Purgatory

Casual Budget Casual Infinite Combo Jank Mono-Black Multiplayer

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Purgatory (8)

• 1x Abyssal Persecutor
• 1x Basal Sliver
• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 2x Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
• 2x Platinum Angel
• 1x Skeletal Changeling

Win Con (3)

• 2x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Repay in Kind

Utility (8)

• 4x Dark Ritual
• 2x Dash Hopes
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Hero's Downfall

Lands (24)

• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 23x Swamp

Card Advantage (7)

• 4x Buried Alive
• 3x Diabolic Tutor

Creature Removal (6)

• 2x Mutilate
• 4x Nameless Inversion

Reanimation (4)

• 4x Animate Dead

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Maybeboard

Other (1)

• 1x Ever After

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So here we are... with nothing else left to do. What else is there?

A deck where no one can really win... but no one can lose, either, unless they kill you.

The Play

Get Haakon, Stromgald Scourge into your graveyard (by abusing the normal discard rule), then cast him as soon as you can. Use an endless supply of Nameless Inversion for creature control to buy time for your lock. (It counts as a Knight card, thanks to Changeling.)

Cast Abyssal Persecutor and watch your opponents get confused. Then cast Platinum Angel and see even further confusion.

Since you can't lose, cast Ad Nauseam and draw out your entire library, putting yourself at a negative life total. Cast Repay in Kind to set everyone's life totals to the same. No one can lose either, being at negative life.

Get out Basal Sliver and Skeletal Changeling. Sac the Skeletal Changeling with Basal Sliver's ability (since the Changeling counts as a Sliver as well) to get into your mana pool. Then re-cast the Skeletal Changeling you just sac'd... which is possible thanks to Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and that Changeling also counts as a Knight. Then sac it again. Re-cast. Do this as many times as you want.

Then cast your Bitter Ordeal for whatever number and exile someone's library with Gravestorm copying it as many times as you sac'd your Changeling.

Use your Elixir of Immortality multiple times to repeat this as needed for everyone.

No one can win because of your Platinum Angel. No one can lose because of your Abyssal Persecutor. No one has creatures thanks to Nameless Inversion and no one has any options to destroy your Angel because you have Dash Hopes in your hand... and no one can pay any life they don't have to counter its effect.

And if they kill the Angel, you lose... but then everyone else loses as a state-based action.

Welcome to Purgatory.

P.S. You do have the option to use Nameless Inversion on your own Abyssal Persecutor or not even involve it if you want to win with Platinum Angel and a Repay in Kind... but what's the fun in that?

The Weaknesses

This is not a competitive deck... mostly for casual, multiplayer fun. Anyone that targets you straight-up will kill you unless you are able to get out Platinum Angel out early enough to stay alive.

If anyone gets rid of your Platinum Angel, you lose. However, if you remove everyone's libraries and having Dash Hopes available, there's nothing anyone can do. =) (Opponents cannot pay life they do not have.)

Still testing though... it's hard to keep that Angel alive. =)

The Credit

Gravestorm combo inspired by Dude, Where's My Library? by Emrakool.

Last updated 20171008.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 9 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.03
Folders	Current Decks, Yep, Decks I Like, Interesting Decks, Black Control Fun