Lockout with your Cockroaches Out
Legacy Death and Taxes Devotion Prison Sacrifice WB (Orzhov) Zombie
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Instant (12)
Land (3)
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Land (2)
Our mission statement is to create a set of circumstances so unfavorable for our opponent, that for them to engage us at all is a painful exercise in frustration.
While neither a traditional Death&Taxes nor a Prison build, much of the same spirit is echoed by our deck. Think ‘Sales Tax’ as opposed to the omnipresent ‘Federal Tax’—the opponent is free to sit there and do nothing at all, but should they try to be part of the system, well...they’ll encounter such an egregious miscarriagement of taxtitude that only the Sons of Liberty would truly understand their plight.
• Scrubland offers no holds barred access to or . Most useful to help cast Norn's Annex in the early game, prior to a particular enchantment being dropped. After that it loses no real value as we’d only be tapping it for anyway.
• Marsh Flats can find Scrubland , so it’s like having 2 more copies of it. Otherwise just fetch yourself a basic Swamp . Since it isn’t being tapped for mana, the whole search-and-retrieve business carries on as usual even after the mana base gets locked down.
• Rishadan Port earns a place in our mana base, and for good reason. A well timed use of this land can grind the most artfully contrived schemes to a halt. Initially it produces an odious —not exactly the most useful thing for us. But once we defile the land and the Contamination takes hold, Rishadan Port will start producing , becoming a super swamp of sorts. You see, like any other port of exceptional quality, it only gets better with age.
•For all intents and purposes we’re running a mono deck, so the remaining slots are filled with basic Swamp s.
•It all begins with Contamination . Once cast, mana pools become corrupted and the only thing draining out will be a viscous morass of . This doesn’t affect us much, but unless you’re facing an opponent running as a primary or secondary color they’re in for a world of hurt. ramp decks are another potential threat, but they can be hamstrung in a different sort of way; more on that later.
• Now, Komrade, we control the means of production as well as the local populace. Time for taxation without representation! Once mana has been sufficiently tampered with, follow up by casting Norn's Annex . From here on out it’ll not only be difficult to put any new creatures in play, but even if mana dorks can help sneak something in it’ll cost an arm and a leg just for the opportunity to attempt to push damage through.
• Koskun Falls is another great variation on Norn's Annex . Stack them together to make prices on British Tea in the 1770’s seem fair.
1) Stuff our library full of cheap creatures. This is the worst possible option; it’s unreliable at best, and even if it works—what’s the wincon look like? No, we can do better.
2) Auto generate creatures, like tokens for instance. We could use Bitterblossom to churn out fodder each upkeep, but between the life loss or cards like Illness in the Ranks it’s either Death by a Thousand Cuts or we shoot ourselves in the foot. No, I believe we can do better still.
3) Low costed creatures with built-in recursion, coupled with a different sort of token generation. This is our sweet spot. The creatures we’ll be casting are either designed to pair with Contamination , or else somehow compliment that strategy.
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• Desecrated Tomb synergizes well with how our deck functions. As we’ll be having creature cards routinely leave our graveyard, it never hurts to be gifted free 1/1 flyers as a bonus. In a pinch, one of these can be used to pay both enchantment’s recurring fees—remember, you can sacrifice the same creature to pay the fee of one enchantment that you’ve just ’d to pay the upkeep cost of the other.
• Gravecrawler is easy enough to recast once he dies, either due to being sacrificed by us or killed by the opponent.
• Bloodghast may return to play for free, and through means that benefit us anyway.
• Endless Cockroaches will skitter back to our hand once we clobber them with the steel-toed boot of Contamination , ready to be played again.
• Geralf's Messenger not only comes back, but is stronger when he does. The is great to add to our devotion, too.
•Speaking of devotion to , Phyrexian Obliterator is king. We get a fistful of mana symbols, a potently lethal 5/5 (with Trample no less!), and yet another deterrent to ward off attack. Dare the person sitting across from you launch an assault, whatever damage is dealt to the Obliterator will force catastrophic loss of already extremely limited resources.
• Ayara, First of Locthwain not only brings some extra taxation of her own to further add to an already overburdened player, but she helps offset any life loss we may have incurred and is a source of draw if necessary. Grovel, peasants.
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel is a fine finisher, particularly once an Obliterator or two is afield.
•Ensure Contamination and Norn's Annex / Koskun Falls are cast at the first available opportunity
•Chip away at the opponent’s life total through traditional attacks, knowing retaliation will be limited, then follow up with Gray Merchant of Asphodel for the win
• Surgical Extraction banishes all copies of a particular nuisance
• Apostle's Blessing can help push damage through, as protecting our creatures actually isn’t much of a priority with this particular type of deck
• Bojuka Bog can easily replace a few Swamp s, and is great for effacing graveyards
”Render to all their dues, to him who [calls for] the tax, the tax...to him who [calls for] fear, such fear...”
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99% Casual
Competitive
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| Date added | 2 years |
| Last updated | 2 years |
| Legality | This deck is Legacy legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 4 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 4 Rares 0 - 4 Uncommons 0 - 4 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 2.98 |
| Tokens | Bat 1/1 B |
| Folders | Legacy, Legacy Decks |
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