Drana's Delirium (EMN Midrange)

Standard* BG (Golgari) Competitive Counters Midrange

michael921

Instant (5)

• 2x Grasp of Darkness
• 3x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Ruinous Path
• 3x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Enchantment (5)

• 2x Autumnal Gloom  ^Flip
• 3x Dead Weight

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Nissa, Voice of Zendikar

Creature (21)

• 3x Den Protector
• 3x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 4x Hangarback Walker
• 2x Ishkanah, Grafwidow
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 2x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 3x Mindwrack Demon
• 3x Sylvan Advocate

Land (22)

• 4x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 3x Hissing Quagmire
• 4x Llanowar Wastes
• 6x Swamp

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Sideboard

Instant (5)

• 2x Clip Wings
• 1x Natural State
• 2x Naturalize

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Duress
• 3x Infinite Obliteration
• 3x Transgress the Mind

Creature (2)

• 1x Gilt-Leaf Winnower
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip

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Maybeboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Clip Wings
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Murder
• 1x Pulse of Murasa

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Collective Brutality
• 1x Gather the Pack
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Whispers of Emrakul

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Vessel of Nascency
• 1x Visions of Brutality

Creature (12)

• 1x Avatar of the Resolute
• 1x Baloth Null
• 1x Gnarlwood Dryad
• 1x Grim Flayer
• 1x Heir of Falkenrath  ^Flip
• 1x Ishkanah, Grafwidow
• 1x Moldgraf Scavenger
• 1x Mournwillow
• 1x Obsessive Skinner
• 1x Servant of the Scale
• 1x Tajuru Warcaller
• 1x Undergrowth Champion

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Why I built the deck

At BFZ spoiler season, I fell in love with Drana, Liberator of Malakir, and am determined to make her work. The first deck I built, seen here, was made using Mardu Ascendancy to break opponents and got me a 4-1 record at FNM! The deck has 30 cards rotating, making it unplayable. While Vampires might be the best deck for drana, there has to be more options available.

What I want from the deck

Past decks that I've built around Drana are all hyper aggro decks, and I am trying something more synergy based around the +1/+1 counters from her attacking!

Current State of the Deck

This is still a heavy work in progress, as I have no sideboard and I'm still trying to find the right numbers and more synergy between sets. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm trying to keep the cost of the deck low, around $150, but I already have many of the cards in the current list, reducing the effective price of the deck.

Thank you for the help!

Card Explanations Show

• Drana, Liberator of Malakir + Obsessive Skinner These put all of your creatures out of range of Languish and allow you to continuously hit for more and more damage.
• Traverse the Ulvenwald Gets you mana early, adds to delirium, late game tutors for any creature. Usually Mindwrack Demon or Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet. Sideboard cards include more silver bullets.
• Autumnal Gloom   Great metagame counter at this point. It's bigger than most cards played by bant CoCo, immune to almost all removal, especially with a counter on him.
• Den Protector Becomes unblockable with counters, gets cards back from the graveyard for increased utility.
• Liliana, Heretical Healer   Discard gives value to the attrition style of the deck, can also recur some creatures from the graveyard.

  Forest + Swamp Show

  The lorwyn panoramic looks like this:

To Do List

• Specific numbers of each card (IE. 4 Hangarback Walker vs 3)
• Maybeboard cards being better than main or sideboard cards.
• Tweaking main or side board based on counters to the meta
• Run it against a gauntlet

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Key combos	Drana, Liberator of Malakir + Obsessive Skinner
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 1 Mythic Rares 22 - 3 Rares 5 - 4 Uncommons 9 - 7 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.29
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Spider 1/2 G, Thopter 1/1 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	delirium