Life is a resource and we gonna use it! (A lot)
WELCOME LADIES AND GENTLEMEN TO:
Greven, Predator Captain/Ad Nauseam list, build or whatever you wanna call it...
Is a pleasure to me announce something more unique to play against Thassa's Oracle and Flash/Protean Hulk or Demonic Consultation (Well we are playing this last one but because of we like Madness, badum ts.)
·(Did you understand that one Madness is where Greven, Predator Captain is from, I know is a pretty bad joke, forgive me)
Anyway, without hesitation lets begin our journey, shall we?...
-CARD DRAW:
Obviously Necropotence is your preference for draw engine because also provides you with an outlet for life gain and kill potential all in once.
But with all said, other options are pretty good too:
-Azra Oddsmaker: Can draw you cards by attacking or you can sacrifice for 3 mana draw 3 do 3 dmg to you whenever you need an additional card or dmg for the kill.
-Grenzo, Havoc Raiser: This one is my personal favorite in Cedh for many reasons, first of all, he can draw from other libraries and if you about your enemies enough can be deadly for their development, also can goad creatures for deny blockers or kill hate bears so he is really versatile, but my special part is denying tutors or tops, cards like Lim-Dul's Vault / Sensei's Divining Top / Ponder / Preordain has powerful effects but you can take profit from that info and deny important cards with Grenzo or other attacking creatures.
Castle Locthwain: 4 mana draw and do some dmg to you depending on your hand size.
Greven, Predator Captain's Trigger Ability: Sacrifice a Rotting Regisaur or Phyrexian Soulgorger for excellent card draw and dmg. Also, reutilize this by Phyrexian Reclamation so you can bring back any of those or other pieces.
·Dark Confidant: 2 CMC + 1 card every turn, also for this been focus on Ad Nauseam our average CMC is low.
·Phyrexian Arena: 3 CMC but if you can Dark Ritual and put it T1 gonna advance you in the lead and also would not put you on a target position like Necropotence or Rhystic Study would.
-STAX ELEMENTS:
But how we gonna take profit from this without taking a disadvantage ?? The Hero is here and he is Goblin Welder, this little goblin make it all. The majority of these pieces don't hurt you but with our friend, you can switch any time you want.
Pro tip: You can deny artifacts from your enemies as soon as they have another one in their graveyard, like Null Rod if this one hurts your ramp or deny Urza, High Lord Artificer his Winter Orb.
Reminder: Goblin Welder also evade most of the graveyard hate like Deathrite Shaman / Grafdigger's Cage / Scavenging Ooze... but Rest in Peace is a big deal for our friend goblin, anyway if someone plays a Rest in Peace as long as is more painful for other players than you, just ignore it and let it has it.
·Sphere of Resistance:+1 to all costs spells
·Winter Orb: Deny mana to your opponents so they can't protect their combo and makes it easy for your interaction.
·Trinisphere: Make their interaction expensive in combat or combo turn to go off.
·Torpor Orb: Thassa's Oracle Counter / Dockside Extortionist as well
·Grafdigger's Cage: Protean Hulk hate piece, also good against Kess, Dissident Mage and Yisan, Wanderer Bard
·Cursed Totem: Deny Thrasios, Triton Hero / Kenrith, the Returned King / Najeela, the Blade-Blossom, also deny Goblin Welder but sometimes is a nice price to pay.
·Tangle Wire: This one with Goblin Welder can make a game locked down because you can tap your Cursed Totem/Torpor Orb or your Equip, so you keep attacking with Greven, Predator Captain and Reset Tangle Wire every turn.
-BAG OF TRICKS
Rakdos color options are less than blue countermagic but they still are considerably good against them. You have to be more conservative about your resources because they are less but you can rely on them, examples:
·Red Elemental Blast and Pyroblast: Old but goodies, really good 1 mana Countermagic and also 1 mana removal spells as well.
·Imp's Mischief: Not considered by many but when you have limited options turns out this one is not that bad, really good against staples in Cedh like Dovin's Veto or Abrupt Decay.
·Burnout: Another Additional for reinforcing against blue especially against Flash.
