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death
01-23-2015, 11:00 AM
well not entirely....

you take away Brainstorm, Force of Will, Intuition and this is what you get

3 Griselbrand
3 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae

4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Unmask
4 Cabal Therapy

4 Faithless Looting
4 Entomb
4 Buried Alive
4 Animate Dead
3 Dance of the Dead

4 Lotus Petal

4 Badlands
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Shivan Gorge
2 Stensia Bloodhall

How does it work?

First the Worldgorger Dragon needs to be in your graveyard (via Careful Study, Entomb, Buried Alive, or other such cards). Play Animate Dead, which turns into a local enchantment that pulls target creature out of any graveyard into play (meaning the Dragon). The Dragon comes into play, and summarily removes all of your other permanents from the game, including the Animate Dead and whatever lands you have in play.

When Animate Dead leaves play, however, the creature it was enchanting is destroyed. The Dragon dies. And when the Dragon leaves play, all the permanents it had removed come back into play, including your lands (untapped), and the Animate Dead. Animate Dead pulls the Dragon back out of the graveyard, its comes-into-play ability triggers – at which point you can tap your lands for mana and then everything but the Dragon is removed from the game… again. Repeat. You net an amount of mana per cycle equal to what your mana sources can produce.

If you have no way of stopping the cycle, it will continue indefinitely, ending the game in a draw. Fortunately there is the option to have a different target in the graveyard available for the Animate Dead once you have gone through the cycle enough times. Bringing out Oona, Queen of the Fae with 500 mana in your pool is a good way to eliminate your opponent's library.


Worldgorder Dragon is legal effective today. What are you playing?

jroharo
01-23-2015, 12:09 PM
No dark rit?

death
01-23-2015, 12:55 PM
Here ya go.. it's also mono black

3 Griselbrand
3 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
4 Putrid Imp

4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Unmask
4 Cabal Therapy

4 Entomb
4 Buried Alive
4 Animate Dead
3 Dance of the Dead

4 Dark Ritual

6 Swamp
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Marsh Flats
4 Piranha Marsh

jroharo
01-23-2015, 12:59 PM
I don't really think the deck is viable without some type of hand sculpting from blue or red. I like your red list above though I tinkered with it through goldfishing:


1 Scholar of Athreos
3 Worldgorger Dragon
3 Griselbrand

2 Chrome Mox
4 Lotus Petal
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Dark Ritual
4 Entomb
4 Faithless Looting
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Animate Dead
4 Dance of the Dead
1 Buried Alive
3 Unmask

4 Badlands
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Marsh Flats
2 Shivan Gorge
1 Swamp

It's more all-in but I think that without blue you can't play the long game.

jroharo
01-23-2015, 03:19 PM
Been goldfishing a lot & made some more changes. I think I might try this on cockatrice tonight.


1 Scholar of Athreos
3 Worldgorger Dragon
3 Griselbrand

2 Chrome Mox
4 Lotus Petal
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Careful Study
4 Dark Ritual
4 Entomb
4 Faithless Looting
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Animate Dead
3 Dance of the Dead
1 Buried Alive
2 Unmask

3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Gemstone Mine
2 Shivan Gorge
2 Swamp

Redkid43
01-24-2015, 12:44 AM
testing results?

Weapon X
01-24-2015, 10:44 AM
No pack rat? Enabler and win con in one.

kihachi
01-24-2015, 01:52 PM
No pack rat? Enabler and win con in one.

What? How is Pack Rat a win-con?

maharis
01-24-2015, 02:01 PM
What? How is Pack Rat a win-con?

You attack with it if for some reason you can't combo off

Drake0525
01-24-2015, 03:55 PM
I've been thinking about this deck concept since Worldgorger was unbanned. I think what we're really looking at here is a 3 color deck. Most of the deck is black, we need the card advantage of blue, and our win condition is most likely red.

