I've worked around to constructing a Kaalia punisher-control list of my own. It started out as your standard ramp/drop Kaalia/blow up the lands deck, and then morphed into something of a prison/tax deck before I finally came across your decklist. I was hoping you and the others here could take a look over it for me :).
I've been wondering if Gisela, Blade of Goldnight wouldn't make a better general for this style of deck, which would be unfortunate, since what I wanted in the first place was a deck that worked really well with Kaalia!
Looks great! My one buddy in our playgroup has a Kaalia deck and it is Just her, mana, and tonnnnnns for demons, dragons, and angels.
If we all draw horrid hands and he can swing with Kaalia a few times, the game is over... Most of the time, she is taken care of early and he sits with nothing do to since he has no backup plan.
I have tried to convince him to do something more like yours that doesn't rely on the general as much. He refuses to listen.
Anyway, great design! I love Kaalia and would really like to make a deck for her, but our playgroup is pretty close and we don't like taking each others ideas/generals.
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I've worked around to constructing a Kaalia punisher-control list of my own. It started out as your standard ramp/drop Kaalia/blow up the lands deck, and then morphed into something of a prison/tax deck before I finally came across your decklist. I was hoping you and the others here could take a look over it for me :).
I've been wondering if Gisela, Blade of Goldnight wouldn't make a better general for this style of deck, which would be unfortunate, since what I wanted in the first place was a deck that worked really well with Kaalia!
Oh if only Gisela was WBR.... I thought the same thing. But ditching the tutors and the black punishments is too sad to contemplate. Just tutor her up and play her as much as possible.
Blackjack I love your philosophy on EDH. I have a Jenara deck similar to ISBPathfinder's but I need something crazy and fun and a little mean I am wondering what you feel are the essential pieces to tutor for? Also, if taking out the mass LD would u add card draw init's place? Lastly would humility be good in this deck? Sorry I am new and don't know how to card tag on my phone.
Blackjack I love your philosophy on EDH. I have a Jenara deck similar to ISBPathfinder's but I need something crazy and fun and a little mean I am wondering what you feel are the essential pieces to tutor for? Also, if taking out the mass LD would u add card draw init's place? Lastly would humility be good in this deck? Sorry I am new and don't know how to card tag on my phone.
I can't answer for Black, but I run a list very similar to this one that was inspired by Black's take on Kaalia. Strangely enough, I moved from playing ISB's Jenara list to playing this Kaalia list, based off of a desire for something a little more... sinister :p. In any case, I tend to tutor pretty reactively, which I imagine some others might not when playing Kaalia. I like to have answers for the board state, an inclination perhaps engendered by playing a Bant toolbox deck for so long, so I tend to fish up whatever spot/mass removal spell or utility creature I need to answer my opponent's board state at present so that I can advance my own. YMMV.
EDIT: Feel free to drop in and take a look at my sig'ed list. I love as much input as I can get!
Looking through my options from the last couple sets and HOLY SHNYKEES! Gisela, Blade of Goldnight! Was there ever a more perfect card printed for a deck than this Angel in Kaalia, the Punisher?! Will get one immediately and update the decklist as soon as I do.
Griselbrand was here. But then he left. Sorry if you didn't get a chance to play with him because he was awfully fun in Kaalia, at least for the player who was playing Kaalia.
Harvester of Souls is the real deal. You will draw plenty of cards with this.
Looking through my options from the last couple sets and HOLY SHNYKEES! Gisela, Blade of Goldnight! Was there ever a more perfect card printed for a deck than this Angel in Kaalia, the Punisher?! Will get one immediately and update the decklist as soon as I do.
Looking through my options from the last couple sets and HOLY SHNYKEES! Gisela, Blade of Goldnight! Was there ever a more perfect card printed for a deck than this Angel in Kaalia, the Punisher?! Will get one immediately and update the decklist as soon as I do.
What? No mention of Rakdos, Lord of Riots? I don't know about you, but flashing him in and then paying WWW for whitekroma or Avacyn seems pretty good to me.
