The goal of this list is resiliency. Smokestack is the desired win condition, cranking it as high as board state allows, and backing it up with mana denial in the form of Pox-likes and Contamination. The goal, one way or another, is victory through debilitating enchantments and recursive creatures. The hand disruption is intended to pluck removal and counter magic. As always, I prefer to coerce my opponent into scooping due to perceived hopelessness, rather than playing out to the bitter end.
You know, I've been thinking the same thing. Consider it done. I suppose this is goodbye Gravecrawler as well. He won't come back-- ever-- with this list.
Today, I realized I was only three cards off from being legal by French rules, Duel Commander. My copies of Necropotence and Mind Twist were so disgustingly heavily played -- looked like they were peeled off the under-seat of a public toilet -- that it was easy to make the call. I own Cruel Tutor already, so the fairly small in the big scheme of things drop in power from Vampiric wasn't a huge blow to me.
1 Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
//Creature (18)
1 Blood Artist
1 Bloodghast
1 Bloodsoaked Champion
1 Crypt Ghast
1 Dark Confidant
1 Deathgreeter
1 Falkenrath Noble
1 Liliana, Heretical Healer
1 Nether Traitor
1 Ophiomancer
1 Pack Rat
1 Pain Seer
1 Sangromancer
1 Skirsdag High Priest
1 Thrull Parasite
1 Vampire Hexmage
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
//Enchantment (10)
1 Bitterblossom
1 Bridge from Below
1 Chains of Mephistopheles
1 Contamination
1 Grave Pact
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Necropotence
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 The Abyss
1 Withering Wisps
1 Cabal Ritual
1 Culling the Weak
1 Dark Ritual
1 Dismember
1 Hero's Downfall
1 Rain of Filth
1 Sacrifice
1 Songs of the Damned
1 Tendrils of Corruption
1 Tragic Slip
//Planeswalker (2)
1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
1 Liliana of the Veil
//Sorcery (21)
1 Bitter Ordeal
1 Black Sun's Zenith
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Cruel Tutor
1 Damnation
1 Death Cloud
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Duress
1 Grim Tutor
1 Hymn to Tourach
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Mutilate
1 Pox
1 Profane Command
1 Reanimate
1 Sadistic Sacrament
1 Smallpox
1 Thoughtseize
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Crypt of Agadeem
1 Lake of the Dead
1 Mortuary Mire
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Phyrexian Tower
30 Snow-Covered Swamp
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Volrath's Stronghold
The goal of this list is resiliency. Smokestack is the desired win condition, cranking it as high as board state allows, and backing it up with mana denial in the form of Pox-likes and Contamination. The goal, one way or another, is victory through debilitating enchantments and recursive creatures. The hand disruption is intended to pluck removal and counter magic. As always, I prefer to coerce my opponent into scooping due to perceived hopelessness, rather than playing out to the bitter end.
Deathgreeter replaces Gravecrawler.
Falkenrath Noble replaces Endless Ranks of the Dead.
An enigma as vexing as life itself.
EDIT: Swapped out Bog Witch, Pack Rat and Skirk Ridge Exhumer for Hex Parasite, Thrull Parasite and Viscera Seer.
EDIT: Swapped out Nether Void, Koskun Falls and Viscera Seer for Breeding Pit, Mortuary Mire and an extra snow-covered swamp
EDIT: Swapped out bone splinters, Liliana of the Dark Realms and Ophiomancer for dark tutelage, Innocent Blood and Barter in Blood.
EDIT: Ophiomancer is back, Ashes to Ashes is out.
EDIT: Added Sadistic Sacrament and Bitter Ordeal to fill a lacking niche, at the expense of Ophiomancer and Dark Tutelage.
EDIT: Added Pack Rat and Bloodsoaked Champion, taking out Innocent Blood and Barter in Blood.
EDIT: Added Ophiomancer and Endless Cockroaches at the cost of Mortuary Mire and one snow-covered swamp.