I decided to try a deck that could annoy people that like net decks. The idea is to have cards that you can use to name common key cards in common net decks.
I don't think it is competitive at all, but I would like to find a way to make it work in Modern.
Any help is appreciated.
I agree with you q_125, and the Booby Trap sounds promising. The idea is just to have a fun deck to break many combo decks out there, so maybe people will think about brewing decks instead of downloading them!
hold the phone here, lets optimize some of this, going 4, 4 and 4 of 4cc Cranial extraction cards isin't quite the way to be annoying while also being effective, it costs too much to stripe out a deck by each turn paying 4 mana.
mainboard I would be jaming infinite obliteration 9 out of 10 match ups your going to encounter a creature list. with thoughtseize and inquisition you can easily control the turn 2-3 drops, turn 3 use IO to knock out something big. when you run into combo decks, just take these out and fill them in with slaughter games and/or other extraction card that hits combo decks hard.
never under estimate the power of surgical extraction when combined with 8-10 discard effects, to be a free extraxtion spell.
inaddition to those two spells, 4 to 6 more extraction spells.
for a wincondition, play young pyromancer. naturally playing all of these extraction spells, you want to ideally get something for each one you cast, this guy unchecked will give you a bonus while your extracting each turn. wasteland strangler is perfect for an extraction deck, can knock off any small creature and provides you with some beatz.
In the list below I tossed in terminate, oblivion stone and olivia voldaren just to fill up the last of the list. that way you have some creature hate and a wincon that scales with a drawn out game.
thats my suggestions for red black extraction deck
What is your win condition ?
You won't win with extraction effects (most of which are too slow) and discard/removal won't keep you alive forever so you need a way to close the game.
I have tried that configuration, but it is very hard to cast the Young Pyromancer because of the speed you need to lock the opponent.
The Extirpate is still in the list because of its cost online, compared to Surgical Extraction.
I was able to lock 2 out of 4 opponents so far. The main issue though is to stop decks that aren't Net Decks and have 1 or 2 copies of the majority of cards (which I am fine with). The Sadistic Sacrament has been very impressive, especially when you need to see the whole deck first before you start naming cards. Dreadbore is to stop planeswalkers because it is hard to deal with Lilianas and other cheap planeswalkers if you don't cast Young quickly. That is also the reason why I am keeping Lightning Bolt.
The configuration is like this now:
I don't think it is competitive at all, but I would like to find a way to make it work in Modern.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
3 Slaughter Games
2 Cranial Extraction
4 Memoricide
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Pyroclasm
3 Thoughtseize
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Extirpate
1 Duress
4 Sorin Markov
4 Hidetsugu's Second Rite
4 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
15 Swamp
1 Mountain
3 Languish
3 Go for the Throat
2 Sadistic Sacrament
mainboard I would be jaming infinite obliteration 9 out of 10 match ups your going to encounter a creature list. with thoughtseize and inquisition you can easily control the turn 2-3 drops, turn 3 use IO to knock out something big. when you run into combo decks, just take these out and fill them in with slaughter games and/or other extraction card that hits combo decks hard.
never under estimate the power of surgical extraction when combined with 8-10 discard effects, to be a free extraxtion spell.
inaddition to those two spells, 4 to 6 more extraction spells.
for a wincondition, play young pyromancer. naturally playing all of these extraction spells, you want to ideally get something for each one you cast, this guy unchecked will give you a bonus while your extracting each turn.
wasteland strangler is perfect for an extraction deck, can knock off any small creature and provides you with some beatz.
In the list below I tossed in terminate, oblivion stone and olivia voldaren just to fill up the last of the list. that way you have some creature hate and a wincon that scales with a drawn out game.
thats my suggestions for red black extraction deck
main board
4 Infinite Obliteration
4 surgical extraction
4 memoricide
2 slaughter games
4 inquisition of kozilek
4 thoughtseize
4 terminate
4 wasteland strangler
4 young pyromancer
2 olivia voldaren
2 oblivion stone
22 land
You won't win with extraction effects (most of which are too slow) and discard/removal won't keep you alive forever so you need a way to close the game.
In B/R you can go with:
Phyrexian Obliterator, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet, Demigod of Revenge, Stormbreath Dragon, Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker, Thundermaw Hellkite, Goblin Dark-Dwellers or Batterskull.
Even something like Pack Rat can do some work pitching useless cards/lands to grow a rat army.
The Extirpate is still in the list because of its cost online, compared to Surgical Extraction.
I was able to lock 2 out of 4 opponents so far. The main issue though is to stop decks that aren't Net Decks and have 1 or 2 copies of the majority of cards (which I am fine with). The Sadistic Sacrament has been very impressive, especially when you need to see the whole deck first before you start naming cards.
Dreadbore is to stop planeswalkers because it is hard to deal with Lilianas and other cheap planeswalkers if you don't cast Young quickly. That is also the reason why I am keeping Lightning Bolt.
The configuration is like this now:
3 Slaughter Games
2 Dreadbore
2 Memoricide
10 Swamp
4 Bloodstained Mire
3 Thoughtseize
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Extirpate
4 Wasteland Strangler
3 Young Pyromancer
4 Blood Crypt
4 Dragonskull Summit
2 Lightning Bolt
3 Infinite Obliteration
2 Sadistic Sacrament
1 Mountain
4 Terminate
I liked your options D90Dennis14. I will give it a try. Thanks
2 Extirpate
4 Infinite Obliteration
3 Memoricide
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Desecration Demon
2 Duress
3 Wasteland Strangler
3 Sadistic Sacrament
3 Go for the Throat
2 Ruinous Path
3 Surgical Extraction
4 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
19 Swamp
3 Woodland Cemetery
2 Syphon Life