I wanted a tribal deck for a long time, and Blood knight is one of my favourite arts on any card so the choice was easy. I love the Jund colors and Adun fits in perfectly with my theme, whereas any WRB general would stick out like a sore thumb. Perhaps, in the future if they make a good WRB Knight legend I will switch, but for now I am sticking with the Jund colors.
The idea is simple; keep the average CMC very low, (its about 2.9 right now) and ramp like crazy! Keep Haakon protected and use him to keep my armies alive. Casting several knights a turn, alpha striking most turns and pumping my army using either swords or tribal effects. I have not yet tested it a great deal but can't wait!
Note; I may add these cards in the future, after I have tested far more. Stromgald Cabal: This card is great! If I am facing a lot of white. With no way to turn spells into white, I find myself cutting it. Headless Horseman: I am looking for a slot for this guy! His art is epic. He may be vanilla but his art is epic! Mercenary Knight: This guy is great if Haakon is in my hand. I suspect later in the game, when I am casting this guy for the third time from the graveyard, I wont be able to keep him around since my hand might be empty of creatures. Eastern Paladin: This guy is very situational, much like Stromgald Cabal. Maybe with Distorting Lens, but even then, I would rather attack than tap him. Belbe's Portal: This card is such a great creature cheater, especially for tribal decks, but all my creatures already cost three. To spend 8 mana to get out a 3 CMC creature doesn't seem efficient enough for me. Konda's Banner: I may add this to pump Haakon, but right now I run like three legendary creatures. Entomb: This would only be used to cheat Haakon into the grave. Buried Alive and Jarad's Orders are simply better. Rancor: This would be super useful when my creatures are dying each turn. Aggravated Assault: This is infinite with Swords of Feast and Famine. I already run a janky INF combo in this deck, but I might add this. Bow of Nylea: I love this card, and it can be used to save Haakon from grave hate! I am definitely looking for room. Chord of Calling: Looking for room for this too. At 6 mana, it can toot for pretty much all my creatures. Instant speed and less mana intensive if I convoke. Necropotence: I am always weary of using this card. I love it. Its stupid strong. But with wheel effects, it can end disastrously. Footbottom Feast: This is another great option to save my creatures from exile, with a cantrip too. Yawgmoth's Will: This card is a staple in all black decks. I am just looking for room. Damnation: I am running the new Toxic Deluge which I think might be a better card. Jarad's Orders: Looking for room for this too. I would like to run both Buried Alive and this. Descendants' Path: This is a great card that I might run, but as it stands now, I do not run Scroll Rack or Sensei's. Aether Vial: Set this to three and go. Looking for room, but much like Belbs Portal, my creatures are very inexpensive so cheating them into play isn't that much more of a bonus. Distorting Lens: I only have 8 creatures with a natural protection from a color. With the swords, that makes 12 cards in my deck. Adaptive Automaton: This card is great in tribal decks, but I can not cast it from the graveyard with Haakon out.
Feel free to leave any and all tips! This is my first tribal deck and I would love to make it stronger. I feel like I am low on ramp. I would like the early turns to move fast and my later turns to be filled with Haakon 'yawgwins' as Hallucigenia would say. I am also afraid of Haakon getting exiled. I will try to keep a sac outlet for him every time hes on the field. Any fast options for countering grave hate? I am running bitter ordeal and can get rid of one or two grave hate cards early.
Deck seems really cool and fun, I might play with it on Cockatrice.
A small suggestion: Dakmor Lancer is on flavor, and is a decent utility creature. Not exactly the pinnacle of removal, but since it has tribal/flavor synergy I would definitely consider it.
For what it's worth, the opposite of evergreen is "deciduous" so I suggest we start using that from now on to refer to shroud, banding, islandhome, etc.
Glad to see you trying Unspeakable Symbol. One of my pet underrated cards.
If you already have a Sword or a good source of buffing like Unspeakable Symbol, perhaps Fireshrieker might be a good finisher for Godo to look for? Grafted Exoskeleton and Argentum Armor are also options.
