So basically Im putting together a good stuff Olivia Deck, Not so much just every card be amazing, but a deck with a lot of interactions and small combos. I don't want it to be overpowered, really casual but still good and still able to win.
Reasoning behind all this is I had a Glissa deck, it was too easy to win with all I did was tutor for Tooth and Nail and the game was over.
I also have a Kaalia deck that is obviously just really good.
I recently moved to a new area and I wanna meet up with a new play group eventually and I don't wanna come off as a non-casual d bag that just wants to win every game, and make it unfun for everyone, because I'm not sure how Competitive this area is.
So I really like Olivia's stealing ability. I also wanna add this card combo:
I built an Olivia deck on cockatrice as a challenge from one of my mates to build a deck in under an hour (or maybe it was 30 mins) either way it was basically all B/R good stuff but I once got this enchantment out on turn 2 or 3 and it just wrecked everyone once Olivia was in play.
Jace SHOULD be unbanned in modern. I hate all the people saying "JACE IS BROKEN OHMYGOD HE'LL TAKE OVER AND CAWBLADE WILL REIGN SUPREME AGAIN" when bloodbraid elf literally comes down after jace and kicks jace right in the crotch, takes jace's lunch money, and jace is left to bleed out on the sidewalk in agonizing pain.
I started putting together a BR deck because I had a bunch of neat red cards like Vicious Shadows, Braid of Fire, and Repercussion sitting in my EDH box unused. Didn't want to go mono-red because I already have three mono-colored decks, and Olivia seemed like the most powerful option to abuse those cards, plus I have a fake foil Badlands that looks kinda neat.
I took those three cards and started going through my EDH box looking for a whole bunch of other cards that I've yet to actually cast in a real game, and came up with some more enchantments (Furnace of Rath, Death Pits of Rath, Gratuitous Violence, No Mercy, Leyline of the Void, Everlasting Torment). Then I filled out the deck with other cards I don't normally use and came up with a list like this:
Reasoning behind all this is I had a Glissa deck, it was too easy to win with all I did was tutor for Tooth and Nail and the game was over.
I also have a Kaalia deck that is obviously just really good.
I recently moved to a new area and I wanna meet up with a new play group eventually and I don't wanna come off as a non-casual d bag that just wants to win every game, and make it unfun for everyone, because I'm not sure how Competitive this area is.
So I really like Olivia's stealing ability. I also wanna add this card combo:
Skullclamp + Reaasembling Skelton/Bloodghast/Nether Traitor.
Also a few things like:
Basilisk Collar
Quietus Spike
Defiler of Souls
Insurrection
Anybody else got any cool card interactions to share in this colour combo?
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I built an Olivia deck on cockatrice as a challenge from one of my mates to build a deck in under an hour (or maybe it was 30 mins) either way it was basically all B/R good stuff but I once got this enchantment out on turn 2 or 3 and it just wrecked everyone once Olivia was in play.
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My Other Cubes
Pauper Cube
One-Drop Cube
Vedalken Orrery would be needed.
--- Meren of Clan Nel Toth --- Jhoira of the Ghitu --- Prime Speaker Zegana ---
--- Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief --- Ghoulcaller Gisa --- Akroma, Angel of Fury --- Titania, Protector of Argoth ---
I took those three cards and started going through my EDH box looking for a whole bunch of other cards that I've yet to actually cast in a real game, and came up with some more enchantments (Furnace of Rath, Death Pits of Rath, Gratuitous Violence, No Mercy, Leyline of the Void, Everlasting Torment). Then I filled out the deck with other cards I don't normally use and came up with a list like this:
1 Olivia Voldaren
Mana (8):
1 Sol Ring
1 Armillary Sphere
1 Braid of Fire
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Talisman of Indulgence
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Black Market
Draw (6):
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Graveborn Muse
1 Syphon Mind
1 Bloodgift Demon
1 Promise of Power
1 Harvester of Souls
Tutor (5):
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Praetor's Grasp
1 Increasing Ambition
Spot removal (8):
1 Profane Command
1 Shattering Pulse
1 Chaos Warp
1 Sudden Spoiling
1 Into the Core
1 Kumano, Master Yamabushi
1 Reaper from the Abyss
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Withered Wretch
1 Leyline of the Void
Sweepers (6):
1 Black Sun's Zenith
1 Chain Reaction
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Contagion Engine
1 Scourge of Kher Ridges
1 Blasphemous Act
Death triggers (7):
1 Blood Artist
1 Falkenrath Noble
1 Sangromancer
1 Deathbringer Thoctar
1 Extractor Demon
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Vicious Shadows
Combo (8):
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Blade of the Bloodchief
1 Everlasting Torment
1 Heartstone
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Mimic Vat
1 Repercussion
1 Helm of Obedience
Protection (7):
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Ring of Xathrid
1 Darksteel Plate
1 No Mercy
1 Cauldron of Souls
1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1 Bloodchief Ascension
1 Wild Ricochet
1 Word of Seizing
Lands (39):
1 Akoum Refuge
1 Badlands
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Graven Cairns
1 Kher Keep
1 Lavaclaw Reaches
1 Molten Slagheap
1 Rakdos Carnarium
1 Tainted Peak
1 Temple of the False God
9 Mountain
17 Swamp
I have yet to actually sleeve this up, but it looks solid and it incorporates a lot of cards I do not otherwise use.
Hope this list gives you a few ideas of your own.