Bardo mentioned that I should repost this thread without the protective attitude towards it. So I'm going to do just that and simply ignore any post that even resembles a flame instead of letting it get to me.

So if you want to have a discussion about something on the list, please post constructively and I promise to do the same.

First, the list...

4 Tombstalker
4 Tarmogoyf
4/3 Doran, the Siege Tower
3/4 Hypnotic Specter

4 Dark Ritual
4 Thoughtseize
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sinkhole
4 Snuff Out
4 Vindicate

4 Wasteland
4 Polluted Delta
4 Bloodstained Mire
3 Bayou
3 Scrubland
2 Swamp
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Before you ask, the established decks forum is for decks that either have tournament showings, or have been worked on and tested for a long period of time, and thus have a completely 100% finalized list.

I've been playing developing testing and tweakign this deck for a long time now, and this is a 100% complete well tested list. And I had won local tournaments with slight variations on this same list, including one just yesterday.

It's due to that latter category that a lot of the decks here are allowed to stay. The same reason that decks like the Mightly Quinn, Epic Elves and the other decks here were allowed to stay.

And also before you ask, yes I know that Doran is legendary. And yes, I personally run the full playset, though I posted it on the list as a 4/3 so you don't have to feel obligated to if you don't want to. And no, I don't mind that I have to occasionally keep a Doran in my hand when I already have one on the board. Because I wouldn't want to play the second Doran anyways. One should usually not over extend themselves and open themselves to a Disk or Deed or Wrath or Damnation effect like that.

A breif history of what prompted me to put together this deck. I've been getting sick of Eva Green having to play weak creatures like Shade and weak cards like Seal of Cleansing for a while now. Especially when monsters like Doran and land destroying bombs like Vindicate were just one color over.

When playing Eva Green, I felt like I was driving a Lambroguini stuck with a part or two from an old Chevy under the hood (parts like Shade and Seal).

I wanted all of my threats to be scary big, well out of burn and blocker range and my land destruction component to be simulatously more extensive and more versatile at the same time.

Splashing white and making room for Doran and Vindicate allowed me to do just that.

I've messing around with variations on this for what feels like an eternity now but settled on the absolute final list a week ago and have been really impressed with the overall decks performance so far. I mean crazy impressed.

Ritual has seriously never let me know one match all week, letting me lay down Tombstalkers, play first turn Hyppes, Sinkholes on the play, chain together Thoughtseizes with Reanimates, Hymns with Thoughseiges, Sinkholes with Dorans on turn three and all sorts of other broken nonsense.

Doran is a bomb, just as big or bigger than goyf most of the time, making your own goyf bigger as well, being safe from most black removal spells and essentially being a 3cc Tombstalker that isn't reliant on the graveyard in the least.

Vindicate is a bomb, blowing up the lands that made it past Wasteland and Sinkhole during round one, eating up creatures that Thoughtseize and Snuff Out missed round one, and taking crap like Chalice at 2 out back and shooting it in the forehead.