Jund Bloodchief Ascension

[brattin]

Bloodchief Ascension looks like a fun card. It's cheap, it's relatively quick to charge, it's pretty solid when charged, and even if it gets Qasali Pridemaged or whatever, hey, they wasted their pridemage and your Tamogoyf is bigger (they probably weren't playing goyf anyway).

Here's my idea:

4 Bloodchief Ascension
4 Cabal Therapy (because it's great, works with charged Ascension, and helps you not lose to combo/control)
4 Dark Confidant (because it's great and we've got a low curve)
4 Hymn to Tourach (see Therapy)

4 Lightning Bolt (to charge Ascension during opponent's turn, also removal, also gives reach)
4 Grim Lavamancer (see Bolt)
4 Burning Wish (toolboxes are fun/flexible/give you something to do with extra mana)

4 Veteran Explorer (chumps early, combo with Therapy...not really necessary, but nice)
4 Tarmogoyf (beats)
4 Maelstrom Pulse (or 3 and 1 Pernicious Deed, +1 in the wishboard--catch-all solution, also better with charged Ascension)

20 lands (some basics for Veteran Explorer to fetch, mostly fetches and duals--probably no Wastelands).

Sideboard TBD. Wishboard, Red Elemental Blast, Surgical Extraction, Krosan Grip...whatever.

Note: dredging isn't very good with an active Ascension out. Ichorid might be a fun matchup, as well as possibly aggro loam.

What do you think? Potentially viable?

Well, of course it's potentially viable--all the cards are good except Ascension. Is it worth running Ascension, though, or is it just cute?

[mordraid]

I've tested something like it before.

Here's some cards you may wan to consider.

mindcranck
blightning

[thunderpig]

I built a version somthing like this (I don't remeber all of the cards in the decklist so my numbers could be off):


4 x Bloodchief Ascension
4 x Ankh of Mishra

4 x Sinkhole
4 x Hymn to Tourach
4 x Inquisition of Kozilek
3 x Thought Seize
4 x Small Pox
3 x Liliana of the Veil

3 x Cursed Scroll
3 x Innocent Blood

4 x Wasteland
4 x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 x Mishra's Factory
12 x Swamp

//I tried a few iterations running Crucible of Worlds which worked well:
//Subtract:
1 x Cursed Scroll
3 x Innocent blood
1 x Liliana of the Veil
1 x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

//Add
2 x Crucible of worlds
2 x Phyrexian obliterator (love this guy but probably should be somthing like Nether Spirit)
2 x Geth's Verdict


There are alot of similarities between the core of this deck Other Small Pox versions (I don't have Nether Spirit but he would be good. I also don't play Nether Void).

The premise is that I am destroying land and prompting them to put lands into play taking the requiste 2 damage from Ankh of mishra (Ankh loves punishing fetch land dependanat mana bases), eventually activating the Bloodchief ascensions. Using Geth's Verdict after they crack a fetch is also good for an ascension counter.

I play mostly casual magic and this deck was very unfun for my friend to play against (he is a non-basic land whore) so I quit playing it.

I think that Bloodchief Ascension could be a very powerful win condition if developed (it may be awaiting the right support cards). With such a low mana curve, Dark confidant could be considered in a version without Innocent Blood but he might continously get removed by Small Pox. I never tried Volrath's Stronghold though...

Blightning works well with Bloodchief Ascension but I found it too slow in my :R::B: build using Goblin Guide, Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning to help activate the Ascension.