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| Archenemy | Legal |
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| Casual | Legal |
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| Legacy | Legal |
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| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Planar Constructed | Legal |
| Planechase | Legal |
| Pre-release | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Quest Magic | Legal |
| Standard | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
| Vanguard | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
Reassembling Skeleton
Creature — Skeleton Warrior
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
BotaNickill on
Sephiroth's Sac
2 months ago
Profet93! Thanks so much for checking out the deck list and making suggestions! I am always down for some upgrades! I'm not actually certain I have any of the suggested cards, maybe the Reassembling Skeleton, I'll dig around and see what I can come up with. I usually find myself needing more Sac Fodder for Sephiroth to consume, so any creature tokens or recurring creatures I can get would be cool! Strategic Betrayal is just there for another Sac effect in case I run into a hex proof creature or if they have indestructible or something like that in Voltron or Boggle style decks. Not to say it couldn't be replaced with something better. However I do believe it does trigger Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER Flip, when they sacrifice their creature, it dies.
Profet93 on
Sephiroth's Sac
2 months ago
Is strategic betrayal worth running for GY hate when it doesnt trigger ur commander and it allows them to chose?
Why run stronghold in a deck with such few basics?
Contamination to go with bitter blossom or maybe something like a Reassembling Skeleton as sac fodder and redundancy of bitter blossom?
Yahenni's Expertise > languish? - Idk if meta choice for 4 toughness commanders
Tragic Slip > tragic trajectory? - Instant speed, strong removal IMO.
A_Strangled_Catfish on
Empty Husks of a Blackened Throne
5 months ago
Hello there. Thank you so much for your long list of suggestions, and no this is not spam. I deckcycled it for this exact purpose. Your knowledge of 5 being Ayara's second casting never even occurred to me which is crazy. Now that two people have suggested a Pitiless Plunderer, I'll probably put it on the next order. When I made the deck, this card was upwards of 20, and not all reprints I can keep up with.
Regarding 5-drops. Right now I'm thinking of cutting Banshee of the Dread Choir, Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief, Sauron, the Necromancer, Rescue from the Underworld, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Open the Graves. Gray Merchant of Asphodel has won me too many games and I love him too much. Girder Goons is not 5 mana, because of blitz, and the double draw double ping has been really nice. Great Unclean One has also won me games (and for some reason is now the most expensive card in the deck tied with Lord Skitter, Sewer King?) Ogre Slumlord has been pretty good, especially since I can start pinging on opponent turns if any of their nontokens die. And I haven't seen Witch of the Moors in action enough to think about cutting it.
Open the Graves is the one I am most hesitant about but Ghoulish Procession looks like a good, cheaper alternative. Same with Syr Konrad, the Grim to Marionette Apprentice.
Decree of Pain is my only board wipe in this deck right now and I want at least one.
I like the addition of Ophiomancer especially since the price has plummeted, which i did not know.
Whenever I update decks, I always look at the cards I own, so I'm thinking a Xathrid Necromancer could fit in here pretty well, as well as Victimize as an alternative to Rescue from the Underworld. I also was thinking about cards like Josu Vess, Lich Knight, Grima Wormtongue, Beamsaw Prospector, Reassembling Skeleton, and maybe something like Starving Revenant or First-Sphere Gargantua as a replacement for Phyrexian Gargantua. Was also looking at Haunt of the Dead Marshes and Curse of Disturbance, though I'm not sure about the curse in a ping deck lol.
These are just my original thoughts. I'd love to hear what you think clayperce. I really enjoy this deck and want to keep working within it until I'm super happy with it.
P.S. Mortuary Mire has been really good but im down to switch out some other tap lands. I know I didn't touch on that much in this response.
TheVectornaut on
King of the Skull Servants
7 months ago
As a fellow enjoyer of Grass Looking Greener (mostly Lightsworn but also some Zombie/Vampires, PK+Paleos, and Skull Servants), I do think the idea is interesting. You're always going to be in a bit of a battle between thematic consistency and power level. For instance, a grave-counting creature like Wight of Precinct Six or Nighthowler would fit the idea of King growing with more guys in the yard, but they would also be disappointingly weak right now since you don't have a lot of mass self-mill at the moment (Stitcher's Supplier and Overlord of the Balemurk are the first things that comes to my mind). On the subject of getting what you want in the GY, it probably is best to have a few more ways of getting specific targets buried at least. With Entomb off the table in modern, I could see Unmarked Grave being the best cheap option instead of or in addition to Buried Alive. This only negatively affects Maha who I already think is worse than reanimator staples like Archon of Cruelty
or Sire Of Insanity. Fewer legendaries also makes Persist a great choice. There's also Lively Dirge if you want to stick to the low mana value plan and can afford to pay more mana. Finally, I'm partial to Burning-Rune Demon as a way to extend into more reanimations while being a reasonable threat in its own right. I think it would be cool to run more skeletons for the theme too, although most aren't that helpful. Cards like Reassembling Skeleton or Persistent Specimen could be sac fodder to a Victimize or Hell's Caretaker. Another one that I know can be good in black reanimator is Emperor of Bones, although he has some unfortunate anti-synergy with other cards in the deck like Twilight Diviner. Death Baron is always an option if you find the Corpses of the Lost backup plan doesn't have enough oomph.
Some final notes: It may be more consistent to focus on just the Xu-Ifit negated reanimations. That would involve going up to 4 Death's Shadow and adding in some similar options like Moonshadow or Yargle and Multani. The EDHRec page for Varolz, the Scar-Striped could be a place to start. That all said, having the more powerful effects of non-negated creatures may still be worth the inconsistency of the two plans not always meshing whan you need them to. You do want to have the best options available in either case though. My first cut suggestions would be Gloom Sower, Avatar of Woe, Inkwell Leviathan, and lastly Maha, Its Feathers Night. Finally, I second cutting some lands and would suggest Bitter Triumph as a replacement for Cast Down that comes with a Cabal Therapy option built-in.
Profet93 on
Pin Cushion
7 months ago
I'm a huge fan of contamination, especially with bitterblossom.
I recommend potentially swapping out Common Crook with Reassembling Skeleton. Crook is nice but you already have similar effects and while skeleton is similar to undying, it pairs very well with contamination and is repeatable.
Do note though, that contamination is anti-synergistic with 6 of your lands. Infernal Darkness is similar but doesnt stop mass mana producing lands. Not that im advocating it, just noting it. Contamination is still a very strong choice. The other problem with it is them using mana dorks and rocks to get around it. In mono black, removing dorks is easy but artifacts is arduous.
legendofa on
The Baron's Coterie
1 year ago
Silversmote Ghoul is worth a try, but you need to have the Blood Artists and/or Kalastria Highborns active to get the full use out of it. I'll suggest it, but put a question mark next to it.
Outside of Vampires, good recursive creatures are Nether Traitor and Reassembling Skeleton.
Finally, Bone Splinters might be an upgrade to Bitter Triumph. It's sorcery speed, but you save a mana and this deck would probably rather throw away creatures than pay life.
SniperFrog on
The Reunion At Last - Sephiroth V1
1 year ago
Love the list. +1
Have you considered things like Reanimate and Unearth as ways to reset Ol' Sep-Daddy?
Also, cards like Marionette Apprentice, Reassembling Skeleton, Weaponcraft Enthusiast and Chthonian Nightmare have felt really good in playtesting for me so far.
Decks like this are my favorite. Sephiroth seems like he could be the best option for mono black in the architype, which has me very excited.
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