Try looking at the BG Rock Primer over in Established. It is basically your deck. You also never posted anything asking for advice, or critiques, or anything... What is the point of this thread? It is also similar to Death Cloud which is stickied at the top of the Deck Creation section. Go look into that deck as well.
Sometimes I think it's best to let the deck speak for itself. All the questions I'd otherwise ask are spread out across the rest of the forums. I started modeling the deck off of BG Obliterator but it really suffers without Goyfs. Deathcloud is basically the more controlling build sans Goyfs and with ramp. I've dropped out the ramp and Deathclouds but kept everything else.
I really like tutoring up Urborg to drop an Obliterator. It allows me to run the tec edges which are held in high regard. I'm not too jazzed about the symetry of Deathcloud. I get the idea of the PWs and Finks mopping up but it seems fragile. In those games, if an Obliterator or Wurmcoil was cast instead of Deathcloud would the win % go up ordown? Obviously no way of knowing for sure but you get my point. I think the worst thing about it is the lack of any real substantial card advantage. I'm hoping the card quality by way of the tutoring helps even that out.
Admittedly I didn't do as well as I wanted the first time out but the list was a bit more sloppy.
In these kind of decks, card advantage is in the form of 2-for-1's. Lily otV can discard then kill a creature, 2 for 1 right there. Mealstrom Pulse can kill 2-3 things, 2 for 1 right there. Finks blocks a creature and eats a removal spell, 2 for 1 right there.
Having cards like Sylvan Scrying won't give you any card advantage, they do nothing to the board state or interact with the opponent. Your deck doesn't have ramp, and the one rot farm comes in tapped so that is a waste of a turn. If you just played a solid manabase you could probably cast the Obliterator. Even up the number of Urborgs and throw in a Life from the Loam and Raven's Crimes.
Also when you cast a Deathcloud, you do it with the assurance that you are going to win 99% of the time. Obliterator and Wurmcoil get hit with removal or a path and you are now worse off than before.
Why not play big Lily if you really want to tutor for things?
Big Lili is worse than LotV. Or at the very least, considerably slower. A solid manabase dedicated to Obliterator must fore go Tectonic Edge. The Tec Edge version of BG Rock is in favor in the BG/x Rock forums with someone going so far as to say that the Tec Edges are a staple. http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/established-modern/560078-the-rock-bgx?page=4
Sylvan Scrying lets me have both. A Cavern of Souls against a control player is a huge advantage. The single Rot Farm is there to fish up late for Garruk.
4 Scavenging Ooze
4 Kitchen Finks
2 Phyrexian Obliterator
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Wurmcoil Engine
Spells
4 Thoughtseize
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Duress
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Putrefy
3 Slaughter Pact
1 Damnation
4 Sylvan Scrying
2 Liliana of the Veil
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Twilight Mire
1 Golgari Rot Farm
2 Swamp
2 Forest
3 Treetop Village
3 Tectonic Edge
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Cavern of Souls
2 Creeping Corrosion
1 Darkblast
1 Drown in Sorrow
1 Golgari Charm
2 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Life from the Loam
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Naturalize
4 Rain of Tears
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
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I really like tutoring up Urborg to drop an Obliterator. It allows me to run the tec edges which are held in high regard. I'm not too jazzed about the symetry of Deathcloud. I get the idea of the PWs and Finks mopping up but it seems fragile. In those games, if an Obliterator or Wurmcoil was cast instead of Deathcloud would the win % go up ordown? Obviously no way of knowing for sure but you get my point. I think the worst thing about it is the lack of any real substantial card advantage. I'm hoping the card quality by way of the tutoring helps even that out.
Admittedly I didn't do as well as I wanted the first time out but the list was a bit more sloppy.
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StaffHaving cards like Sylvan Scrying won't give you any card advantage, they do nothing to the board state or interact with the opponent. Your deck doesn't have ramp, and the one rot farm comes in tapped so that is a waste of a turn. If you just played a solid manabase you could probably cast the Obliterator. Even up the number of Urborgs and throw in a Life from the Loam and Raven's Crimes.
Also when you cast a Deathcloud, you do it with the assurance that you are going to win 99% of the time. Obliterator and Wurmcoil get hit with removal or a path and you are now worse off than before.
Why not play big Lily if you really want to tutor for things?
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http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/established-modern/560078-the-rock-bgx?page=4
Sylvan Scrying lets me have both. A Cavern of Souls against a control player is a huge advantage. The single Rot Farm is there to fish up late for Garruk.
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