3x Worldgorger Dragon
4x Griselbrand

4x Entomb
4x Gitaxian Probe
4x Brainstorm
4x Ponder
4x Thoughtseize
4x Cabal Therapy
4x Animate Dead
4x Dance of the Dead

3x Lotus Petal
3x Banefire

4x Polluted Delta
4x Bloodstained Mire
3x Underground Sea
2x Blood Crypt
1x Island
1x Swamp

Banefire is interesting because it can't be countered. Then again, if we find that the hand-attack is effective at removing our opponent's permission, we may be able to get away with dropping red altogether - we could run something like Drain Life.

death
01-24-2015, 06:48 PM
I don't see the benefit of an uncounterable kill card when your mana engine is not unstoppable. In a U/B list, Cunning Wish and Intuition are way better than burn spell.

Eh, there's also a thread for this: [WGD] Ub Cunning Dragon (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?29078-WGD-Ub-Cunning-Dragon&p=862653&viewfull=1#post862653).

death
01-26-2015, 02:07 PM
David Gonzalez (http://www.eternalcatala.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2711) made top 16th of 81 on 1/24/2015

Maindeck:
3 Griselbrand
3 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
1 Scholar of Athreos

4 Gitaxian Probe
3 Unmask
3 Cabal Therapy
2 Duress
1 Thoughtseize

4 Faithless Looting
4 Entomb
2 Buried Alive
4 Animate Dead
2 Dance of the Dead
2 Necromancy

4 Dark Ritual
4 Lotus Petal

3 Badlands
2 Bayou
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
1 Polluted Delta
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Verdant Catacombs

Sideboard:
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Ancient Grudge
3 Defense Grid
2 Pithing Needle
2 Firestorm
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Surgical Extraction


He threw in a second kill card, 1 Scholar of Athreos is the 61st card.

Redkid43
01-28-2015, 06:30 AM
Love it. I would probably cut a card from the side and put Scholar there myself.

The first week that Dragon is legal it already has a top 16

death
02-05-2015, 10:26 PM
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
2 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Greenseeker

4 Cabal Therapy
4 Thoughtseize
1 Kiss of Death

4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Entomb
2 Buried Alive
4 Animate Dead
2 Dance of the Dead
2 Necromancy

4 Bayou
1 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Wooded Foothills
2 Marsh Flats
4 Piranha Marsh

The kill here is, if it isn't obvious: End the Dragon loop with Tasigur coming into play via any of the reanimation spells after using Entomb, Buried Alive, Greenseeker or discard on yourself. You spam Tasigur's ability until you mill Kiss of Death from the library. From there you can bounce it to your hand, cast it and replay it with each Tasigur activation until opponent is dead. (Actually, Exsanguinate seems a much better option since it's castable pre-combo and doesn't target). You can win with Piranha Marsh without wasting time durdling with the deck. This controllish version by the way has a nut draw potential of killing on turn 3. This is no way an optimized list and I only took 5 minutes to build it.

Valtrix
02-05-2015, 10:43 PM
Consume Spirit is better. (Since hitting creatures seems more important than beating Leyline.)

death
02-06-2015, 01:27 AM
Death of a Thousand Stings or better Hornet Sting since they are instants and therefore can be spammed within the loop without breaking it, as long as Tasigur is in play. Hornet Sting has wider applications.

Rood
05-17-2018, 01:24 AM
Sorry to necro this but anyone still playing Dragon? came up with a list...was wondering what you guys thought


// 60 Maindeck
// 4 Artifact
4 Lotus Petal

// 7 Creature
3 Griselbrand
3 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae

// 9 Enchantment
4 Animate Dead
4 Dance of the Dead
1 Necromancy

// 8 Instant
4 Entomb
4 Dark Ritual

// 17 Land
4 Piranha Marsh
4 Sunscorched Desert
3 Badlands
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Gemstone Mine

// 15 Sorcery
4 Unmask
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Faithless Looting
3 Buried Alive


// 15 Sideboard
// 8 Creature
SB: 4 Pack Rat
SB: 4 Wanted Scoundrels

// 1 Land
SB: 1 Swamp

// 6 Sorcery
SB: 3 Collective Brutality
SB: 3 Thoughtseize

I saw another cool idea of playing with 4 Grim Monolith and 4 Grave Titans in the board
as a transformational idea as well.

Basically the idea is to kill your oponent with your lands via dragon loop but you can also just
power out a Griselbrand early too. was wondering if anyone has any testing with this deck?

