This deck is really fun to play, but the major issue is that it's too dependant on your luck to get a nice opening hand and mill the biggest threats from your opponent before he kills you.
UB Mill is too unstable for events, in my opinion, don't know about the turbofog version.
I played some games with the Merchant and it feels to me like a Corrupt most of the time. It costs one less mana, it's not hard to build Devotion up to 5 or more before he hits the battlefield and it has the upside of leaving a 2/4 body behind, which is really good.
Thanks for noticing! Nice to know I'm not the only one here who appreciates GBV haha
About the deck, the one I posted was a really rough draft. Doom Blade is more like a placeholder for the other spells: I rather use edict effects than something more on spot.
What about something like this, to start working into? It's pretty straightforward: drop your creatures, kill the opponent's ones and cast Merchant once the battlefield is filled with your dudes. Should work fine on Magical Christmas Land haha
I agree that the Merchant shouldn't be the only big threat and I think Sangrophage would work nice with him. The life gain once Merchant hits the battlefield should be enough for three or more turns untapping Sangrophage and he's also a menace if left unanswered.
This is the current version of this deck I'm testing. About removing Jace's Erasure, I like the card in the deck, because even if it's slow, it mills at least one card per turn and works nice along with Memory Lapse, Thought Scour and Pilfered Plans, but three copies of it is enough.
So far, I've been surprised with the results and my top three worst matchups are against Infect, UR Kiln Fiend and Mono Black Discard. I can only win against these if I play first and start with a super strong hand.
Any thoughts about it? And I also would appreciate sideboard advices, since I don't have the slightest idea about it.
UB Mill is too unstable for events, in my opinion, don't know about the turbofog version.
And Bob looks like a really amazing guy (:
Thanks for noticing! Nice to know I'm not the only one here who appreciates GBV haha
About the deck, the one I posted was a really rough draft. Doom Blade is more like a placeholder for the other spells: I rather use edict effects than something more on spot.
4x Chittering Rats
4x Sangrophage
4x Liliana's Specter
3x Ghoulraiser
2x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
2x Phyrexian Rager
4x Nameless Inversion
3x Grim Harvest
2x Corrupt
2x Sign In Blood
And synergizes well with the Shinobi too. Other card I'm looking into is Shade's Form.
I was looking at Theros' new cards and Gray Merchant of Asphodel seemed like a nice card to build a deck around. Have anyone tried it yet?
I'm thinking about using cards like Pestilence, Chittering Rats, Liliana's Specter for the BB on cost, maybe splash U for Ghostly Flicker fun.
Any thoughts?
4x Dream Twist
4x Thought Scour
4x Tome Scour
3x Jace's Erasure
4x Curse of the Bloody Tome
4x Pilfered Plans
1x Arcane Denial
3x Memory Lapse
1x Boomerang
1x Uncovered Clues
3x Crypt Incursion
1x Nausea
2x Innocent Blood
3x Agony Warp
Lands
4x Dimir Guildgate
6x Swamp
12x Island
What do you think about Balustrade Spy?
Another one that I'm testing is Lat-Nam's Legacy, but I need to gather some more data on it.
I've been working in a mill deck for pauper and this is the lastest version:
11x Island
8x Swamp
2x Crypt Incursion
1x Devour Flesh
1x Divination
2x Dream Twist
2x Grisly Spectacle
4x Jace's Erasure
4x Mind Sculpt
4x Muddle the Mixture
3x Preordain
3x Rend Flesh
4x Thought Scour
4x Tome Scour
1x Whirlpool Rider
So far, I've been surprised with the results and my top three worst matchups are against Infect, UR Kiln Fiend and Mono Black Discard. I can only win against these if I play first and start with a super strong hand.
Any thoughts about it? And I also would appreciate sideboard advices, since I don't have the slightest idea about it.
Thanks in advance!
It's 1v1. Wanderer is a threat in this format?