Creature (17)
- 2x Carrion Feeder
- 3x Cruel Celebrant
- 2x Gavony Unhallowed
- 4x Gifted Aetherborn
- 2x Teysa Karlov
- 2x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
- 2x Warteye Witch
Sorcery (2)
Land (25)
Enchantment (12)
Instant (4)
The Slaughterhouse
The Purpose
I've been on a little personal quest to build decks that have win-cons that utilize each part of the game, such as the hand or graveyard. Here, we're gonna take a look at creatures. I could have just built a very creature centric deck, hit 'em with something big or something, but I personally felt that it was too.. well.. normal. So I came up with a way to use creatures as basically fuel for other operations.
The key combo here is Heartless Summoning + Assemble the Legion. The way that it works is that Assemble the Legion generates a large amount of 1/1 creature tokens passively during your upkeep, and then Heartless Summoning kills them instantly with -1/-1 counters. These deaths are then used to trigger numerous effects that take place upon death. This is the slaughterhouse.
Card Breakdown
Assemble the Legion
- A part of the leading combo of the deck. This card is the token generator that will create the meat for Heartless Summoning. Starts off a little slow, but you will start to get some very good effects within a couple turns.
- This will generate a large force of creatures over time if you need it.
Bastion of Remembrance
- Once the machine is running, this guy will start stealing the life of your opponents. Neato.
- If the machine is NOT running, you still get a couple chumps. Could be useful since this deck only has 13 creatures.
Carrion Feeder
- This is here just in the event that you don't have Heartless Summoning out. You can use his Sacrifice ability to get rid of your tokens and get the slaughterhouse somewhat going.
- He'll get pretty big from the sacrificing, so thats kinda nice.
- Probably will die once you get Heartless Summoning out, but hey, that's kinda the point right?
Cruel Celebrant
- This will both kill opponents and get you lots of life, once the machine has started.
- Careful, with Heartless Summoning out, this becomes a 0/1. Note useful for combat at all.
Dictate of Erebos
- If you have the slaughterhouse operational, this card will wipe out your enemies board presence with each of your upkeeps.
Gavony Unhallowed
- With the slaughterhouse running, this creature will get counters very quickly and over a couple of turns, will be quite a force to attack with.
Gifted Aetherborn
- This dude is here to be a combatant while you get your stuff set up. He's a very cheap 2 drop that people will be very nervous to approach with that deathtouch/lifelink combo.
Heartless Summoning
- The other piece of the star puzzle. This will be the card that kills the tokens generated by Assemble the Legion. Turning that -1/-1 counter penalty into a strength, this card has no downsides.
- All I really wanted out if this card was something to kill the tokens, but it turns out that what this card actually does, is give you a great discount on casting creatures. This will be incredibly helpful, since some of the cards in the deck are a little pricey.
Idyllic Tutor
- Both of the big players of this deck are enchantments. If you're missing a piece this is a great way to get a hold of it.
Impact Tremors
- This will act as direct burn once the slaughterhouse is running. Assists with the damage, in fact, it doubles it if you have Cruel Celebrant out, too.
Teysa Karlov
- What you really want here is her first ability. She doubles every trigger caused by the slaughterhouse. Just pure profit.
Tragic Slip
- A little bit of removal. If you have the slaughterhouse going, its very effective due to its Morbid condition.
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
- This is something that we've seen a couple times already as far as effect, just stacking on the damage.
- He, CAN give your creatures lifelink, if you'd ever want that. Wouldn't recommend it, though.
Warteye Witch
- This is a fun little mechanic. Once you get the meat going, you can start getting a lot of scry and rig your draws. Pretty cool.
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92% Casual
Competitive
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| Date added | 4 years |
| Last updated | 3 years |
| Exclude colors | UG |
| Splash colors | R |
| Legality | This deck is Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 26 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.77 |
| Tokens | Human Soldier 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 RW |
| Folders | Modern, Quest To Win With The Board, cool decks, Greatest Hits, new, Modern, possible, modern |
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