Slayer's Stronghold has never been that good for me. Sure, it's a +2/+0 vigilance boost for 3, but the haste was never relevant enough for me to want to run it over other utility lands.
What? No mention of Rakdos, Lord of Riots? I don't know about you, but flashing him in and then paying WWW for whitekroma or Avacyn seems pretty good to me.
Most pain is dealt in the turns of your opponents though, so he will be a bit harder to cast that way. Blackjack does not play many small creatures to be able to play him early. So he could be clogging up your hand.
Most pain is dealt in the turns of your opponents though, so he will be a bit harder to cast that way. Blackjack does not play many small creatures to be able to play him early. So he could be clogging up your hand.
If you're hard-casting him, yeah. My point was that if he's flashed in with Kaalia, and they both get clean strikes in, then that's 8 colorless off of whatever creatures you want to cast.
If you're hard-casting him, yeah. My point was that if he's flashed in with Kaalia, and they both get clean strikes in, then that's 8 colorless off of whatever creatures you want to cast.
My point is that he only runs 5 creatures with cmc > 5 (maybe 7 if he could add both Avacyn and Gisela without removing one of those 5), while Greater Gargadon will probably always be cast for its alternate cost. The benefit Rakdos brings in this situation is not that great, because you won't have a big fatty in hand most of the time you would have Rakdos on the board. The gameplan of this deck is punishment, Kaalia only comes in late game sometimes.
EDIT: I do agree though that it will probably be included in every aggressive Kaalia deck that just aims to drop those nasty A/D/D!
Yeah, no doubt Rakdos would be good for most Kaalia decks, I don't think I'd get tremendous value out of him in here though.
I guess now that Kokusho is unbanned, I ought to think about him in here. Punishes everyone else, gains me life, dragon can be cheated in. I'll have to try it out as soon as I can get hold of one.
Blackjack I am glad you are back! First up I think you may have 101 cards listed on your decklist :/ next up have you considered exquisite blood and idyllic tutor in this deck? With all the sac outlets puppeteer clique is instant speed shenanigans and gy hate. Can you please explain the ankh of mishra and zozu and how they contribute towards the end goal... as in I know they are cheap and lower everyone's life to a more "one shot" kill range. But that includes yourself. You have three things that could do half life damage. Hidetsugu sorin and if u add havoc festival. Do these cards serve the same purpose of oneshot from exsanguinate vicious shadows wound reflection big creature? Also could you please explain why akroma? For early defense have you considered chronomantic escape or peacekeeper? Sorry so long just lots of questions on the gameplay of the deck.
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.. You're right, it's 101. I must've screwed something up on the last update. I'll go through my deck and figure out where I went wrong.
Before I go into the suggestions/questions, I should probably go through one of the problems I'm having with the build...
The deck has so many things to do (punishments, recursion, ramp/fixing, finishers) that it seems I have trouble fitting enough of each in to reach a density I want and still have any room left for things like tutors, draw, defense.
Which brings me to why you might have just pushed me into a harder edged direction with the Havoc Festival suggestion. See, when I saw that card for the first time I thought it might be a little "too much", but hey, if you're gonna be the "bad guy", be a really bad one, right? Maybe I should swap out Ankh and Zo-zu (yeah, I was just using them for chipping away at life) for more drastic stuff (along with more draw and tutoring).
I'm going to go over things in the next couple days and probably make those changes.
Akroma is just in there as an angel finisher that I had an extra copy of. I should probably come up with a better one.
Thanks for the quick reply! i have been trying to build something similar and run into similar problems. I keep trying to find the best quality with the most balance and "fun" i just found out about opalescence which could be a neat finisher. The exquisite blood helps buy me time with life gain. I am excited to try and find kokusho, was yosei ever in this? Could you please give me your evaluation of humility in this deck as we could always just keep playing echants and holding on to our creatures. This would slow others down and really hose etb/utility of most decks. Does stranglehold seem to have an impact? Maybe it depends on meta. Sure makes fethlands bad
I don't remember ever trying Yosei in here. He's a favorite in all my Orzhov decks though.
