MTG Salvation

Hello there,

This deck has a vampiristic goal of stealing lifetotals. The plan is to live the longest by losing your life first. Hitpoints in other words!

How?
Step 1: Ad Nauseam or Spoils of the Vault
Step 2: Angel's Grace
Step 3: Sickening Dreams or Soul Conduit or Reverse the Sands or Repay in Kind

Play Add Nauseam, respond with an Angel's Grace so that you can't lose the game until end of turn. Draw your whole deck if you'd like, then cast Sickening Dreams and discard to the death of the table around you!

If your opponent has more than 70 or so life left? (opponent's life is greater than your hand size)
Think of what Repay in Kind can do with your life total. You'll be at -120 or so life by the time Ad Nauseam resolves! You can simply switch Soul Conduit, Reverse the Sands life totals with anyone to kill them.

OR Spoils of the Vault + Angel's Grace + Repay in Kind


Protect your combos by first playing Tidehollow Sculler and exiling the opponent's counterspell or draw it out. Protect that even with Imp's Mischief. Casting Culling the Weak and Dark Ritual will help you ramp back up to cast almost any of a number of the above win conditions.

Hell, make it easier! Your seemingly under the radar commander, Selenia, Dark Angel has a life stealing ability that you can stack responses to your advantage!

Selenia, Dark Angel + Angel's Grace + Repay in Kind

Voltron Package:
Quietus Spike + Wound Reflection

You can also use Sorin Markov -3 to effectively make your opponent lose a bunch of life, then Wound Reflection snuffs them out. Mind you, this enchantment acts as a sorcery, if you can deal half your opponent's life even before Wound Reflection is played, you still get the double damage in.

Don't even get me started on all of the 2 toughness choices in this deck for Recruiter of the Guard!!!!!!!

ETB's: Get silly effects with the new Kaladesh card Panharmonicon....
Solemn Simulacrum + Blade of Selves (in 4 player this gets you 6 basics into play tapped per swing!)







I'm hoping the deck can kind of lurk, not totally suck while doing so and be able defeat an entire table at once if needed.




Please lend me your thoughts on any improvements!!!!!!

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Bump

a bit obvious but why not:
near-death experience

also fun:
phyrexian unlife
combined with repay in Kind (all out win), Soul conduit, Magus of the Mirror or Mirror Universe

Add in a few monarch cards to inspire a good target on your face. It will help with the card draw

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Add in a few monarch cards to inspire a good target on your face. It will help with the card draw

Great point, I added in Knights of the Black Rose, white might have better Monarch options than black, I'll look harder for more. Thanks!

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If you are not effraid, you could try the combo Lich + Repay in Kind for insta win (unless, obviously, you get Lich removed).

Thanks for the suggestion, it is a ballsy move, but the reward is killing the whole table...

while playtesting last night I also realized that Selenia, Dark Angel's pay 2 life ability is a potential win con with Repay in Kind..... Pay your life down to a few points, make everyone else's the same and then the a mere handful of damage left to kill people shouldn't be hard to do... or use Angel's Grace before hand and pay down to zero life then cast Repay in Kind for the win

Necrologia eats life.

False Cure is a fine surprise, but better alongside Beacon of Immortality.

Alabaster Potion is an awful card, unless Sanguine Bond or Tainted Remedy are in play; then it is a bad card that kills an opponent.

Cheers!

While it's not unconventional exactly, why not use Death's Shadow?

Since you are already running soul conduit and Garza's assassin I'd recommend murderous betrayal and lurking evil

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If you are not effraid, you could try the combo Lich + Repay in Kind for insta win (unless, obviously, you get Lich removed).

Thanks for the suggestion, it is a ballsy move, but the reward is killing the whole table...

while playtesting last night I also realized that Selenia, Dark Angel's pay 2 life ability is a potential win con with Repay in Kind..... Pay your life down to a few points, make everyone else's the same and then the a mere handful of damage left to kill people shouldn't be hard to do... or use Angel's Grace before hand and pay down to zero life then cast Repay in Kind for the win

ya necropotence/Ad Nauseam life loss doesn't count as damage for phyrexian unlife and lich
other suicide cards include hellcarver demon, and doomsday

hmm didn't think about this; lich+ayli, eternal pilgrim is actually a pretty sweet draw engine
your running blade of selves with out GARY

I actually had a primer written on it

it can be found here

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If you are not effraid, you could try the combo Lich + Repay in Kind for insta win (unless, obviously, you get Lich removed).

Thanks for the suggestion, it is a ballsy move, but the reward is killing the whole table...

while playtesting last night I also realized that Selenia, Dark Angel's pay 2 life ability is a potential win con with Repay in Kind..... Pay your life down to a few points, make everyone else's the same and then the a mere handful of damage left to kill people shouldn't be hard to do... or use Angel's Grace before hand and pay down to zero life then cast Repay in Kind for the win

ya necropotence/Ad Nauseam life loss doesn't count as damage for phyrexian unlife and lich
other suicide cards include hellcarver demon, and doomsday

hmm didn't think about this; lich+ayli, eternal pilgrim is actually a pretty sweet draw engine
your running blade of selves with out GARY

I'll try to squeeze Gray Merchant into here and see how he works out, thanks for the suggestion!

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I actually had a primer written on it

it can be found here

Hey Ulka, you never did get round to posting the Angel variant of the list hehe, any chance at all you still have it?

Hahaha I can upload it in a few minutes

aetherflux reservoir
hmm you could technicaly pay out 150 life with lich or phyrexian unlife
and win a 4 person table

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aetherflux reservoir
hmm you could technicaly pay out 150 life with lich or phyrexian unlife
and win a 4 person table

False. To pay life you are required to have life. its the whole reason on an odd life total we can't drop to 0 with selenia.

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aetherflux reservoir
hmm you could technicaly pay out 150 life with lich or phyrexian unlife
and win a 4 person table

Are you suggesting paying life into aetherflux reservoir once you're below 0 life? I don't think you can pay to negative life totals.

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aetherflux reservoir
hmm you could technicaly pay out 150 life with lich or phyrexian unlife
and win a 4 person table

Are you suggesting paying life into aetherflux reservoir once you're below 0 life? I don't think you can pay to negative life totals.

You are correct. You need the life to activate the effect. However losing life gets around the damage aspect of lich and unlife thus the Ad Nas combo.

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Quote from Ulka »

I actually had a primer written on it

it can be found here

Hey Ulka, you never did get round to posting the Angel variant of the list hehe, any chance at all you still have it?

Hahaha I can upload it in a few minutes

Holding you to that hehe

Its already done... =P

If you had access to red

Treasonous Ogre + 36 Life + Soul Conduit is REALLY FUN

In the old days the big combo was casting Lim-Dûl's Vault with mirror universe in play, then bring your life total to zero and switch life totals, killing your opponent. Obviously the timing rules changed since then. Sigh, the good ol days.

Another old school card that is deceptively powerful and would be crazy good in this deck is worship. Plus it's fun to play at 1 life all the time.