TLK
05-17-2018, 02:54 AM
Looks fun. What are the Wanted Scoundrels in the board for?

kinda
05-17-2018, 09:06 AM
@rood: this looks sweet! Could you explain your sb and buried alive strategy?

Xod
05-17-2018, 09:42 AM
Definitly will test this!

gngpostalsrvc
05-17-2018, 06:51 PM
Sweet deck, Rood! I'd recommend main decking the Collective Brutalities to kill Deathrite Shaman and swapping the Oona for Tasigur, which is a kill with Worldgorger (you mill yourself until your opponent is force to give you a Collective Brutality and then cast Brutality infinitely).

Weapon X
05-17-2018, 10:58 PM
I had built a UB version that I was playing for a while. The redundancy and having land as a possible combo outlet made it fairly strong.

Xod
05-18-2018, 02:43 AM
Can you share the UB list Weapon X?

Weapon X
05-18-2018, 08:26 AM
2 necromancy
3 dance of the dead
4 animate dead
1 oona, queen of the fae
3 worldgorger dragon
1 vendillion clique
1 snapcaster mage
3 cunning wish
4 entomb
4 careful study
3 read the runes
4 ponder
4 brainstorm
4 force of will
1 pact of negation

4 polluted delta
4 underground sea
4 gemstone cavern
1 swamp
1 island
2 duskmantle house of shadow
3 nephalia drownyard


That should be close to what I was playing minus the now banned delve stuff.

Acclimation
05-18-2018, 03:49 PM
It's probably a nightmare to play on MTGO, but I think you can max out on a playset of Dance of the Dead and some number of Walking Ballista as your win con/mana dump, as it's not unreasonable to cast, can ping down Delver and DRS and Thalia, and can be cast on X=0 to get it into the yard easily.

Weapon X
05-18-2018, 06:12 PM
The goal is to be able to win at instant speed. I want to be able to interact with the combo happening. Plus having lands as a win con and enabler is kinda sweet.

DNSolver
05-19-2018, 09:37 AM
What does your sideboard look like? What Cunning Wish targets?

Acclimation
05-19-2018, 01:05 PM
Unless I'm misreading cards, I don't think you're going off with 7 non flash reanimation spells at instant speed.



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Weapon X
05-20-2018, 09:01 AM
The reanimation doesn't need to be instant, it's everything else that should be. Necromancy being the instant speed reanimation is cost prohibitive, but does give a minor window. Being able to do anything during the loop is really the only reason to focus on "instant speed" in this case.

As for wish targets the main ones that are still playable were:
Read the runes
Pact of negation
Intuition
Slaughter pact

I will reiterate I was playing this when the delve cards were allowed which does hurt. Impulse isn't quite a dig through time.

Xod
05-23-2018, 11:29 AM
And Rood did you test the deck? :wink: (your messagbox is full)

Planning to also play it, maybe with a sideboard of 3 grim monolith (don't own a fourth), 4 grave titan, 4 pack rat, 3 or 4 krosan grips.

A couple of questions:
why the scoundrels in the side? as a cheap quick beater?
Why the cabal therapy? A way to save life? Only way to see the opponents hand is Unmask, and no ways to flash it back (unless after you drew 7-14 of grisselbrand)
Why the gemstone mines? Aren't bayou's better for the green splash in the side, or for an absolute source to produce red?

Also I ordered both lifeloss lands, but I might only play the desert, because the entered tapped of piranha seems to painful.

Xod
05-24-2018, 03:01 AM
My take on the deck:

// 60 Maindeck
// 4 Artifact
4 Lotus Petal

// 7 Creature
3 Griselbrand
3 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae (Is the Scholar not a better option in a non-force deck?)

// 9 Enchantment
4 Animate Dead
4 Dance of the Dead
1 Necromancy

// 8 Instant
4 Entomb
4 Dark Ritual

// 17 Land
2 Piranha Marsh (can still be helpful against lands --> glacial chasm)
4 Sunscorched Desert (prefere desert since it still produces mana the turn it comes into play)
4 Badlands
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Bayou (changed the gemstone mines to have a better chance at getting the green mana)
1 Swamp

// 15 Sorcery
3 Unmask
3 Cabal Therapy
2 Collective Brutality (disruption, anti-DRS and enabler)
4 Faithless Looting
3 Buried Alive


// 15 Sideboard
// 8 Creature
SB: 4 Pack Rat
SB: 4 Grave Titan

// 3 Artifact
SB: 3 Grim Monolith (don't have the fourth :-))

// 4 Instant
SB: 4 Krosan Grip/Abrupt Decay

I think in game 2, my whole sideboard comes in, and out goes:
2 Animate dead
3 Dance of the Dead
2 Buried Alive
2 Worldgorger Dragon
2 Griselbrand
4 Lotus Petal

Depending on what answers the opponent has.