I think Stranglehold is going out with the next changes. I thought it would help keep down tutoring for answers, but I'm not real happy with it. Funny card though, you'll never know how much it helped you/ saved you from stopping tutors. There have been a couple times someone went to search becuase of a fetchland or creature effect that I had remind them about it.
Opalescence is an interesting find. Would be a stylish finisher, could backfire pretty bad though.
Looking over my decklist, thinking about Humility. Awesome card, I think it would hose too much of my own gameplan though, just too much to hold back in hand. But if you're building with minimal creatures, it could be really amazing. It makes me want to build some kind of Evil Enchantress deck now. Just what I need, another EDH deck
So after looking at your sig orzhov deck... i see that this deck has pieces of it and punishments added... i only wish gisela had black! I will just leave things alone and see what comes out in gatecrash.
Hey Black, you inspired me of taking green out of my punisher deck and adding white instead. Going from Xira to Kaalia. I like the deck a bit more. But It isn't great. I have not cast Kaalia in like 6 test games. I dunno. The deck plays a bit weird. I've never needed Kaalia for the big dudes, May I got too much mana in the deck. Would you mind having a look at my list? Could I post it in your thread or make my own?
Hey Black, you inspired me of taking green out of my punisher deck and adding white instead. Going from Xira to Kaalia. I like the deck a bit more. But It isn't great. I have not cast Kaalia in like 6 test games. I dunno. The deck plays a bit weird. I've never needed Kaalia for the big dudes, May I got too much mana in the deck. Would you mind having a look at my list? Could I post it in your thread or make my own?
Go ahead and post it up here if you want.
Sidenote.... I just got my new cards in the mail today
All decks undergoing updating/maintenance this weekend.
I thought of that card, but it ruins your lifegain.
Do note that, being unsure about the list, the "maybe pile" that I'll add after the decklist gets switched with cards inside after almost every game. I just am unsure what I want. Also I have the Boros/Orzhov Guildgate and Keyrunes in the deck for now. I play them as generic Guildgates/Keyrunes
Divine Deflection looks like it might be a fun card.
I'd say if you're going to be so heavily invested in enchantments (and artifacts), your Open the Vaults should definitely be in. Might look at Replenish and Argivian Find too.
Overall, I'd say make room for some real power by dropping some of the smaller effects. Coincidentally, that's the kind of changes I'm doing now. Vicious Shadows should be in, it's a bomb. And the deck literally screams for Kokusho, the Evening Star. Profane Command is so versatile/powerful and synergistic with the deck, I'd consider that one an auto-include.
Divine Deflection looks like it might be a fun card.
I'd say if you're going to be so heavily invested in enchantments (and artifacts), your Open the Vaults should definitely be in. Might look at Replenish and Argivian Find too.
Overall, I'd say make room for some real power by dropping some of the smaller effects. Coincidentally, that's the kind of changes I'm doing now. Vicious Shadows should be in, it's a bomb. And the deck literally screams for Kokusho, the Evening Star. Profane Command is so versatile/powerful and synergistic with the deck, I'd consider that one an auto-include.
I've never used Divine Deflection well. I remember keeping it in hand maybe three times. I'd either win without it or lose in spite of it anyways.
I can see it being good, but not against the decks I tested it again.
Thing is, Open the vaults does get a lot of my cards back, but without a tutor, I find it unlikely I'd get to use it. I guess the possibility of getting more than 3 cards for 1 card is nice but I don't like the idea that I'll only see it once every 4 games.
Replenish is expensive Argivian Find could go in.
Sanguine Bond is on the expensive side, and I dislike instant wins. Kokupuffs is expensive as well and Profane command should be in. I think I've got one lying around. I'll try Vicious Shadows.
I feel like the deck is missing stuff. It needs omph. Like another angle. I got something in mind.
EDIT: Doesn't work. Maybe If I had a bigger budget. I almost feel like the deck is missing a theme. I thought of adding stax like element (make things more expensive and make people unable to untap lands). I don't know, maybe I need to take a sub theme and add to it. I'll try to "pseudo stax".
