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Sister's Firestorm Necro-Martyr
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BRIEF HISTORY:Necropotence was such a dominant card back in the day, with every black deck running 3-4 because of its sheer power to draw a ton of cards.
sometime after the so called "Black summer" Necropotence was banned, and later on restricted. now I felt like making a deck which utilizes it awsomely..
Paying life didnt seem like the easiest thing anymore since the powercreep of mtg so I decided to add in some lifegain into the deck in the form of "soul sisters"
My midgame improved a ton, having a steady source of life let me draw 3-5 cards every turn. But I still wasnt taking too much advantage of Necropotence so I decided I needed more life.
an early Martyr of Sands gratns me such an amount of life early game and with Serra Ascendant I can easily stabalize (a 6/6 flying lifelink is nothing to laugh at)
To support both martyr of the sands AND both sisters I added in ways to get creatures to my hand in forms of these 2.
Tidehollow Sculler
is such a nice card, I see you're hand and I take something out (temporarily)
Other than Serra Ascendant i have another beater which is also such a great blocker, hello Ajani's Pridemate
once put down, it grows to something like a 5/5 pretty quick with any of the sisters around so yeah.
Now with such high amounts of life I can easily draw a ton of cards with Necropotence . Now the qustion is, what now?
the answer is simple.... keep the best cards you draw, or crack a Martyr of Sands for some huge lifegain or swipe the field with my new favorite card:
Yes, isnt it beautiful? it can kill and sweep everything I want.
oh and a whole lot of fetch lands for the right mana haha.
So quick runthough of the deck. play martyr and crack on turn 2 or keep it land a necro, draw crack gainlife and firestorm..all before discard phase
NOTE: the reason i only have 1 mox is because i actually have 1 (although its insanely uber damaged)
and thank you rckclimber777 for the challenge which got my deck featured =)
@ Ohthenoises im sorry there but io think im missing the combo, care to enlighten me please?
hmm im happy u went with the lifegain version.. the BUr versioon u had me playtest was pretty horrible against anything aggro lol +1 could use some grave hate in sb though
You use unmask to get rid of their power cards or counter spells then you essence drain setting you up to do it again. Rinse+repeat
Featured and +1ed. Very nice build.
thanks a ton =) and at Ohthenoises you wouldnt that mean ide need mana ramper's like Dark Ritual ? since i have to discard at endphase. maybe against conbo i could add the control elemnt though.
Yes you also play Rit it's was the standard use of necro back in the day with disk as well.
the thing with that is though, i dont have the life to pay with.. in our meta atleast (vintage) people dont netdeck so we tend to have alot of aggro around,the lifegain via martyr seems to be key to survival and beatings, addingtoo much black cards (8 rituals+8 cards to kill with) is kinda harsh..although i will try this idea and mix it in if i get a right amount
What about Essence Harvest ? It seems like you normally have some pretty big creatures out.
deck:brian-davis-pro-tour-deck-list This is the deck I think of when I hear "black summer" or "Necropotence "
i love how you combine a ton of awesome cards and it works. maybe i'd play two less scullers and 2 more ranger of eos.
check out my deck
i love how you combine a ton of awesome cards and it works. maybe i'd play two less scullers and 2 more ranger of eos.
check out my deck
@Hades4836 i do get a 6/6 flying lifelinker, and a big ajani pride dude, but i dnt thinkthats enough. @ Ohthenoises, thanks for the list. ill study it tonight when i get home. but since that deck was before demonic cons and necro was restricted things have changed but yeah appreciated =)
@joeymontivu321 haha thanks for the compliment, ill try adding more eos and less scullers in my playtest version of the deck. ill check yours out too =)
If you use Firestorm , you need to use Martyr of Sands first, because unless there are enough targets for you to not hit yourself, you will have to hit yourself with it as well.
Was just saying if you use it as a killing blow, you just need to make sure you have more life than him. Which, while tricky with Necropotence, is not impossible with Martyr of Sands .
thats what i love so much about this deck.. personally i find this my most skill intensive deck to pilot.. a single mistaken loss of life can cost you the game.. need to know when to crack martyr, when to tutor, what to play first. etc etc think ahead alot... and ofcourse when to drop or if to drop Necropotence at all..
Great Deck (+1), I have a roughly similar idea here on tapped out -Life's finally- while it's a different tact, I added Suture Priest to the mix too.
Did you or anyone else notice as there are no basic lands in the deck, Bloodstained Mire , Marsh Flats and Polluted Delta will not fetch anything?
I recommend changing them to 3x Dragonskull Summit , 3x Isolated Chapel and 3x Drowned Catacomb with 1x Swamp 1x Plains and 1x Mountain or2x Bloodstained Mire , 2x Marsh Flats and 2x Polluted Delta with 3x Plains , 1 Mountain , 2x Swamp .
Really, just make sure to get a few of the basic land to search for.
what about Norin the Wary ?
he would keep reentering and triggering the soul sisters.
Chalice of Life Flip can be crazy too. I play it in my soul sisters, and its a 4 turn clock by itself.
just seen with the Tidehollow Sculler ... you can do that flicker thing with it just like people do with Cloudshift and Fiend Hunter except with a sac outlet instead so you wind up exiling the card discarded by the sculler permanently :D
| Date added | 11 months |
| Last updated | 11 months |
| Legal formats | None |
| Sets | Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas, 2011 Core Set, Rise of the Eldrazi, Zendikar, From the Vault: Exiled, 2010 Core Set, Shards of Alara, Coldsnap, Dissension, Guildpact, Onslaught, Classic Sixth Edition, Weatherlight, Ice Age, Revised Edition, Unlimited Edition |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 1.70 |
| Top rank | #5 on 2012-06-22 |
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Ohthenoises says...
Essence Drain + Unmask breaks Necropotence someone had a YouTube video rolling around that showed a necro deck that won and did so in a BRUTAL fashion.
June 13, 2012 7:43 a.m.