Corpse Dance

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Corpse Dance

Instant

Buyback (You may pay an additional as you play this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)

Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

SufferFromEDHD on MONO BLACK SHADOW

1 day ago

Fog of Gnats is a great common. Cool to see it in here. Nightshade Stinger might be worth a spot.

If Corpse Dance is too narrow you could definitely get value out of Unearth. If you want to get weird with it try Dawn of the Dead.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth fixes Hall of the Bandit Lord and the shadow strategy really needs haste.

SufferFromEDHD on MONO BLACK SHADOW

2 days ago

Well you definitely inspired me to explore Orzhov shadow! That equipment package is tiiight.

Vault Skirge solid flyer.

Jet Medallion ramp.

Corpse Dance this is becoming a major pet card of mine. Shadow benefits from haste and Gix is a discard outlet.

Hatred ends games.

Profet93 your disdain of Cabal Stronghold always makes me LOL. I have removed it from almost every deck.

KongMing on Blind 7 is usually fine

1 month ago

Have you considered Buyback as a way to get things back out of the grave on resolving the Kess cast? These aren't great cards, but maybe worth thinking about at least.

Corpse Dance might work well since you have so few creatures to interfere with retrieving a Dualcaster Mage or the like.

Demonic Collusion as a possible swap for Increasing Ambition. It's a higher cost to tutor two cards, but lets you toss some stuff in the grave and you can repeat the combo on later turns or if you recast/flicker Kess.

Maybe Reiterate for See Double?

Profet93 on Oh you are just the worst kind of person

4 months ago

Funny you mention that, those are my 2 favorite cards in the entire game, lmao. I love it. I run Corpse Dance with it in my creatureless control deck. It's pretty fun.

Azoth2099 on [KFC] Kaalia Friended Chickens

5 months ago

jameswarlord

Hey man! Good to hear from you, nice job refining this list so far!

Yeah, Avacyn, Angel of Hope is stupid expensive lol, she probably always will be just because of how awesome she is. Proxy it in the meantime? Hell, I'd proxy an Ancient Copper Dragon too, they both win games.

Concerning Burning-Rune Demon: This card tends to get cut from a lot of decks that aren't running winning lines for it. Personally, my Kaalia of the Vast list also includes Dockside Extortionist, Corpse Dance & Disciple of the Vault, which enables Burning-Rune Demon to grab Razaketh, the Foulblooded & Reanimate to enable either a same-turn win or a next-turn win by generating infinite Treasures (and infinite Life via Children of Korlis) and nuking the board. It's also really good in Reanimator lists that are running the aforementioned pieces, as well as cards like Animate Dead, Necromancy, Buried Alive, Victimize & Karmic Guide to accelerate sheer board value if you don't want to run combos like that. If you apply it creatively, it essentially acts as an uncounterable Intuition in the deck, but for no mana cost & at Sorcery speed. Not the worst...

Concerning catching Ws: the #1 thing that's going to snag you wins here is making sure that you capitalize on the Commander's value as quickly as possible, as well as making sure that your deck doesn't necessarily need it's Commander on the field to dominate. You need more ramp and card draw, simply. I'd add the following ASAP:

Ramp: Culling the Weak, Dark Ritual, Burnt Offering, Cabal Ritual, Pyretic Ritual, Desperate Ritual, Seething Song, Talisman of Indulgence, Talisman of Hierarchy, Talisman of Conviction, Fellwar Stone Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff, & Deep Gnome Terramancer

Draw/Tutors: Archivist of Oghma, Moon-Blessed Cleric, Tectonic Reformation, Diabolic Intent, Gamble, Grim Tutor, Idyllic Tutor, Steelshaper's Gift & Sarkhan's Triumph.

Also, I know you've stated that you are trying to stay withing certain budget constraints, but Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor & Enlightened Tutor have seen recent reprints, and are cheaper right now than they will be in the future. Just something to consider.

All of these will help you get on and stay on! Let me know what you think.

SufferFromEDHD on Turbo Hulk | Varolz, the Scar-Striped

7 months ago

Green Sun's Zenith + Dryad Arbor with the Natural Order you are already running is a Legacy engine staple.

Xantid Swarm is surprisingly good at protecting combos

Phyrexian Dreadnought is PB&J alongside Varolz. Doesn't fit the combo but it is an alternative win condition similar to your Witherbloom Apprentice and Chain of Smog.

Collective Brutality is an awesome swiss army knife for graveyard strategies. What are your thoughts on slotting in Demonic Collusion to feed the graveyard or is the 5 CMC a dead end?

Staying on the buyback theme Corpse Dance would be Shallow Grave #2.

Rushed Rebirth potential?

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