I built this deck in Magic Duels and it proved fairly competitive. However, Magic Duels doesn't differentiate between modern and standard, thus this deck exists as a hodgepodge of cards that are standard legal and cards that are not.
I'll post thus deck in the modern forum as well, but here the focus is to convert this deck to being standard legal. I did make a standard legal deck that operates similarly to this one, but that deck has some issues. I think it's better to start with this deck before bringing the other into this discussion.
The deck, which I call LifeSucker:
I definitely agree with the planeswalkers. I have that Ob Nixilis, but I've generally been against playing him due to the negative affects towards the caster. In this case all the life gaining of this deck tend to make up for it.
With my IRL cards I built a standard legal deck that employs the same strategy. Take this as more cards for the poole towards the ultimate goal of this thread--that's what this deck was meant to be anyway:
Of course, first thing is that I'd switch in b/w dual lands that can come in untapped, (which I do have now), plus I'd add in the two Planeswalkers discussed above.
The problem is your deck has to many single copies and very inconstant. Icatian posted a good budget deck, but I would put in copies of Blessed Alliance over Reprisal and Essence Extraction.
The problem is your deck has to many single copies and very inconstant. Icatian posted a good budget deck, but I would put in copies of Blessed Alliance over Reprisal and Essence Extraction.
Agreed, The Duels in game poole for this deck is very limited. Constructing a real deck will definitely feature far less singles.
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I'll post thus deck in the modern forum as well, but here the focus is to convert this deck to being standard legal. I did make a standard legal deck that operates similarly to this one, but that deck has some issues. I think it's better to start with this deck before bringing the other into this discussion.
The deck, which I call LifeSucker:
1 Cliffside Lookout
1 Dread Wanderer
3 Indulgent Aristocrat
1 Ruthless Sniper
1 Festering Mummy
1 Cartouche of Solidarity
1 Battle At The Bridge
1 Lone Rider
1 Binding Mummy
3 Child of Night
1 Doomed Dissenter
1 Wayward Servant
1 Grasp of Hieromancer
4 Nimbus Wings
1 Shadows of the Past
1 Reprisal
1 Bontu the Glorified
1 Drana's Emissary
1 Tainted Remedy
1 Renewed Faith
1 Essence Extraction
1 Anguished Unmaking
1 Gideon of the Trials
1 Champion of Arashin
1 Grim Strider
1 Angel of Invention
1 Gilt-Leaf Winnower
1 Horror of the Broken Lands
2 Isolated Chapel
2 Forsaken Sanctuary
9 Plains
10 Swamps
// 17 Creature
1 Topplegeist
1 Cliffside Lookout
1 Dread Wanderer
3 Indulgent Aristocrat
1 Ruthless Sniper
1 Festering Mummy
1 Lone Rider
1 Binding Mummy
1 Doomed Dissenter
1 Wayward Servant
1 Bontu the Glorified
1 Drana's Emissary
1 Grim Strider
1 Angel of Invention
1 Horror of the Broken Lands
1 Cartouche of Solidarity
// 4 Instant
1 Reprisal
1 Renewed Faith
1 Essence Extraction
1 Anguished Unmaking
2 Forsaken Sanctuary
9 Plains
10 Swamp
1 Gideon of the Trials
// 1 Sorcery
1 Battle at the Bridge
// 19 Creature
4 Dread Wanderer
2 Indulgent Aristocrat
3 Lone Rider
1 Angel of Invention
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
2 Gifted Aetherborn
1 Felidar Sovereign
4 Sacred Cat
2 Cartouche of Solidarity
4 Call the Bloodline
// 8 Instant
1 Reprisal
2 Essence Extraction
1 Anguished Unmaking
2 Altar's Reap
2 Immolating Glare
2 Forsaken Sanctuary
9 Plains
10 Swamp
2 Concealed Courtyard
// 2 Planeswalker
1 Gideon of the Trials
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
// 1 Sorcery
1 Battle at the Bridge
what I've got with some budget concessions in mind.
With my IRL cards I built a standard legal deck that employs the same strategy. Take this as more cards for the poole towards the ultimate goal of this thread--that's what this deck was meant to be anyway:
1 Sanitarium Skeleton
2 Indulgent Aristocrat
2 Vampire Envoy
2 Malakir Familiar
1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
2 Drana's Emissary
2 Cliffhaven Vampire
2 Angel of Invention
2 Baleful Ammit
1 Oketra's Monument
1 Bontu's Monument
1 Renewed Faith
2 Tresspasser's Curse
2 Cartouche of Ambition
2 Cartouche of Solidarity
2 Final Reward
1 Murder
1 Murderous Compulsion
2 Diabolic Tutor
2 Daring Demolition
2 Retreat to Hagra
2 Blighted Fen
4 Forsaken Sanctuary
9 Plains
9 Swamps
Of course, first thing is that I'd switch in b/w dual lands that can come in untapped, (which I do have now), plus I'd add in the two Planeswalkers discussed above.
Standard: BG Golgari Midrange
Modern: U Merfolk GWUBR 5 Color Humans UBW Esper Gifts GW Bogles
Agreed, The Duels in game poole for this deck is very limited. Constructing a real deck will definitely feature far less singles.