Holy Shit! I cracked the top 100!

Nelstone, 9 years ago

Must be a slow deck building day.

Update #2 - Boom!

Tarradax, 9 years ago

Some more fine-tuning, removed a few things and added a few others. The maybe-board is slowly shrinking as I play and optimize this deck to run the way I want it to.

Had my first "serious" game with this deck, 4-player FFA. Won by bestowing Nighthowler on Lord of Extinction and blowing it up with Jarad's ability, killing everybody. That was fun.

Just a few small bits to obtain and playtest, hopefully this deck will be done soon...

xxdarkgodzillaxx, 9 years ago

To help with mana cost and to actually go with the flow of the deck a bit more I moved Phthisis to the sideboard and put in Read the Bones for the draw and to help consistency.

Comment Cleanup

LusciousCabbage, 9 years ago

thatsuperopguy, 9 years ago

Made some edits according to a nice comment I got.

Deck has been taken apart!

Gamer2020, 9 years ago

Taking the deck apart so I can build a red green deck and a red white deck.

basedchef, 9 years ago

Decided to switch the Cavalry Pegasus and Underworld Coinsmith and then pulled the High Priest of Penance out and put in Gray Merchant of Asphodel

More Token Fun

skidwiz, 9 years ago

So, I'm not updating the original description, but I removed Heliod, God of the Sun and iroas, god of victoy. All creatures with Vigilance would have been fun, but not enough other utility with that card. Besides, Brimaz and all of his tokens are vigilant anyways. The same thing with Iroas, Madcap Skills and Frontiline Medic effects on every swing would be awesome, but once the engine in the deck with the tokens gets moving, I feel that the loss of tokens won't be as big of a loss (especially once they start getting bigger) since they get replaced by Assemble the Legion a lot. For similar reasons, I removed my Banishing Light. Not sure how this is going to work out yet, but I'm going to playtest it tonight.

As for additions to the deck, I've added more Heroic cards with some instants to trigger the abilities in order to generate more tokens. I was thinking about adding Phalanx Leader, but I'm not really sure what to take out. I'm open to suggestions.

Comments reset.

Oldneckbeard, 9 years ago

Seeing that the Bogbrew set slowed the deck down a bit, the following changes were made and currently being tested.

-3 Bubbling Cauldrons for 3 Bone Splinters -4 Festering Newt for 4 Gravecrawler -4 Bogbrew Witch for 4 Gatekeeper of Malakir

Macdman11, 9 years ago

SCApikeman, 9 years ago

Sylvan Primordial was banned :'[, so im going to try out nighthowler and champion of stray souls. There are a lot of cards i could add but im gonna try out these because I find them both to just be fun cards to play with.

cryomaster, 9 years ago

Cleaning up and thinking of a new hurt combo!

2nd at FNM

MrDaBucket, 9 years ago

2-1 vs U/W Control 2-0 vs B/g Control 2-0 vs G/R Monsters 1-2 vs White Weenie

"To the Grave with you!" - Erebos

chr1sby, 9 years ago

More testing has helped me decide on a couple more cuts. Ghost Quarter has been removed so I can make room for a Sylvan Caryatid. Her mana fixing ends up being more useful than the removal of nonbasic lands - the faster I can get my stuff out, the better, and worrying about an opponents board is less of a priority than setting up my own. Second cut was Into the Wilds. This doesn't have much synergy with my deck. The extra land drop and card draw IS nice, but it comes out rather late and doesn't quite effect the battlefield in a way I would like. To replace it, Dictate of Erebos comes in. This card, once it hits the field, will do ridiculous work. Comboing off of things like Deathrender, Death's Shadow, Phyrexian Dreadnought, and even Varolz, the Scar-Striped himself, this baby will stomp out everyone's creatures easily. I hope to see this work out at my next play session.

Update 2

rodneysao, 9 years ago

Thank you squadcarxmar, I'm changing some cards to put Convolute and Mindstatic. Removed Heliod, God of the Sun and Banisher Priest to put Convolute and Mindstatic

CALLED IT

CrazyLittleGuy, 9 years ago

Okay, so I never actually expected BUG to become popular, but I am glad to see that Team Channel Fireball decided to run BUG Control at Pro Tour JOU. Granted, that’s kind of misleading, as Block Constructed is waaay different compared to Standard. However, this is still a small taste of what’s to come. Hopefully, BUG will get some neat tools in M15 and Khaaaaaans to actually be competitive? We’ll have to wait and see. Also, updates.

Louisiana State Tournament 24th place

Fallentyrant, 9 years ago

Here are the results for my first state tournament.

1-1 Round 1: Junk Midrange

With all the people in the room, I played against someone I knew. Slightly unhappy at the fact that it was going to be me or him, I at least knew it was going to be a good game. Game one he was dropping creatures and getting in the occasional hit and I was answering when I could. Eventually he got Ajani, Mentor of Heroes to which I had no answer in hand. Turn by turn he started pulling away in card advantage and I lost to Obzedat, Ghost Council.

Game 2 I was able to supply answers to his early game and stalled long enough to resolve Blood Baron of Vizkopa followed by another one next turn. At that point I was able to put in 8 per turn until I won game 2.

Game 3 we were nearly out of time but we played it anyway. I was able to answer everything he dropped but couldn’t resolve a win condition fast enough to take game 3. We went to time.

1-2 Round 2: Mono Black Devotion

Game 1 Started off with him on the play. He dropped a swamp on turn 1 then Mutavault on turn 2. On turn 3 he started swinging in with it and missed a land drop. After realizing this I quickly burn the mutavault with a Hero's Downfall on his turn 4. After losing a mutavault he dropped another and attempted to swing with it again on his following turn only to have that one downfalled as well. At this point he was playing so far behind I easily took this game all the way.

