I play a Maga, Traitor to Mortals deck. A resolved Bloodchief Ascension or Wound Reflection makes me the #1 target on the board instantly. People just absolutely crap themselves at a first turn Bloodchief and most of the group knows how well I can abuse Wound Reflection.
With all the big mana, lifegain and 2 Plainswalkers you should try out Death Cloud. Darksteel Pendant and Garrison aren't very impressive but Forge I really like.
I never used Death Cloud because for some reason I always thought it made you sacrifice artifacts too. Once I get a crucible I will try it out. Thanks!
Read the Runes (Fills your graveyard for Patriarch's Bidding/Oversold Cemetary/Balthor, plus it's just good at digging for answers or threats)
Also, Darksteel Ingot is strictly better than Obelisk of Grixis.
I really like Balthor the Defiled as a recursion engine don't know why I forgot about him. Didn't know about Noxious Ghoul or Read the Runes. If I ever get either I will throw them in.
I meant to have Darksteel Ingot in the deck. Guess I forgot to put it there. I am noticing that the most important part of playing a Thraximundar deck is getting him out early before other people can build up.
I would recommend Hell's Caretaker with possibly Thornbite Staff. With a creature in your graveyard and another in play you can sac one to bring the other one back, then repeat over and over to pump Thraximundar up infinitely.
That's a pretty neat little combo, I might just find room for it in the deck somewhere.
Greetings everyone, this is my first post on these boards as well as my first EDH deck. I am currently at 109 cards and need help reducing the deck. Please note that I know the lands I use are generally not the best but I haven't really felt like spending $50 on shock, pain and the Lorowyn signet lands quite yet. Any other part of the deck that you can critique and offer advice is welcomely received.
Sanguine Bond usually doesn't generate the same level of hate, unless I have Necropotence and Eternity Vessel out anyways. Suddenly turning into a mono-black Niv-Mizzet deck is always funny.
I never used Death Cloud because for some reason I always thought it made you sacrifice artifacts too. Once I get a crucible I will try it out. Thanks!
I didn't know about Necrologia though. I actually really like the idea of a one shot Necropotence. Definitly going to find a spot for it.
I also want to find room for Darksteel Pendant, Darksteel Forge, maybe Darksteel Garrison and also Crucible of Worlds.
1 Maga, traitor to Mortals
Mass creature removal (9)
1 Bane of the living
1 Damnation
1 Decree of pain
1 Kagemaro, first to suffer
1 Mutilate
1 Nevinyrral's Disk
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Plague wind
1 Spreading plague
Minor creature removal (4)
1 Diabolic edict
1 Fleshbag marauder
1 Innocent blood
1 Sudden Death
Tutors (7)
1 Beseech the queen
1 Diabolic tutor
1 Demonic tutor
1 Liliana vess
1 Insidious dreams
1 Planar portal
1 Vampiric tutor
Card draw (9)
1 Ambition's cost
1 Mind's eye
1 Necropotence
1 Night's Whisper
1 Phyrexian arena
1 Promise of power
1 Sign in blood
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Syphon mind
1 Bubbling muck
1 Doubling cube
1 Expedition map
1 Extraplanar lens
1 Gauntlet of power
1 Gilded lotus
1 Journeyer's kite
1 Magus of the coffers
1 Sculpting steel
1 Sol ring
Utility (9)
1 Beacon of Unrest
1 Eternity vessel
1 Helldozer
1 Ill-gotten gains
1 Imp's mischief
1 Loxodon warhammer
1 Mind sludge
1 Myojin of night's reach
1 Sudden spoiling
Game winners (14)
1 Blood Tribute
1 Consume spirit
1 Crypt rats
1 Drain life
1 Mindslaver
1 Mirari
1 Profane command
1 Rite of consumption
1 Sadistic sacrament
1 Sanguine bond
1 Sorin Markov
1 Temporal extortion
1 Wound reflection
1 Yawgmoth's will
1 Boseiju, who shelters all
1 Cabal coffers
1 Terrain generator
1 Thawing glaciers
1 Urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
1 Vesuva
31 Swamps
The following is some of the deck's synergy:
Sanguine bond: Loxodon warhammer + Maga/Crypt rats; Eternity vessel + Necropotence (its almost like I'm playing a Nivmizzet deck) + Terrain generator / Thawing glaciers
Wound Reflection: Sorin Markov (his -3 will gib any player with 20 or more health); All of the lose half your life rounded up spells.
There is more synergy in the deck but most of it is pretty obvious.
All constructive criticism is welcome.
I really like Balthor the Defiled as a recursion engine don't know why I forgot about him. Didn't know about Noxious Ghoul or Read the Runes. If I ever get either I will throw them in.
I meant to have Darksteel Ingot in the deck. Guess I forgot to put it there. I am noticing that the most important part of playing a Thraximundar deck is getting him out early before other people can build up.
That's a pretty neat little combo, I might just find room for it in the deck somewhere.
1 Thraximundar
Creatures
1 Coffin Queen
1 Corpse Harvester
1 Death Baron
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Frightshroud Courier
1 Gempalm Polluter
1 Helldozer
1 Hell's Caretaker
1 Jhessian Zombies
1 Lord of the Undead
1 Nightscape Familiar
1 Noxious Ghoul
1 Soulless One
1 Twisted Abomination
1 Undead Warchief
1 Vengeful Dead
1 Withered Wretch
1 Zombie Master
1 Zombie Trailblazer
Recursion
1 Beacon of Unrest
1 Dread Return
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 Patriarch's Bidding
1 Torrent of Souls
Board Control
1 Barter in Blood
1 Call to the Grave
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Cruel Ultimatum
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Grave Pact
1 Innocent Blood
1 Shattering Spree
1 Slave of Bolas
1 Sudden Spoiling
1 Void
1 Beseech the Queen
1 Demonic Collusion
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Tutor
1 Liliana Vess
1 Vampiric Tutor
Mana Acceleration
1 Coalition Relic
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Obelisk of Grixis
1 Sol Ring
Card Draw
1 Ancestral Vision
1 Mind's Eye
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Rush of Knowledge
1 Syphon Mind
1 Wheel of Fate
Various Utility
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Loxodon Warhammer
1 Gratuitous Violence
1 Mask of Riddles
1 Pain Magnification
1 Rage Reflection
1 Savage Beating
1 Thornbite Staff
1 Unscythe, Killer of Kings
1 Whispersilk Cloak
Lands
1 Blood Crypt
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Darkwater Catacombs
1 Faerie Conclave
1 Frost Marsh
1 Grixis Panorama
1 Meteor Crater
1 Mirrodin's Core
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
1 Shadowblood Ridge
1 Shivan Reef
1 Spawning Pool
1 Sulfurous Springs
1 Tainted Isle
1 Tainted Peak
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Tresserhorn Sinks
1 Underground River
1 Unholy Grotto
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Urborg Volcano
1 Vivid Crag
1 Vivid Creek
1 Vivid Marsh
6 Swamp
3 Island
3 Mountain