Sacrificing is great and all, but sacrificing your opponent's creatures for your own benefit is even better. The goal of this deck is to use your opponent's creatures to your advantage, both sacrificing them as a kill with upside or just taking ownership of them for good.
The first task is to get your opponent's creatures on your side of the battlefield. The quintessential steal spell is
Act of Treason
, however, there are cheaper cards that have some limitations on them,
Claim the Firstborn
and
Wrangle
. These cards allow you to keep more mana open while stealing the vast majority of targets on your opponent's board.
Once you have your opponent's creature for the turn, it's time to make use of it. There are two options, keep it, or sacrifice it. In order to keep it, you will need a
Bazaar Trader
in play, using the Trader's ability, you can keep any stolen creatures for good. However, if you do not have the Trader in play, then your best bet is to attack and then sacrifice the creature to get it off the board before it returns to your opponent's control. Culling Dias and
Blood Bairn
allows for a free sacrifice, whereas
Disciple of Griselbrand
and
Altar's Reap
will cost additional mana.
In order to support this gameplan, some of the top end creatures have steal spells attached to them like
Zealous Conscripts
and
Enthralling Victor
, while other creatures like
Squee, the Immortal
and
Tuktuk the Explorer
act as good sacrifice targets if your opponent's creatures are not available.
Overall the deck can do a great job of coming out quick and stealing the opponent's ideal blockers. If your opponent has a creature-less strategy, then this deck is not going to come out well. However, if they do have a few creatures, this deck is an absolute blast.
((My deck-building strategy is to have as many different cards while keeping a core theme. Trying to increase variety for and fun kitchen table play. I try to keep my decks ~$30, sometimes adding more expensive core cards over time. This is one of my 35+ decks that I use to play against each other.))