3 Adun Oakenshield
Creatures
1 Agent of Stromgald
2 Black Knight
2 Blood Knight
2 Knight of Stromgald
2 Order of the Ebon Hand
2 Stromgald Crusader
3 Arrogant Bloodlord
3 Cadaverous Knight
3 Dauthi Mercenary
3 Defender of Chaos
3 Fervent Cathar
3 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
3 Hanweir Lancer
3 Knight of Dusk
3 Phyrexian Crusader
3 Searing Spear Askari
3 Suq'Ata Lancer
4 Ashenmoor Liege
4 Boartusk Liege
4 Hero of Oxid Ridge
4 Marauding Knight
4 Márton Stromgald
4 Varchild's Crusader
5 Kulrath Knight
6 Godo, Bandit Warlord
Artifacts
1 Sol Ring
2 Torpor Orb
3 Phyrexian Altar
3 Sword of Feast and Famine
3 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Sword of Light and Shadow
3 Sword of War and Peace
3 Urza's Incubator
4 Door of Destinies
4 Trading Post
4 Whip of Erebos
5 Cryptic Gateway
2 Survival of the Fittest
2 Cover of Darkness
3 Shared Animosity
3 Unspeakable Symbol
4 Mana Echoes
Instants
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Worldly Tutor
2 Nameless Inversion
3 Beast Within
3 Chaos Warp
Sorceries
2 Demonic Tutor
3 Bitter Ordeal
3 Buried Alive
3 Grim Tutor
3 Kodama's Reach
3 Lavalanche
3 Toxic Deluge
3 Wheel of Fortune
4 Ranger's Path
4 Skyshroud Claim
4 Tempt with Discovery
5 Patriarch's Bidding
5 Reforge the Soul
Lands
3 Forest
2 Mountain
4 Swamp
0 Arid Mesa
0 Badlands
0 Bayou
0 Blood Crypt
0 Bloodstained Mire
0 Cavern of Souls
0 Command Tower
0 Dragonskull Summit
0 Fire-Lit Thicket
0 Graven Cairns
0 High Market
0 Homeward Path
0 Kessig Wolf Run
0 Marsh Flats
0 Misty Rainforest
0 Mutavault
0 Overgrown Tomb
0 Polluted Delta
0 Savage Lands
0 Shadowblood Ridge
0 Stomping Ground
0 Strip Mine
0 Taiga
0 Twilight Mire
0 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
0 Verdant Catacombs
0 Volrath's Stronghold
0 Windswept Heath
0 Wooded Foothills
0 Yavimaya Hollow
The idea is simple; keep the average CMC very low, (its about 2.9 right now) and ramp like crazy! Keep Haakon protected and use him to keep my armies alive. Casting several knights a turn, alpha striking most turns and pumping my army using either swords or tribal effects. I have not yet tested it a great deal but can't wait!
Note; I may add these cards in the future, after I have tested far more.
Stromgald Cabal: This card is great! If I am facing a lot of white. With no way to turn spells into white, I find myself cutting it.
Headless Horseman: I am looking for a slot for this guy! His art is epic. He may be vanilla but his art is epic!
Mercenary Knight: This guy is great if Haakon is in my hand. I suspect later in the game, when I am casting this guy for the third time from the graveyard, I wont be able to keep him around since my hand might be empty of creatures.
Eastern Paladin: This guy is very situational, much like Stromgald Cabal. Maybe with Distorting Lens, but even then, I would rather attack than tap him.
Belbe's Portal: This card is such a great creature cheater, especially for tribal decks, but all my creatures already cost three. To spend 8 mana to get out a 3 CMC creature doesn't seem efficient enough for me.
Konda's Banner: I may add this to pump Haakon, but right now I run like three legendary creatures.
Entomb: This would only be used to cheat Haakon into the grave. Buried Alive and Jarad's Orders are simply better.
Rancor: This would be super useful when my creatures are dying each turn.
Aggravated Assault: This is infinite with Swords of Feast and Famine. I already run a janky INF combo in this deck, but I might add this.
Bow of Nylea: I love this card, and it can be used to save Haakon from grave hate! I am definitely looking for room.
Chord of Calling: Looking for room for this too. At 6 mana, it can toot for pretty much all my creatures. Instant speed and less mana intensive if I convoke.
Necropotence: I am always weary of using this card. I love it. Its stupid strong. But with wheel effects, it can end disastrously.
Footbottom Feast: This is another great option to save my creatures from exile, with a cantrip too.
Yawgmoth's Will: This card is a staple in all black decks. I am just looking for room.
Damnation: I am running the new Toxic Deluge which I think might be a better card.
Jarad's Orders: Looking for room for this too. I would like to run both Buried Alive and this.
Descendants' Path: This is a great card that I might run, but as it stands now, I do not run Scroll Rack or Sensei's.
Aether Vial: Set this to three and go. Looking for room, but much like Belbs Portal, my creatures are very inexpensive so cheating them into play isn't that much more of a bonus.
Distorting Lens: I only have 8 creatures with a natural protection from a color. With the swords, that makes 12 cards in my deck.
Adaptive Automaton: This card is great in tribal decks, but I can not cast it from the graveyard with Haakon out.
Feel free to leave any and all tips! This is my first tribal deck and I would love to make it stronger. I feel like I am low on ramp. I would like the early turns to move fast and my later turns to be filled with Haakon 'yawgwins' as Hallucigenia would say. I am also afraid of Haakon getting exiled. I will try to keep a sac outlet for him every time hes on the field. Any fast options for countering grave hate? I am running bitter ordeal and can get rid of one or two grave hate cards early.
A small suggestion: Dakmor Lancer is on flavor, and is a decent utility creature. Not exactly the pinnacle of removal, but since it has tribal/flavor synergy I would definitely consider it.
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If you already have a Sword or a good source of buffing like Unspeakable Symbol, perhaps Fireshrieker might be a good finisher for Godo to look for? Grafted Exoskeleton and Argentum Armor are also options.
Maybe Anger might be a good alternative target for Buried Alive if you want to really explode off Patriarch's Bidding or Haakon shenanigans. Speaking of Bidding, Living Death works similarly.
Playtesting | Karador, Ghost Chieftain | Narset, Enlightened Master | Ephara, God of the Polis
Established | Gahiji, Honored One | Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker | Opal-Eye, Konda's Yojimbo | Rubinia Soulsinger
Retired | Medomai the Ageless | Diaochan, Artful Beauty