You could maindeck 2 caravans and keep 2 in sideboard for the control matchup. So now onto a possible sideboard for your deck (if you remove 2 caravans):
This is by no means optimal, but I think it could be a place to start.
The caravans is there to add for control or any deck packing counterspells, leyline is a good card to have if you should encounter a dredge deck, cephalid breakfast or something else graveyard based, extirpate (you can chose Surgical Extraction as well) is great there to remove bridges and dredgers as well. Duress and Extirpate is extra hate against combo where turn 1 or 2 disruption is crucial for the outcome of the match. Unearth is for the aggro match-up, since a lot of them run burn to bash through blockers and sacrificing a blocking priest of gix and then unearthing him next turn is just bonkers. Unearth might even warrant testing maindeck since it can give so much extra value out of the priests, maybe try cutting a muse and a skirsdag high-priest and add 2 unearth and up the extirpate count to 4 in the suggested sideboard (while cutting down to 2 unearth).
Just a few ideas feel free to not use them since it is your deck, but just like therestless I like helping people with deck ideas, so you have nothing to feel sorry about.
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Decks I play:
Legacy:
Pox
Demon Stompy
Black Knights
Modern:
Tainted Shadow
MBC
8 Rack
Casual:
Suicide Black
Old-school Nightmare Effect
EDH:
Anowon, the Ruin Sage
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Okay, so we have a month to effect the change in leadership. Although I would welcome SA or therestless into the Evincar position, I propose we have new blood as Scion. The leadership keeps cycling between the same people and although seniority counts (a lot), somebody new should grab the reins.
Anybody wanna step forward? (I promise no torture if you lose ;))
so finally getting a shot at RtR online and I've done five pre-release events effectively, five sealed Qs (one for each guild promo) and went 2-2 in all of them
but I got a chance to play with Underworld Connections, which is awesome and was wondering... am I crazy or is this actually better than arena?? while it does basically occupy a land for use it gains the benefit that you no longer have to use it, which could result in suicide... in the little bit I got to play with it at least it seemed that I was willing to part with one land's ability to tap for mana in exchange for that draw
and side note: my article series is now going to be a part of mtgo academy, very excited about the change
Since you are running a reanimatorstyle deck, wouldn't Supreme Verdict usually be preferred to Terminus, since you don't really got any set-up for the miracle and cannot be countered is a huge plus factor, it sweeps when you want a sweep, no question. Terminus seems like the opposite of what reanimator would do too. You have to run blue for bolas and white good it rites, so it might be an idea.
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Decks I play:
Legacy:
Pox
Demon Stompy
Black Knights
Modern:
Tainted Shadow
MBC
8 Rack
Casual:
Suicide Black
Old-school Nightmare Effect
EDH:
Anowon, the Ruin Sage
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Against a deck with counterspells I probably don't need a sweeper. Against a deck with Falkenrath Aristocrat, Geralf's Messenger, and Gravecrawler I don't want Supreme Verdict. If Rakdos Zombies wasn't the terror it is right now, Supreme Verdict would be fine.
I got a little time to playtest last night and the revised deck went 2:1 against a Doomsday Storm deck. A lucky Hymn in the first game delayed him enough that when he tried to storm with Doomsday, I burned his last four life away with Shepherd of Rot and one Cabal Archon sacrifice in response to Tendrils. Game two he was able to combo off very early and I hadn't drawn any of my disruption (hindsight: should have mulligan'd). Third game, my turn two Hymn tossed one of the Doomsday's into the yard, which I followed up with a Surgical Extraction. He spent the rest of the game topping and fetching to find his Burning Wish, but it never came.
Now, I know Doomsday Storm isn't exactly the top combo deck out there, but it's still combo and I was able to beat it. I'm not worried anymore that I have to "auto-scoop" to combo. As I get a better grasp of what to pick with Therapy/Inquisition and target with Surgical Extraction, things can only become more favorable.
I also played one game against an artifact looking control deck. He played an Ancient Tomb and a turn one Chalice, then Synod and Tinker Mage. Things didn't go well for him after that because he spent both his counterspells on two Shepherds of Rot. I think he ragequit.
For now, I'm thinking my sideboard will look like this:
Leyline of the Void should be an obvious way to deal with the graveyard based decks. Surgical Extraction fights Storm off ever harder. Unearth I'm toying with including in the main deck, but for now I think it will serve very well in other aggro matchups where the disruption isn't needed as much. Tragic Slip is there to give me the spot removal for those damn Phyrexian Revokers and other such problems.
