I'm on board for Stalking Vengeance and Vicious Shadows but you need a sac outlet too because the blade exiles the tokens. No shortage of them but you need something that fits and optimally is useful.

Warstorm Surge+Blightsteel Colossus+Blade of Selves seems pretty preposterous if you want people to hate you. j05h already suggested Blightsteel, but not like this (never like this...)

Yeah, Blade + Purphoros seems like a game plan in itself.

Yosei, Keiga, the Tide Star or any of the Kamidragons seem good.

General Tazri could lead an ally deck to a preposterous Blade of Selves experience.

Hey MA good to hear from ya!

Mirror Gallery seems like an obvious inclusion for a deck that wants Blade of Selves. I'll add it to my acquireboard.

Gamble tends to be just that, but it's pay off when you have a full hand, or an empty hand if you have some recursion/reanimation probably makes it worth it. I'm considering adding my Feldon of the Third Path here too, but it doesn't contribute to Jor Kadeen's plan super well on its own.

I'm going to think on that. Also, there's already a Puresteel Paladin in the list.

What would you consider unnecessary to take out for Mirror Gallery?

Anyway, I would like to continue exploring ways to bust this sword. I've been liking Purphoros, God of the Forge + BoS + anything that makes lots of tokens when it comes in. Myr Battlesphere maybe?

Mercy buckets.

I can live with that, and I guess the card doesn't do anything more than it says. I wasn't sure how to look for it in the Comp Rules, but yeah. RTFC I guess.

Lol!

04/11/2015 If the equipped creature is legendary, the tokens will all enter the battlefield. Then youll choose one of them to remain on the battlefield. The others will be put into your graveyard. Any enters-the-battlefield or dies triggers of the tokens will work.

Oracle ruling on Gatherer.

Two legends have to be on the battlefield for the Legend rule to come into effect in the first place?

Moving from the battlefield to the graveyard is the definition of dying.

I just want to clarify it because it's very important for Blade of Selves interactions. That's the point of the OP isn't it?

Let's say I have a Blade of Selves equipped to a Hoarding Dragon with some kind of sac outlet on the board. Let's call it a Bloodthrone Vampire.

I enter my Combat step, declare my intent to attack and swing with my Hoarding Dragon. The blade triggers and resolves, I get two more dragons. Dragons ETB ability triggers I go wandering for two artifacts.

Let's say there's no blockers to speak of, so my stuff lives until the "end of combat step." In response to the blades exile trigger for the tokens I sacrifice them to my Bloodthrone Vampire. Now...here lies to question;

Do my tokens still go to exile if they've been sacrificed, ala unearth (if they would leave the battlefield, exile them instead) or do they "die?"

Things being put into a graveyard as a state-based action still triggers "put into the graveyard from the battlefield" aka "dies." Its not a sacrifice though, and its not destroyed but the things still "die."

State-based actions do not use the stack (Rule 704.1) so they cannot be responded to.

We had initially had it as "search your library five turns in a row" but that's pretty restrictive and was hard to do, and makes you make bad choices like cracking the fetch on your turn instead of at the end of their turn.

This way, you could have like...Karametra out, crack a fetch, go wandering with Captain Sisay, play the creature, go find a land...

IMO, Ob is cooler, but he's probably harder to build around. He likes lands hitting the board, and in mono-black the best way (IMO) once he's hit the board is probably Crucible of Worlds and fetches/Strip Mine et al.

That being said, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet is probably more powerful. Some sort of combo-y sweeper could get you a bunch of zombies all at once and hose any recursion they may be dependant on.

We set it at 5.

BoS with Giant Adephage in my Trostani deck make me laugh.

You're not supposed to control an opponent into winning the game...lol

You could probably run Lavinia of the Tenth, it hits all of your pre-reqs; inexpensive, aggressive, Blink-compatible, doesn't have to be combo-focused or reliant on her and doesn't need too many artifacts (although Panharmonicon, Blade of Selves and Conjurer's Closet are useful.) As far as being an engine, if you're flickering her, she can consistently and repeatedly shut off the opponents mana rocks/dorks or any annoying blockers or utility cards they may be abusing.

I also have a list to check out, it's not optimized by any means but there are lots of flickers and lots of ETB effects.

I'm going to have to ask you to come with me...

Juicy for sure. Powerful and cost effective? I'm not sure. What would you take out for it, and how would I pay the triple red?

Leyline of Anticipation

Leyline of the Void

Leyline of Punishment

Leyline of Sanctity > Magic 2011 Basic #233

Leyline of Vitality > Basic 244

I actually think the other ones don't have matches despite being led to believe it...

Something about her joy was overwhelming for me.