Ive been running this list the passed couple days making tweaks here and there. Wildgrowth Walker is pretty insane. I can pretty consistently have him at 4/6 or 5/7 by turn 3 which also leaves me at possibly 30+ life. I have eaten opposing carnage tyrants with this thing. Enter the Unknown has been surprisingly fantastic as well. The extra ramp it provides and being able to supercharge Wildgrowth with a jadelight > enter on t3 feels amazing. Currently with how golgari is setup I feel if you aren't doing some kind of recursion you are doing it wrong. Findbroker has made for the most amazing plays be it getting back a clutch chupa or eldest reborn, or just bringing back a planeswalker. Find//Finality speaks for itself; card is amazing and in this list wildgrowth, jadelight, findbroker and izoni all easily outgrow an survive the board sweep. Lastly, I have been trying Liliana, the Necromancer out the last day or so and this card puts in a ton of work against certain matchups. Don't sleep on the +1 and being able to shock your opponent every turn for free when the board is all mucked up. And the -1 is just great with getting extra value back. This was a 3rd Findbroker but I think moving forward I will keep using Lili. Will update the sideboard later, its pretty basic at this point. What you guys think?
I've been running a configuration of 3 confidant, 3 noble, 4 goyfs, 2 ooze, 2 rhino, 4 lingering souls, 2 bitterblossom. Then 1 vault of archangel and 1 sorin solemn visitor for some lifelink and have been doing pretty well last 3 weeks. 4-1 lost to eldrazi tron, 4-1 lost to gw tron, 4-1 lost to esper control/griselghostdad goryos.
So this is probably way left field but has anyone tinkered with the idea of running like a 2 of Sword light/shadow or any other sword for that matter? light/shadow seems pretty strong against most current decks if they don't find an answer for it. provides protection from a lot of the current removeal; push, path, terminate, etc. can bring back bob, flayer, goyf, and provide us with a bit of life gain. Extra edge in the super grindy matchups and makes all of our threats larger for a more speedy clock. think about hitting opponent with a sworded flayer. search top 3, gain 3 life, bring back a threat from the yard. or maybe fire/ice, ping 2 then ponder basically.
You guys think it would be too slow or just too much current artifact hate?
Pooface : sorry i ment tezz gambit is good synergy with sphere and lili. Which i think gambit is a good draw spell for us. Also i think memoricide is MD material givin the current decks being played. There is almost always a bullet you can hit with it except maybe against red deck.
Just wondering why no one has included Sphere of the Suns in their list? its the only excel black has and is nice synergy with Tezzeret's Gambit and Liliana of the Veil Also I see almost no mention of Memoricide. I remember a time when Cranial Extraction ruled a format. It allows you to deal with threats that black can not normally deal with before they ever have board presence.
Just looking for a little critique on this list. I like more of a control play-style so I went with fewer larger beats. I don't know if Lashwrithe has a place in this build but seemed to work out pretty good when play testing. I'm still searching for some "rattle-snake" type spells but I'm pretty unfamiliar with anything passed time spiral block till now as I just started getting into it again.
4 Wildgrowth Walker
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Merfolk Branchwalker
3 Ravenous Chupacabra
4 Jadelight Ranger
1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
2 Golgari Findbroker
1 The Eldest Reborn
Land
7 Forest
6 Swamp
2 Field of Ruin
4 Woodland Cemetery
4 Overgrown Tomb
2 Vraska's Contempt
3 Assassin's Trophy
Sorcery
4 Enter the Unknown
3 Find // Finality
Planeswalker
2 Vraska, Relic Seeker
1 Liliana, the Necromancer
You guys think it would be too slow or just too much current artifact hate?
4 Solemn Simulacrum
3 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Thoughtseize
3 Geth's Verdict
3 Phyrexian Arena
3 Go for the Throat
2 Dismember
3 Lashwrithe
2 Oblivion Stone
3 Corrupt
20 Swamp
3 Damnation
3 Cranial Extraction
2 Surgical Extraction
3 Pithing Needle
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Spellskite