·Overmaster: Cantrip but this one can make your Ad Nauseam uncounterable so pretty good.
-HASTY OPTIONS
·Hall of the Bandit Lord: ETB tapped but once is active there gonna provide you so much value by giving haste to your creatures and also " Pay 3 life: " helps you to do a little more dmg.
·Lightning Greaves: Best option in my opinion because protects your creature as well, most of the time this will be on Goblin Welder because he can protect your general by sacrificing artifacts and putting other ones into the field.
·Fervent Strike: Instant speed haste option for the more exceptional case.
Why there are not more haste spells for Greven, well if you overlap more spells they will be filling your hand and most of the time you only need one, also you draw a lot so you must sure you will have one of them.
-Life is Life (And also draw and dmg) but almost life.
·Instant speed Life gain is one of the most essential spells in Greven's deck, and that's because Ad Nauseam+ Any instant make you draw a lot and also heals you back so you draw for free and kill someone.
Examples:
·Cruel Feeding:+1/0 and lifelink
·Grotesque Mutation:+3/1 and lifelink
·Blessing of Belzenlok:+2/1 and if it is legendary gives it lifelink
·Rush of Vitality:+1/0 lifelink and indestructible
Another option is Shadowspear and lets me tell you this thing is awesome because gives Trample as well and an ability you can use without being equipped (Pretty good against Veil of Summer/Autumn's Veil/Heroic Intervention.
-HATE BEARS
·Blood Moon and Magus of the Moon: No need for explanation, makes mountains and they are beautiful.
·Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger: This one is maybe my favorite card in this list because is good no matter what, Torpor Orb and she put a 2 CMC 6/6 so you can draw 6 cards or make everyone discard every turn or a considerable amount (with Phyrexian Reclamation or by escaping it).
·Phyrexian Revoker: Name a problematic thing and you can get peace for some time. Good against Food Chain and Cedh Metagame.
·Bloodchief Ascension: This one not only does dmg also gain some life back so it is pretty nice to have honestly.
·Leyline of the Void: Protean Hulk hate + Yawgmoth's Will/Underworld Breach hate too.
·Stranglehold: Not as good as Aven Mindcensor in CMC but better as a hate bear itself. It also makes it harder for Edric, Spymaster of Trest.
-RAMPING FULL POWER
·Mana Crypt and Mana Vault are some of the best because we take profit from every aspect of the card.
·Ancient Tomb: Same concept Ramp + Damaging yourself
·Dark Ritual: Try to use this one for advance card draw but also can make Greven, Predator Captain come soon as well.
·Mox Diamond and Chrome Mox: Make good choices for whatever land you will discard but especially whatever you will imprint. TIP: Try to imprint combat tricks because they are more than enough.
·Mox Opal and Sol Ring: Drop and use, good as always.
·Lion's Eye Diamond: Careful with this one but can be awesome with Wheel of Fortune, also can be risky but could make an early Ad Nauseam happen.
·Grim Monolith: Also really good for advance Ad Nauseam but most the time for make Greven, Predator Captain in T2 or T3.
-SPECIAL TRICKS
·Tainted Strike: +1/0 to any creature to kill a player but be careful in order to kill someone too soon and break the balance of the game, if can do it, do it but just think about who to kill and why you are doing it.
·Temur Battle Rage: Double Strike and Trample so as soon as you can increase Atk for Greven, Predator Captain you can kill a player.
·Fire Covenant: X life can be paid for destroy blockers but also can kill someone at instant speed, even if the effect is countered, the life loss is not.
·Final Fortune: Extra Turn for RR, INSTANT SPEED, just to close the win.
·Reanimate: 1 CMC reanimate spell and also life loss in the process so perfect for our strategy.
·Demonic Consultation: 1 CMC tutor instant speed but be careful in your naming at...
·Fling: Instant speed kill someone else after killing anyone if happen to be Necropotence you can do some tricks by responding to delay triggers.
·BIG BOSS Ad Nauseam: This spell can draw more than 20 cards and also provide you with an instant speed life link so you gain life back and keep the draws.
