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Nether Spirit
Creature — Spirit
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Nether Spirit is the only creature card in your graveyard, you may return Nether Spirit to the battlefield.
DreadKhan on Lotus Petal vs. Chrome Mox
3 months ago
I'm not sure if I missed something, but I don't think Raven's Crime specifically needs Swamps, you can discard any land to cast it from the graveyard. It's a pretty strong card in a Rack list IMHO, and worth running if you find you draw lands when you'd rather have drawn a Raven's Crime. I think with a deck like yours, where you're at 19 lands and have only 6 3 drops (and an average MV well under 2) you can expect to not need lands after a few turns, so I don't know that you'd need to add more Swamps (or lands in general) to derive value from Raven's Crime.
IMHO there are still certain archetypes that are viable in Legacy that aren't always fast, and Rack is one of them. The existence of Force of Will means people can't design decks that are so greedy that they scoop to a single FoW (or Force of Negation), so grindy decks will have a place. Even if they don't run FoW in their own deck, it's omnipresent enough that we all get herd immunity to a certain level of greed. On the downside it means certain decks will always be kinda good, a timely Thoughtseize can be much better than FoW, and a Rack deck can also throw a Hymn out early; do you FoW the Hymn, or risk it and end up unable to FoW anything and are still down 2 cards? As long as you have enough creature hate I find you can still win games vs aggro (much harder now with The One Ring, but you're VERY well placed vs it with Chains x4) as well, and your ability to lock people out of drawing can give you the time to win.
Ultimately, is it a bad situation when you're using Raven's Crime? Probably, but the alternative is just having to scoop IMHO. That's why I'd probably try it out as a x1 or x2 and see how often it saves your bacon. You can also use Entomb to put Crime straight into the bin, and include a copy of Bloodghast or Nether Spirit if you already drew your Crime. It's the kind of card I think you'd add to give your deck more grindy options when desperate, but IMHO if your combo is set up you don't need Raven's Crime.
My final thought is that with your Dark Confidant you can draw extra lands to feed Raven's Crime, as long as you have access to Black mana, maybe this is where the extra Swamps concern came from? You could always toss in Blood Crypt
if you don't want to buy more Badlands, you'd always get the OG dual first, or a Basic if it will work, so you don't notice the Crypt's drawback as much. I feel like if you're hitting the opponent with 1 Crime per turn roughly (counting an extra card from Dark Confidant) you might not need much more support to get your Racks online other than a Chains or two to prevent the opponent from drawing extra cards. YMMV but I think it's worth trying out x1 or x2, as long as you have a couple Racks out it'll be a lot of pressure.
Hope some of this helps!
SufferFromEDHD on
Tsabo Tavoc Havoc
7 months ago
Did you not play back then? Before Bitterblossom the OG Contamination lock was with Nether Spirit. I'm running both to guarantee a lock. It also pays for Koskun Falls.
It is the other 5 mana ramp spell along with Cabal Ritual to get Tsabo out quick.
SufferFromEDHD on
Cockroaches Never Die
1 year ago
Neat. Your oldest deck, unplayed and full of creatures!
This deck needs a couple of Dredge cards. Urborg and Yavimaya as well.
I don't like Jester's Cap here because you have no way of reusing it and does it more effectively.
Planar Portal seems awkward in . Diabolic Intent seems appropriate with this strategy.
Nether Spirit is a unique card. It's perfect in your creatureless strategy but it's going to fail here. Back in the day MBC utilized it with Contamination. I would cut one for the other.
Pernicious Deed Golgari staple for a reason.
Arthurshepard80 on Arthurshepard80
1 year ago
DreadKhanCiao,in effetti suona bene in Pox,tra l'altro si combina bene con Nether Spirit e Nether Voidperò sono sempre per ogni pedina.Tra l'altro senza una creatura leggendaria entra Non saprei,bisogna provare:)
DreadKhan on Arthurshepard80
1 year ago
Not sure if you've seen the new Barad-dur, it's from the new Lord of the Rings set. It seems like it would be pretty good in a Pox deck as a finisher, as long as something died that turn (easy in Pox) you can make a 1/1 for 3 mana, or make the existing 1/1 +1/+1 bigger, that seems pretty good for a land in the long games Pox decks produce. Since it's a token it interacts well with Nether Spirit, another asset. It does remind me a tiny bit of Kjeldoran Outpost, only it's in mono-Black, so it's much easier to include in a Pox deck, technically since Barad Dur doesn't cost you a land it's the 'same price' as Outpost, it just looks like more, yet it can scale up if you've drawn a Dark Ritual.
What do you think of it?
Xargus on
You've got Pox
2 years ago
I think Nether Spirit and Tombstalker are problematic together as they anti-synergize. You may use delve to remove additional Nether Spirit from graveyard but I found this combo to be risky when you end up with both in the graveyard. I'd say you either you go creatures in general or you stick to 1-3 Nether Spirit and use artifact creatures from lands like Mishra's Factory or Chimeric Idol.
Poseidon31 on
Mono Black Pox Control
2 years ago
I would play only one Nether Spirit because if both are in the GY, you dont get one back. And i would cut down one land, because you only need 3 lands in play. So you have room for 2 more spells, maybe Break the Ice for cheap tron aggro?
Dead_Blue_ on
Mono Black Pox Control
2 years ago
I’d move the Surgical Extraction cards to the side unless you’re planning to hit fetches with them. You need some draw power 2x Phyrexian Arena could be it.
If you’re unhappy with Nether Spirit I used to run a Pox deck that used Abyssal Persecutor as the wincon instead