I think I'm set. You guys are awesome.
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"[Screw] you and the green you ramped in on." - My EDH battle cry. If I had one. Which I don't.
A lucky Hymn in the first game delayed him enough that when he tried to storm with Doomsday, I burned his last four life away with Shepherd of Rot and one Cabal Archon sacrifice in response to Tendrils.
Glad you liked the help, I am interested in hearing tales from the battlefield if you test it in a legacy tournament, remember your main advantage is that nobody knows what to expect of your deck, so they might make dumb plays.
Also, therestless, you got a point about rakdos zombies (I am not very knowledgeable about the current standard metagame, so I might spew some bull****, I apologize for that) , I just don't normally like sweepers costing 6 mana. But if Rakdos zombies is huge in your metagame, wouldn't everyone run Grafdigger's Cage in SB, which seems troublesome for your deck as well?
I live by this quote. I keep all 4 hymns on the front page of my trade binder (corners). Along with an alpha and beta dark rit on the middle sides, a foil balthor, the defiled at the bottom middle, Damnation in the center, and because I think its cool, a foil, miscut, russian cloudshift at the top center.
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Well he had a fun way to explain what magic was, I like that powerful wizard statement in the beginning. Also the centaur king thingy was rather funny, but I was cheering for the opposition since they played black.
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Decks I play:
Legacy:
Pox
Demon Stompy
Black Knights
Modern:
Tainted Shadow
MBC
8 Rack
Casual:
Suicide Black
Old-school Nightmare Effect
EDH:
Anowon, the Ruin Sage
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
lol I just tweeted about that earlier, I watch D9 daily for the SC2 content, but this recap was awesome lol
Omg my clan has sc2 watchers :D:D:D
Day 9 has very good advice/information for players around silver to platinum league, but I find his constant cutting back to himself extremely vexing.
umm.. sure? why do we need new blood at scoin out of curiosity?
I prefer experienced hands as the figureheads ones in charge but scion is the next highest position. Also if either SA or therestless leave we'll become a one man cult...(you two have Y chromosomes right?)
Okay, so we have a month to effect the change in leadership. Although I would welcome SA or therestless into the Evincar position, I propose we have new blood as Scion. The leadership keeps cycling between the same people and although seniority counts (a lot), somebody new should grab the reins.
Day 9 has very good advice/information for players around silver to platinum league, but I find his constant cutting back to himself extremely vexing.
I basically just watch Funday Monday as I'm really not an SC2 player. Incidentally, and relevant to that video, any time he's recounting MTG stories is amazing.
It is interesting all that fuss about the new Evincar, but I have no idea who to vote on since I have been here for such a short time. I look forward to see the candidates though.
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Decks I play:
Legacy:
Pox
Demon Stompy
Black Knights
Modern:
Tainted Shadow
MBC
8 Rack
Casual:
Suicide Black
Old-school Nightmare Effect
EDH:
Anowon, the Ruin Sage
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The vote is for Evincar, and then the Evincar chooses his Scion.
Of course, that just means you've got to convince them, or win the vote for Evincar.
As the one who really wrote out and formalized the rules, the Scion was always appointed by the Evincar. That said, I think I currently am still Scion....
It is interesting all that fuss about the new Evincar, but I have no idea who to vote on since I have been here for such a short time. I look forward to see the candidates though.
Exactly my problem, which is why the only logical vote for me to cast is for myself.
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"[Screw] you and the green you ramped in on." - My EDH battle cry. If I had one. Which I don't.
Well now you're talking like a red mage. Perhaps you're a follower of Rakdos?
Tavern Swindler would like to have a word with you, of course I am going to use a rigged dice so the most person I think is most competent wins.
And no, I am Dimir, but since you think torture is good perhaps you are the Rakdos guy.
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Decks I play:
Legacy:
Pox
Demon Stompy
Black Knights
Modern:
Tainted Shadow
MBC
8 Rack
Casual:
Suicide Black
Old-school Nightmare Effect
EDH:
Anowon, the Ruin Sage
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
And no, I am Dimir, but since you think torture is good perhaps you are the Rakdos guy.
For the record, I never said it's good, just that it's effective and tolerable. Also, all the cards with Torture in their name are either black or colorless.
That aside, I think if I had to pick one of the guilds, I'm probably closest to either Golgari or Dimir. Rakdos is all chaos and "hurt people for pleasure." Golgari and Dimir both have the "power at any cost" thing that I live by in MTG. Still, I'd prefer not to affiliate with any guild. My decks are black, and splash if they have to.*
*The only exception to this is my EDH deck, which is Norin. For teh lulz.