Game 2 He started off on the play again and destroyed my hand with a volley of Thoughtseize and Duress. He also answered every Detention Sphere I played until he got the win from an ever increasing board state.

Game 3 Was a great game. It went back and forth with answers and problems until I started into a land draw and that I never got out of. Eventually my opponent got the win as I continued to draw lands and no Sphinx's Revelation.

0-2 Round 3: Naya Aggro

Game 1 went fast and furious. I kept 3 land hand on my first game and never got my fourth so I could drop my Supreme Verdict.

Game 2 went much the same way. I kept a hand with 3 lands and once again never got the lands that I needed to support me for the win. My opponent easily got game 2.

2-1 Round 4: GW Aggro

Game 1 went like it should have with an on curve verdict followed by a sphinx’s rev a few turns later. Then an Elspeth, Sun's Champion to top it all off.

Game 2 I actually got mana screwed yet again and my opponent got it

Game 3 happened in the same fashion as game 1. The deck had answers until it could sphinx, then resolve an Elspeth and +1 to victory!

1-0 Round 5: Orzhov Midrange

Game 1 was a tough match up as my opponent attacked my hand, droped problem cards like blood baron and obzedat. He was able to whittle my life down to 5 before I was able to stabilize and start getting the advantage. Even with me at 5 and my opponent at 28 I knew he couldn’t win at this point so I reasoned with him to go to game 2 and he didn’t agree. So l I took a gamble and showed him my hand which consisted of Sphinx's Revelation, multiple counter spells, and various answers, the only card missing was the win condition. My opponent understood that to go any further was just going to cut into future games and decided to scoop and go to game 2.

Game 2 was another epic battle of problems and answers and it went all the way until the clock hit 0. In the final turns my opponent was able to start resolving some problem cards and had blood baron and Obzedat on board. I used sphinx for 13 to live and he was still able to drop me to 6. Most of the cards I drew were lands. I was looking for a downfall and a verdict so I could stop both his threats and call it a 1-0 since it was turn 4 on my turn. I, instead drew a blood baron and Jace, Arcitect of thought. So I dropped the blood baron and the jace then +1 Jace. The baron would prevent him from swinging with obzedat and the jace would ensure I didn’t die to to blood baron. His turn came, I took 2 from obzedat trigger putting me at 4. He realized he couldn’t kill me and picked up his cards after that. It was 2 epic games.

2-0 Round 6: RG Monsters

Game 1 my opponent was able to drop me to 10 using Courser of Kruphix over the first half of the game. During which I was answering the problems that the deck presents. After getting in a comfortable place, knowing he had no threats in hand, due to thoughtseize and courser, I used azorious charm to give myself a free “do what you want” turn. So as he put his courser on top of his library I resolved my Elspeth and proceeded to +1 her to victory.

Game 2 went much the same as game one but with more thoughtseize action. After my turn 2 there was never a point in the game I didn’t know what was in his hand. I was able to dance around and game plan for every threat he had. I knew he had a Mizzium Mortars in hand. So the turn before my Elspeth goes ultimate I tick her up to 7, then cast a thoughtseize to snag his mortars. Then play an AEtherling for good measure. He didn’t draw an answer to the tokens and couldn’t swing in so he passed. I ultimate Elspeth and proceeded to swing in for 39 to end the match.

2-1 Round 7: Mono Blue Devotion

Game 1 I went first and was able to answer everything relevant, until I was able to resolve a Jace and absorb most of his damage. Once he was nice and invested in a board state he dropped Master of Waves and I dropped Supreme Verdict. At this point in the game I was able to resolve Elspeth and start making guys. She didn’t go ultimate since he used a non overloaded Cyclonic Rift to reset her, but I still had more than enough 1/1’s on board to finish the game.

Game 2 was a bit different. He was on the play and was floating counterspells to stop my Jace and Sphinx. I didn’t draw into a supreme verdict and he ended up overwhelming me in a few short turns.

Game 3 started off in a terrible place as I had 0 lands in my opening hand and 0 lands in my 6. I had to mulligan down to 5 on the play. This game 3 started off looking grim, until I saw my 5 cards. 1 scry land, 1 shock land, 1 jace, and 2 detention spheres. I dropped my shock land and passed then drew another scry land. Dropped an, scry land and it was another land on top. The magic gods gave me the perfect 5 and the lands to support it. I resolved Jace on the turn my opponent tapped out to advance his board state and then +1 for protection. The turn after I used his -2 and started getting the answers I needed. I was able to protect and draw cards off of this 1 jace for the rest of the game. I waited to resolve Elspeth until I had enough mana to push her with a Dissolve. Then proceeded to victory and killing him with 1/1’s.

The tournament didn't start off so well for me in the beginning with a draw followed by 2 losses, making my record 0-2-1. I’m glad that I decided to stick it out and pull out the 4 wins in a row. The entire tourney was taxing, I was exhausted and relieved with it was all over with. I finished in 24th place. Not bad for my first state tournament.

wombatman880, 9 years ago

Did this to move an original description of this deck that is now entirely obsolete.

Pre-Game Tweaks

Gruss029, 9 years ago

Archive Trap for Dream Twist
Birds of Paradise for Army of the Damned
Island for Acidic Slime
Jace, Memory Adept for Bloodhunter Bat
Remove one Forest

Urzas_Lawnmower, 9 years ago

Changed out Feast of Blood for Victim of Night for simplicity, changed out a Read the Bones for a Capsize to help deal with cards like Story Circle or Worship.

I want help

pigsporco, 9 years ago

I would like to put 2x Bow of Nylea and 4x Reverent Hunter but what I can take out of my deck ?