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Dark Confidant
Creature — Human Wizard
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.
clayperce on
The Black Deck
2 weeks ago
ALostWanderer -
Saw your help tag so thought I'd reach out. As a disclaimer though: I've never played Tergrid (vs or myself) and I'm still working on my first Bracket 4 deck myself. So please take all this as "brainstorming", not as "recommendations" ! :-D
FIRST THOUGHTS: MANA BASE AND MANA CURVE
- I love Salubrious Snail's manabase tool for analysing my lands, mana rocks, and rituals as I tweak a deck. If we plug your decklist in, it reports "your manabase is struggling, playing your spells 0.99 turns late on average" (with Tergid over 1.3 turns late). For Bracket 4, you'll probably want to aim for something like "... strong playing your spells [~0.2] turns late on average."
- As you tweak the deck, I rec' taking an especially hard look at your 5-drops (which compete directly with Tergrid) and your 7-drops (which compete directly with her re-cast).
MORE B4 STAPLES? Some options to help find the cards we need and play them quickly …
- Card Advantage: Phyrexian Arena, Dark Confidant
- Tutors: Case of the Stashed Skeleton, Demonic Tutor, Diabolic Intent
- Fast Mana: Dark Ritual, Lotus Petal, Mox Amber
MORE DISCARD EFFECTS, MAYBE?
- As I understand it, Tergrid can sometimes be challenging to play because there are fewer and fewer good targets for her sac trigger as the stax effects pile up + token decks can sometimes run away with games. If you encounter that sometimes, leaning harder into her discard trigger may be an answer.
- Some options here, in no particular order: Syphon Mind, Liliana's Triumph, Thoughtseize, The Raven Man, Geth's Grimoire, Elderfang Disciple, Tinybones, Trinket Thief, Virus Beetle, Cunning Lethemancer, Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal, Bottomless Pit, Desolation, Necrogen Mists, Oppression, Geier Reach Sanitarium, Chain of Smog
MORE PROTECTION, MAYBE? If you find yourself needing just a touch more protection for your Bracket 4 meta: Cavern of Souls, Imp's Mischief, and oc Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots.
MORE COMBO PIECES, MAYBE?
- As far as I can tell, you only have 2x combos in the deck (any lifegain effect + Exquisite Blood + either Sanguine Bond or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose) ... increasing the combo potential (and Tutor effects, to find the pieces) is definitely solid approach to make the deck more competitive in Bracket 4.
- The Find my Combos page over at Commander Spellbook is a great tool, if you want to lean into combos more.
MORE STAX EFFECTS, MAYBE?
- It’s hard to go wrong with the namesake card (Smokestack) in a Stax deck :-)
- If you wanted to lean into Mass Land Denial a little more, I like both Contamination and Desolation.
A FEW FINAL THOUGHTS:
- You might consider adding Feed the Swarm and/or Withering Torment ... they're IMO the best tools we have to deal with enchantments in Mono-B.
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare maybe? I play Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER and she's amazing there ... I don’t get that many sacs from her (so she may not be as good in your deck), but her card draw is always superb.
- I'm a fan of Malakir Rebirth, as protection when I need it and a Land when I don't.
- I don't see anything that benefits from Reliquary Tower ... it would honestly be my first drop.
- It's a totally small thing, but if you don't already have very distinct deck sleeves, you might consider getting some ... the last time I played vs a steal-your-things Commander everyone at the table had blue matte sleeves, and sorting out the cards afterwards was a bit of a pain :-D
Anyways, I really hope something in there ^^ proves useful, and I’m very sorry for the spam if it doesn't!
Good luck (and good skill) with the deck!
Cheers!
doc_frank_18 on
Maralen of the Mornsong
2 months ago
Where's Dark Ritual
, Crypt Ghast, Dark Confidant, Strionic Resonator and Wayfarer's Bauble?
hyalopterouslemur on Overrated cards?
2 months ago
Third. Dark Confidant is second.
Another one I see a lot is Fertilid. Most of the time it's a slower Explosive Vegetation, admittedly for instead of , but you have to pay twice, so you're basically payingg over three turns. There are some typal benefits, and there are options for recursion, but that's about all I can see it in. All of that, and Veggies is kind of...There are like, 5 strictly better Veggies?
No, seriously, I looked it up.
Anyway, Fertilid is worse than Veggies, and definitely worse than Cultivate/Kodama's Reach, but I keep seeing it.
hyalopterouslemur on Competitive card Draw in Mono …
2 months ago
Necropotence probably costs too much (It's around $20.), but if you have one, play it. As long as you're drawing at least 2 cards per turn (and a rat deck should be playing at least that many cards per turn), you're getting an advantage. (That said, I don't typically play Necro on turn 3. I typically play it later.)
Skullclamp is another obvious recommendation for typal decks. You're essentially sacrificing a creature to draw two cards.
Night's Whisper, Sign in Blood, Read the Bones...those are some of my favorite "draw X cards". You can throw in Damnable Pact for big plays. I also like Stinging Study, but it's kind of expensive.
Erebos, God of the Dead (a bit expensive) or Greed is useful as well.
Now, a word about Phyrexian Arena: I'm not sure you want it in an aggro strategy. It's great for controlling strategies, especially Stax (decks which essentially make it impossible for most decks to do anything and then do a point or two of damage every turn) and landfall, but aggro? It's still good, but not insanely overpowered. There's also Dark Confidant, which is Phyrexian Arena #2.
theNeroTurtle on
Ratatouille, the Movie - Let's Cook
2 months ago
Morbid Opportunist only happens once per turn. I feel like Dark Confidant would burn me too quickly. Thanks so much for the suggestions. If you come across more, please send away. DarkKiridon
DarkKiridon on
Ratatouille, the Movie - Let's Cook
2 months ago
Honestly think you should give Skullclamp a shot again. It’s always so good especially with a bunch of tokens laying around.
There’s also cards closely related to straight draw you could try too like Dark Confidant.
There’s also Morbid Opportunist. Yes it’s once per turn but it’s every turn. Not just yours.
SufferFromEDHD on
Genju say All Realm Matter
3 months ago
raises fist in the air in Genju solidarity
Dark Confidant would be so powerful in this deck with 46% zero CMC. Cut Diabolic Intent.
Floodbringer & Oboro Breezecaller > whichever 2 moonfolk you think are the weakest. Uyo seems bad in a deck with 6 spells.
Blossoming Tortoise > Sporemound
Treasure Hunt > Maelstrom Nexus
Ancient Tomb > Sol Ring
This deck would greatly benefit from Academy Ruins, Hall of Heliod's Generosity and Volrath's Stronghold
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