[Primer/Deck] Pox

[Hardcore]

What i would like to see is a Drain Life with delve mechanic.

[bruizar]

4-2 did yesterday. I was in third place.
Here are the results:

Pox 2x1 Reanimator
Pox 2x1 BUG
Pox 0x2 UR Burn
Pox 2x1 Merfolk
Pox 1x2 Death and Taxes
Pox 2x0 UR Burn


My Deck:

4 Mishra's Factory
13 Swamp
4 Wasteland
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmo..
1 Maze of Ith

2 Nether Spirit

1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Spinning Darkness
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Liliana of the Veil
1 Nether Void
2 Cursed Scroll
1 Pox
3 Dark Ritual
3 Innocent Blood
4 Sinkhole
1 Toxic Deluge
4 Smallpox


Sideboard

2 Pithing Needle
2 Spinning Darkness
2 Extirpate
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Engineered Plague

Please try Empty the Pits. You're already running Dark Ritual and the entire deck fuels the graveyard. If there is ever a deck for Empty the Pits, this is it.

[Chatto]

Empty the Pit looks like fun,but seems so damn expensive. How much zombie tokens do you think you can get?

[Hardcore]

Not as many that Ant/Pif get.

If I could draw it when needed, and not in my starting seven, then maybe...
I suspect it will turn out too expensive for decks running pox. BG loam could run it, but then again Merit Lage is better for them.

[zenitramleirdag]

Empty the Pit the pit looks cool and even has nice artwork..but it feels so slow..i think i'd pick work harvest first than it..even for mono black..

[sarahiscute]

How do you like your Wrench Minds? Its a card that I've thought about a lot, since it dodges my own Chalice of the Voids, but I've never actually found room for them. My instinct would be to cut two of them for a 4th Living Wish and one Sylvan Library. I've never used Living wish in my list, but I might try it out. It seems like it could be really strong.

hi, my deck have wrench mind, but i want to take out small pox, LOL. and put in Night to Betrtayal, and engineered plague. but...then its not consider a pox deck..haha:

//Lands (24)
4 Bayou
1 Forest
1 Swamp
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
3 Thespian's Stage
3 Dark Depths

//Spells (37)
4 Mox Diamond
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Life from the Loam
1 Sylvan Library
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Living Wish
1 Crucible of Worlds
4 Liliana of the Veil
2 Smallpox--------------------> vampire hexmage is an option since it can compare off 2nd turn.
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sinkhole
4 Wrench Mind

//Sideboard
SB: 3 Phyrexian Revoker
SB: 1 Bojuka Bog
SB: 2 Krosan Grip
SB: 2 Sphere of Resistance
SB: 1 Dark Depths
SB: 1 Thespian's Stage
SB: 1 Tombstalker
SB: 1 Vampire Hexmage
SB: 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
SB: 1 Karakas
SB: 1 Glacial Chasm

[OmniStrata]

hi, my deck have wrench mind, but i want to take out small pox, LOL. and put in Night to Betrtayal, and engineered plague. but...then its not consider a pox deck..haha:

//Lands (24)
4 Bayou
1 Forest
1 Swamp
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
3 Thespian's Stage
3 Dark Depths

//Spells (37)
4 Mox Diamond
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Life from the Loam
1 Sylvan Library
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Living Wish
1 Crucible of Worlds
4 Liliana of the Veil
2 Smallpox--------------------> vampire hexmage is an option since it can compare off 2nd turn.
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sinkhole
4 Wrench Mind

//Sideboard
SB: 3 Phyrexian Revoker
SB: 1 Bojuka Bog
SB: 2 Krosan Grip
SB: 2 Sphere of Resistance
SB: 1 Dark Depths
SB: 1 Thespian's Stage
SB: 1 Tombstalker
SB: 1 Vampire Hexmage
SB: 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
SB: 1 Karakas
SB: 1 Glacial Chasm

take out wrench mind, put in 2 small pox, 1 pox, 1 night of souls' betrayal. [booyah]

[Hardcore]

Went 3-1 with this deck yesterday.


