I meant does the counter get on the thranax before the creature re-enters. I wasn't sure if when persist triggers it's immediate, meaning that it would return before the Thranax's ability resolves. It was just a matter of can I win if I resolve him with a persist creature and Blood Artist on board
Oh you're talking about saccing persist creature(s) to devour, having persist resolve, and then possibly saccing them again to devour? In that case, the sacced creatures' persist would trigger, but would wait until devour's done. You'd need another sac outlet to win.
Well, flicker is sorcery speed, so it probably won't protect your board very well. You could play chaos warp, planar guide, legion's initiative, or ghostway if you don't already. I run a sunforger suite, so it can be cool to gain access to a protection spell, cantrip, token maker, or removal. Additionally, akroma's blessing, emerge unscathed, and gods willing will offer literal protection as well as evasion.
Also, zada, hedron grinder only creates a copy for each other creature you control so it wouldn't really wrath the entire board.
With Conspiracy, you can run haakon, stromgald scourge and other creature combos like kiki and zealous or mike and trike.
I don't think there's enough room in the deck for an arcane suite. But mizzix's mastery and past in flames seem like fun. I personally just stick to yawgmoth's will.
In a world of bolt I don't like that toughness but the activation cost is cheap. Similar to TarPit which occasionally sees play, but a 2/3 doesn't seem very threatening.
I'm envisioning a deck with liliana of the veil, dark confidant, gideon, ally of zendikar, and this new manland. It would be more controlling. +1 gideon, then pop off the ultimate to protect shambling vent from lightning bolt. Add in red for general goodstuff like lightning bolt and kolaghan's command and you've got a deck.
I'm curious to see how carnival of souls works out in this deck. You'd probably have to run something like essence warden to counteract the life loss though. Also, if your source of lifegain dies, you're dead. So I don't know. But it looks fun.
As for the second question, you decide how the attacking creature deals damage. So yes, the smarter play would be to deal lethal damage to the 3/3 first. The 3/3 should die.
If five creatures have been declared to attack, then you will gain 5 life and your opponent will lose 5 life. However, if an attacking creature wasn't declared to attack, such as in Alesha, who smiles at death triggered ability, then Brutal Hordechief triggered ability will not count for that creature.
You are indeed allowed to choose to have all of your opponent's creatures block a single attacking creature. This will let the rest of your creatures through. Alternatively, you can force your opponent to make blocks in your favor to kill off some of his/her creatures.
Oh you're talking about saccing persist creature(s) to devour, having persist resolve, and then possibly saccing them again to devour? In that case, the sacced creatures' persist would trigger, but would wait until devour's done. You'd need another sac outlet to win.
Also, zada, hedron grinder only creates a copy for each other creature you control so it wouldn't really wrath the entire board.
Plus, I think slotting in march of the machines, mycosynth lattice, and darksteel forge will only dilute this deck's gameplan.
I'm cool with conspiracy because you can find restoration angel for infinite blinks. This can win the game with kalastria healer, wreck the opponent's hand with bala ged thief, wrath the opponent's board with murasa pyromancer, etc. Resto can also serve as protection. Conspiracy also works with turntimber ranger but I'm sure most of us have figured that out.
With Conspiracy, you can run haakon, stromgald scourge and other creature combos like kiki and zealous or mike and trike.
I don't think there's enough room in the deck for an arcane suite. But mizzix's mastery and past in flames seem like fun. I personally just stick to yawgmoth's will.
I'm envisioning a deck with liliana of the veil, dark confidant, gideon, ally of zendikar, and this new manland. It would be more controlling. +1 gideon, then pop off the ultimate to protect shambling vent from lightning bolt. Add in red for general goodstuff like lightning bolt and kolaghan's command and you've got a deck.
As for the second question, you decide how the attacking creature deals damage. So yes, the smarter play would be to deal lethal damage to the 3/3 first. The 3/3 should die.
You are indeed allowed to choose to have all of your opponent's creatures block a single attacking creature. This will let the rest of your creatures through. Alternatively, you can force your opponent to make blocks in your favor to kill off some of his/her creatures.