I've worked around to constructing a Kaalia punisher-control list of my own. It started out as your standard ramp/drop Kaalia/blow up the lands deck, and then morphed into something of a prison/tax deck before I finally came across your decklist. I was hoping you and the others here could take a look over it for me :).
1 Kaalia of the Vast
Creature (20)
1 Kederekt Parasite
1 Serra Ascendant
1 Zo-Zu the Punisher
1 Anger
1 Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
1 Baneslayer Angel
1 Bloodgift Demon
1 Heartless Hidetsugu
1 Purity
1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
1 Dread
1 Ryusei, the Falling Star
1 Yosei, the Morning Star
1 Angel of Despair
1 Balefire Dragon
1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
1 Kaervek the Merciless
1 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
Instant (1)
1 Comet Storm
Sorcery (10)
1 Earthquake
1 Faithless Looting
1 Exsanguinate
1 Blood Tithe
1 Day of Judgment
1 Diabolic Tutor
1 Demonic Collusion
1 Increasing Ambition
1 Promise of Power
1 Austere Command
1 Hissing Miasma
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Price of Glory
1 Spellshock
1 Underworld Dreams
1 Grave Pact
1 Manabarbs
1 Spiteful Visions
1 War's Toll
1 Exquisite Blood
1 Painful Quandary
1 Polluted Bonds
1 Sanguine Bond
1 Subversion
1 Martyr's Bond
1 True Conviction
1 Warstorm Surge
1 Wound Reflection
1 Vicious Shadows
Artifact (13)
1 Sol Ring
1 Ankh of Mishra
1 Boros Signet
1 Charcoal Diamond
1 Coldsteel Heart
1 Fire Diamond
1 Marble Diamond
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Talisman of Indulgence
1 Coalition Relic
1 Defense Grid
1 Norn's Annex
1 Battlefield Forge
1 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Caves of Koilos
1 City of Brass
1 Clifftop Retreat
1 Command Tower
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
1 Isolated Chapel
7 Mountain
7 Plains
1 Sulfurous Springs
1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
7 Swamp
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Vault of the Archangel
I've been wondering if Gisela, Blade of Goldnight wouldn't make a better general for this style of deck, which would be unfortunate, since what I wanted in the first place was a deck that worked really well with Kaalia!
R.I.P. Sundering Titan (6/20/12) and Braids, Cabal Minion (9/12/14)
If we all draw horrid hands and he can swing with Kaalia a few times, the game is over... Most of the time, she is taken care of early and he sits with nothing do to since he has no backup plan.
I have tried to convince him to do something more like yours that doesn't rely on the general as much. He refuses to listen.
Anyway, great design! I love Kaalia and would really like to make a deck for her, but our playgroup is pretty close and we don't like taking each others ideas/generals.
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Legacy
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UBRGrixis ControlUBR
RGLandsRG
Oh if only Gisela was WBR.... I thought the same thing. But ditching the tutors and the black punishments is too sad to contemplate. Just tutor her up and play her as much as possible.
WUBRG Some of these decks can actually win games...WUBRG
How I know I should build a deck:
I can't answer for Black, but I run a list very similar to this one that was inspired by Black's take on Kaalia. Strangely enough, I moved from playing ISB's Jenara list to playing this Kaalia list, based off of a desire for something a little more... sinister :p. In any case, I tend to tutor pretty reactively, which I imagine some others might not when playing Kaalia. I like to have answers for the board state, an inclination perhaps engendered by playing a Bant toolbox deck for so long, so I tend to fish up whatever spot/mass removal spell or utility creature I need to answer my opponent's board state at present so that I can advance my own. YMMV.
EDIT: Feel free to drop in and take a look at my sig'ed list. I love as much input as I can get!
R.I.P. Sundering Titan (6/20/12) and Braids, Cabal Minion (9/12/14)
Looking through my options from the last couple sets and HOLY SHNYKEES! Gisela, Blade of Goldnight! Was there ever a more perfect card printed for a deck than this Angel in Kaalia, the Punisher?! Will get one immediately and update the decklist as soon as I do.
