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There's a grammar error in the text as well. "Perde" is singular and should be "Perdem", the plural form, because it is referring to creatures, plural.

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Nothing quite like drawing off a land. Wouldn't you agree?

Yeah, Coliseum is great


Don't cut Crypt or Life//Death, they are among the best cards in the deck. Yes they use life, but life is just another resource for you to use. Crypt sometimes doesn't even punish you if you are lucky (I've seen a guy in my playgroup not being hit once in the entire game) and gives you an amazing speed boost that can win you the game early. And remember that due to the nature of the deck if the games goes too long we start being at disadvantage so we need to capitalize on the early stars.
Death is probably the second best reanimation spell because it isn't dead to enchantment removal. Stitch will never be online t2 for the early starts, so it is not reliable.

You could try to add some ways to gain life to the deck, but there aren't many good options. Your best bet is probably learning to manage the lifeloss with pratice.

No, you can't cast any spells or activate abilities during the resolution of a spell or ability. You have to put 2 cards back from Brainstorm before doing anything.

I tested Probe and the likes and from what I saw I don't feel they significantly speed the deck or that they are worth a slot in this kind of deck for a variety of reasons.

On the budget issue, I think Deprive and Pact are reasonable alternatives to the more expensive counters.
On the manabase, Pain lands are a very good alternative.

I agree that the third color gives you important options. We barely have good enough targets with green and dropping a color would make you run subpar choices.
Also without green or white (the other third color I would consider for its targets and answers) you lose the ability to easily get rid of hate cards.

The boost from Mana Vault can be game winning sometimes, but yeah Crypt is way better.

Speaking of Lord of the Void, the Kaalia player hit me t3 with it and stole my Jin-Gitaxias the other night. It's way more interesting to be on the side of the table with him

If I did I don't think I'd more removal in both cases. I think adding either grip or decay is fine but the 2nd should be something else.

Nature's Claim can be a decent option as well. For the second spot I would look into a extra looter or CA engine.


Yeah, Tasigur is better for the kind of thing Avvina, Welgo and some other guys are discussing in the Tasigur thread. I kind of love the concept of the deck but like this one too much right now to stop playing it.


Also, Sylvan Library reveals 3 dead cards and no shuffle effects. Do you guys aggressively draw the cards to get rid of them?
Reflecting Pool, painless 3 color land or not reliable because it can't cast spells t1?

Standard, Modern, Legacy, Vintage: No changes

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/july-14-2014-dci-banned-restricted-list-announcement-2014-07-14

His decktech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm03Dm2tD0U

Land:
4 Mutavault
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Steam Vents
1 Sulfur Falls
5 Island
1 Mountain

Non-Creature Spells:
3 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Snare
4 Remand
4 Mana Leak
2 Pillar of Flame
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Magma Jet
1 Sword of Light and Shadow

Creatures:
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Spellstutter Sprite
2 Vendilion Clique

Sideboard:
3 Stone Rain
2 Blood Moon
2 Dismember
3 Magma Spray
1 Negate
1 Dispel
2 Spellskite
1 Sword of Light and Shadow

Been a really long time since I bumped this thread. I've still been tweaking my Derevi Prison variant. I've been focusing on trying to overload the board in one early turn through Pod/Survival/Vannifar. It's been a pretty good strategy so far. Much more successful than adding a few more taxers or stax pieces. It's felt like my winrate has doubled after changing around my list.

I'm so glad I can say these things.


1. This deck is now 100% foiled that can back. Finally finally finally done. Maybe it's time to beta the duals (NO)
https://imgur.com/a/L41uY





2. I miss Kederekt Levithan. I like my reanimation targets (Maybe cut Pestilence demon, probably not) so I'm thinking he will return since he's just so good against the normal decks I play against.

-Baral, chief of compliance
-Blood crypt

+Elves of deep shadow
+Arbor elf


Needed to add more dorks. I find that opening hands with birds or deathrite work very well so throwing in two more dorks that don't just add green seem wise.
I'm having less and less issues with mana so cutting another land seems ok. Yes it's "Only" 29 but frankly the curve ends at 3 so eh
I love Baral and I really don't want to cut him but he's easily the weakest card right now. The loot is cool but is dependant on having counters and the reducing cost is cool but not really needed most of the time. I do love it with Frantic search and I can see him returning but for now he was the first thing I could think of for cuts for the elves.







Also, Fun fact. Mystic Remora is insane with Tidespout

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