Does Kaya fit into a Vaka Pox build? She has a nice card advantage minus ability and it looks like she'll play nice with Liliana too. Plus she could be a pseudo win condition that dodges Abrupt Decay.
What's SD?Originally Posted by Hardcore
If I'm not oblivious to any Combo that this new PW enables, then I can assure that it won't have any use in here because pretty much every comparable Card would be just better. Quite frankly I think this is the worst Planeswalker ever aside from Gideon 2 and Tibalt.
Does Kaya fit into a Vaka Pox build? She has a nice card advantage minus ability and it looks like she'll play nice with Liliana too. Plus she could be a pseudo win condition that dodges Abrupt Decay.
spinning darkness..
now i wouldn't be that too quick to judge that collective brutality is better than spinning darkness..the fact that spinning darkness is a "free spell", plus its an instant is what makes it really good..for what its worth, i would say that against grixis, i would choose spinning darkness over collective brutality..
now i'm not saying that collective brutality is bad, i just need to find a situation where i would want it in my 75..
I thought about her in my bw pox build. I think I would just rather a sorin, solemn visitor if I'm going to be running a 4 mana bw walker. Him alongside bitterblossom or lingering souls or both is a nice way to recoup some life and speed up the clock.
Does Kaya fit into a Vaka Pox build? She has a nice card advantage minus ability and it looks like she'll play nice with Liliana too. Plus she could be a pseudo win condition that dodges Abrupt Decay.
She isn't a terrible oprion, but likely not the most ideal. The discard and draw is nice.though.
So I decided to go to the SCG Legacy Classic in NJ today. I played a version of mono-b Pox. Did TERRIBLE! But it was fun, drawing with ANOTHER Pox player rd 2, and sitting (literally) next to him for the next 5 rounds. We were like the Hammer Bros, except it was Pox instead of Hammers.
This is what I played:
4 Mishra's Factory
12 Swamp
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Wasteland
1 Chains of Mephistopheles
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Cursed Scroll
4 Hymn to Tourach
2 Infernal Tutor
3 Innocent Blood
4 Liliana of the Veil
1 Murderous Cut
1 Nether Spirit
1 Nether Void
1 Pox
4 Sinkhole
4 Smallpox
3 Thoughtseize
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Trinisphere
Sideboard:
1 Chains of Mephistopheles
2 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
1 Pithing Needle
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 The Abyss
Round 1 LOSS 0 - 2 - 0 VS Ian Andrew
Round 2 DRAW 1 - 1 - 1 VS Michael Spivack
Round 3 LOSS 0 - 2 - 0 VS Keith Blackwell
Round 4 WIN 2 - 0 - 0 VS Chris Strachan
Round 5 WIN 2 - 0 - 0 VS Brad Gutkin
Round 6 LOSS 1 - 2 - 0 VS Nathan Golia
Round 7 LOSS 0 - 2 - 0 VS Collins Mullen
Round 8 WIN 2 - 0 - 0 VS Ryan McCarthy
Round 9 LOSS 0 - 2 - 0 VS Xander Niazi
3 - 5 - 1 Final Record.
I assume I am just bad at playing this deck, or maybe I made poor card choices. Either way, I did horribly, but had some fun.
It would be nice to update with records on what decks your opponents played.
"Pox early, Pox often, and Pox hard!" - Le_Lepreux
hello guys, just started to play a bit of small pox and did something thatīs a ton of fun for me, but still want it to improve. main plan is mana denial and i think its pretty solid right now, any sugestions for win conditions or other value spells that iīm missing? this is the first scratch of the deck, played a few games with it :
3 Swamp
4 Wasteland
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Maze of Ith
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Rishadan Port
3 Mishra's Factory
4 Scrubland
4 Marsh Flats
4 Smallpox
4 Thoughtseize
3 Hymn to Tourach
4 Dark Ritual
3 Liliana of the Veil
4 Sinkhole
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Vindicate
1 Nether Spirit
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Cursed Scroll
SB: 1 The Abyss
SB: 1 Nether Void
SB: 1 Chains of Mephistopheles
SB: 1 Disfigure
SB: 3 Ethersworn Canonist
SB: 3 Extirpate
SB: 2 Surgical Extraction
SB: 2 Disenchant
SB: 1 Swords to Plowshares
Three SDT is a bit much. Cutting one does not hurt.
I note you have no plains. Some decks may try wreck you with bloodmoon and you will be defenseless to that without plains to fetch.
"Pox early, Pox often, and Pox hard!" - Le_Lepreux
also, her first ability becomes more powerful with a containment priest in play..
and you can blink your recruiter of the guard over and over to abuse its tutoring effect..
That's cute and all with containment priest but are you referring to Containment priest and Kaya in a pox deck? That seems a bit sketchy.
you're right, it might be "trying to do too much" in pox..he he he..maybe in a deadman's ale kinda build..
I think that makes more sense. Especially since in deadguy even if you don't have priest you can at least reuse stoneforge, tidehollow, maybe a blade splicer or something.
Dark Confidant maybe?
This is my current list. I cannot figure out how to put the card links in this forum.
I have tried a few versions of the deck so far. Currently content with this list outside of the sideboard, which needs work. I am trying to expand to other forums to get more opinions and advice. I do not want to play the black/white version or black/green version.
1 Nether Spirit
2 Cursed Scroll
4 Dark Ritual
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Innocent Blood
4 Sinkhole
4 Smallpox
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Nether Void
1 The Abyss
1 Chains of Mephistopheles
4 Liliana of the Veil
1 Cabal Pit
1 Maze of Ith
4 Mishra's Factory
11 Swamp
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
1 Bitterblossom
1 Cranial Extraction
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Duress
1 Engineered Plague
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Grim Tutor
1 Memoricide
1 Pithing Needle
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Underworld Dreams
1 Word of Command
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I know you already said your sideboard isn't where you want it to be, but what is the rationale for playing singletons? There isn't any library manipulation, card draw, or deck thinning in it so where do you find consistency? I feel like redundancy is where you want to be without a better way to find your hate cards.
Thanks Fixed
The singleton is because i am not sure whats best. And some things are redundant for similar effects like Tormods Crypt and Surgical Extraction. Or Memoricide and Cranial Extraction
Definitely not set of what cards I want to settle on the sideboard (assuming the meta would line up with the "decks to beat" )
Don't you guys think Liliana the Last Hope has a place in Smallpox? She presents a clock that smallpox has always been defective with. Is the Veil always better? I think not
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