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Quote from plushpenguin »

You should run Yawgmoth as a sac outlet. It isn't often that you get a free sac outlet that has the effect of drawing a card. (and also killing your opponent's things)

I plan on putting it in mine.

Ditto. Yawgmoth does everything the deck wants to and more.

I don't know about y'all but I'm salivating at Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion. I think I would want to test Dreadhorde Butcher.

Yuuuup.

Quote from CentralCommand »

Yes I'm aware his trigger is on attack, he would be completely unplayable otherwise. Im lamenting lack of evasion because this deck wins by combat damage so i need my guys to hit my opponents, not get chump blocked.

That's why I forgo most of these splashy Creatures and get under my opponent's Blocks.

I would try it. I think it would replace Smuggler's Copter which seems to me to be a bad trade. Copter does a lot for the deck in that it dodges Wraths, Loots, is sizable especially after a Dethrone or two and is evasive. Benthic Biomancer just lowers the curve and has a less reliable draw engine.

Perhaps instead I would cut Imperial Recruiter but that seems to be a mistake. I don't actively use its Tutor though I could setup an infinite with Sage of Fables/Metallic Mimic and Glen Elendra Archmage with Goblin Bombardment/Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat/Hissing Iguanar. There's lots of interchangeable parts, so I can easily set that up with Recruiter but I feel like my aggro plan suffers if I use the Recruiter to loop up a combo win. It's quite the pickle. The Recruiter fetches me one exact card per loop, while all my other three drop draw engines don't tutor but draw a lot more per loop than the Recruiter.

Plus I do want to use Judith, the Scourge Diva. I'm not sure if I would want to cut any of my pingers for her.

I'll be putting Judith, the Scourge Diva in my Marchesa, I will be cutting Olivia, Mobilized for War from mine for her as Olivia feels like the weakest three drop in my list. I've found some gems for the pure aggro plan but I'm also testing other stuff too. I haven't yet drawn Dawn of the Dead but I think it might be worth.

I think Legion Warboss qualifies.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Make someone's life total go up to tie yours to still get a Dethrone trigger.

I personally run no Sac Outlets that require mana as I'm so low to the ground. But I can easily see a Midrange build get a lot of value out of this; including bumping someone's life total up so that they're no tied with you for Dethrone. That has been an issue every now and then.

The Clones could because the decision is made as they enter while Gary's is when he does. So they'd be all Garies when they ETB.

I just stumbled across Hissing Iguanar and I'll be trying it out.

Siren Stormtamer is giving me ideas. There's tons of value in Glen Elendra Archmage but this Siren Pirate Wizard counters abilities or spells. Doesn't specify triggered or activated, so an opposing Avatar of Woe, Grimgrin, Corpse-Born or King Macar, the Gold-Cursed won't be able to ice Marchesa. Also, this is a Wizard so it naturally has synergy to Metallic Mimic set to Wizard, Sage of Fables and its nonhuman nature means Mikaeus, the Unhallowed gives it Undying.

Perhaps if I made my deck spikier or if my playgroup shifted more towards spot removal.

Also, I must absolutely do a PSA on Spellshock. In 3/3 games it was played, people used spot removal on it. We want to count to 120 while riding the fine line where our life total doesn't dip. This has made me change my deck to remove all combos and play strictly as a classic aggro deck where I play threats on curve. Most Commanders and decks wouldn't be able to do that, but Marchesa can because she mitigates the weakness of Wraths which is why you can't play threats on curve. Anyway, Spellshock is part of my 'deal 120' package; it also stops decks from comboing off in fear of killing themselves and it helps manage Dethrone when you Shock yourself. If you're playing an aggro game, try out Spellshock.

It's not ETB, it's if you Attacked. Considering that's Marchesa life blood I'm pretty sure that won't be a problem.

Marauding Looter looks like another way to draw cards in an aggro shell. I don't think I would run it, but I can easily this is in a more combo oriented version where card selection is important or budget.

Quote from Trigunner »

And Eli Shiffrin, the rules manager, now errata'd Hostage Taker to exile another target creature or artifact. Here's the tweet about it.

I'm just sad that I thought they were making a competent rules change when it was just sloppiness all around.