Ghost Dad's Circus Stampede

Standard* mrbloo1848

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Testing changes —April 14, 2013

UPDATE 4/18/13

After a few matches of testing against aggro and midrange decks, the Kessig Wolf Run package proved its worth by providing me the reach in late game to finish the opponent despite blockers. I've decided to cut another Sunpetal Grove to add one more Kessig Wolf Run to get more reliable draws. We'll see if this will screw with my mana catches or not.

Desecration Demon proved useful against the midrange deck (and very possibly control), being too big to burn outright and can hit hard at the same time. They also don't have any cheap creatures to sac to him without taking a net loss. However, this guy is rather atrocious against weenie aggro where they can just pitch their smallest dude just to eliminate a blocker and swing through. It's a complete nightmare when he gets tapped on my own turn since that's a full turn cycle where he's on the bench. Definitely side out against weenies.

Tests were very productive tonight. Will try new setup at FNM.

It is that time once again where I want to try out something new with this deck and see if it improves.

MB:

-1 Lingering Souls

-1 Unburial Rites

+2 Desecration Demon

-2 Sunpetal Grove

-1 Woodland Cemetery

-1 Gavony Township

+1 Blood Crypt

+1 Stomping Ground

+2 Kessig Wolf Run

Unburial Rites as a one-of wasn't consistent enough of a draw for me to want to rely on so it was one of the first to be cut. Lingering Souls, though one of my favorite cards in the format, probably could get cut down to 3. In comes Desecration Demon. I've been wanting to run this bad boy ever since this deck was still an Orzhov midrange deck. He's a fat 6/6 for only 2BB which isn't by any means hard to pull off. Better yet, he can remove creatures for you! Huge pressure early. Definitely worth a try. That whole running a couple of red-producing lands to get access to Kessig Wolf Run is starting to get my attention. The power level of the card is just way too good to not have in a deck that runs gigantic creatures whose power is stopped by just chump-blocking.

SB:

-2 Sever the Bloodline

+2 Rhox Faithmender

Gonna try to take a more proactive and permanent approach to aggro: Rhox Faithmender. His fatness ensures he can blocks pretty much anything and he can favorably block a Boros Reckoner without fearing too much retaliation. His ability is also a huge blow to aggro decks when you play Thragtusk the turn after. I don't have a lot of good board sweep options and since my creature quality will usually better than aggro, a board wipe drawn late game will be just a dead card.