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| Arena | Legal |
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Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Creature — Zombie
When this enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts towards your devotion to black.)
EchoSpice on
Things Betor Left Undead [Primer]
1 month ago
Cool deck! Maybe Greed to help with life loss triggers and card draw? And youve got quite a bit of black mana pips, Gary might also be good. Gray Merchant of Asphodel
SaberTech on Make It Work
1 month ago
I think that at this point the deck list doesn't have a solid plan for ending the game. It has Gray Merchant of Asphodel but doesn't have a focus on building up your black devotion to really make it hurt your opponent when it lands. Torment of Hailfire could be a game-ender but without any big mana ramp in the deck it will be pretty late in the game before it can really do damage. I think that, going by the list, the deck's default is to try to play a control game by using Ketramose to cantrip a bunch of exile-based removal to help your big fliers get through. Ketramose is a strong card draw engine but you've focused so much on triggering it with removal spells that you haven't planned out a solid winning strategy or combination of cards.
Maybe the deck could be shifted into more of a Blink deck? BW has all sorts of good ETB effects for generating value and tokens. Cards like Teleportation Circle, Conjurer's Closet, and Eldrazi Displacer could be the core engine cards of the deck alongside Ketramose.
There are also a variety of creatures that let you exile cards from graveyards. Withered Wretch is pretty efficient since its ability is only 1 mana and it only removes one card, giving you more opportunities to draw cards off of Ketramose.
PhyrexianPraetor on
Mono Red Devotion
2 months ago
kamarupa I cut Braid of Fire due to not being sure if I can make it work 100% of the time. I can look at adding it again.
I was considering on making each of my devotion lists two colours in the long run. The thing that helps Fanatic of Mogis is that it is easier to cast than Gray Merchant of Asphodel, it also helps that red is a rather aggressive colour compared to black.
Thanks for the suggestions.
kamarupa on
You Go Squirrel
3 months ago
This deck won 2 of 3 in 1v1v1 this week against mono-black aristocrats and mono-blue merfolk/mono black Waste Not. (We play that a player can change decks after winning or losing twice) It lost the first match to Harbinger of the Seas as I only had non-basic lands in play (though it was mono-black aristocrats that got the win). In the second match, Valley Rotcaller quickly whittled away both opponents' life totals. The third match turned into a real grind as mono-black kept a Tainted Remedy in play despite repeated removals on my part while also removing our own Tainted Remedys. In total, TR was cast 6 times, 3 each from two decks. In the end, though, Squirrels were victorious. It was quite funny when in the end, the mono-black Waste Not deck was finally able to cast Gray Merchant of Asphodel to almost no effect and still lost.
Doombeard1984 on
Zombies Ate My Neighbors (Zul Ashur)
4 months ago
Love a pet deck lol.
So whilst your Commander does let you reanimate a few each turn, feel like some mass return would be a good idea maybe.
Phyrexian Delver, Balthor the Defiled, Zombie Apocalypse, Living Death
. Patriarch's Bidding. will all likely give you a better outcome than any non typal based decks. And if you happen to have milled a Gray Merchant of Asphodel then it will see everything else also enter and will count their devotion too!
Also, Noxious Ghoul can be back breaking for other decks, especially if you are getting more than 1 Zomboi onto the battlefield each turn. With an Endless Ranks of the Dead can literally keep everyone off creatures, and your board safe and sound.
Kind of feel Call to the Grave would also be useful given that you only have 2 non Zomboi creatures.
+1, and thanks for sharing your deck
Last_Laugh on
Oops! All female! Marchesa
6 months ago
It does immediately come back to the battlefield from Marchesa but the Thran trigger goes on the stack when the creature leaves the grave, which is when targets are chosen. Because the creature isn't actually on the battlefield at that exact moment, it's not a valid target. A minor nuance, but if it said "when ~ enters" or "~ enters with" then it'd work as you describe.
Marchesa is unique in the sense that each of her triggers to return a creature are separate. This means you choose what order things come back in and that any etb's/triggers from that creature entering resolve before the next Marchesa trigger brings the next guy back. Also, each creature entering doesn't see the other Marchesa triggers on the stack so if you have Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Clone entering, the clone entering after and copying Gary will drain for 2 more than Gary did.
griffstick on Your favourite Card from Bloomburrow
9 months ago
I really like Coiling Rebirth double up on really good creatures like Grave Titan or Crypt Ghast or Gray Merchant of Asphodel
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