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Pontiff of Blight
Creature — Zombie Cleric
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay . If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Other creatures you control have extort. (If a creature has multiple instances of extort, each triggers separately.)
TheoryCrafter on Lifedrain Casual Commander
3 weeks 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!
TheForsakenOne on K'rrik, Manipulator of Life (Totals)
7 months ago
This deck seems very .... confused. On one hand you have swamp synergies, on the other sacrifice synergies, and then you have weird cards like Elder Brain that don't fit into either. I'd suggest picking one of the two theme's and sticking to it.
Cards I would suggest cutting:
Withercrown (just not a good card)
Crypt Incursion (Too situational, its going to be dead a lot of the time)
Xathrid Gorgon (Too slow)
Visara the Dreadful (Removal magnet + too slow)
Consume Spirit (There are better mana sinks than this)
Corrupt (Needs too many swamps to be worth the mana)
Liliana's Shade (Also just not a good card)
Elder Brain (just a weird card in general and too inconsistent)
Cards I would suggest adding:
Abhorrent Overlord (Makes a buch of creatures for your sacrifice triggers)
Pontiff of Blight, Thrull Parasite, Basilica Screecher (More extort cards that synergize very well with K'rrik)
Exsanguinate (Better mana sink than consume spirit)
Nirkana Revenant (Another mana doubler for swamps)
Vein Ripper (Very good for this kind of deck, but it just came out and is currently pricey so I'd wait to buy this one)
Bitterblossom, Dreadhorde Invasion (make a creature every turn for your sacrifice outlets)
Viscera Seer the classic free sacrifice outlet. Also see Woe Strider
Ayara, First of Locthwain (Free creature with K'rrik out and pings opponents every time a black creature enters which usually happens a lot with sac decks)
TheForsakenOne on K'rrik, Blatant Cheater
8 months ago
Because extort says "That much life" it scales with how much life is lost, which Bloodletter changes as a replacement effect. Because it specifically replaces life loss instead of damage causing life loss it does double the lifegain you receive.
And Wound Reflection is just a little too slow for my tastes. Its a 5 mana investment on something that isn't putting you in a winning investment unless you're following it up with a Pontiff of Blight, Gray Merchant of Asphodel or Shard of the Nightbringer, and people tend to target you or it as soon as it comes down because they see the aforementioned cards coming.
Sleepysherlock on Life and Death
1 year ago
Oh i nearly forgot
Pontiff of Blight, Shard of the Nightbringer, and Lich's Mastery
griffstick on Creatures that do Damage Over …
1 year ago
multimedia on Muldrotha, the gravetide
1 year ago
Hey, interesting Zombie theme. There's many excellent cards here, but also way too much filler for a 500+ budget. I presume the wincon here is Captain? With Gravecrawler combos of Altar or Rooftop?
Only 11 ramp sources here with only 33 lands are low numbers for Muldrotha. I don't consider Explosive Vegetation and Circuitous Route playable ramp either with a $100 low budget let alone a higher $500+ budget. There's so many ramp choices that have better interaction with Muldrotha that aren't 4 mana. 3.5 avg. CMC (mana curve) is high for only these numbers too. Something should give? Either add more ramp, add more lands, cut the lesser high CMC cards, or do all this to improve your deck?
To reduce mana curve these are some cards to consider cutting?
- Cemetery Desecrator, Drownyard Amalgam
- Iname, Death Aspect
- Breath of the Sleepless, Kura, the Boundless Sky
- Pontiff of Blight, Kodama of the East Tree
- Explosive Vegetation, Circuitous Route
Others:
The Spirit tribal theme is not needed here. Some Spirits are fine, if the card is good by itself or helps Muldrotha some other ways and doesn't need other Spirits. There's a reason that Cemetery Desecrator isn't even $1 and is a Mythic rare, it's a terrible card for 6 mana. Drownyard Amalgam is at least not Mythic, but is just as bad for a five drop. You don't need these Zombies, they aren't helping your deck in any way for their mana cost.
It can help to see a deck list that's not 99 cards yet, but has been stripped of a lot of fat. Seeing a list this way can help to smooth the mana curve by adding more cards at certain parts of it that need more such as two drops here. In boarder terms consider more ramp, draw and low mana cost reanimation/self-mill enablers to setup Muldrotha and Zombies?
Good luck with your deck.
The_Warleader on What do we say to the God of Death?
1 year ago
Pretty underused card in Alesha decks (imo) is Pontiff of Blight!
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