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Demonic Covenant
Kindred Enchantment — Demon
Whenever one or more Demons you control attack a player, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying, then mill two cards. If two cards that share all their card types were milled this way, sacrifice this. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
legendofa on Pattern Recognition #356 - Demons
8 months ago
First, a mini-primer for anyone who wants it: Tribal was both a card type (Tarfire, Not of this World) and a descriptor of decks and themes based around a creature type, and is no longer in official use. Kindred took on the role of the card type (Altar of the Goyf, Demonic Covenant), and Typal became the descriptor (this article is about Demon typal themes).
Thinking about the Demon/Angel contrast, there are a lot more cards that hit the "fallen angel" archetype than the "ascended demon" archetype. Looking at color identity and discounting the non-M:tG-canon WH40K cards, there are more non- Angels (17, and most of them are or ) than non- Demons (9, and all but one of them are ). Similarly, there are 7 Demons that include in their color identity, and 28 Angels that have a color identity. Why is the "ascended demon" archetype so unusual? Corruption is more evocative than redemption?
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The Ooze makes it sticky
10 months ago
How's it going? Nice recent update, you've done a good job with cutting creatures. If you're worried about card prices then don't get Grim Tutor, not worth it, since for it's high price you could add many more budget friendly card upgrades.
Something to think about for some deck improvements is the mana curve and how it plays having such a heavy top end. The big creatures you want to reanimate are the top of the mana curve here and there's a lot of them, it's filled. Having many other 5 CMC or higher spells (there's 10 here) that aren't creatures can really bog down the mana curve making gameplay worse.
Grievous Wound, Demonic Covenant, Badlands Revival, Convert to Slime, Final Parting, The Cruelty of Gix, Deadbridge Chant, Breach the Multiverse none of these cards are really needed. Since creatures fill the top of the mana curve then focus on improving the beginning of the mana curve? Malevolent Rumble and Diresight are examples of cards at beginning of the mana curve that do a lot for their mana costs for reanimation strategy.
Consider more lower mana cost reanimation spells? If the plan is to cast Stickfingers turn 4 for two then give yourself more chances to reanimate a creature that same turn with more lower mana cost reanimation? You have Reanimate and Animate Dead, but that's really it for early game possible reanimation. Consider Life / Death and Soul Exchange?
A big advantage of green recursion spells here is getting back a reanimation spell to reanimate again. The problem is most of the recursion spells here can only get back a permanent, not a nonpermanent spell. Other than Animate Dead most reanimation here is coming from nonpermanent spells. Consider Regrowth and Dryad's Revival?
Opponent exile effects at your creatures can really ruin your day. Consider some protection against exile? Fine protection against exile here is creature sac since if you sac your creature in response to the exile then it instead goes to your graveyard to be reanimated again. Greater Good is powerful since it can be repeatable, not only is it creature sac, but draw and discard too. Lazotep Quarry is a land that can sac a creature to make a mana.
If you're having trouble with opponents attacking you then Grave Titan could really help. It puts a lot of defense onto the battlefield when it comes in.
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