MTG Salvation

You could snoop for some more mutli-colored dudes to make psychotic fury worthwhile.

Considering I have never been able to make heads or tails of the original Tarmogoyf art, and have since written it off as just a brown blur on a card, I'm rather thankful that it now has some more concrete art. However, I'm pretty indifferent to the new art as well. Lhurgoyfs just don't do anything for me aesthetically.

Pygmy Hippo used to be my favorite card now he just stuck between a thousand other forgotten cards, waiting for a day when he can be relevant again.

Can someone find me the discussion where Randy Gallegos was given the prompt to create Maw of the Obzedat? Thanks.

To clarify, I have ZERO issues with the art. I just think it's brilliantly insane. We need more lemmings diving into ****** dentata in Magic.

The gold mask of the thrull looks like the baby masks from Terry Gilliam's Brazil, the creature itself reminds me of any monster from Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

I'm probably gonna build a PDH deck around him.

Quote from Willy86

You have some points I will have to considered. Specially the part of getting the deck more green than black.

Doom Blade looks awesome, but the double black on Geth's Verdict scares me a bit. Why not good old Diabolic Edict?

Yeah, Edict would be the better choice in dual colors. I've been running so many mono black decks that I forget about the difference in cost between the two cards. But I'd probably run the Doom Blades and sideboard the edicts.

I agree with needing card draw, but I also think you will want the ramp. Once you begin the grave recursion, you're gonna want plenty of mana, especially if you're sacking lands for the Tiger.

For draw: In black there's Night's Whisper for 1B, also for BB there's Sign in Blood which does the same thing but can target any player (if you need to deal 2 damage ftw).

In Green there is Elvish Visionary for a 1/1 cantrip, and there's also Bequeathal - play it on a Sakura Tribe Elder and you get a land and 2 cards when you sac him. Or you can play it on a skyshroud ridgeback before he fades out.

If you're gonna run the Putrid Leech then you might want to go with Bequeathal over Night's Whisper, to lessen life-loss.

Oh, there's also one of my favorte cards in the whole world to run with Unearth, Phyrexian Rager. I just think he's really cool; 3 CMC and 1 Life for a 2/2 Cantrip.

@shoebaka: Yeah, the rancors should be back in there. And I s'pose Fright Crawler, should be swapped out for Putrid Leech, especially when we start recursion, we can't guarantee threshold anymore.

Also, it just occurred to me: Can Blastoderm and Scythe Tiger be targeted in the graveyard at all? They have shroud, does that protect in the grave as well? If thats the case then the spell package should be entirely different.



Maybe that's spreading it too thin.

Also there's the possibility of making the shift to faster stompy with Mtenda Lion/Jungle Lion, Pouncing Jaguar, Skarrgan Pit-Skulk and your classic Sui-black dudes Carnopahge and Vampire Lacerator

I think you have more than you need in this deck. I would focus on Green for the creatures, and black for the recursion and control.

First things first:
Land:
Hickory Woodlot and Peat Bog aren't very necessary, even if they speed things up. I'd replace them with Golgari Guildgates.
Tranquil Thicket and Evolving Wilds will help you fill up your graveyard to reach threshold faster.
Since you basically just need to splash green for Grisly Salvage and recursion, you don't need too many swamps.


Spells:
Depending on your pauper meta, Doom Blade or Geth's Verdict are your best spot removals, Geth's gets around hexproof. Doom Blade is the most direct.

Harrow is great for mana fixing, ramp, and thresh. It puts 2 cards in your GY and gives you 2 basic lands.

Grim Discovery is great for this build. Since most of your creatures are designed to be disposable except for Blastoderm, I might run the risk of playing Exhume over Unearth. Or both since you have so many guys leaving the field all the time; It would be fun to have tons of recursion that keeps bringing dudes into play.

And Rancor can't target your 2 best critters, Blastoderm and Scythe Tiger.


Creatures:
I'd put the emphasis on green here. Sakura-Tribe Elder is another ramper, and he can chump block early should you need him to.


Let me know what you think. I feel these adjustments stay true to your deck and primarily use all the cards you chose yourself. The general Win Con is to swarm with cheap and disposable critters that you can keep reviving until your opponent is out of steam.

cuz I guess "Ultra-Pro" can be ambiguous.

Man, Kitchen Table Casual has fallen apart in recent years. It used to be you could pick any card you wanted and tried to build a deck out of it. But THESE DAYS? Gosh, with all the broken cards they're printing, and all the synergy new cards have with pre-modern sets, Kitchen Table casual has lost all the fun. Decks are too good!

What we need are some regulations. Some sort of structure to Kitchen Table Casual. Maybe we should ban every card of the reserved list. Or maybe we should just ban all cards illustrated by Rebecca Guay, Terese Nielson, Phil Foglio and Harold McNeil (******* neo-nazi). That would at least limit the card pool by a huge chunk and take out all those JANKY and BROKEN cards that they're known for.

Who's with me?

I would let a teacher know anyway? Not sure what your school's policy on theft is, but if it's large enough, lots of schools have cameras to catch these sorts of things. Of course, if schools understood the monetary value of Magic, that would be reason enough to ban the cards outright from the building, but then at least you'd have a reason to leave them at home. I'd say it's best to make everyone as aware of every aspect of the situation as possible. Especially if you're in eighth grade - people like you better when you're a kid.

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FYI: You have a Pauper Primers section now.

Really harsh rolling papers.

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What does this have to do with EDH? Requesting a thread move.

mmmm, maybe he wants to build a deck around this theme, like he explained in the first post.

Basically Coat of Arms gives the +1/+1 bonus per a creature and its type, not by how many types you see on a creature. So with the 3 Human Samurais they get a bonus from each other from either being Human or Samurai, they will not get another +1/+1 because of having both types.

But if you add another plain Samurai and Human they give the 3 Human Samurai's +1/+1 each, and the Human Samurais give +1/+1 to both the Human and Samurai.

Hope this makes sense...
Coat of Arms + 3 Human Samurai 1/1 = 3 Human Samurai 3/3
Coat of Arms + 3 Human Samurai 1/1 + 1 Samurai 1/1 = 3 Human Samurai 4/4 & 1 Samurai 4/4
Coat of Arms + 3 Human Samurai 1/1 + 1 Samurai 1/1 + 1 Human 1/1 = 3 Human Samurai 5/5, 1 Samurai 4/4 & 1 Human 4/4

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