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Inquisition of Kozilek
Sorcery
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost/mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.
Balaam__ on
Prepare To Be Boned
1 week ago
Very thematic, +1. How about Inquisition of Kozilek in place of Duress?
Cloudy2024 on
Mono Black Control
3 weeks ago
must run 4 Thoughtseize and some Inquisition of Kozilek
CommanderNeyo on
Lord Tiago, Forsaken Spellbinder (Updated Again)
2 months ago
Personally, I would remove the following:
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Vampire Hexmage, as it only works well with Thing in the Ice Flip - and is otherwise a dead card. If you really want the effect, you could consider Heartless Act, which works as removal or can trigger Thing in the Ice Flip at instant-speed.
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Murder, at 3 mana is a high price to pay to remove a creature, and there is more efficient removal out there. Consider cards like Fatal Push, Dismember, or Infernal Grasp
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Dash Hopes, giving your opponent the choice to keep their spell is not ideal for a control deck like this one.
I would put 2 or 3 Murktide Regents in the mainboard, as the card is a powerful wincon.
Psychic Frog should probably come out of the maybeboard, as it works well with Murktide and is a powerful card draw engine and wincon in its own right.
You might also consider cards like Duress, Thoughtseize, or Inquisition of Kozilek to rip apart your opponents' hands.
While you may not want to net-deck, you may want to check out what are popular decks so you can tune your sideboard to match (or just go to your LGS and see what they play there).
legendofa on
Grrr
4 months ago
What's the intent of Wall of Vines and Corpse Blockade? I know that having a direct win condition isn't the main priority of this deck, but I strongly recommend putting one in anyway. If you're trying to be the last one standing in free-for-all matches, you can't always rely on your opponents to 100% cooperate. The defenders are less proactive than other cards here.
Next thought is that the Liquimetal Coating + Splinter is cute, but the Coatings have nothing to do without the Splinters. This can be switched out for some other control options, or if you want to keep the style points, use Glissa Sunseeker. There's probably enough deck removal as-is.
I'm a big fan of discard, so I'm going to suggest the 1-mana options there. Anything from Duress to Inquisition of Kozilek to Thoughtseize will be a good turn 1 option. Right now, your 1-drops are all either reactive or passive, and this deck wants to start shredding fast, not wait for the opponent to build up resources.
Normally, I'd suggest Abrupt Decay here for general-use removal, but it sounds like your group leans toward the higher end of the mana curve. Assassin's Trophy is a similar option, if you can deal with helping your opponent ramp.
I'm a little more cautious about this next suggestion, since it's going to be very gimmicky, but a copy of Chancellor of the Spires can kickstart your Surgical Extractions and Extirpates.
Ravndark on
Lantern Control *Primer*
9 months ago
KongMing The decks back then were using a loop of Pyrite Spellbomb to continually ping the opponent. It's become less useful as of right now, since a lot of Activated Ability hate is out there. I've been questioning if that's the route I'd like to go again, but finding room is hard. Cutting coloured lands makes the Ancient Stirrings and Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek a little harder to cast.
wallisface on Divinity of Pride or Starseer …
1 year ago
DemonDragonJ just as food-for-thought and/or inspiration, if I were making low-budget Deathbringer Liege deck, it’d look something like this:
- 4x Deathbringer Liege
- 4x Tidehollow Sculler
- 4x High Priest of Penance
- 4x Souls of the Faultless
- 3x Beckon Apparition
- 4x Inquisition of Kozilek
- 4x Fatal Push
- 4x Vanishing Verse
- 4x Vindicate
- 3x Kaya's Guile
- 22x Lands
You’d probably want 2-3 lands being either Shambling Vent or Restless Fortress as I imagine these games going very grindily and more threats being needed
TheoryCrafter on
Lifedrain Casual Commander
1 year ago
Since Extort is your main objective here, you may want to consider Pontiff of Blight. This will give all of your creatures Extort.
Considering your lack of board wipes I would definitely consider adding Merciless Eviction.
Protection spells including, but not limited to, Angelic Intervention, Faith's Shield and Sejiri Shelter Flip have the advantage of protecting you from board wipes that damage rather than destroy, exile or reduce your creatures' toughness.
May I suggest Gerrard's Verdict? This could set your opponent back a little. Other discard cards I would suggest include, but not be limited to, Divest, Inquisition of Kozilek and Vicious Rumors.
My suggestion is to aim for cheaper control spells such as the protection and discard spells I mentioned(definitely keep Soul Tithe) and lean more into the Extort ability. Leave mana expensive spell slots only for board wipes. Then use cards such as Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose to cause more harm to your opponents.
Also, you can't go wrong with Graveyard hate. Cards such as Bojuka Bog and Lion Sash should be must adds.
Also, after doing all these changes if you find yourself with extra space, add in an Alternate Win Card for in case the game stalls . My Suggestions would be any combination of Angel of Destiny or Felidar Sovereign—both of which can feed into Pontiff of Blight.
I hope this helps. Thank you for reading me out. Happy Hunting!
DMFF on
1 year ago
Firstly, welcome to the MTG community! Modern is definitely a more hostile format, but Soul Sisters can hold their own, especially in Orzhov. One of my close friends in my "close friends playgroup" built his own rendition of Orzhov Soul Sisters as well and it can certainly give any aggro deck a run for its money. Since Lifegain is more of a Control-esque strategy, I do have a few suggestions for your main and side:
Main: - Fatal Push, Solitude (ik a little more expensive, but so so good), or Path to Exile for cheap/"free" removal of onboard threats. I would cut 2-3 copies of March of Otherworldly Light since it requires more resources, but can be great in the mid/late game.
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Guide of Souls, the new Soul Brother! (It could be called Soul Siblings!) This card is a more powerful version of the Soul Sisters, so I definitely recommend running 4x of this card once it drops in MH3. I would drop the 4x Auriok Champion for this due to the lower mana cost and higher power level.
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Thoughtseize is a great handrip card and the -2 life is barely noticeable in your build. Until you pick up any copies, I would move Inquisition of Kozilek into your main board for better control and knowledge of your opponent's gameplan right from game 1. I would also suggest a combination of both of these cards in your mainboard to equal 6 total. My wife runs 3 of each in her own rendition of the meta Yawgmoth deck.
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I would cut the Ghost Quarters for Field of Ruin, reduce them to 2 or 3 copies and move them to your mainboard, cutting some basic lands. My wife actually runs this in her mainboard to mess with greedy manabases to great success.
Side: - Having both Sanctifier en-Vec & Rest in Peace is a bit redundant. I would personally cut them both and replace with 3 or 4 Leyline of the Void to have a good chance of hurting Graveyard strategies before turn 1 even starts. Keep all the Surgical Extractions in though because it is great targeted GY removal that can outright cripple decks.
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Flare of Fortitude will be great protection for your board as wallisface stated above.
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Necromentia is an amazing tool against combo decks that are becoming more and more frequent in Modern.
Hopefully this will be helpful for you, let me know if you have any questions!
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