Any thoughts?

Rood
05-31-2018, 01:57 AM
Sorry I was a bit late on my reply...anyways I played at a local tonight went 2-1 punting my one match I lost due to sideboard error
Here I was what I played

4 Lotus Petal
2 Griselbrand
4 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
4 Animate Dead
4 Dance of the Dead
1 Necromancy
4 Entomb
4 Dark Ritual
3 Piranha Marsh
4 Sunscorched Desert
3 Badlands
3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Swamp
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
4 Unmask
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Faithless Looting
1 Thoughtseize

1 Engineered Explosives
4 Pack Rat
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Dismember
2 Nature's Claim
2 Collective Brutality
2 Thoughtseize

Some thoughts:

I won every single game 1 without any sort of resistance whatsoever. I think this deck is crazy explosive g1 with no hate
I killed a couple people with the Geier Reach...cards surprisingly not bad tbh. Matchups were as followed

R1: Miracles (Won 2-0)
g1: I have multiple reanimation spells after T1 Faithless and Dragon takes care of business. Sunscorched ftw
g2: I actually get there with the Pack Rats....He doesn't find Terminus

R2: Elves
g1: Turn 2 Griselbrand into draw 14 WGD combo you out for 100000000 damage via Sunscorched Desert
g2: I destroy his hand with Therapies and Unmasks to clear the way for EOT Entomb into WGD...his one free draw he had was
Surgical zzz.
g3: I punt VERY VERY badly here. I boarded out my 2 Griselbrands on accident without realizing it. I go for unmask Rit
Entomb Dance of the Dead....Only having a dual land and was forced to grab my Dragon for a draw. If I had either of the Griselbrands
it was over for sure...Really bad sideboarding error on my part
g4: I have turn 2 WGD he has surgical with turn 1 Deathrite. I had another Entomb for Griselbrand but never find a removal spell for the
Deathrite Shaman

R3: Affinity
g1: Mull to 5 into turn 2 Griselbrand. followed by a draw 14 into WGD wombo.
g2: He has turn 1 Relic. I EOT grudge into entomb/Dance of the dead. GG

Few Thoughts:

-Faithless Looting is the best card in the deck and it isn't even close. Cards NUTS.
-I like Gemstone Mines because they enable Loots Claims and Grudges. Also EE is great with the card.
-Pack Rat is the bomb.
-Never board out all the Griselbrands. Leave 1 in always.
-Still trying to optimize the SB plan with this deck. It's very tricky to figure out what to splice.
-Buried Alive absence was never felt. I don't think this card is neccessary in this deck to accomplish our goal

@Xod I like your list dude. I think a 3/3 split between WGD and Griselbrand seems fine. IDK why I went with 4/2
I was kinda rushed before the tournament to put the deck together.

I'll keep rocking this beast and keep you guys updated. I really like how this deck feels though...the hands you draw are just
busted most of the time. Thanks!

Xod
05-31-2018, 07:28 AM
Went 1-4-drop with it last Sunday, I won only the last game :-)

But like Rood said, only 1 round I lost the first game, the rest of the rounds, I won the first game rather quickly. The ping-lands are awesome.

The transformational sideboard didn't go as planned, although it showed some good potential. But had some bad luck, game 2 against DnT, the reanimation part was of the table by the amount of hate he had, but I could power out a grave titan, but didn't found a ritual or monolith, so the time it would land was already to late... And game 3, I had double pack rats, and I unmasked his hand, only had 1 land. He topdecked a land and a revoker, together with SoFaI and mom, it killed me.