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"[Screw] you and the green you ramped in on." - My EDH battle cry. If I had one. Which I don't.
When someone starts asking about 'flavorful' includes and themes... I am so the wrong person to ask.
3x Extirpate
3x Leyline of the Void
4x Duress
3x Unearth
This is by no means optimal, but I think it could be a place to start.
The caravans is there to add for control or any deck packing counterspells, leyline is a good card to have if you should encounter a dredge deck, cephalid breakfast or something else graveyard based, extirpate (you can chose Surgical Extraction as well) is great there to remove bridges and dredgers as well. Duress and Extirpate is extra hate against combo where turn 1 or 2 disruption is crucial for the outcome of the match. Unearth is for the aggro match-up, since a lot of them run burn to bash through blockers and sacrificing a blocking priest of gix and then unearthing him next turn is just bonkers. Unearth might even warrant testing maindeck since it can give so much extra value out of the priests, maybe try cutting a muse and a skirsdag high-priest and add 2 unearth and up the extirpate count to 4 in the suggested sideboard (while cutting down to 2 unearth).
Just a few ideas feel free to not use them since it is your deck, but just like therestless I like helping people with deck ideas, so you have nothing to feel sorry about.
Decks I play:
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Okay, so we have a month to effect the change in leadership. Although I would welcome SA or therestless into the Evincar position, I propose we have new blood as Scion. The leadership keeps cycling between the same people and although seniority counts (a lot), somebody new should grab the reins.
Anybody wanna step forward? (I promise no torture if you lose ;))
but I got a chance to play with Underworld Connections, which is awesome and was wondering... am I crazy or is this actually better than arena?? while it does basically occupy a land for use it gains the benefit that you no longer have to use it, which could result in suicide... in the little bit I got to play with it at least it seemed that I was willing to part with one land's ability to tap for mana in exchange for that draw
and side note: my article series is now going to be a part of mtgo academy, very excited about the change
Deck List:
BMBCB
UBUB Control/TeachingsBU
Ha! My Pauper UG Post Deck Showed!
Classic
BPoxB
Legacy
GB Eva Depths (Primer By Me) BG
Monthly Academy Showcase!
An Introduction to Competitive Pauper! *Updated*
Pauper Meta Analysis & What Wizards Left Out!
Found at MTGO Academy!! Same Great Series, Same Great Content, Great New Home!! (yes that is me shamelessly trolling for more readers :))
Check me out on Twitter & Get a little MTGO Therapy
In one game at states I got to activate it exactly once on account of Tamiyo.
Still, the ability to turn it off when you don't want the life loss is a big deal.
Also, considering taking something like this to FNM:
3 Angel of Serenity
4 Thragtusk
2 Niv Mizzet, Dracogenius
1 Griselbrand
3 Unburial Rites
4 Terminus
4 Faithless Looting
4 Farseek
2 Ranger's Path
25 Lands
Decks I play:
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I got a little time to playtest last night and the revised deck went 2:1 against a Doomsday Storm deck. A lucky Hymn in the first game delayed him enough that when he tried to storm with Doomsday, I burned his last four life away with Shepherd of Rot and one Cabal Archon sacrifice in response to Tendrils. Game two he was able to combo off very early and I hadn't drawn any of my disruption (hindsight: should have mulligan'd). Third game, my turn two Hymn tossed one of the Doomsday's into the yard, which I followed up with a Surgical Extraction. He spent the rest of the game topping and fetching to find his Burning Wish, but it never came.
Now, I know Doomsday Storm isn't exactly the top combo deck out there, but it's still combo and I was able to beat it. I'm not worried anymore that I have to "auto-scoop" to combo. As I get a better grasp of what to pick with Therapy/Inquisition and target with Surgical Extraction, things can only become more favorable.
I also played one game against an artifact looking control deck. He played an Ancient Tomb and a turn one Chalice, then Synod and Tinker Mage. Things didn't go well for him after that because he spent both his counterspells on two Shepherds of Rot. I think he ragequit.
For now, I'm thinking my sideboard will look like this:
4 Surgical Extraction
4 Unearth
4 Tragic Slip
Leyline of the Void should be an obvious way to deal with the graveyard based decks. Surgical Extraction fights Storm off ever harder. Unearth I'm toying with including in the main deck, but for now I think it will serve very well in other aggro matchups where the disruption isn't needed as much. Tragic Slip is there to give me the spot removal for those damn Phyrexian Revokers and other such problems.