Others I'm looking at:
What else am I missing?
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EDH Decks:
Ghost Council: The Magic Mafia of Orzhova
BB Drana: Down with the Sickness
Rasputin: Reality is Broken
Vish Kal Bleeder: Bloody Kisses
Teysa, Orzhov Dominatrix
Stonebrow: Breaking Things
BWR Kaalia Punisher: Heaven's on Fire
Grimgrin: Dead Reckoning
Harvester of Souls is the real deal. You will draw plenty of cards with this.
WUBRG Some of these decks can actually win games...WUBRG
How I know I should build a deck:
Havoc Festival!
Nice too see you're back! I'm actually building a list inspired by this one IRL right now. It's fun to play!
BRGWTana and TymnaBRGW
RTeneb, the EternalR
UBRNekusar, Mind RazerUBR
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
BGWGhave, Guru of SporesBGW
Aurelia, the Warleader
BDrana, Kalastria BloodchiefB
WBROros, the AvengerWBR
What? No mention of Rakdos, Lord of Riots? I don't know about you, but flashing him in and then paying WWW for whitekroma or Avacyn seems pretty good to me.
Slayer's Stronghold has never been that good for me. Sure, it's a +2/+0 vigilance boost for 3, but the haste was never relevant enough for me to want to run it over other utility lands.
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Wedges:
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Damia, Sage of Stone GUB
Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
Olivia Voldaren
Most pain is dealt in the turns of your opponents though, so he will be a bit harder to cast that way. Blackjack does not play many small creatures to be able to play him early. So he could be clogging up your hand.
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RTeneb, the EternalR
UBRNekusar, Mind RazerUBR
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
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Aurelia, the Warleader
BDrana, Kalastria BloodchiefB
WBROros, the AvengerWBR
If you're hard-casting him, yeah. My point was that if he's flashed in with Kaalia, and they both get clean strikes in, then that's 8 colorless off of whatever creatures you want to cast.
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Damia, Sage of Stone GUB
Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
Olivia Voldaren
My point is that he only runs 5 creatures with cmc > 5 (maybe 7 if he could add both Avacyn and Gisela without removing one of those 5), while Greater Gargadon will probably always be cast for its alternate cost. The benefit Rakdos brings in this situation is not that great, because you won't have a big fatty in hand most of the time you would have Rakdos on the board. The gameplan of this deck is punishment, Kaalia only comes in late game sometimes.
EDIT: I do agree though that it will probably be included in every aggressive Kaalia deck that just aims to drop those nasty A/D/D!
BRGWTana and TymnaBRGW
RTeneb, the EternalR
UBRNekusar, Mind RazerUBR
Rakdos, Lord of Riots
BGWGhave, Guru of SporesBGW
Aurelia, the Warleader
BDrana, Kalastria BloodchiefB
WBROros, the AvengerWBR
I guess now that Kokusho is unbanned, I ought to think about him in here. Punishes everyone else, gains me life, dragon can be cheated in. I'll have to try it out as soon as I can get hold of one.
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EDH Decks:
Ghost Council: The Magic Mafia of Orzhova
BB Drana: Down with the Sickness
Rasputin: Reality is Broken
Vish Kal Bleeder: Bloody Kisses
Teysa, Orzhov Dominatrix
Stonebrow: Breaking Things
BWR Kaalia Punisher: Heaven's on Fire
Grimgrin: Dead Reckoning
Moved Jokulhaups and Obliterate to the "sideboard" for political reasons.
Also Out:
- Stensia Bloodhall (too expensive for effect)
- Hall of the Bandit Lord (rarely used, need color fixing lands)
- Lightning Greaves (upgraded)
- Phyrexian Arena (too painful)
- Damnation (needed space, have plenty of mass removal)
- Argivian Find
(redundant)In:
- Rakdos Guildgate
- Rakdos Charm
- Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
- Kokusho, the Evening Star
- Chromatic Lantern
- Vandalblast
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Reverse the Sands
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EDH Decks:
Ghost Council: The Magic Mafia of Orzhova
BB Drana: Down with the Sickness
Rasputin: Reality is Broken
Vish Kal Bleeder: Bloody Kisses
Teysa, Orzhov Dominatrix
Stonebrow: Breaking Things
BWR Kaalia Punisher: Heaven's on Fire
Grimgrin: Dead Reckoning
.. You're right, it's 101. I must've screwed something up on the last update. I'll go through my deck and figure out where I went wrong.
