Preface
I love Life management in MTG, I love gaining and paying life and I love benefiting from it. So when I finally got my hands on Sanguine Bond I got really excited, and then they printed Vizkopa Guildmage and I was ecstatic. How could anything be any better than killing someone with life gain? Not Serra Ascendant or Felidar Sovereign, but through pure life gain? Oh yeah that's the stuff right there. Ideally we want to get Sanguine Bond onto the field because at that point nothing matters, but we can use Vizkopa Guildmage to combo instantly. Many cards in the deck allow you to combo indiscriminately into losing and gaining a lot of life. Kami of False Hope and Path to Exile are the only defensive cards, (and Kami can be resummoned by Ozhov Charm for fun fog times).
So this here is a work in progress and an idea that came to me over a drunken binge so there probably will be a lot of work needed to be done for this to work but nevertheless here is the list:
So the one question I predict will be "Why no Martyr of Sands? Well honestly, she gets considerably worse for each non-white card in the deck and that would cut some essential cards and the possible inclusion of Bob if I could ever afford him.
I can see you are tight on room, but Vampire Nighthawk seems make for this deck. I think you should ditch Kami and Korlis and replace them with Soul Warden and Nighthawk. I am also really not hot on Plunge into Darkness. I would probably add at least one more Bond as you really want to see it as soon as you can cast it most of the time.
you should try out Exquisite Blood. Play that then Sanguine blood, then gain any ammount of life, and you win on the spot.
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Standard/Block = The on-again, off-again holiday fling
Modern/Vintage/Legacy = Stable, homely. A ***** after absence/misreading
Limited/Sealed = Heart breaking free spirit
Commander/Cube = Agreeable, needy and expensive
Pauper/Peasant = Sweet, kind, practical, but shy and boring
I can see you are tight on room, but Vampire Nighthawk seems make for this deck. I think you should ditch Kami and Korlis and replace them with Soul Warden and Nighthawk. I am also really not hot on Plunge into Darkness. I would probably add at least one more Bond as you really want to see it as soon as you can cast it most of the time.
I love nighthawk and that's a good point. I was actually considering taking the soul sisters out entirely though, because this deck can't combo with them. Doesn't drop enough creatures fast enough.
Plunge into Darkness does a lot of work in this deck. Either output can combo off with Vizkopa or Sanguine, either by saccing creatures or by paying life and regaining it with Children. Plus it can sift through a bunch of cards to pick up combo pieces, something this deck really needs.
you should try out Exquisite Blood. Play that then Sanguine blood, then gain any ammount of life, and you win on the spot.
Only problem with that is that they are both 5 mana enchantments, meaning we could only combo off on turn six. Then again it is a guaranteed win with one damage or life gain... Probably worth considering.
I would really like to second the suggestion of Exquisite Blood. Sanguine Bond and Vizkopa Guildmage have the same effect. Exquisite Blood has the opposite effect so that if you have both Exquisite Blood and either of those cards, any damage to an opponent, or any life gain for you ends the game. I am currently running a deck designed to abuse that combo in a casual multiplayer Standard metagame and it has worked out very well for me. I have been able to out lifegain the damage from three opponents to combo off.
I would really like to second the suggestion of Exquisite Blood. Sanguine Bond and Vizkopa Guildmage have the same effect. Exquisite Blood has the opposite effect so that if you have both Exquisite Blood and either of those cards, any damage to an opponent, or any life gain for you ends the game. I am currently running a deck designed to abuse that combo in a casual multiplayer Standard metagame and it has worked out very well for me. I have been able to out lifegain the damage from three opponents to combo off.
It's just that exquisite blood does nothing by itself on the field. Whereas the other will do extra damage for you, exquisite will do nothing if you can't instantly combo off. I'm starting to rethink this deck and rebuild it. Right now it combos off at turn five the earliest, but instead of speeding it up I can make it safer with discard and other cards.
If that's the case then, we can build a slow Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood deck.
Preface
I love Life management in MTG, I love gaining and paying life and I love benefiting from it. So when I finally got my hands on Sanguine Bond I got really excited, and then they printed Vizkopa Guildmage and I was ecstatic. How could anything be any better than killing someone with life gain? Not Serra Ascendant or Felidar Sovereign, but through pure life gain? Oh yeah that's the stuff right there. Ideally we want to get Sanguine Bond onto the field because at that point nothing matters, but we can use Vizkopa Guildmage to combo instantly. Many cards in the deck allow you to combo indiscriminately into losing and gaining a lot of life. Kami of False Hope and Path to Exile are the only defensive cards, (and Kami can be resummoned by Ozhov Charm for fun fog times).
So this here is a work in progress and an idea that came to me over a drunken binge so there probably will be a lot of work needed to be done for this to work but nevertheless here is the list:
4x Caves of Koilos
4x Godless Shrine
4x Isolated Chapel
10x Plains
2x Swamp
3x Tainted Sigil
3x Intervention Pact
4x Orzhov Charm
4x Path to Exile
4x Plunge into Darkness
4x Kami of False Hope
4x Soul's Attendant
4x Vizkopa Guildmage
So the one question I predict will be "Why no Martyr of Sands? Well honestly, she gets considerably worse for each non-white card in the deck and that would cut some essential cards and the possible inclusion of Bob if I could ever afford him.
Any ideas, critique, or suggestions are welcome!
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Standard/Block = The on-again, off-again holiday fling
Modern/Vintage/Legacy = Stable, homely. A ***** after absence/misreading
Limited/Sealed = Heart breaking free spirit
Commander/Cube = Agreeable, needy and expensive
Pauper/Peasant = Sweet, kind, practical, but shy and boring
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I love nighthawk and that's a good point. I was actually considering taking the soul sisters out entirely though, because this deck can't combo with them. Doesn't drop enough creatures fast enough.
Plunge into Darkness does a lot of work in this deck. Either output can combo off with Vizkopa or Sanguine, either by saccing creatures or by paying life and regaining it with Children. Plus it can sift through a bunch of cards to pick up combo pieces, something this deck really needs.
Only problem with that is that they are both 5 mana enchantments, meaning we could only combo off on turn six. Then again it is a guaranteed win with one damage or life gain... Probably worth considering.
It's just that exquisite blood does nothing by itself on the field. Whereas the other will do extra damage for you, exquisite will do nothing if you can't instantly combo off. I'm starting to rethink this deck and rebuild it. Right now it combos off at turn five the earliest, but instead of speeding it up I can make it safer with discard and other cards.
If that's the case then, we can build a slow Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood deck.
2x Duress
2x Sign in Blood
3x Phyrexian Arena
3x Wrath of God
4x Path of Exile
2x Surgical Extraction
2x mortify
Then the rest of the deck can go to the building of the Sanguine Exquisite Combo
3x Sanguine Bond
3x Exquisite Blood
2x Obzedat's aid
Probably could even add Sphere of Safety if we wanted to.