This is a deck that I came up with when BFZ was spoiled, inspired by the old "Rareless And Careless" articles that used to come up now and then on the mothership. It's a simple Devoid Aggro deck based on efficient creatures and colourless synergies:
A concept like this just screams out for Molten Nursery for more synergies. Get rid of the Despoiler since you're not going to be hitting 6 lands frequently enough with only 22 lands in the deck.
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A concept like this just screams out for Molten Nursery for more synergies. Get rid of the Despoiler since you're not going to be hitting 6 lands frequently enough with only 22 lands in the deck.
So -2 Despoiler for +2 Nursery? Perhaps -2 Skimmer for another +2 Nursery as well?
Actually, and I'm being serious with this suggestion, take a look at the Eldrazi Assault intro deck. I've been playing around with it on the casual side of life, and it absolutely stomps the G/R Landfall-based intro deck.
The Dominator Drones are one of the stronger plays with Molten Nursery and Nettle Drone active on the field, so I'd suggest -1 Sludge Crawler, -1 Dominator Drone, -1 Silent Skimmer for +3 Molten Nursery. I've found that -1 Touch of the Void, -1 Complete Disregard for +2 Transgress the Mind has been a good thing to have since it has synergies with the Sentinel, the Nursery, and Nettle Drone, and it exiles things for any Processor creatures.
I want to try Endless One in place of the Sludge Crawlers since I'm not using as many exile-based effects. I also put in Tomb of the Spirit Dragon for some life gain to keep the pain going.
I'll post a list once I have things more or less where I want them.
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Keep in mind that Molten Nursery is a 3 mana enchantment that has no immediate effect, it definitely slows your assault down. If you had more tokens then it would be powerful, but I'd say it's at least a good sideboard option against control/slow mid-range decks.
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Modern (Semi-retired)- RBudget GoblinsR WBudget Death and TaxesW
Keep in mind that Molten Nursery is a 3 mana enchantment that has no immediate effect, it definitely slows your assault down. If you had more tokens then it would be powerful, but I'd say it's at least a good sideboard option against control/slow mid-range decks.
That's the main reason I didn't include it in the initial list. It seems likeit just doesn't help the game plan as much as another creature would.
Also, tokens are irrelevant because it triggers on casting a colourless spell, not when a creature ETBs.
This entire set screams fun for the kitchen table. I mean, colorless mana ramp with eldrazi friends is fun as well, with Bane of Bala Ged playing mini annihilator thingamabob.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
My overall impression of it was that it seems pretty janky, it doesn't pack answers for anything that you actually want to answer a lot of the time, and the creatures don't seem to do anything fast enough. Maybe it's because some of the decks I was playing against were much more expensive, but it just consistently did poorly. Make of this what you will.
4 Evolving Wilds
9 Swamp
9 Mountain
Creatures:
4 Sludge Crawler
4 Forerunner Of Slaughter
4 Kozilek's Sentinel
4 Dominator Drone
4 Nettle Drone
4 Vile Aggregate
4 Silent Skimmer
2 Ulamog's Despoiler
4 Touch Of The Void
4 Complete Disregard
Thoughts and CC&C would be appreciated.
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So -2 Despoiler for +2 Nursery? Perhaps -2 Skimmer for another +2 Nursery as well?
The Dominator Drones are one of the stronger plays with Molten Nursery and Nettle Drone active on the field, so I'd suggest -1 Sludge Crawler, -1 Dominator Drone, -1 Silent Skimmer for +3 Molten Nursery. I've found that -1 Touch of the Void, -1 Complete Disregard for +2 Transgress the Mind has been a good thing to have since it has synergies with the Sentinel, the Nursery, and Nettle Drone, and it exiles things for any Processor creatures.
I want to try Endless One in place of the Sludge Crawlers since I'm not using as many exile-based effects. I also put in Tomb of the Spirit Dragon for some life gain to keep the pain going.
I'll post a list once I have things more or less where I want them.
The world is on fire
and you are here to stay and burn with me.
Standard-
Modern (Semi-retired)-
RBudget GoblinsR
WBudget Death and TaxesW
EDH-
RWBAlesha, Who Smiles At DeathRWB
GGGFreyalise, Llanowar's FuryGGG
UBW$100 Sharuum the HegemonUBW
That's the main reason I didn't include it in the initial list. It seems likeit just doesn't help the game plan as much as another creature would.
Also, tokens are irrelevant because it triggers on casting a colourless spell, not when a creature ETBs.
Standard-
Modern (Semi-retired)-
RBudget GoblinsR
WBudget Death and TaxesW
EDH-
RWBAlesha, Who Smiles At DeathRWB
GGGFreyalise, Llanowar's FuryGGG
UBW$100 Sharuum the HegemonUBW
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
My overall impression of it was that it seems pretty janky, it doesn't pack answers for anything that you actually want to answer a lot of the time, and the creatures don't seem to do anything fast enough. Maybe it's because some of the decks I was playing against were much more expensive, but it just consistently did poorly. Make of this what you will.
I'm considering splashing into blue for Herald of Kozilek and maybe Ruination Guide. Blue also opens up other options like Brutal Expulsion and even Reality Shift for more exiling goodness.
A blue splash does strain the manabase significantly, however, pushing this beyond a strictly budget build.
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