It's been at least a couple of years since we had Living Death in our cube and I recently threw it in as another way to boost reanimator. But something funny happened that I did not intend... a BR control deck came together. Sneak Attack along with some nasty R/B etb guys were the main features of the deck along with Wheel, Damnation and Living Death (no Toxic Deluge unfortunately). Anyway, the deck had me thinking about adding a bit more support as I really don't remember the last time BR was drafted as a control'ish deck and I do enjoy a bit of diversity.
Are people still running Olivia? She looks like she would be great in control'ish Rakdos decks espcially ones with some artifact mana. What have people's experiences been with her lately?
@ hardb0dy: we still run her & she's a house. i dont think i've ever heard of a single cube game where whoever controlled olivia lost if they got to untap
We play the occasional BR control deck. It's a great deck. But it doesn't comprise a large enough percentage of the BR decks we play to dedicate a gold card slot to it.
I'm starting to think about moving hybrid cards to coloured slots in order to open more slots in gold, since I find gold cards are what force the interesting decks. Given that I'm moving cackler and redcap out of gold, what would be the next 2 cards in RB for a 5 slot guild (excluding dual/shock)?
I have played with the played Vampire a couple of times. We have moved our hybrids to get a little more space. I still like Spike Jester, Aristocrat and Dreadbore more. She would be my 4th as it is the type of card to get people to build grixis and jund control decks.
Someone in my playgroup has pulled the 'Draft every jund gold card'.dec a couple of times and it has been very good. Huntmaster, Bloodbraid, Pulse, Deathrite, lotleth troll, Dreadbore, Oliva etc. Fill it out with green ramp/fixing and removal from black and red and it is a serious deck.
That said I think control Rakdos likes dreadbore more and the Aristocrat is still 90% as good in that deck so.....
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It's been years since I last saw that artwork, but right now I thought the very same thing.
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Are people still running Olivia? She looks like she would be great in control'ish Rakdos decks espcially ones with some artifact mana. What have people's experiences been with her lately?
Also, this thread made me LOL
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=484979
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Someone in my playgroup has pulled the 'Draft every jund gold card'.dec a couple of times and it has been very good. Huntmaster, Bloodbraid, Pulse, Deathrite, lotleth troll, Dreadbore, Oliva etc. Fill it out with green ramp/fixing and removal from black and red and it is a serious deck.
That said I think control Rakdos likes dreadbore more and the Aristocrat is still 90% as good in that deck so.....
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