I loved this deck back in the day, so I thought I would try to revive it for my first try at vintage deckbuilding. Basicly you dump your deck to your graveyard with hermit Druid then reanimate the ghoul exiling everything except anger and swinging with a huge trampler on turn 2.
Also, cut the Forest from your deck. This way you drop and active the Hermit Druid, flip your entire library into your graveyard, three Narcomoebas come into play in the process. Sac them to flashback Dread Return targeting the Suture Ghoul, who removes Lord of Extinction from the game and becomes, most likely, a 45/45+. Once he hits play, Dragon Breath comes into play from the graveyard enchanting the Sutured Ghoul, who you now swing with as a Trampling X+1/X.
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I will second Solaran X. Also You might want to consider some of the free spells this format has to offer. I would include a singleton Bridge from Below, with that you can have Cabal Therapy, sac'ing the Narcs to it. This helps with getting those pesky counterspells out of your opponents hand. Also with this format, Force of Will is everywhere. Its not in every deck but it is something that you are going to face. I would add in some control items. Some that I would suggest are: Force, Daze, Spell Pierce
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Dredge players don't play MtG, we play Dredge.
Decks:
EDH: I abide by no ban list for EDH. RUGIntet, the Land CrusherRUG
Standard: Shockland, shockland, mythic spell I win
Legacy: WUBRGDredgeWUBRG
Extended: UBGDredgeUBG (R.I.P July 1st 2010)
I loved this deck also. I can't wait to see what you come up with. You need to be able to search up and get hermit druid pronto.
Fauna Shaman gives you a way to get the druid and also ditch either Lord of Extinction if he is in your hand and/or Anger to give your druid haste when you play him.
Here is a thread over on Hermit Druid over on TMD, notably the use of Zenith to get a Hermit down more reliably, fast. But it also includes some alternative kills and other options.
I would strongly recommend running a disruption/protection package that involves Cabal Therapy and/or Counters (Force, Misdirection and maybe Misstep or Daze). I think that the Therapy is mandatory in this environment. See Solran's comments above.
It's almost the Cephalid breakfast combo, is use one of its combo kills either Karmic Guide, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Sky Hussar or The Mimeoplasm, Murderous Recap, and Lord of Extinction. I think Anger is a good idea if you can get him in the bin to give your Hermit Druid haste. The only thing Future Ghoul has going is you can run Tarmogoyf as a back up plan. The only prolem with this deck is everybody has graveyard hate with Dredge.
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Well, for starters you don't actually have any mountains in this deck so anger doesn't do anything (aside from be a 2/2 hasty dork for 4 mana). I would recommend just using Dragon Breath instead.
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The devil's in the detail. BSkithiryx, the Blight DragonB GAzusa, Lost but SeekingG
deck dies to graveyard and creature hate. the combo is a little finiky, its almost like oath or dredge, so its not con sidered viable by most ppl. it can win matches, but post board its an uphill battle, just like with dredge.
There was a list on starcity with a transformational sideboard, but I didn't like that so I'm just running the basic deck and replacing Sutured Ghoul and Dragon's Breath with The Mimeoplasm and Maga, Traitor to Mortals.
4 hermit Druid
3 suttered ghoul
1 anger
4 krosan couldscraper
3 phyrexian dreadnaught
1 black lotus
1 mox emerald
1 mox sapphire
1 mox jet
1 mox ruby
1 mox pearl
1 sol ring
1 mana vault
1 mana crypt
1 time vault
3 voltaic key
4 life//death
1 ancestral recall
1 timetwister
1 time walk
1 brainstorm
1 Forrest
4 city of brass
4 bayou
4 tropical island
4 underground sea
3 bazaar of Baghdad
I'd like any opinions on the viability of this deck, it was fun as hell back in the day before Druid got banned
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Also, cut the Forest from your deck. This way you drop and active the Hermit Druid, flip your entire library into your graveyard, three Narcomoebas come into play in the process. Sac them to flashback Dread Return targeting the Suture Ghoul, who removes Lord of Extinction from the game and becomes, most likely, a 45/45+. Once he hits play, Dragon Breath comes into play from the graveyard enchanting the Sutured Ghoul, who you now swing with as a Trampling X+1/X.
Cheers,
OftD
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EDH: I abide by no ban list for EDH.
RUGIntet, the Land CrusherRUG
Standard: Shockland, shockland, mythic spell I win
Legacy: WUBRGDredgeWUBRG
Extended:
UBGDredgeUBG (R.I.P July 1st 2010)
Fauna Shaman gives you a way to get the druid and also ditch either Lord of Extinction if he is in your hand and/or Anger to give your druid haste when you play him.
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I would strongly recommend running a disruption/protection package that involves Cabal Therapy and/or Counters (Force, Misdirection and maybe Misstep or Daze). I think that the Therapy is mandatory in this environment. See Solran's comments above.
Also there are probably better options for creatures to use as your kill. Blightsteel Colossus might be one of them.
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Shuffles itself back.
Consider using a few copies of Tarmogoyf or something as an alternate wincon.
Playing:
Modern:
BWEldrazi and TaxesBW
Legacy:
WEldraziW
BSkithiryx, the Blight DragonB
GAzusa, Lost but SeekingG
Playing:
Modern:
BWEldrazi and TaxesBW
Legacy:
WEldraziW
Is it now...?
BSkithiryx, the Blight DragonB
GAzusa, Lost but SeekingG
Perhaps it will be in a few billion years.
Please use card tags - Urweak
Playing:
Modern:
BWEldrazi and TaxesBW
Legacy:
WEldraziW
The volcanic is indeed a mountain but he's not playing any so I return to my previous statement that he is not playing any mountains.
BSkithiryx, the Blight DragonB
GAzusa, Lost but SeekingG
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
Dudes:
1 Blightsteel Colosus
4 Hermit Druid
3 Narcomeba
1 The Mimeoplasm
1 Maga, Traitor to Mortals
1 Lord of Extinction
1 Bridge from Below
Spells:
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Echoing Truth
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Force of Will
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dread Return
1 Ponder
3 Cabal Therapy
3 Thoughtseize
3 Preordain
4 Green Sun's Zenith
2 Bayou
2 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island
3 Verdant Catacomb
3 Misty Rainforest
Playing:
Modern:
BWEldrazi and TaxesBW
Legacy:
WEldraziW