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Destroy the Evidence
Sorcery
Destroy target land. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a land card, then puts those cards into his or her graveyard.
TheoryCrafter on
Scorched Jund
8 months ago
Thank you for your input, Sliverguy420. Some of what you posted about Cleansing Wildfire is how I described it in the Ramp & Draw section of my deck description. It's the primary reason why it's in there. However it can reduce the Opponent's mana if the opponent has no basic lands in their deck. Though I acknowledge that is as likely to happen about around as often as gaining life from Thermokarst.
Once I have two green producing lands, two red producing lands and a black producing land on the battlefield, there's other benefits to having Cleansing Wildfire the deck. Lands with activated abilities can be neutralized. Combined with Reclaiming Vines and Vandalize, it stops artifact lands from contributing to cards with Affinity for Artifacts. And, most importantly, it forces opponents to pull lands from their library to be targets of the next land destruction spell. Thus, like Vandalize, and to a much greater extent Destroy the Evidence, it feeds the graveyard.
However you do have a point about the mana curve and I will take lowering it in consideration each time I make changes.
Thank you again for your input, for reading me out, and May You Draw Well!
TheoryCrafter on
4 years ago
Have you considered cards that allow you to put lands from your graveyard into the battlefield? These include, but are not limited to, Crucible of Worlds and The Mending of Dominaria
Also, while Alpine Moon is not played often, between this and land destroyer cards including, but not limited to, Cleansing Wildfire and Destroy the Evidence, could take out your pieces before you can get the combo going. May I suggest finding counter spells to deal with those threats?
Hope this helps. Happy Hunting!
Gattison on
U.S.S. Deathstar: NCC-1701-FU (Paunza)
4 years ago
taylorfisdboss: Had some time to fiddle with this deck some more, and this is where I'm at currently. I could only find 1x Contaminated Ground, 1x Destroy the Evidence and 3x Psychic Venom in my collection. So I'm using 4x Singing Bell Strike and 3x Ninja of the Deep Hours as placeholders. I like the ninja's ability to let me re-use Balustrade Spy, so he may stay.
(My LGS isn't good for pauper singles, so next time I buy cards online... I'ma spend like 80 bucks on 10 cent singles. At least I'll get my money's worth lol)
Beyond that, Duress and Dark Ritual didn't work out as well as I thought in "playtesting", I felt like I needed to be more of a dick and have some legit removal, so Vapor Snag is back. Preordain is back because this is turning out to rely heavily on a few key cards, which makes it combo in my mind, which in turn means I either need to find redundancies to use as backups, or add draw power to find my pieces on time. Since there are no redundancies for Balustrade Spy and Destroy the Evidence in pauper, I went with draw. It's not enough though, so I'm back to brainstorming. Not using Brainstorm the card, just you know, using my brain.
My bad for the wait for a response. Also, I assume you're last sentence that got cut off was something along the lines of "love what you've done with the place." To which I say, thanks!
taylorfisdboss on
U.S.S. Deathstar: NCC-1701-FU (Paunza)
4 years ago
Gattison The pay offs you just mentioned for black actually synergize with the Cleansing Wildfire and Geomancer's Gambit in that by helping our opponent search up lands we leave them with less lands and make both Destroy the Evidence and Balustrade Spy mill our opponents for more. Black also has the diverse Befoul for land or nonblack creature removal. Another cool idea is to lean into your Psychic Venom and also run Contaminated Ground so that you can really make their spells cost them.
I totally get what you're saying about playtesting in a vaccum and not wanting to make people play against it a bunch XD - that makes building ponza all the more difficult! love what you'v
Gattison on
U.S.S. Deathstar: NCC-1701-FU (Paunza)
4 years ago
taylorfisdboss: Hmm, yes, fair point. Part of my reasoning behind them is to make this degenerate paunza deck a bit more ... idk "fun?" It's harder to playtest in a vacuum, and since it's pretty douchy, I don't really wanna subject my playgroup to a bunch of playtests either.
Silverbluff Bridge is a good idea though, I'll get some and make that swap. It's always good to have backup plans.
You did make me reconsider my approach here though. I searched for cards that might have better synergy, but there are no pauper cards that care about your opponent's lands LTB or ETG. There is however Roiling Terrain and Destroy the Evidence which got me re-strategizing. If I add black and things like Duress and Balustrade Spy... and Dark Ritual... but then... Hm.
Dyrkus on
Mill... Baby.... I just wish I could quit you...
4 years ago
A few of my favorites for mill could be useful here, and also work rather well amongst themselves:
They'd be good for a double-down on the ability you already have from Consuming Aberration.
tumamaenmondongo on
5 years ago
There's a fringe combo archetype call One-Land Spy. It basically plays a single forest, fetchable with Land Grant, a bunch of ways to ramp into Balustrade Spy or Destroy the Evidence to get your whole deck into the graveyard at once. From there, there are plenty of ways to win, typically casting a Haunting Misery for 20 something, retrieving it from the graveyard off Anarchist, casting it by flasbacking Morgue Theft, with mana generated from Songs of the Damned and rituals.
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/1-land-spy-hard-mode/ That one is a more elaborate version IMO, which wins through looping songs of the damned, to pay for a second loop which could be either Gray Merchant of Asphodel to drain life, or Balustrade Spy to mill your opponent.
The only thing you should be changing from that version is Gitaxian Probe which isn't pauper legal anymore. Replacing those, players are using cantrips like Manamorphose or cycling creatures, mana fixers like Abundant Growth, Springleaf Drum or mana dorks, rituals like Culling the Weak, or even stuff like Commune with Nature to dig for spy.
FrancoisParfait on
Murder all the Things
6 years ago
Thanks for the input! I agree with the suggestions, honestly I only had Assassin's Strike for flavor, but it makes more sense to replace them with more Murder s.
Same thing with Contract Killing , I'm a sucker for flavor.
Taking out Destroy the Evidence seems like a good idea, I like playing them, but having other things such as Duress seem to be the better option.
Thanks again!