Before I go into the suggestions/questions, I should probably go through one of the problems I'm having with the build...
The deck has so many things to do (punishments, recursion, ramp/fixing, finishers) that it seems I have trouble fitting enough of each in to reach a density I want and still have any room left for things like tutors, draw, defense.
Which brings me to why you might have just pushed me into a harder edged direction with the Havoc Festival suggestion. See, when I saw that card for the first time I thought it might be a little "too much", but hey, if you're gonna be the "bad guy", be a really bad one, right? Maybe I should swap out Ankh and Zo-zu (yeah, I was just using them for chipping away at life) for more drastic stuff (along with more draw and tutoring).
I'm going to go over things in the next couple days and probably make those changes.
Akroma is just in there as an angel finisher that I had an extra copy of. I should probably come up with a better one.
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EDH Math
EDH Decks:
Ghost Council: The Magic Mafia of Orzhova
BB Drana: Down with the Sickness
Rasputin: Reality is Broken
Vish Kal Bleeder: Bloody Kisses
Teysa, Orzhov Dominatrix
Stonebrow: Breaking Things
BWR Kaalia Punisher: Heaven's on Fire
Grimgrin: Dead Reckoning
I think Stranglehold is going out with the next changes. I thought it would help keep down tutoring for answers, but I'm not real happy with it. Funny card though, you'll never know how much it helped you/ saved you from stopping tutors. There have been a couple times someone went to search becuase of a fetchland or creature effect that I had remind them about it.
Opalescence is an interesting find. Would be a stylish finisher, could backfire pretty bad though.
Looking over my decklist, thinking about Humility. Awesome card, I think it would hose too much of my own gameplan though, just too much to hold back in hand. But if you're building with minimal creatures, it could be really amazing. It makes me want to build some kind of Evil Enchantress deck now. Just what I need, another EDH deck
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EDH Math
EDH Decks:
Ghost Council: The Magic Mafia of Orzhova
BB Drana: Down with the Sickness
Rasputin: Reality is Broken
Vish Kal Bleeder: Bloody Kisses
Teysa, Orzhov Dominatrix
Stonebrow: Breaking Things
BWR Kaalia Punisher: Heaven's on Fire
Grimgrin: Dead Reckoning
Go ahead and post it up here if you want.
Sidenote.... I just got my new cards in the mail today
All decks undergoing updating/maintenance this weekend.
And Kaalia gets a Havoc Festival to play with
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EDH Math
EDH Decks:
Ghost Council: The Magic Mafia of Orzhova
BB Drana: Down with the Sickness
Rasputin: Reality is Broken
Vish Kal Bleeder: Bloody Kisses
Teysa, Orzhov Dominatrix
Stonebrow: Breaking Things
BWR Kaalia Punisher: Heaven's on Fire
Grimgrin: Dead Reckoning
Do note that, being unsure about the list, the "maybe pile" that I'll add after the decklist gets switched with cards inside after almost every game. I just am unsure what I want. Also I have the Boros/Orzhov Guildgate and Keyrunes in the deck for now. I play them as generic Guildgates/Keyrunes
Here is the list:
5 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
5 Bloodgift Demon
6 Harvester of Souls
7 Angel of Despair
7 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
7 Rune-Scarred Demon
8 Pestilence Demon
Punisher (12):
1 Bloodchief Ascension
2 Ankh of Mishra
3 Repercussion
3 Spellshock
3 Rivalry
4 Manabarbs
4 Spiteful Visions
4 Isolation Cell
