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Mire's Toll
Sorcery
Target player reveals a number of cards from his or her hand equal to the number of Swamps you control. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.
HeavyPlay on Bedbugs, Vizier of Poisons.
2 years ago
Very cool! I recently made a Sol'kanar Swampwalk deck, so even though we're not quite in the same colors I think I can still suggest a few fun cards!
- Expedition Map - Grabs your Urborg and gets your swampwalk online that much quicker
- Dauthi Voidwalker - Unlockable, Hoses opponent's graveyards, and a free spell of your choice. This card does it all.
- Dread Presence - Shock or card draw on a stick.
- Mire's Toll - Just a better Thoughtseize in this deck. Also hits lands
- Defile - Cheap, fast removal that cares about swamps
- Squelching Leeches - More of a personal preference, but this guy can get massive.
Se7enfoot on ikea coat rack
2 years ago
With that many swamps you can definitely get value from Mire's Toll as a discard source. Instead of Blood on the snow in the side, look for copies of Mutilate the negative effect will also kill creatures with indestructible.
Calsio on Swamp Ramp... This is probably utter crap...
2 years ago
You could use Defile as an alternate to Go for the Throat /Doomblade. Mire's Toll would be better than Thoughtseize in mid/late game. Torment of Hailfire is a great mana sink wincon that is still useable in the mid game in a pinch. With the big gap in mana cost between your instants/sorceries and your creatures the biggest threat to you is getting chipped down before you can swing. Darkness can help address that, or you can pick your favorite zombie swarm strat to keep blockers on field while you're building up.
zAzen7977 on TINY PUNISHER - Discard/Stax [cEDH Primer]
3 years ago
Thank you casual_competitive and stinkybot!
I recommend the following changes to make this build more budget-friendly:
Chains of Mephistopheles -> Mind Rake or Imp's Mischief
Mana Crypt -> Lotus Petal or Arcane Signet
Imperial Seal -> Insidious Dreams
Vampiric Tutor -> Diabolic Tutor
Liliana of the Veil -> Syphon Mind
Also, you can take out the 5 fetchlands for 5 Swamps.
lagotripha on Sorin to victory (orzhov vampires)
4 years ago
I've played a lot of modern vamps. Some of the best options are dirt cheap, so it makes for a great budget list to take to FNM. Most of the time I've been in mono black, but splashing for lietennant is fairly low-cost and low-risk for a great card.
For this list, Vampire of the Dire Moon , Vampire Cutthroat , Indulgent Aristocrat will do an amazing job filling out the one-drop slots. They are the 'best' budget setup I've found- great burn matchup and evasion/great deathtouch trades into bigger threats. They also play nice with Lashwrithe and Blade of the Bloodchief .
If your budget is tight enought that filling out with $1 1 drops seems rough, look at Guul Draz Vampire , Shadow Alley Denizen and Pulse Tracker alongside Stromkirk Condemned , Urge to Feed and direct damage like Gonti's Machinations and Bump in the Night . Playing a lot of 1 mana creatures that get pumped is really good, and evasion like intimidate makes something like mono-red burn but with hand disruption.
Two mana stronger options is Legion Lieutenant and Cordial Vampire (you can run Stromkirk Condemned , Dusk Legion Zealot or Cruel Celebrant ), and three is Vampire Nighthawk and Bloodthirsty Aerialist since you have them and want those slots for budget removal/carddraw. Gifted Aetherborn deserves a mention as it used to be cheap, but dire moon is frankly better and in print.
Next we come to the thing that makes budget mono-black king of the budget lists- cheap, effective spells. Sign in Blood is playable card-draw. Underworld Connections while far, far worse than Phyrexian Arena , and worse than bob still performs admirably. Delirium Skeins & Mind Rake devastates control players. Duress successfully hates out combo players. Standard cards like Mire's Toll & Drill Bit perform miracles. Cards like Flaying Tendrils can play at being one-sided boardwipes, and your sideboard has access to all manner of oddball cards that had too many copies to get expensive for modern- from Shadowfeed to Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage .
Grab some playtest tools and muck about- you will find a great deck within your budget that you can muck about with to perform well in your local meta.
Darth_Savage on BR Discard Control
5 years ago
Megrim, just isn't that efficient, if you want the Megrim effect I'd suggest Liliana's Caress as there is a big difference between two mana and three. Mind Rot, his a similar issue, I'd suggest Tasigur's Cruelty or Delirium Skeins as an alternative. I also rather like Blackmail and Mire's Toll in discard decks, since both have the ability to hit lands. An alternative finisher might help too; Torment of Hailfire or Rakdos's Return would potentially fit. Norn's Annex isn't Ensnaring Bridge but it could fill a similar role, even at the cost of 4 life it probably saves you more than that in damage. Hope this is of some help, good luck brewing your deck.
Darth_Savage on The Quest for Hand Disruption
5 years ago
Some pointers...
Liliana's Caress is a strictly better Megrim, since it costs 1 less to cast.
Augur of Skulls (2 cards), Pilfering Imp (evasion / repeatable), Black Cat (random) and Rotting Rats (2 shots) are better discard creatures, however if you want to keep the rat theme you should run Pack Rat.
Inquisition of Kozilek, Blackmail, Mire's Toll and Vicious Rumors are solid additions, better than Despise / Duress.
Funeral Charm is one of the few ways to force discard at instant speed.
Hope this helps, good luck and have fun brewing your deck.
Darth_Savage on
5 years ago
I have a very similar deck Sweet (black) devotion, the biggest difference being I've dropped Bloodghast in favour of Relentless Dead and am using Imp's Mischief to protect my stuff. I'm also a fan of Mire's Toll in a mono-black deck. Hopefully this helps you out, have fun brewing your deck.