so, standard disclaimer about janky combos in limited... (this is probably not the best way to maximize win %)
has anyone been able to go off with this yet? I'm envisioning a mono-black deck with this, Corrupt, Death Magus staff, Bubbling Cauldron... and if we're getting into dreamland, Trading Post.
I haven't assembled it yet, but I did play against a B/W version in the pre-release where he got the engine going one game. Once he assembled it, it was basically unstoppable for my deck. However, I steamrolled him in the other two games.
Granted, that was sealed. I think sealed may actually be the more viable place for Sanguine Bond.
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Sealed, perhaps. Draft seems like you'd be stuck taking 'lifegain matters' durdle-y cards over actual playables. If you've got the good 'lifegain matters' cards (Angel of Thune, Fiendslayer Paladin), aren't you sort of already winning?
I fell into drafting a BW Auras/Lifegain deck last week, and 2-1'd with it running a Sanguine Bond. However I ended up siding the Bond out a lot (basically against any non-control deck), even in this deck that seemed ideal for it (double Blightcaster, lots of lifegain). I won't be maindecking it again unless I get the chance to try it in a mono-black deck with multiple Corrupt/Mark of the Vampire.
I played recently against someone who paired it with congregate to just fireball people our for 12 to 16. Unfortuanately for him I was blue tempo with 3-4 counters, so his combo never went off.
I ran up against a guy with the Bogbrew witch deck and sanguine blood seemed good there. He just went on the defensive with newts and cauldron, dropped bond and widened the gap in life totals. Mark of the vampire on random durdles just made it even harder to race.
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I played against it the last time I drafted on MTGO. It was in the Angelic Accord deck, and it's trash even in there. Go ahead and play it if you like, the way to draft it is to treat it as extra Angelic Accords, but don't do it if money is on the line.
You haven't lived until you've corrupted for 7 with 2 sanguine bonds in play
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This archetype is probably mostly for fun without these nuts posted above, but I think it could be well worth it just to be able to once say "Congregate for lethal." Too bad that's the only thing really missing in this iteration of the deck
I think it could be well worth it just to be able to once say "Congregate for lethal."
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I saw the top 8 draft of a 64 person sealed premier event, and the streamer was playing an incredible mono blue deck which just rolled over his first two opponents and then ran across a BG lifegain insanity deck in the finals, with triple newt, double cauldron, sanguine bond and a bunch of other random stuff. The sanguine bond deck won.
If you're going to use it, it'll be in a deck focusing on lifelink. I really can't see using it with any other deck strategy. There aren't enough "lifegain+" cards in this format, other than creatures with lifelink.
Though yes, "Congregate for lethal" is loltastic. Sadly, it's also too janky for serious play, since there aren't enough decent token generators at common in any set, let alone a core set. Though Solemn Offering seems interesting with it. It's not every day I get to pay 2W to destroy something andblast my opponent.
Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Not a mono-black deck, but instead Bond is basically combo-piece redundancy in a pretty sweet Angelic Accord deck: one Accord, Demonic Tutor, 4 Child of Nights, Cauldron, Post. We also see the main-deck Congregate which I think is overkill although it's arguable.
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M2G2 is probably my favorite, as he keeps a mono-black hand, draws a swamp and 5 white spells running, and still had another draw step or two before the Plains came in to win the game. Plus, 'Congregate for 14 and lethal'.
However, I think running congregate instead of another dude was pretty costly in M3G2. Think it's just too win-more, personally, although I suppose it could have stolen a game out of nowhere. but that didn't happen this draft.
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has anyone been able to go off with this yet? I'm envisioning a mono-black deck with this, Corrupt, Death Magus staff, Bubbling Cauldron... and if we're getting into dreamland, Trading Post.
Granted, that was sealed. I think sealed may actually be the more viable place for Sanguine Bond.
2 Brindle Boar
1 Rumbling Baloth
1 Sporemound
1 Sengir Vampire
1 Fog
1 Shrivel
1 Strionic Resonator
1 Bubbling Cauldron
2 Verdant Haven
2 Darksteel Ingot
1 Quag Sickness
2 Diabolic Tutor
1 Trading Post
1 Congregate
1 Sanguine Bond
1 Liturgy of Blood
1 Primeval Bounty
1 Corrupt
9 Swamp
He went 2-1 with it (at a strong table).
I vote no...but I'm frequently wrong, too.
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7 Plains
11 Swamp
Creatures-11
2 Child of Night
1 Corpse Hauler
2 Blood Bairn
1 Lifebane Zombie
1 Syphon Sliver
1 Accursed Spirit
1 Ajani's Chosen
1 Deathgaze Cockatrice
1 Nightwing Shade
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Quag Sickness
3 Mark of the Vampire
2 Angelic Accord
2 Sanguine Bond
1 Liturgy of Blood
3 Corrupt
I drafted that and 3-0ed an 8-4 with it.
You haven't lived until you've corrupted for 7 with 2 sanguine bonds in play
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This archetype is probably mostly for fun without these nuts posted above, but I think it could be well worth it just to be able to once say "Congregate for lethal." Too bad that's the only thing really missing in this iteration of the deck
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Though yes, "Congregate for lethal" is loltastic. Sadly, it's also too janky for serious play, since there aren't enough decent token generators at common in any set, let alone a core set. Though Solemn Offering seems interesting with it. It's not every day I get to pay 2W to destroy something and blast my opponent.
Just be forewarned
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However, I think running congregate instead of another dude was pretty costly in M3G2. Think it's just too win-more, personally, although I suppose it could have stolen a game out of nowhere. but that didn't happen this draft.