First of all, what I mean by super budget is that I built this list by restricting myself to the cards that I own. However, I'm not asking for suggestions within my collection, that would be pointless. I'm posting this to get suggestion on how to improve this list with cards worth less than 20$, ideally less than 10$. I'm also giving myself a set of restriction: the deck has to be mono-black, skullclamp based and not based on storm. I'm open to ditch the reanimation part. I will also list cards that I am aware should be added to this deck, but that I don't own. This is not trying to be competitive, it's casual and mostly a concept. Also, there's no sideboard yet.
I was quite limited for my reanimation target, also considering I lack ways to throw my creatures in the graveyard and how I can often get a lot of mana at the same time with rituals, I went for creatures that I can cast, reanimation being only a bonus, set up with Cabal Therapy or discarding at the end of a turn. I'm trying to run many tutors along the card draw because there's often a single card I need to keep the deck flowing depending on what I have. I use Massacre Wurm and Butcher of Malakir as 2 sweepers against creatures and duress / cabal therapy tries to handle the rest.
List of cards that should/could be on this list:
Gitaxian Probe (probably replacing the Sign in Blood)
Cabal Ritual
Lake of the Dead
Lotus Petal
Griselbrand
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
Reanimate
Exhume
Entomb
Ill-Gotten Gains
Diabolic Intent
Necropotence
Carnival of Souls
just asking before i make some suggestions, but whats your metagame like? are there others with similiar powered cards your going to play, or is it a pretty much casual vintage base with very little power?
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It's not the fall that hurts, it's the sudden stop at the bottom.
the red mage lives by the variance and dies by the variance. May the variance be with you, always.
it's casual vintage. I mostly play a slower version of this same deck which replaces the kobolds and song of the damned by more creatures and more removal and it's pretty good in the meta. I just want to play around with skullclamp and kobolds. This is mostly conceptual... like I realize that playing other colors and running tendrils is far more efficient... or ideally, playing a storm deck that doesn't rely on skullclamp.. but I see this as a puzzle, like how to build the most effecient deck that follow these arbitrary restrictions.
I like how song of the damned often allows to tutor + hardcast a bomb so I think playing only 2 reanimation spells work well since they aren't always needed. I noticed that the way this wins is by casting all 3 creatures on the same turn (turn 2, 3, 4, 5) hardcasting one of them, sometimes two.
I'm wondering if there are other bombs that would have similar board impact to Massacre Wurm and Butcher of Malakir. Sheoldred, Whispering One is the first one that comes to mind but there has to be others.
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4 Dark Ritual
4 Song of the Damned
1 Sol Ring
4 Bloodghast
12 Kobolds
4 Sign in Blood
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Beseech the Queen
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Cabal Therapy
1 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Butcher of Malakir
1 Animate Dead
1 Stitch Together
I was quite limited for my reanimation target, also considering I lack ways to throw my creatures in the graveyard and how I can often get a lot of mana at the same time with rituals, I went for creatures that I can cast, reanimation being only a bonus, set up with Cabal Therapy or discarding at the end of a turn. I'm trying to run many tutors along the card draw because there's often a single card I need to keep the deck flowing depending on what I have. I use Massacre Wurm and Butcher of Malakir as 2 sweepers against creatures and duress / cabal therapy tries to handle the rest.
List of cards that should/could be on this list:
Gitaxian Probe (probably replacing the Sign in Blood)
Cabal Ritual
Lake of the Dead
Lotus Petal
Griselbrand
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
Reanimate
Exhume
Entomb
Ill-Gotten Gains
Diabolic Intent
Necropotence
Carnival of Souls
Based on these cards, here's an optimized list
4 Dark Ritual
4 Song of the Damned
2 Cabal Ritual / Lake of the Dead
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
4 Memnite
12 Kobolds
4 Gitaxian Probe
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Duress
4 Cabal Therapy
1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
1 Exhume
1 Reanimate
The Bloodghast seems better if the deck is slower.. I'm not sure where it's at right now, I like the possible beatdown via the bloodghast though.
Not sure where to fit the rest...
Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
the red mage lives by the variance and dies by the variance. May the variance be with you, always.
I like how song of the damned often allows to tutor + hardcast a bomb so I think playing only 2 reanimation spells work well since they aren't always needed. I noticed that the way this wins is by casting all 3 creatures on the same turn (turn 2, 3, 4, 5) hardcasting one of them, sometimes two.
I'm wondering if there are other bombs that would have similar board impact to Massacre Wurm and Butcher of Malakir. Sheoldred, Whispering One is the first one that comes to mind but there has to be others.