4 Furnace of Rath
5 Polluted Bonds
5 Painful Quarandary
6 Wound Reflection
Mana Rocks (14):
1 Sol Ring
2 Charcoal Diamond
2 Fire Diamond
2 Marble Diamond
2 Orzhov Signet
2 Boros Signet
2 Rakdos Signet
3 Orzhov Keyrune
3 Boros Keyrune
3 Rakdos Keyrune
3 Skull of Ramos
3 Tooth of Ramos
3 Heart of Ramos
3 Darksteel Ingot
1x Earthquake
2x Starstorm
2x Fault Line
4 Pestilence
4 Pyrohemia
6 Phyrexian Rebirth
6 Life's Finale
9 Blasphemous Act
Removal (5):
1 Dispatch
2 Terminate
2 Lightning Helix
2 Hide // Seek
3 Mortify
Screw you Control (4):
2 Defense Grid
3 Mana Web
3 Citadel of Pain
4 War's Toll
Recursion (4):
2 Disturbed Burial
3 Corpse Dance
5 Torrent of Souls
6 Cauldron Dance
Draw (3):
3 Phyrexian Arena
4 Graveborn Muse
6 Staff of Nin
2x Exsanguinate
3 Tainted Sigil
5 Exquisite Blood
Random Goodstuff (5)
1x Divine Deflection
2 Rakdos Charm
2x Rakdos's Return
3 Boros Fury-Shield
4 Solemn Simulacrum
Lands (34):
0 Command Tower
0 Vault of the Archangel
0 Rakdos Guildgate
0 Orzhov Guildgate
0 Boros Guildgate
8 Plains
10 Mountain
11 Swamp
Maybies:
And yeah :/
I'd say if you're going to be so heavily invested in enchantments (and artifacts), your Open the Vaults should definitely be in. Might look at Replenish and Argivian Find too.
You could always go for a chance combo win by adding Sanguine Bond in with your Exquisite Blood. Academy Rector, Demonic Tutor and Enlightened Tutor are great for fetching them if you want to actively pursue the combo. A little more budget minded, Brainspoil fetches either of them.
Overall, I'd say make room for some real power by dropping some of the smaller effects. Coincidentally, that's the kind of changes I'm doing now. Vicious Shadows should be in, it's a bomb. And the deck literally screams for Kokusho, the Evening Star.
Profane Command is so versatile/powerful and synergistic with the deck, I'd consider that one an auto-include.
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EDH Decks:
Ghost Council: The Magic Mafia of Orzhova
BB Drana: Down with the Sickness
Rasputin: Reality is Broken
Vish Kal Bleeder: Bloody Kisses
Teysa, Orzhov Dominatrix
Stonebrow: Breaking Things
BWR Kaalia Punisher: Heaven's on Fire
Grimgrin: Dead Reckoning
I've never used Divine Deflection well. I remember keeping it in hand maybe three times. I'd either win without it or lose in spite of it anyways.
I can see it being good, but not against the decks I tested it again.
Thing is, Open the vaults does get a lot of my cards back, but without a tutor, I find it unlikely I'd get to use it. I guess the possibility of getting more than 3 cards for 1 card is nice but I don't like the idea that I'll only see it once every 4 games.
Replenish is expensive Argivian Find could go in.
Sanguine Bond is on the expensive side, and I dislike instant wins. Kokupuffs is expensive as well and Profane command should be in. I think I've got one lying around. I'll try Vicious Shadows.
I feel like the deck is missing stuff. It needs omph. Like another angle. I got something in mind.
EDIT: Doesn't work. Maybe If I had a bigger budget. I almost feel like the deck is missing a theme. I thought of adding stax like element (make things more expensive and make people unable to untap lands). I don't know, maybe I need to take a sub theme and add to it. I'll try to "pseudo stax".
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EDH Decks:
Ghost Council: The Magic Mafia of Orzhova
BB Drana: Down with the Sickness
Rasputin: Reality is Broken
Vish Kal Bleeder: Bloody Kisses
Teysa, Orzhov Dominatrix
Stonebrow: Breaking Things
BWR Kaalia Punisher: Heaven's on Fire
Grimgrin: Dead Reckoning