I have not posted a weirdo deck in here in a while, and I really was not testing anything for Modern, but this deck sort of happened-
I got hit with the really bad H1N1 that has been going around a few weeks ago, and even though I was running a fever and doped up on cold meds, I apparently was posting too. A few days after the worst of it had gone I went to a deck brewing thread that I sometimes contribute to and find a post I had made about a deck I created with no knowledge of any of it. In my fever state I even bought to Vengevines for the deck on MTGO and played several games with the deck, and none of it was all that familiar. Eventually I started to piece together my reasoning and recall some of the games, but it was really weird for me.
Anyway...I tweaked the deck I had built a bit here and there, have done a lot of testing since, and got some advice from another brewer and this is the resulting base deck:
The basic idea is pretty clear- you want to dump stuff in the yard and get it back. You win with fast beats from Vine and inevitability of returning your critters.
There is much more for me to say about the deck and the choices I made to get here and what cards and dismissed, but I will let this sit a bit while people look at it.
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Eventually I wanted to try something that was even more focused on creature inevitability, though some utility is lost. This is just the basic deck except I swapped Grim Lavamancer and added 4x Glitterfang. It is a bit more reliable when it comes recurring my critters and getting them into the grave at the expense of the utility and backup game that the others provide. Not sure which I like the best.
So clearly this deck was seen as really bad by everyone, and I can't blame you as it looks a bit lame at first glance, but I still think it has potential, and as evidence I point to MTGO. Scroll down to the 3-1 decks and you will find one by a person who does by DrPringles that looks strikingly like my list. Now, I am by no means accusing this person (also a Dr.- that's weird) of copying my deck. To my knowledge I have not played against them nor have I seen them as watcher in any of my games, this is just a coinceidence.
This Doctor of delicious potato crisps, however, has made some different choices...some of which look really good. I am figuratively kicking myself over not thinking of Fauna Shaman...what a moron. I had thought about birds (as well as Sylvan Caryatid) in the deck, and had played around with Gravecrawler too a bit, but I think I will add them back and try out these cards in my list.
Stockpile and Gravecrawler are eachother's biggest friends. However, I think you need more Zombies to make it really shine. Myself I am a big fan of Rotting Rats.
Honestly, the Zombie token bit is the least interesting part to me. It is cool, but what I really want is the card draw to dig out of bad hands.
This deck is basically the dredgevine deck, you can find the primer in the modern deck creation subforum.
The dredgevine deck cares about dredging. All I care about CA from getting my creatures back from the grave. I don't have any dredge cards in the deck.
I got hit with the really bad H1N1 that has been going around a few weeks ago, and even though I was running a fever and doped up on cold meds, I apparently was posting too. A few days after the worst of it had gone I went to a deck brewing thread that I sometimes contribute to and find a post I had made about a deck I created with no knowledge of any of it. In my fever state I even bought to Vengevines for the deck on MTGO and played several games with the deck, and none of it was all that familiar. Eventually I started to piece together my reasoning and recall some of the games, but it was really weird for me.
3 Flamekin Harbinger
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Goblin Guide
4 Bloodghast
3 Dark Confidant
4 Vengevine
2 Mindlash Sliver
Non-Creature Spells 14
3 Grisly Salvage
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Darkblast
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Faithless Looting
4 Arid Mesa
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
2 Copperline Gorge
4 Blood Crypt
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Stomping Ground
2 Mountain
1 Swamp
3 Dismember
3 Extirpate
2 Ground Seal
4 Thoughtseize
3 Relic of Progenitus
The basic idea is pretty clear- you want to dump stuff in the yard and get it back. You win with fast beats from Vine and inevitability of returning your critters.
There is much more for me to say about the deck and the choices I made to get here and what cards and dismissed, but I will let this sit a bit while people look at it.
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Eventually I wanted to try something that was even more focused on creature inevitability, though some utility is lost. This is just the basic deck except I swapped Grim Lavamancer and added 4x Glitterfang. It is a bit more reliable when it comes recurring my critters and getting them into the grave at the expense of the utility and backup game that the others provide. Not sure which I like the best.
3 Flamekin Harbinger
4 Glitterfang
4 Goblin Guide
4 Bloodghast
3 Dark Confidant
4 Vengevine
2 Mindlash Sliver
Non-Creature Spells 14
3 Grisly Salvage
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Darkblast
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Faithless Looting
4 Arid Mesa
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
2 Copperline Gorge
4 Blood Crypt
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Stomping Ground
2 Mountain
1 Swamp
3 Dismember
3 Extirpate
2 Ground Seal
4 Thoughtseize
3 Relic of Progenitus
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This Doctor of delicious potato crisps, however, has made some different choices...some of which look really good. I am figuratively kicking myself over not thinking of Fauna Shaman...what a moron. I had thought about birds (as well as Sylvan Caryatid) in the deck, and had played around with Gravecrawler too a bit, but I think I will add them back and try out these cards in my list.
2 Fauna Shaman
4 Birds of Paradise
2 Goblin Guide
4 Gravecrawler
4 Bloodghast
3 Lotleth Troll
4 Vengevine
2 Grim Lavamancer
Non-Creature Spells 14
4 Grisly Salvage
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Faithless Looting
3 Arid Mesa
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
2 Copperline Gorge
4 Blood Crypt
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Stomping Ground
2 Mountain
1 Swamp
3 Dismember
3 Extirpate
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Thoughtseize
3 Engineered Explosives
Reprint Opt for Modern!!
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Reprint Opt for Modern!!
FREE DIG THOROUGH TIME!
PLAY MORE ROUGE DECKS!
Reprint Opt for Modern!!
FREE DIG THOROUGH TIME!
PLAY MORE ROUGE DECKS!
Reprint Opt for Modern!!
FREE DIG THOROUGH TIME!
PLAY MORE ROUGE DECKS!