I think I'm set. You guys are awesome.
Pristaxcontrombmodruu!
never underestimate the power of hymn
Deck List:
BMBCB
UBUB Control/TeachingsBU
Ha! My Pauper UG Post Deck Showed!
Classic
BPoxB
Legacy
GB Eva Depths (Primer By Me) BG
Monthly Academy Showcase!
An Introduction to Competitive Pauper! *Updated*
Pauper Meta Analysis & What Wizards Left Out!
Found at MTGO Academy!! Same Great Series, Same Great Content, Great New Home!! (yes that is me shamelessly trolling for more readers :))
Check me out on Twitter & Get a little MTGO Therapy
Also, therestless, you got a point about rakdos zombies (I am not very knowledgeable about the current standard metagame, so I might spew some bull****, I apologize for that) , I just don't normally like sweepers costing 6 mana. But if Rakdos zombies is huge in your metagame, wouldn't everyone run Grafdigger's Cage in SB, which seems troublesome for your deck as well?
Decks I play:
-Friedrich Nietzsche
umm.. sure? why do we need new blood at scoin out of curiosity?
I live by this quote. I keep all 4 hymns on the front page of my trade binder (corners). Along with an alpha and beta dark rit on the middle sides, a foil balthor, the defiled at the bottom middle, Damnation in the center, and because I think its cool, a foil, miscut, russian cloudshift at the top center.
Ready for the apocalypses? The dark side is always open
Yeah, but theoretically I can just board out the Unburial Rites and hardcast everything.
In other news, and because I have been posting this pretty much everywhere, everyone should watch this:
MTG Story Time with Day9
Part 2
Part 3
Disclaimer: There is language, and a whole lot of awesome.
Decks I play:
-Friedrich Nietzsche
lol I just tweeted about that earlier, I watch D9 daily for the SC2 content, but this recap was awesome lol
Deck List:
BMBCB
UBUB Control/TeachingsBU
Ha! My Pauper UG Post Deck Showed!
Classic
BPoxB
Legacy
GB Eva Depths (Primer By Me) BG
Monthly Academy Showcase!
An Introduction to Competitive Pauper! *Updated*
Pauper Meta Analysis & What Wizards Left Out!
Found at MTGO Academy!! Same Great Series, Same Great Content, Great New Home!! (yes that is me shamelessly trolling for more readers :))
Check me out on Twitter & Get a little MTGO Therapy
Omg my clan has sc2 watchers :D:D:D
Day 9 has very good advice/information for players around silver to platinum league, but I find his constant cutting back to himself extremely vexing.
I prefer experienced hands as the
figureheadsones in charge but scion is the next highest position. Also if either SA or therestless leave we'll become a one man cult...(you two have Y chromosomes right?)I completely agree.
I step forward!
You did say new blood, and if there is one universal trait to black mages, it is ambition.
If any would challenge me, I shall submit to trial by a contest of his choosing!
Pristaxcontrombmodruu!
Of course, that just means you've got to convince them, or win the vote for Evincar.
I basically just watch Funday Monday as I'm really not an SC2 player. Incidentally, and relevant to that video, any time he's recounting MTG stories is amazing.
Decks I play:
-Friedrich Nietzsche
As the one who really wrote out and formalized the rules, the Scion was always appointed by the Evincar. That said, I think I currently am still Scion....
Exactly my problem, which is why the only logical vote for me to cast is for myself.
Pristaxcontrombmodruu!
Decks I play:
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Well now you're talking like a red mage. Perhaps you're a follower of Rakdos?
Pristaxcontrombmodruu!
Tavern Swindler would like to have a word with you, of course I am going to use a rigged dice so the most person I think is most competent wins.
And no, I am Dimir, but since you think torture is good perhaps you are the Rakdos guy.
Decks I play:
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh ho! I forgot about that guy. Good call.
For the record, I never said it's good, just that it's effective and tolerable. Also, all the cards with Torture in their name are either black or colorless.
That aside, I think if I had to pick one of the guilds, I'm probably closest to either Golgari or Dimir. Rakdos is all chaos and "hurt people for pleasure." Golgari and Dimir both have the "power at any cost" thing that I live by in MTG. Still, I'd prefer not to affiliate with any guild. My decks are black, and splash if they have to.*
*The only exception to this is my EDH deck, which is Norin. For teh lulz.
Pristaxcontrombmodruu!