Early hand disruption into giant demons backed by good removal and a consistent manabase. Late game is often finished by using Cabal Strongholds to pump up a giant dread shade, or just getting there with demons. Between blood fast and paying whisperer life to surveil, the deck can kill the user pretty easily. Sacrificing a demon to strands or a flipped blood fast is a great way to gain life back. Sideboard needs work so suggestions are very appreciated.
If you're gonna run Demon of Catastrophes, you probably need more expendable creatures to drop early so he isn't a dead draw.
That is a concern and the opposite is also a concern. Drawing a bunch of weak useless fodder when I want to draw relevant spells is almost as annoying. Not sure what the right balance is. Doomed Dessenter and Dusk Legion Zealot were two other fodder creatures I was considering.
I would run some number of Ritual Of Soot main, as to not give up game one against aggro. Iwould also have some number of The Eldest Reborn in the 75. It does so much for one card. It's a legit win con.
The card I'm least sure about is Twilight Prophet as hitting "Ascend" isn't that easy but besides Chupacabra (which is a SB card as the maindeck already has enough removal) there aren't any good 4-drops to choose from and Josu Vess, Lich Knight is already in the deck.
I could go for Doom Whisperer instead but at 5-mana I'm afraid it'll make the curve too high.
Arterial Flow is also rather questionable but can be of use to fight control decks when removal is useless and needs to be sided out.
It can also drain if I have Twilight Prophet on the board.
4x Kitesail Freebooter
4x Dread Shade
4x Demon of Catastrophes
4x Doom Whisperer
4x Duress
2x Arguel's blood fast
4x Walk the plank
4x Vraska's Contempt
2x Severed Strands
17x Swamp
2x Field of Ruin
1x Arch of Orazca
4x Ritual of Soot
4x Knight of Malice
3x The Eldest Reborn
1x Tetzimoc, Primal Death
3x Plaguecrafter
That is a concern and the opposite is also a concern. Drawing a bunch of weak useless fodder when I want to draw relevant spells is almost as annoying. Not sure what the right balance is. Doomed Dessenter and Dusk Legion Zealot were two other fodder creatures I was considering.
4x Dread Shade
4x Twilight Prophet
2x Josu Vess, Lich Knight
1x Demonlord Belzenlok
Planeswalker (4)
4x Karn, Scion of Urza
Artifact (4)
4x Treasure Map
1x Arguel's Blood Fast
Instant (12)
4x Cast Down
4x Murder
4x Vraska's Contempt
Sorcery (4)
4x Duress
Land (24)
4x Cabal Stronghold
20x Swamp
1x Ritual of Soot
1x Tetzimoc, Primal Death
4x Arterial Flow
1x The Eldest Reborn
2x Sorcerous Spyglass
2x Golden Demise
2x Moment of Craving
2x Ravenous Chupacabra
The main focus of the deck is grind out card advantage and take advantage of Cabal Stronghold to power out big finishers.
The Karn, Scion of Urza + Treasure Map package is just too good not to run imho and just adds so much card advantage to the deck even besides Arguel's Blood Fast and Demonlord Belzenlok which also contribute.
The card I'm least sure about is Twilight Prophet as hitting "Ascend" isn't that easy but besides Chupacabra (which is a SB card as the maindeck already has enough removal) there aren't any good 4-drops to choose from and Josu Vess, Lich Knight is already in the deck.
I could go for Doom Whisperer instead but at 5-mana I'm afraid it'll make the curve too high.
Arterial Flow is also rather questionable but can be of use to fight control decks when removal is useless and needs to be sided out.
It can also drain if I have Twilight Prophet on the board.