Life.dec

[Gollus]

In former years i played life.dec in Legacy. It was quite fun and i liked it a lot. Unfortunately cards and decks came out, that wrecked it like Counterbalance, Emrakul(not going out of library), and so on. The deck became unplayable and i let it down. But in the recent years a lot of cards got printed working against those problematic ones and with the new Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim i wanted to try to revive this deck.


The Combo works as follows:

You have creatures that get bigger if targeted:

Daru Spiritualist
Task Force
Angelic Protector

You have cards that can target infinite times:
All the en-kor e.g.

Nomads en-kor
Shaman en-kor

Or Equipment

Lightning Greaves
Shuko

And you have sac outlets to gain infinite life:
On oft he better ones are

Diamond Valley
Worthy Cause
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
Consuming Vapors
Devour Flesh
Miren, the Moaning Well
Starlit Sanctum
Condemn


with infinite life the win is as you like. Milling your enemy with Emrakul(or getting him into play via Aether Vial, winning with Test of Endurance or with Power/Toughness switchers...
The biggest problem here is that it’s a 3 card combo without winning you the game right away and every piece isn’t guite good on ist own, but we can play as an slower aggro deck with the combo always to fear for the opponent. There are little decks that can win after you have infinite life. Aluren, Jace, Emrakul, Painter are the biggest out there (don’t know if i overlook something) but just Jace is played frequently and he is the easiest to answer.
My old decklist just right out of my mind was something like:

4 Nomads en-kor
3 Shaman en-kor
3 Daru Spiritualist
4 Task force
4 Mother of Runes
4 Aether Vial
4 Living Wish
1 Doran, the Siege Tower
3 Eladamri’s Call
2 Worthy Cause
1 Harmonic Sliver
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Diamond Valley
1 Starlit Sanctum
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
4 Windswept Heath
4 Savannah
3 Scrubland
1 Bayou
4 Plains
2 Forest
1 Swamp


Sb were Krosan Grips and wishtargets.

So i would like to rebuild a life.dec with you, to see if it is viable nowadays.

We have new cards that help alot in

Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
Abrupt Decay
Warping Wail
Cavern of Souls
Council's Judgment
Grand Abolisher
Stoneforge Mystic
…

Red doesn’t give us much and we are BW because of Ayli anyways, so green would fit via the tutors or blue for Meddling Mage, Brainstorm,….. but i think green is the best option here or just BW with less focus on the combo.
So nowadays i would built it something like this:

3Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
4 Nomads en-kor
3 Shaman en-kor
3 Daru Spiritualist
4 Task Force
4 Aether Vial
4 Mox Diamond
4 Warping Wail
2-4 Thoughtseize / Inquisition of Kozilek / Cabal Therapy
2-4 Swords to Plowshares/ Council's Judgment / Vindicate / Aprubt Decay / Devour Flesh
4 Living Wish
1 Doran, the Siege Tower

2 Diamond Valley
4 Cavern of souls
3 Starlit sanctum
1 Volrath's Stronghold
2 Windswept Heath
2 Marsh Flats
3 Savannah
2 Scrubland
2 Plains
1 Forest
1 Swamp

SB:

4 Chalice of the Void
3 Brave the Elements
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Diamond Valley
1 Daru Spiritualist
1 Shaman en-kor
1 Grand Abolisher
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Crookclaw Transmuter
1 Felidar Sovereign

That’s just a rough sketch of what i imagine for a combo list.

I Think the BW list would go more on the disrution side and with Stoneforge package and Shuko.
Something like:

3 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
4 Nomads en-kor
4 Daru Spiritualist
3 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Shuko
1 Batterskull
1 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Aether Vial
4 Warping Wail
4 Thoughtseize
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Swords to Plowshares/ Vindicate / Devour Flesh
1 Transmutation
2 Cavern of souls
2 Starlit sanctum
1 Volrath's Stronghold
4 Wasteland
4 Marsh Flats
4 Scrubland
2 Plains
1 Swamp
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

SB:

3 Brave the Elements
3 Unearth
4 Extirpate
5 Something



So what to you think about these decks? What cards do i miss? What route would you build it?
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