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Underworld Sentinel
Creature — Skeleton Soldier
When Underworld Sentinel attacks, exile target creature from your graveyard.
When Underworld Sentinel dies (is put into the graveyard from the battlefield), put all cards exiled with it onto the battlefield.
legendofa on
Skeleton Deck
1 year ago
Bad Moon is good, keep it. Sorry if I gave that impression. My thoughts was that if you have four Skeletons and two Bad Moons out, that's twelve total damage output, probably around turn 6 at the earliest. That's fine if you don't mind playing the defensive game, but it will be hard to push damage through. See if you can find some bigger Skeletons: Underworld Sentinel, Bone Dragon, or even Skeleton Archer. These bones need some meat.
And yes, you will need to worry about land drops and mana production. 16 lands would be more reasonable in a hyper-aggressive Elf tribal deck with playsets of Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystics, and Elvish Archdruids. Since you want to spend mana to cast your Skels, and hold back mana to regen or reanimate your Skels, 16 lands just isn't going to be enough. You'll likely be trapped at two lands for the first five turns, choosing between casting one spell per turn or regenerating.
seshiro_of_the_orochi on SKELETONS!
1 year ago
Jund sounds correct, but maybe instead of Kresh the Bloodbraided, go with Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper?
His tokens are as close to skeletons as possible without actually being those, and he fits the flavour of a skeleton army flooding the battlefield.
This would basically be a aristocrat-esque tribal deck that could dish out quite a lot of damage with Impact Tremors, Warstorm Surge and other similar cards.
You already want to recurr creatures, so Tortured Existence and Phyrexian Reclamation seem useful.
Also: Underworld Sentinel is an underestimated powerhouse.
montanaflash23 on
Toolbox PreCon
1 year ago
First round of updates is on a 25$ budget. Swaps I am testing and in no particular order of swapping:
Kodama's Reach --> Daemogoth Woe-Eater
Thriving Grove --> Demonlord Belzenlok
Lifecrafter's Bestiary --> Gamekeeper
The Beamtown Bullies --> Elemental Bond
Bellowing Mauler --> Greater Good
Artisan of Kozilek --> Riveteers Ascendancy
Deathbringer Regent --> Feldon of the Third Path
Migration Path --> Hornet Queen
Mosswort Bridge --> Jaxis, the Troublemaker
Spinerock Knoll --> Workshop Warchief
Dodgy Jalopy --> Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
Swamp --> Ognis, the Dragon's Lash
Thriving Moor --> Professional Face-Breaker
Thriving Bluff --> Rampant Rejuvenator
Commander's Sphere --> Cultivate
Woodfall Primus --> Junji, the Midnight Sky
Caldaia Guardian --> Underworld Sentinel
Mezzio Mugger --> Kardur, Doomscourge
Turf War --> Ravenous Chupacabra
Next of Kin --> Blessed Respite
Wave of Rats --> Kazuul's Fury
Flip
Grime Gorger --> Acidic Slime
Stalking Vengeance --> Llanowar Wastes
Crow_Umbra on
Isshin: Mardu for Dummies
2 years ago
Oh I just remembered, if you wanted an effect similar to Underworld Sentinel but works better with your Modified subtheme, you should check out Drana, the Last Bloodchief.
Crow_Umbra on
Isshin: Mardu for Dummies
2 years ago
No worries! I'm glad you liked my first couple suggestions ACapo18.
I've played my Isshin deck about 5-7 times IRL with some more games on the horizon for this weekend. I think I swapped out Cunning Rhetoric after my first couple of games. In my experiences, it wasn't much of a deterrent, and the cards it exiled weren't particularly useful.
I love Prosper, Tome-Bound; he's one of my recent favorite commanders. I understand how he can be a card advantage engine, but I think him and the other Impulse draw sub-theme is kind of disjointed with the aggro, go-wide stuff that Isshin wants to do. If you needed to, you can likely keep Prosper and Laelia, but Bell Borca, Spectral Sergeant feels kind of out of place compared to the other 2. If you like Impulse draw, have you looked at Florian, Voldaren Scion? He can dig down and pseudo-tutor depending on how much damage you're throwing around each combat.
I can see what you're going for with the creatures that care about Modified status, but I don't think they synergize enough, or have enough support with the rest of your deck to keep included. I personally like Breena, the Demagogue the most (I run her in my own list), but I don't think you're running enough Modified enablers to keep some of the others. That's ultimately your call depending on which ones you like most.
Mirror Box also feels kind of out of place as an anthem effect, since it only helps your Legends. The only other card in your 99 that this really benefits is Rionya, Fire Dancer
Underworld Sentinel also seems really slow for the payoff that it can potentially achieve.
I think if you cut any of those cards, you could likely include a bit more: token productions damage anthems, draw, and board protection. Here are some cards I've played with in my list that I like:
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Signal Pest a low to the ground anthem effect that can come down on any turn and be relevant.
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Boros Charm One of the modal options helps with board protection
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Plumb the Forbidden is pretty great with tokens, especially if you're about to get board-wiped, or know the tokens will die in combat blocks
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Tome of Legends a bit pricey, but will usually have 1-3 counters each game, and drawing investment is pretty minimal.
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Guardian of Faith Kinda like a budget Teferi's Protection
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Soltari Champion Fairly compact anthem effect on a creature
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Unquenchable Fury Can front load damage on any of your creatures and will usually return to hand for reuse.
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Faith's Reward More board protection
Hopefully these additional suggestions are helpful. Would be happy to keep exchanging ideas if you would like. I have an Isshin primer write-up on my profile where I discuss some card options, in case that's of any interest to you. I've generally found that keeping Isshin's mana curve fairly low allows him to rebuild pretty quickly after waves of removal.
kazeoishii on
High Lord Wolnir, Arisen Skeleton
2 years ago
Removed Army of the Damned
2x Forest
Added Living Death
Shaffe_House on
Araumi of the Dead Tide
2 years ago
Creatures
Reanimation Targets:
Game Winners
Diluvian Primordial, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Sepulchral Primordial, Triplicate Titan, Grim Guardian, Underworld Sentinel
Value Targets
Archaeomancer, Baleful Strix, Banshee of the Dread Choir, Broodbirth Viper, Clone Shell,Demon's Disciple, Doomwake Giant,Fleshbag Marauder, Impaler Shrike, Meteor Golem, Mulldrifter, Noxious Gearhulk, Overseer of the Damned, Peregrine Drake, Reef Worm, Shriekmaw, Solemn Simulacrum
Enablers:
Champion of Wits, Crow of Dark Tidings, Deranged Assistant, Merfolk Looter, Millikin
Others:
Tijmentij on
Ludevic, Necrogenius
2 years ago
Underworld Sentinel would be a good fit for this deck i think, just cheat all of them into play other than phage