i recently built a selenia, dark angel that worked surprisingly well. combine the likes of vizkopa confessor and pay all your life, then swap life totals around with things say magus of the mirror. kills out of nowhere, and i think total cost was less than $40 or so. also, selenia allows you to pay all your life to do funky things, so you've always got access to life-draining abilities.
anyways, it was a 4player game, i had an ineffective mono blue talrand, sky summoner tempo against a rakdos the defiler suicide BR against a yuriko, the tiger's shadow top of deck manipulator+extra turns, and won 2 games of 3 (and the game loss was because of mana-screw). AND, the deck was piloted by someone else i lent the deck to (in other words, they had to pilot it with the description "pay all your life to do weird things"). also, wound reflection with a repay in kind in actually quite painful.
i don't have a decklist right now, but if you want/are interested i can try to write an abridged decklist (i.e. minus lands)
anyways, it was a 4player game, i had an ineffective mono blue talrand, sky summoner tempo against a rakdos the defiler suicide BR against a yuriko, the tiger's shadow top of deck manipulator+extra turns, and won 2 games of 3 (and the game loss was because of mana-screw). AND, the deck was piloted by someone else i lent the deck to (in other words, they had to pilot it with the description "pay all your life to do weird things"). also, wound reflection with a repay in kind in actually quite painful.
i don't have a decklist right now, but if you want/are interested i can try to write an abridged decklist (i.e. minus lands)
Legacy - Solidarity - mono U aggro - burn - Imperial Painter - Strawberry Shortcake - Bluuzards - bom