Welcome to my ninth deck in my increasingly inappropriately named quadrilogy of decks. This one has a story behind it, so listen up.

I had a friend once who has just recently started Magic. He had a poopy Breya that was barely functional, and very little with which to trade. But he had one prized possession: a prerelease Scarab God. He wanted to build around it, and so I decided to help him. He had very little besides some packs worth of Amonkhet and HOU to work with, and he had a very low-tier Invocation to use as higher-level trade fodder. I figured, since he has so little in the way of older cards, I would surprise him with my old bulk collection and build him a starter deck out of all my favorite old blue-black cards.

I was a big mill player back in the day, so I've got tons of mid-level control spells to defend myself with until the opponent dies. Since Grimgrin failed and Oloro took its place, I've had no use for some of my favorite rewind spells for the last several years. So I'd figured I'd give him a head start, and trade him an entire deck for that one $20 Invocation, which wasn't useful to him anyway.

Two weeks after we met, he moved away and I never saw him again, so I figured I'd just make it my own and try and pimp it out in ways that weren't possible in 2011 Innistrad.

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The ban announcement today made light of the possibility of losing to your own Crypt, but out of the last three games I've played with this deck, two of them I lost to my own Mana Crypt. So it being banned basically just made the choice for me as to whether or not to bother keeping it. Not exactly the best card for an Extra Turn deck anyway.

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