In the future I will not go for the full transformational plan and more for combatting the hate. I will write a full report but don't have much time right now and will test something else this weekend :wink: . But as Rood said, it can be really explosive and less clunky than you would think. And also, Faithless looting is the best card in the deck :cool: Used the flashback multiple times to win the game. Also, Buried alive also won me 2 games (used to play Oozing, similar plan) because apparently 2 DR, Buried Alive and Animate dead is a one turn kill :wink:

2 suggestions:
Massacre (against containment priest, Thalia and such)
Pithing Needle (against DRS, maybe even maindeck, and Karakas, that card is worse than DRS)

Maybe playing with a (burning) wish board? Maybe too fancy.

What did you use Geier reach for? Mainly looting for yourself? Ahhh, now I see the kill :cool: (but you need to have more cards in your deck than your opponent, can be iffy after griselbrand)
The Piranha Marshes are good because they produce black, but the tapped into play slows you down a turn. 6 ping lands were plenty. Oona in the grave or an entomb in hand is also enough.

I think that bayou's are better than gemstone mines because they can be fetched and still be used after 3 turns :-) But I could be wrong, convince me :wink: I will post an updated deck/SB later on.

Xod
06-11-2018, 02:54 PM
Ignore my previous comments about pithing needle, because we don't care about karakas. Our dragon is not legendary. :tongue:

I think we can easily use 90% of the sideboard of BR Reanimator.
2 Ancient Grudge (no comments there)
4 pack rats (I think we can go fully anti hate, but why not, it's fun and it can win games on it's own, although I don't think you need to board it in against combo decks)
2 dismember (I think this easily can become a different removal Spell like push, if you want to fight hate, better against Chalice decks and Eldrazi to keep the pressure away)
2 nature's claim (nothing wrong here with the mines, but playing with the bayou's I think a better choice would be 2 or 3 Reverent Silence)
2 collective brutality (I have them main so I don't need this spot)
2 thoughtseize (no objections here, although duress might be enough, depending if you need more enablers, I don't honestly)
1 E. E. (A catch all I suppose, I don't think I need it if you use massacre and/or Decay)

So as a conclusion I would cut:
-1 E. E.
-2 brutality
-2 claims
And add:
+3 reverent silence
+2 Massacre

Rood
06-12-2018, 08:41 PM
Been rockin this on cockatrice to great results

4 Lotus Petal
3 Griselbrand
3 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
4 Animate Dead
4 Dance of the Dead
1 Necromancy
4 Entomb
4 Dark Ritual
2 Piranha Marsh
1 Bayou
4 Sunscorched Desert
3 Badlands
3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Swamp
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
4 Unmask
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Faithless Looting
1 Thoughtseize

1 Pithing Needle
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Dismember
3 Nature's Claim
4 Collective Brutality
2 Thoughtseize
1 Duress

Basically a few notes:

I ended up hardly ever resorting to the Pack Rat backup so I just cut it entirely for full on combo.
Boarding into alot of hand disruption postboard is very strong. Almost everyone's GY hate i've seen are
Surgical/Faerie Macabre. Very rare do I see leyline or something. Deathrite is a pain in the ass I think 4
Brutalities are needed in the board to deal with that matchup. Most of the time I find myself boarding postboard like this

-1 Necromancy
-1 Unmask
-1 WGD
-1 Griselbrand
-1 Marsh
-1 Looting
-1 Petal/Dark Ritual/WE

+2 Seize
+1 Duress
+2/3 Claim
+3-4 Brutality (DR matchup)

Been having great success with the list. Think I'm starting to nail it down how to board properly.

Xod
06-14-2018, 05:34 AM
I think we can learn alot from our BR counterpart.

This is an interesting article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NVuPujPlt-PlDC_q7HB0yrQRCOwdOnvaOWVtSlYScGU/edit

One note on your sideboard Rood: you are very much at a disadvantage against Eldrazi, Leyline of the Void and Chalice on 1 will result in an autoloss.
That's why the Reverent Silences are good for. And still for Leyline of Sanctity and RiP. But a split of both would be nice.

I will be testing some sideboards and post back here. Next test, tonight. :smile:

Also read the article concerning Collective Brutality and Grim Lavamancer (Magus is a nonbo for us with our ping-lands), depending on playstyle, both are an interesting addition.

