Tragic Slip over Doom Blade? Seems like there'd be more utility with it in your deck.

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In my own B/W tokens list I've been rather impressed with slip. Sometimes getting the morbid on is a little bit of a challenge, but otherwise Death Wind for one usually gets some work done. Outside of Disfigure, it's a reasonable answer for a T1 mana dork.

Tragic Slip is actually a pretty nice idea. I was thinking Vendetta for quick removal, and I would add some more life gain to the deck with Whip of Erebos or Vault of the Archangel

Or I could add Attrition and have a source of repeated removal.

Don't add tragic slip, vendetta or attrition. Path to exile and dismember at your best forms of removal.

Path to Exile is expensive. That's why we're looking for alternatives. By all means if I obtain any ill add it. But honestly tragic slip and vendetta aren't horrible. They are actually pretty good.

Well there are still a lot better options. Tragic slip has to rely on morbid and vendetta can be deadly against an aggro deck since tokens lacks sufficient lifegain to support it. I could see a bw soul sisters deck use it though.

That's why I was thinking about adding more lifegain. It would improve the burn matchup as well. A Whip of Erebos can come down turn 4 and gain at least 3-5 life, and Vault of the Archangel can be activated turn 5. And since I only have 2 fetches, I don't lose as much life to my mana base.

Sorin, Solemn Visitor is much better than whip of erebos.

Yeah, but again... Price.

What is your budget exactly? I can make you a deck list based on what you can afford if you want me to.

I'd rather make the deck list myself and get feedback. Thank you.

And my budget is $2 per card. But that's the very upper end. I'd rather not have to spend that much per card

Attrition is fine for our meta but I wouldn't recommend it for tournament play since it seems a little slow from the get-go. As for Whip of Erebos I'll keep my eyes peeled for alternatives that can lower the man curve a little. If only Basilisk Collar wasn't so expensive...

Willing maybe?

Where's Locutus of Borg at?

@Slayne I am Locutus of Borg.

@ An_A Willing sounds pretty nice but I'd rather not take another card out for it. Anyway Attrition is also out of budget. It was just a thought.

Why are you running Suns champion with only 21 land?

I only have 2 fetches so my lands don't get thinned out. And usually I'll hideaway her anyway.

Thinning out is really not a big deal anyways in terms of fetches. You can't rely on windbrisk to get suns champion out.

I don't. But its happened pretty often, and I don't have problems getting to 6. And fetches do make a pretty big difference in the proportions of lands you draw. One or two doesn't yeah, but once you go to 4 to 6 then when you crack 2 you've removed 4 lands from your deck and the chances of drawing more land drop significantly.

mathematically speaking it's actually not that much, surprisingly. Someone once did an article about it, bit I forget who. And still, it would be better to take out suns champion.

Lol, I'll look for that article, and we've been over the sun's champion debate. The only reason I got her was because she was stupid cheap for a planeswalker, ($4 for 2) and honestly she's fun to put down on the table. Ideally, I'd put in knight-errant or solemn visitor, but I can't find any good deals for them. If I was going to an FNM yeah,, I'd replace her with literally anything else, but for kitchen table she's fine.

I can agree to that at least. For kitchen table it might be fine. I would still recommend more lands though haha.