Dark deal is absolutely evil and I love it. What a huge gain from just one card and three mana. Discarding my own hand wouldn’t even be a big deal after that much card draw. And then hitting them with another to get back to back ridiculous combos. All on turn two or three.
This Deck is primarily geared towards multiplayer games with about 5 players as that is what I play most of with my friends. It has some interesting results as far as the discard goes, producing 2/2 black zombies at an astounding rate while fueling card draw and giving black mana to spend those with all those cards you're drawing.
There are several ideal early rounds but this is one of the possibilities I have encountered many times that is quite effective.
T1 - Swamp > Dark Ritual > Shrieking Affliction + Waste Not
T2 - Swamp > Burglar Rat = Opponents discard creating black mana, 2/2 zombies, or card draw. With luck, enough discard can generate card draw and mana to help you play Liliana's Caress.
T3 - Swamp > Arterial Flow = More of the same as above except more dramatic, this could generate enough manna to play Syphon Mind several times and then keep looping discard effects until opponent are out of cards and then any remaining mana should be spent on Shrieking Affliction and more rats to dominate the board state.
T4 - After a round of Shrieking Affliction effects, most players will be hurting and not have much of a board state, so swing away to your hearts desire.
If none of this happens then its always a safe bet to swing with lots of pack rats if you just cant get the board together or you opponents are breaking your enchantments at good speed.
I am open to any suggestions to this deck to make it better. Also I am not sure what to side board right now so I am also open to suggestions about that as well.
4 Pack Rat
4 Typhoid Rats
4 Burglar Rat
4 Liliana's Caress
4 Shrieking Affliction
4 Waste Not
20 Swamp
Instant
4 Dark Ritual
4 Tragic Slip
4 Syphon Mind
4 Arterial Flow
General
This Deck is primarily geared towards multiplayer games with about 5 players as that is what I play most of with my friends. It has some interesting results as far as the discard goes, producing 2/2 black zombies at an astounding rate while fueling card draw and giving black mana to spend those with all those cards you're drawing.
There are several ideal early rounds but this is one of the possibilities I have encountered many times that is quite effective.
T1 - Swamp > Dark Ritual > Shrieking Affliction + Waste Not
T2 - Swamp > Burglar Rat = Opponents discard creating black mana, 2/2 zombies, or card draw. With luck, enough discard can generate card draw and mana to help you play Liliana's Caress.
T3 - Swamp > Arterial Flow = More of the same as above except more dramatic, this could generate enough manna to play Syphon Mind several times and then keep looping discard effects until opponent are out of cards and then any remaining mana should be spent on Shrieking Affliction and more rats to dominate the board state.
T4 - After a round of Shrieking Affliction effects, most players will be hurting and not have much of a board state, so swing away to your hearts desire.
If none of this happens then its always a safe bet to swing with lots of pack rats if you just cant get the board together or you opponents are breaking your enchantments at good speed.
I am open to any suggestions to this deck to make it better. Also I am not sure what to side board right now so I am also open to suggestions about that as well.