How has Millikin and Deranged Assistant been working out for you? They were in my very first version of Sidisi and they were incredibly lackluster. I scrapped most everything from that first version that was too slow or too lackluster given the incredible amount of cards that are more efficient and amazing for the deck. They both tap for colorless but a card like Ramunap Excavator can let you play any land from your graveyard, thus potentially giving you access to any color. It also guarantees a landfall trigger every turn.
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Nulltread just led to awkward plays and I got my hands on what I think is a better option in the Ruinator. Comes from the graveyard, big and evasive while being low CMC.
Nissa may draw me less cards but she doesn't feed my opponents like Edric did.
Advanced Stitchwing didn't impress it aside from my need for more draw; Sylvan Library goes in to correct that.
Breeding Pool is a Forest to make it easy to fetch from land ramp and is a Island for Wonder. The initial Shock could also be less than than the pings the Coast could accumulate.
I didn't like Dakmor Salvage's ETBT so I went with a utility land that doesn't ETBT, even if it doesn't make coloured mana. The Stronghold's utility is great, even if it is setting up Sidisi for a on-attack trigger.
Muldrotha just costed too much and did too little. I hope a Birthing Pod will help the deck out, I have a lot of Creatures that don't mind dying and there are definitely some Creatures that are better than others which is just perfect for the Pod. Plus, I got a pretty good curve for the Pod.
Muldrotha just costed too much and did too little. I hope a Birthing Pod will help the deck out, I have a lot of Creatures that don't mind dying and there are definitely some Creatures that are better than others which is just perfect for the Pod. Plus, I got a pretty good curve for the Pod.
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Not out yet, $20 USD Pre-Orders on a card that I think will be a few bucks in a month or two and I can't activate it the turn she comes down.
True, I'm testing her out virtually until she drops in price to then buy her. The reason I didn't run Birthing Pod in my own deck is because it was an artifact and not as easy to work around with in the deck. Prime Speaker Vannifar is another story. Sure, she might not work the turn she's in play, but she can have way more interactions as a creature. Plus, she triggers Sidisi and is easier to reanimate than Birthing Pod. That was my logic, at least.
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I'm putting Cobra back in, as a body and mana accelerant. I've been impressed with the Render in my Marchesa, the Black Rose deck so I'm putting it in this deck as a steady stream of card advantage.
Have you any opinions on Skaab Ruinator from playing it yet?
I just finished a game where it came into play. It was pretty good, being beefy and low to the ground. When I got Wrathed, it immediately jumped back into the ring. I am also trying to bank on a variety of ways to cheat it back into play, such as Birthing Pod or Isareth the Awakener, so it doesn't eat my entire graveyard. It sucked as I drew a Kessig Cagebreakers a turn afterwards, but by then I would have had to cast lower calibre Creatures instead of the Skaab which got in for 5 in the sky.
The Cagebreaker's potential looks so enticing but that's the problem: potential. The deck is moving more towards using my graveyard as fodder, so the times when the Cagebreakers hit my hand I don't want to cast them because the amount of wolves they would create are suboptimal. I'm trying out Scourge as it is a big, recursive, evasive body that has a minimal cost as far as I'm concerned.
Splinterfright requires Creatures in the yard and with how my deck uses that up, I cannot guarantee there'll be anything there for him. There's also annoying cases where he could be a T3 play but I don't have anything in my yard, so he just sits in my hand. Splinterfright's purpose is to get big; in other words, he's a finisher with Trample as reach. I'm putting in the Plague Belcher to give me reach, he's also part of my collection of 3 mana 5 power Creatures that I seem to be gathering.
If Splinterfright, a card that uses my graveyard and helps me mill, isn't going to help me then Oversold Cemetery wouldn't either. In its place I've put in another draw engine that can turn sideways with Grim Haruspex.
BGU [Primer] Sidisi, Brood Tyrant BGU | BG [Primer] Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG | G [Primer] Polukranos, World Eater G
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1 Skaab Ruinator
1 Nulltread Gargantuan
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
1 Sylvan Library
1 Breeding Pool
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
1 Advanced Stitchwing
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Volrath's Stronghold
Advanced Stitchwing didn't impress it aside from my need for more draw; Sylvan Library goes in to correct that.
Breeding Pool is a Forest to make it easy to fetch from land ramp and is a Island for Wonder. The initial Shock could also be less than than the pings the Coast could accumulate.
I didn't like Dakmor Salvage's ETBT so I went with a utility land that doesn't ETBT, even if it doesn't make coloured mana. The Stronghold's utility is great, even if it is setting up Sidisi for a on-attack trigger.
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
1 Birthing Pod
1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
If you're gonna add Birthing Pod why not Prime Speaker Vannifar? She's a creature which triggers Sidisi, unlike Birthing Pod.
BGU [Primer] Sidisi, Brood Tyrant BGU | BG [Primer] Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG | G [Primer] Polukranos, World Eater G
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Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
Building: Varina
True, I'm testing her out virtually until she drops in price to then buy her. The reason I didn't run Birthing Pod in my own deck is because it was an artifact and not as easy to work around with in the deck. Prime Speaker Vannifar is another story. Sure, she might not work the turn she's in play, but she can have way more interactions as a creature. Plus, she triggers Sidisi and is easier to reanimate than Birthing Pod. That was my logic, at least.
BGU [Primer] Sidisi, Brood Tyrant BGU | BG [Primer] Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG | G [Primer] Polukranos, World Eater G
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1 Lotus Cobra
1 Mindblade Render
1 Milikin
1 Deranged Assistant
I just finished a game where it came into play. It was pretty good, being beefy and low to the ground. When I got Wrathed, it immediately jumped back into the ring. I am also trying to bank on a variety of ways to cheat it back into play, such as Birthing Pod or Isareth the Awakener, so it doesn't eat my entire graveyard. It sucked as I drew a Kessig Cagebreakers a turn afterwards, but by then I would have had to cast lower calibre Creatures instead of the Skaab which got in for 5 in the sky.
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
1 Scourge of Nel Toth
1 Kessig Cagebreakers
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
1 Plague Belcher
1 Grim Haruspex
1 Splinterfright
1 Oversold Cemetery
If Splinterfright, a card that uses my graveyard and helps me mill, isn't going to help me then Oversold Cemetery wouldn't either. In its place I've put in another draw engine that can turn sideways with Grim Haruspex.
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs