I really wanted a deck with Tree of Perdition in it. So far this is what I've come up with. It seems to play alright, but not sure if it's up to par. Any criticism is appreciated.
Currently I try to have Thing in the Ice
on turn 2 so I have something for the opponent to worry about and Tainted Remedy or Triskaidekaphobia out around turn 3/4 then play Tree of Perdition. If I have a
Turn to Frog
in my hand on the turn I can activate Tree of Perdition, I can activate Tree of Perdition and in response
Turn to Frog
. Since the Tree of Perdition is still in play it will become a 1/1 and then the Tree of Perdition's ability will fall off the stack causing your opponent's life to be 1 instead of 13, and the Tree of Perdition becoming a 1/20 (fairly certain the toughness will not change at end of turn due to
Turn to Frog
effect , but please correct me if I'm wrong.). If I have Triskaidekaphobia out then next turn I can choose to make each player lose a life and win. I can also win with Tainted Remedy and Tree of Perdition alone. The first exchange with Tree and opponents life will be considered as loss of life. As long as my Tree of Perdition is higher toughness than my opponent's life, when I use it next time it will exchange again, but since Tainted Remedy is in play instead of them gaining 7 life they will lose 7 life. This works because even though it doesn't state that it is gaining life, there is only loss of life and gain of life, so it is considered a gain if the Life total is increasing. You can also obviously win with Triskaidekaphobia, but so far that has been the least common way I've been able to win.
Dark Petition helps win games just simply by if you don't have a kill option at the moment, you can pretty much search and play one. If you were able to
Turn to Frog
and swap life totals.
Soul Separator
basically does the same thing but gives you a 2nd blocker as well.
Edits:
*Added Languish to Mainboard instead of Pore Over the Pages.
*Sideboarded Ruinous Path and replaced it with Fathom Feeder.
*Replaced Cryptolith Fragment
with
Soul Separator
. Seems to play better.
*Sideboarded
Clash of Wills
for Duress and removed Pore Over the Pages.
*Replaced Fathom Feeder with
Oath of Jace
*Replaced
Oath of Jace
with
Take Inventory
*Replaced Duress with Negate
*Added Collective Brutality to sideboard
*Messed around with sideboard a bit more
*Took this to a standard tourney and didn't do bad, believe it works better with more control so subbed some stuff around in mainboard and sideboard.
