
14 Swamp

I had some more other ideas with techs around Shallow Grave and creature callback with bottle gnomes and ticking gnomes like on the tempest times with corpse dance+gnomes which works really nice aggainst aggro and discard stops control.

what u guys think?

Yuck. I am guessing the plan is to imprint something awesome and use scepter a lot? Imprint what? Smother? Exirpate? Edict? Seems like those are bad choices for a Scepter shell to me. Why not just play Suicide black or some variant?

[Tangle.Wire]

Yuck. I am guessing the plan is to imprint something awesome and use scepter a lot? Imprint what? Smother? Exirpate? Edict? Seems like those are bad choices for a Scepter shell to me. Why not just play Suicide black or some variant?

I thought about sui too (in fact i want to try the scepter support not complete shell so dont cut it out) and sui needed to many slots for creatures+discard+scepter so a i said i tried the version with 3 bottle gnomes 3 ticking gnomes and shallow graves and a corpse dance which works pretty nice even on legacy.

[Kesta]

maybe an idea:

scepter on Funeral Charm then you can lock your opponent by discard as instant.

[FoulQ]

The problem is, the deck has a rough time against one of the hottest cards in legacy right now: krosan grip. Until that card wanes in popularity (if ever), scepter decks can't really succeed.

[Tangle.Wire]

The problem is, the deck has a rough time against one of the hottest cards in legacy right now: krosan grip. Until that card wanes in popularity (if ever), scepter decks can't really succeed.

Grips cant lock down this Scepter build cause you can also win without it, and even if u got the scepter it wont lock your opponent complete its more a usefull support and with duress and hymn to tourach the chance to force the opponent into a top deck situation is not that small.

[troopatroop]

What they're saying is that you don't have any good targets. Grip DOES rock you even though you're not playing the lock. You will invest two cards and get rocked by one. What do you most commonly imprint on a Scepter? How is that better than just playing more relevant cards? The list looks really unfocused.