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| Block Constructed | Legal |
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| Tiny Leaders | Legal |
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No Rest for the Wicked
Enchantment
Sacrifice No Rest for the Wicked: Return to your hand all creature cards that died this turn. (Dying is being put into the graveyard from the battlefield. Tokens cease to exist when they hit the graveyard.)
Icaruskid on
Shadowborn Demons | Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
3 weeks ago
Profet93 It's still early days for this deck. I'd like something that is casual, aggressive, but with a win condition or two above that. Was thinking of Mortal Combat in addition to Liliana's Contract lol. Mostly I'd like it to run more efficient and consistent. I don't see a way to do that and protect the commander without going tutor heavy or big budget. So I'm trying to find a spot for No Rest for the Wicked and Nightmare Shepherd for commander redundancy. Removal would be great too but I guess the limited slots and what to cut are where I need the most help. Thanks!
Gidgetimer on No Rest for the Wicked …
3 years ago
Unless a triggered ability triggered or an SBA needs performed, no player receives priority in the clean up step. If a player does receive priority in the cleanup step, there will be another cleanup step immediately following it.
514.3. Normally, no player receives priority during the cleanup step, so no spells can be cast and no abilities can be activated. However, this rule is subject to the following exception:
514.3a At this point, the game checks to see if any state-based actions would be performed and/or any triggered abilities are waiting to be put onto the stack (including those that trigger “at the beginning of the next cleanup step”). If so, those state-based actions are performed, then those triggered abilities are put on the stack, then the active player gets priority. Players may cast spells and activate abilities. Once the stack is empty and all players pass in succession, another cleanup step begins.
An additional note, No Rest for the Wicked says "put into the graveyard from play". This means went from the battlefield to the graveyard and does not include discarded cards. Updated oracle text says "Return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn."
Quickspell on No Rest for the Wicked …
3 years ago
In my end phase, during my cleanup step and after having discarded to reduce to my allowed hand size, do I get priority again to activate No Rest for the Wicked? Say I use Secret Salvage to fetch all my Shadowborn Apostles and then discard them, can I get them back to hand?
Icaruskid on
Black Bolt | Athreos, Shadowborn [PRIMER]
4 years ago
Thank you for the rich feedback Beware!
Mortal Combat and No Rest for the Wicked do seem handy. I'll try them out.
I take your point on Sol Ring and Sol Talisman, although the former does help get Athreos online on turn 2 as well as accelerate how quickly the bigger spells are played like Phyrexian Altar, Remembrance, Angel of Glory's Rise, and anything else above 4 Mana in general. Sol Talisman I was trying on in place of Land Tax or an unconditional draw spell like Night's Whisper. It's cute in a bad way so I agree with you that it needs to go.
Black Market is OK. It's just helping me with mana at a point when I don't need it much anymore. Still, the mana package here feels raw so I'll play around with it again and see if it feels like a better functional fit as I do like how on theme it is.
Expedition Map is a personal preference. I like being able to grab Cabal Coffers or Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth to power up mana. I also have found being able to grab a Bojuka Bog pretty helpful against graveyard decks. And weirdly enough, snatching Vault of the Archangel has helped me several times to deter aggro with deathtouch capable Shadowborn Apostles or improve survivability with lifelink. Finally, there are games where lack of lands can be an issue and it gives me an out to those corner cases to stay on curve or fix mana colors.
I have never had a problem with Dark Confidant. Nearly 83 cards in the deck are 2 mana value or less so the damage is often negligible especially when our life total matters as little as it does in a combo build. In a pinch, I can sac it to Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Diabolic Intent, Phyrexian Altar, or Skullclamp when draw is no longer necessary. I'm comfortable with this risk profile particularly with fair access to lifegain as from Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Vault of the Archangel.
I'm going to take your advice on a few of these suggestions and I really appreciate the years of experience behind your feedback. Thank you!
Beware on
Black Bolt | Athreos, Shadowborn [PRIMER]
4 years ago
There’s a lot of great interactions you’re missing here. Mortal Combat, No Rest for the Wicked, Black Market
I also don’t think this deck really even wants Sol Ring. Black mana is so deeply essential here the only situation where sol ring is useful is powering out Thrumming Stone.
Mana Confluence is a pretty weak choice of land considering the sheer amount of mana this deck needs. Expedition Map also feels like a wasted slot and should likely just be another apostle. Mox Amber is all kinds of mediocre imo. Same with Sol Talisman. Sure playing demons early is nice but will almost never actually win you the game.
Dark Confidant is unnecessarily risky when you’re running a bunch of expensive demons and angels, especially when Black already has access to large amounts of card advantage.
I also like having some kind of backup to avoid getting my apostles Pithing Needle. I chose Mirror Entity but there are plenty of other alternatives.
I’ve played this list off and on since the printing of Shadowborn Apostle:
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/atheros-god-of-wifi/
king-saproling on
Milling in the name of!
4 years ago
You might like these: Forever Young , Neko-Te , Nim Devourer , Wake the Dead , No Rest for the Wicked , Skirge Familiar , Songs of the Damned , Death Denied , Restless Dreams , Altar of the Brood , Millikin , Extractor Demon , Sifter of Skulls , Awaken the Erstwhile , Champion of Stray Souls , Dread Summons
ShaDoWz_6677 on
Glory to Old Phyrexia
4 years ago
Wall of Junk or 1 swamp. you dont need 43 lands. I would go with 39 lands at most in this deck. I play a yawgmoth cEDH with Phyrexian Subtheme. The Thran book dictates a lot of the storyline between Phyrexia and Dominaria. Speaking of a powerstone that Yawgmoth uses to keep the Portal to Phyrexia open for the people of Halcyon to be transported to Phyrexia. (Hence cards like Mimic Vat and No Rest for the Wicked references.
