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Glissa Glissa Glisaa (+ Ratchet Bomb = ouch)

March 20, 2012 3:31 p.m.

Substitute Beast Within for Naturalize. You already have creature removal with black, so all you need to support it is artifact and enchantment removal. Also, if you're running Sheoldred and Moldgraf, you probably want a larger creature base. I would also reverse your balance of distress Vs. Despise. Two black is often hard in early game, I'd say two distress, four despise and side the other two distress for artifact or enchantment heavy decks.

March 22, 2012 9:19 a.m.

I would sideboard Doom Blade in case you run into artifact creatures.

April 12, 2012 7:56 p.m.

Ok, 2 Doom Blade's are in the sideboard now.

April 12, 2012 8:36 p.m.

u have lots of discard, consider Sangromancer or even Painful Quandary..

April 24, 2012 11:14 a.m.

Painful Quandary sound like a good idea, thanks for the tip.

April 25, 2012 11:12 a.m.

Appetite for Brains?

Surgical Extraction and Memoricide might also be good. You'll know what is in their hand from Distress and Despise, so you'll know what card to name. Memoricide can completely dismantle a variety of combo decks.

Caravan Vigil and Tragic Slip are both nice too...

May 11, 2012 12:30 p.m.

I think Strangleroot Geist should get cut. It's a great card, but here's my reasoning: The deck is 90% black, but he costs GG. Early in the game, while your opponent still has a full hand, you're going to want to be using Despise, Distress (and possibly Appetite for Brains) - but those all require black mana, not green. So on turn 1 and 2 you're going to have to make a choice: do I play forests or swamps? I think the Geist will often end up coming out on turn 3 or 4.

Actually, ANY creature you play would end up coming out that late, but the thing is that you'll have more mana and you could play a better creature). And the mana you will have should be mostly black.

May 11, 2012 12:43 p.m.

I was thinking the same thing about Strangleroot Geist, it just makes the mana situation too awkward. So it's out, with Surgical Extraction in it's place. I'll also put Memoricide in the sideboard. As for Appetite for Brains, I'll think about it for now.

May 11, 2012 5:31 p.m.

good deck ever think of Perilous Myr with Glissa, the Traitor

May 12, 2012 2:36 p.m.

I would not substitute beast within for naturalize, if your opponents not running enchantments or artifacts its a blank card, where beast within is always gonna work.

August 1, 2012 5:01 p.m.

Yeah, but you have plenty of ways to kill creatures so you're not going to want to beast within a creature. You'd only want to use it on artifacts or enchantments so naturalize would be better I'd say.

August 7, 2012 4:14 p.m.

but beast can get rid of planeswalkers

August 9, 2012 3:40 p.m.

Beast Within can also out a land. I'd switch the mainboard to run Beast Within. Against many decks Naturalize would be a dead draw, where as even if the opponent doesn't have any tasty artifacts, enchantments, or planeswalkers on the field, just bomb one of their lands instead.

August 9, 2012 5:43 p.m.