Xod
06-14-2018, 08:41 AM
Sideboard will be something like:
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Massacre
2 Grim Lavamancer
1 Pithing Needle
1 Duress
2 Thoughtseize
2 Collective Brutality
3 Reverent Silence

Rood
06-15-2018, 12:25 AM
Went to my local tournament last night and actually went 4-0-0 good for first place out of 15 players.
Deck performed all but advertised and had hoped it would. Was testing out Pact of Negations in the SB and worked like
a charm for me.

4 Lotus Petal
3 Griselbrand
3 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
4 Animate Dead
4 Dance of the Dead
1 Necromancy
4 Entomb
4 Dark Ritual
3 Piranha Marsh
4 Sunscorched Desert
3 Badlands
3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Swamp
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
4 Unmask
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Faithless Looting
1 Thoughtseize

2 Ancient Grudge
2 Dismember
2 Nature's Claim
4 Pact of Negation
3 Collective Brutality
2 Thoughtseize

R1: Sneak/Show
g1: he goes for the sneak I have the Griselbrand. Dragon Ensues
g2: we get over a war for Griselbrand to hit play. I have double Pact of Negation. Draw 14 into Enter the Dragon

R2: Storm
g1: I have turn 1 Griselbrand followed by double unmask therapy. Turn 2 Dragon
g2: We trade discard spells heavily but I eventually essemble Dragon combo before he can get
much going

R3: Death and Taxes
g1: I had it turn 2 but he resolves a turn 2 Thalia. Soon after He plays Sanctum Prelate at 2. I go
Dark Ritual into Necromancy for 4.
g2: I play it patiently and go for Unmask into Rit, Entomb, Dance.

R4: Sneak/Show
g1: We get into a war of attrition but I have double animation spells for his Force on Dance for Dragon
g2: He has turn 0 Leyline of Sanctity/Cage. Alrightttttt then
g3: He mulls to 6 into double Leyline but I have turn 1 Griselbrand. Soon after the deed is finished with Worldgorger combo
protected by 3 Pact of Negations.

Overall was a fun tournament. Getting really experienced with this list now helps alot with knowing how to sideboard. Game 1
is kinda just a complete steamroll 90% of the time. Let me know what you guys think.

Xod
06-15-2018, 05:07 AM
I went 2-2 yesterday, lost to High Tide and Goblins (was really close) won against dragon stompy and a BUG control deck.

Against BUG it was very funny, we went draw go for a lot of turns, I stripped his hand but he managed to put a TNN. I could drop dragon in the grave, and an animation spell, but I needed an entomb (for oona) or a ping land, when he brought me below 3, I went for the draw :tongue:
Result was 2-0-1 :cool:
The grim lavamancer made me get through 2 DRS.

Goblins disrupted me heavily, had a top hand after a mull to 5, I unmasked him in my turn and saw: 2x wasteland, thorn of amethyst, 2x faerie, 1 stingscourger. And against High Tide I found very few to none discard and he Always had counters up. Still glad with the deck.

Rood
06-19-2018, 01:22 AM
Took this deck to a 3rd place finish at a decent sized Vintage tournament on Saturday.
Changed the list up obviously to combat the hostile Vintage metagame.

Here was my list

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Lotus Petal
3 Worldgorger Dragon
3 Griselbrand
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
4 Dance of the Dead
4 Animate Dead
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Entomb
4 Dark Ritual
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
3 Polluted Delta
2 Badlands
4 Sunscorched Desert
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Bayou
1 Underground Sea
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Unmask
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Faithless Looting

SB:
4 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Bayou
2 Collective Brutality
3 Thoughtseize
4 Reverent Silence

R1: Shops 0-2
R2: Dredge: 2-0
R3: Paradoxical Outcome 2-0 (On stream)
R3: Deathrite midrange 2-1

Top 8:
URW Pyromancer Control 2-1

T4: Shops 0-2

So at least the vintage counterpart of this list can still compete at a very high level. The Shops matchup despite me
having access to 4 Hurkyl's Recalls SB wasn't great. I don't really know how to improve that matchup without just drawing
a busted hand on the play. Was a great tournament and Bazaar of Baghdad is nuts lol.

Weapon X
06-19-2018, 07:57 AM
Null rod is solid.

Also I still have the goal of running this with tog.