FGC Stompy

[kinda]

So the requirements of the deck are it must run the 5 favorite cards of the namesake player: Cavern, chalice, winter orb, grizzly, hymn. The first shot to combine these is below, but let me know if you’ve got something better! Second, need to try to find someone to donation stream it...


4 chalice of the void
3 hymn to tourach
1 winter orb
2 griselbrand

4 collective brutality
4 buried alive
4 exhume
4 animate dead
4 thought-knot seer
4 reality smasher
1 triskelion
1 Phyrexian devourer
2 necrotic ooze

2 cavern of souls
4 ancient tomb
3 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
2 city of traitors
10 swamp
2 eldrazi temple

SB
4 leyline of the void
2 helm of obedience
2 unmask
1 thought distortion
3 liliana's triumph
1 winter orb
2 plague engineer

[FTW]

Before even looking at your list, I had a similar idea from those 5 cards.

Buried Alive into Worldgorger Dragon -> Walking Ballista is a quick win with Animate Dead. I like this better than the Phyrexian Devourer combo because you don't need to exile your library.

Reanimator Stompy


//Reanimator: 13
4 Buried Alive
4 Animate Dead
3 Exhume
2 Dance of the Dead

//Stompy: 6
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Winter Orb

//Creatures: 11
4 Chancellor of the Annex
4 Griselbrand
1 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Walking Ballista
1 Necrotic Ooze

//Spells: 7
4 Collective Brutality
3 Hymn to Tourach

//Mana: 23
3 Chrome Mox
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
2 Cavern of Souls
8 Swamp
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Lake of the Dead

//Sideboard: 15
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Helm of Obedience
3 Defense Grid
2 Grave Titan
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
2 Damping Sphere


Chrome Mox synergizes with Winter Orb

Titan is a good plan B through GY hate.

Chancellor + DGrid + Chalice + Orb provide mana denial to stop blue decks from disrupting you.

[JackaBo]

I like it!

[[reptiLe]]

Buried Alive into Worldgorger Dragon + Walking Ballista is a quick win with Animate Dead. I like this better than the Ooze combo because you don't need to exile your library.


how do you get ballista to stick mid-combo with animate dead? it only works with dance of the dead

[Pittplayer]

;1081555']how do you get ballista to stick mid-combo with animate dead? it only works with dance of the dead

You produce 100,000 Mana and ping them to death.

[H]

You produce 100,000 Mana and ping them to death.

That's not going to work if you Animate Dead a Ballista. It would ETB as a -1/0 and die before you could ever activate the ability, it doesn't matter how much mana you have.

[FTW]

Yeah, that's a major oversight.

Here's a better fix. Replace Walking Ballista with Trinket Mage.

Buried Alive -> Worldgorger Dragon, Trinket Mage, Griselbrand
Cast Animate Dead or Dance of the Dead on Dragon
Get infinite mana
Animate Trinket Mage
Get Walking Ballista to hand
Cast Ballista X=1000

That makes Cavern of Souls @ Construct relevant, so Caverns is more than just filler.

[Whitefaces]

Or you can get Necrotic Ooze as the 3rd Buried Alive target and just Animate Dead that after making all the mana.

[FTW]

Or you can get Necrotic Ooze as the 3rd Buried Alive target and just Animate Dead that after making all the mana.

Yeah, Necrotic Ooze works. Either way combos off with Buried Alive and only needs +1 slot in the deck. Ooze avoids getting blown out by counters on Ballista.

[kinda]

Needing to run DotD seems meh but combos work fine i think.

[FTW]

Needing to run DotD seems meh but combos work fine i think.

DotD is weak, but tapped Griselbrand still draws 14 cards (no Reanimate lifeloss!) and tapped Chancellor still stops spells. With Chalice and discard support too, hopefully the tempo drawback is less than in a typical Reanimator deck.

In either build you could also run Unmask for the turn 1 discard.

[kinda]

DotD is weak, but tapped Griselbrand still draws 14 cards (no Reanimate lifeloss!) and tapped Chancellor still stops spells. With Chalice and discard support too, hopefully the tempo drawback is less than in a typical Reanimator deck.

In either build you could also run Unmask for the turn 1 discard.

Unmask was in the original list created by whitefaces plus 4 grizzly, I didn’t think it would be worth it but could be right.

[hermit_druid]

I like the idea of having an FGC oriented list, but maybe something more like the below?

3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Council's Judgment
1 Entreat the Angels
4 Ponder
2 Portent
3 Terminus
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
2 Predict
2 Spell Pierce
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Arcum's Astrolabe
3 Counterbalance
4 Flooded Strand
1 Mystic Sanctuary
2 Prismatic Vista
3 Scalding Tarn
5 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
2 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island

1 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Hydroblast
2 Monastery Mentor
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Rest in Peace
1 Surgical Extraction
2 Wear // Tear

As a side note, maybe we should unban Hermit Druid soon?

[FGCmtg]

Hi! This is quite an entertaining post. At the moment I like hermit_druid's idea (the decklist, not the bit about Hermit Druid), and also the idea using Worldgorger Dragon. :cool::cool::cool:

[kinda]

Hi! This is quite an entertaining post. At the moment I like hermit_druid's idea (the decklist, not the bit about Hermit Druid), and also the idea using Worldgorger Dragon. :cool::cool::cool:

It's cool but I much prefer the eldrazi version here.

[H]

You can see Kinda's build live here, momentarily, being streamed now by Ark411 (https://www.twitch.tv/legacy_council). If you miss it, you can always catch the VOD later.

[FTW]

The Buried Alive combo part looks pretty bad and is easily hated out, while the Black Stompy aspects looked much stronger. The deck looked its best when it was casting discard spells and BigDrazi, and weakest drawing its graveyard-dependent stuff.

Oko is a real problem and monoblack has limited ways to deal with it. Murderous Rider might be good in the board.

Karn, the Great Creator probably belongs in the main and would also help find the Helm of Obedience for the HelmLine kill.

[kinda]

The Buried Alive combo part looks pretty bad and is easily hated out, while the Black Stompy aspects looked much stronger. The deck looked its best when it was casting discard spells and BigDrazi, and weakest drawing its graveyard-dependent stuff.

Oko is a real problem and monoblack has limited ways to deal with it. Murderous Rider might be good in the board.

Karn, the Great Creator probably belongs in the main and would also help find the Helm of Obedience for the HelmLine kill.

Sure but without the reanimator package I'm not sure how to fit in griselbrand which is a core deck requirement.

Murderous rider or something else to get rid of oko is definitely needed. The oko games were brutal.