So I've been playing variations of this deck for a while now in my playgroup and I need help making it better.
The main idea is to drain them out of the game while eventually dropping cards that make killing off my creatures inconvenient to them.
I run the Endless Whispers/Phage combo, which works out pretty well.
The problem is that I get steamrolled by Elves unless I draw my removal consistently, but it often leaves me tapped out and unable to keep up once they start dropping lords around my removal.
Burn and other aggro decks are no problem since I usually outpace them and deal with their key cards.
Other matchups are iffy, but not too stressful.
Anyway, how do I improve this? I want to be able to at least sideboard better against decks I struggle against, while still maintaining the drain theme.
The main idea is to drain them out of the game while eventually dropping cards that make killing off my creatures inconvenient to them.
I run the Endless Whispers/Phage combo, which works out pretty well.
The problem is that I get steamrolled by Elves unless I draw my removal consistently, but it often leaves me tapped out and unable to keep up once they start dropping lords around my removal.
Burn and other aggro decks are no problem since I usually outpace them and deal with their key cards.
Other matchups are iffy, but not too stressful.
Anyway, how do I improve this? I want to be able to at least sideboard better against decks I struggle against, while still maintaining the drain theme.
Any mainboard/sideboard suggestions are welcome.
4x Blood Artist
4x Bloodsoaked Champion
3x Brain Maggot
1x Butcher of Malakir
1x Dictate of Erebos
1x Eldrazi Monument
2x Endless Whispers
4x Grasp of Darkness
3x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1x Hedron Archive
1x Languish
1x Mind Stone
3x Nantuko Husk
1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
1x Palace Siege
2x Phage the Untouchable
1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
2x Snow-Covered Swamp
17x Swamp
4x Tragic Slip
1x Whip of Erebos
2x Erebos, God of the Dead
3x Inquisition of Kozilek
2x Pithing Needle
2x Relic of Progenitus
3x Thoughtseize
Link to deck @ TappedOut.net
I mainly play casually, but I run Mono Red Burn and Mono Green Aggro in Modern. Looking to get into something else though.
Anyway that's it.