4 Bloodghast
2 Tombstalker
3 Street Wraith

3 Shrieking Affliction

4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Innocent Blood
4 Smallpox
4 Pox
4 Gitaxian Probe
3 Wrench Mind

4 The Rack

16 Swamp
1 Dakmor Salvage

SIDEBOARD (15)

4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Surgical Extraction
2 Necroplasm
3 Cabal Therapy
2 Darkblast


I had no problems with life loss.
(Pox reduced the effect by a third too.)
I am quite happy with it, and will only add a third tombstalker and improve the sideboard.

I defeated 12 post, BUG Delver, PiF and lost to
Manaless dredge.

[Hardcore]

I may add Sun Droplet against burn. As I understand it Droplet stacks, right?

[Ralf]

I may add Sun Droplet against burn. As I understand it Droplet stacks, right?

Yes.
I used to be playing this card back in 2004/5.
I took once 19 damages from an affinity player before "God wrathing" his world and crawled back to 20 before killing him, eventually.
That was fun.

However, I wouldn't play it against burn. You are straight walking into their sideboarding strategy (artefact hate mainly).

[Hardcore]

True, but I have these cards to choose from:
Chalice which would hurt myself, Siphon Life that cost lands to retrace and droplet that is cheap to cast:-).
Hopefully I can protect with my discard.

Cool game vs affinity
Those decks are too damn fast for me.

[Vicar in a tutu]

True, but I have these cards to choose from:
Chalice which would hurt myself, Siphon Life that cost lands to retrace and droplet that is cheap to cast:-).
Hopefully I can protect with my discard.

Cool game vs affinity
Those decks are too damn fast for me.

Leyline of Sanctity is strong vs burn as well.

[Hardcore]

Yeah, but i put that out of my mind when I saw how expensive it was.

[zenitramleirdag]

what do you mean, man....i don't think its meant to be cast..

[Hardcore]

Cheapest goes for 14 Euro at Magiccardmarket.eu...

[zenitramleirdag]

Cheapest goes for 14 Euro at Magiccardmarket.eu...

he he he he..sorry i didn't understood you at first..
you're right, i think its about 19-20$ today in the market..

[Hardcore]

Something to spend prize money on for sure.

[Bruno]

This price is still good.
Here in Brazil is between R$ 69.99 and R$ 92.22.
Turning in U.S. dollars, so you have an idea, is between US$ 29.05 and US$ 38.25.
Damn country and your taxes.

Returning to the POX ...
Do not believe Empty The Pits is for this deck.

[Will_L]

I've been playing this list to great success locally. I've been testing jamming Braids and she really has been spectacular in my build


x3 Mishra's Factory
x3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
x4 Wasteland
x14 Swamp

x1 Nether Void
x1 Haunted Plate-Mail
x2 Toxic Deluge
x2 Cursed Scroll
x2 Crucible of Worlds
x2 Braids, Cabal Minion
x2 Inquisition of Kozilek
x4 Smallpox
x4 Hymn to Tourach
x4 Dark Ritual
x4 Innocent Blood
x4 Sinkhole
x4 Liliana of the Veil

SB

x1 Damnation
x1 Perish
x1 Chains of Mephistopheles
x2 Umezawa's Jitte
x2 Disfigure
x2 Massacre
x2 Grafdigger's Cage
x2 Extirpate
x2 Trinisphere


Any glaring omissions? Sometimes it feels a little threat light... What to people think about 7 colorless lands versus 8? (4th Factory)

is 4 Urborg really bad? I've never tested it... Interested in the experience of people who have played 8 colorless 4 urborg

[Hardcore]

Yep, 8 threats is not much. You risk go an entire game never see any. Tomb of Urami would work with crucible, or mutavault.