Interestingly had two main deck Dead//Gone and only one Beast Within.
Third Archfiend was present in every list from this weekend.
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I'm not sure I follow why would you waste a cascade on deadgone? are you sure they wrote the cards down right? Sideboard of chalice of the void??? that doesn't seem to follow living end's basic fundamentals.....
I remember a time playing the deck when I had both fulminator mage and avalanche riders in the deck at the same time. designating a few spots to riders for extra land destruction isn't bad.
though you need to be on landcycling creatures to ensure you get to 4/5 mana consistently with this plan.
however we have Faultgrinder which is 1 less mana than memorial to war plus your not losing a land. why bother with memorial when we have grinder?
P.S. grand warlord DOES seem good. Are there any x casting cost token spells in green or red?
P.p.s samut has double strike.... Seems good. Time to brew!
Samut, Voice of Dissent would be interesting, its a better curve. though i've been known to run some and in the casting costs myself. Also with Samut he hastes arbor elf which can have a serious impact on ramp. Otherwise I think everyone has been on surrak, the hunt caller and xenagos, god of revels for haste, and even then they only haste the wincons.
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spellbreaker behemoth is a 1 of in my sideboard. he doesn't stay around for long. Usually a path eats him. typically just need it for forcing through a primeval titan. Otherwise I use 2 akroma, angel of fury for those counter spell match ups.
I see where your going with the mire boa, but also the concern for hexproof makes sense as well.
with those concerns what about Silhana Ledgewalker?
with ledgewalker your getting evasion and hexproof in one creature. plus same amount of devotion.
I've have a playset of Dryad Sophisticate i haven't used since legacy, used to carry sword of fire and ice for me in legacy.
hey guys, I haven't used my valakut deck in probably a year now. gunna update it and get back into it, but I saw a guy using chandra, torch of defiance, is that a mainboard or sideboard addition?
actually with the lists like that one, Dire Fleet Daredevil has been doing good things for me. (running them in Burning-Tree Emissary spot)
trading devotion for a first strike and spell stealing.
for it might work with a living end type strategy. she turns all those cyclers into zombies. if the tokens don't get the job done, then you living end the field. Or maybe sidisi could be relevant vice versa, living end is compromised and you dump the deck to make the tokens.
Not without a lot of dredge creatures. Sidisi only counts creatures that go to your graveyard from your library.
i wasn't being clear I know cycling doesn't trigger the zombies in sidisi's ability.
my point i wanted to make is sidisi, brood tyrant can turn a deck into zombies.
however if the shell doesn't have graveyard interactions, then your just milling bodies that you won't recoup later. Some decks like living end could get use out of the milled creatures, shells like counters company which i was originally using Sidisi for spamming bodies onto the board was a far stretch to recover milled creatures for there original purpose.
Dying to bolt is an issue especially fir a 4-mana creature and getting 1x-zombie a turn isn't very exciting.
It is pretty similar to the more splashable Master of the Wild Hunt which is probably better in a deck not built around graveyard synergies.
Whisperwood Elemental is better than both though as a value generating creature that makes tokens and clogs the board.
At a higher mana cost there is Grave Titan which is the best of its kind of board-generating creatures.
Whisperwood Elemental that does accomplish the same goal in similar way. turning the deck into a swarm of bodies. grave titan while the best option is too high of casting cost for the decks I've used Sidisi in so far. Whisperwood is on the edge as well even at 5.
for it might work with a living end type strategy. she turns all those cyclers into zombies. if the tokens don't get the job done, then you living end the field. Or maybe sidisi could be relevant vice versa, living end is compromised and you dump the deck to make the tokens.
i know it seems that way, but for 4 mana it makes 1 to 4 bodies, with ability to make more on the attack step.
building around Sidisi unburial rites would be kind of secondary than a primary goal. Something to do with all the creatures Sidisi mills to make zombie tokens.
enbalm and eternalize are some what underwhelming. honored hydra is the strongest embalm that seems viable so far.
I put two of them into a Counters Company and was impressed by how it flooded the board with zombies allowwing me to close the game in two swings. downside was i lost the combo creatures but it didn't matter as I had 6 2/2 zombies going wide and killing my opponent.
Besides Counters Company deck splashing , is there any other deck time from moderns past that could be turned into zombie tokens by sidisi but still function out of the graveyard?
So far it seems like to make Sidisi good you wanna be running a shell that has 25 or more creatures in it for Sidisi to turn into zombies.
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I'm not sure I follow why would you waste a cascade on dead gone? are you sure they wrote the cards down right? Sideboard of chalice of the void??? that doesn't seem to follow living end's basic fundamentals.....
though you need to be on landcycling creatures to ensure you get to 4/5 mana consistently with this plan.
however we have Faultgrinder which is 1 less mana than memorial to war plus your not losing a land. why bother with memorial when we have grinder?
sure its red green, but that does enable a different kind of devotion strategy. a devotion to spamming attackers.
Samut, Voice of Dissent would be interesting, its a better curve. though i've been known to run some and in the casting costs myself. Also with Samut he hastes arbor elf which can have a serious impact on ramp. Otherwise I think everyone has been on surrak, the hunt caller and xenagos, god of revels for haste, and even then they only haste the wincons.
@gruul_me_harder
spellbreaker behemoth is a 1 of in my sideboard. he doesn't stay around for long. Usually a path eats him. typically just need it for forcing through a primeval titan. Otherwise I use 2 akroma, angel of fury for those counter spell match ups.
he's in 3 extra colors too, kind of makes it complicated.
with those concerns what about Silhana Ledgewalker?
with ledgewalker your getting evasion and hexproof in one creature. plus same amount of devotion.
I've have a playset of Dryad Sophisticate i haven't used since legacy, used to carry sword of fire and ice for me in legacy.
actually with the lists like that one, Dire Fleet Daredevil has been doing good things for me. (running them in Burning-Tree Emissary spot)
trading devotion for a first strike and spell stealing.
i wasn't being clear I know cycling doesn't trigger the zombies in sidisi's ability.
my point i wanted to make is sidisi, brood tyrant can turn a deck into zombies.
however if the shell doesn't have graveyard interactions, then your just milling bodies that you won't recoup later. Some decks like living end could get use out of the milled creatures, shells like counters company which i was originally using Sidisi for spamming bodies onto the board was a far stretch to recover milled creatures for there original purpose.
Whisperwood Elemental that does accomplish the same goal in similar way. turning the deck into a swarm of bodies. grave titan while the best option is too high of casting cost for the decks I've used Sidisi in so far. Whisperwood is on the edge as well even at 5.
for it might work with a living end type strategy. she turns all those cyclers into zombies. if the tokens don't get the job done, then you living end the field. Or maybe sidisi could be relevant vice versa, living end is compromised and you dump the deck to make the tokens.
building around Sidisi unburial rites would be kind of secondary than a primary goal. Something to do with all the creatures Sidisi mills to make zombie tokens.
enbalm and eternalize are some what underwhelming. honored hydra is the strongest embalm that seems viable so far.
Has Sidisi, Brood Tyrant ever been viable in modern?
I put two of them into a Counters Company and was impressed by how it flooded the board with zombies allowwing me to close the game in two swings. downside was i lost the combo creatures but it didn't matter as I had 6 2/2 zombies going wide and killing my opponent.
Besides Counters Company deck splashing , is there any other deck time from moderns past that could be turned into zombie tokens by sidisi but still function out of the graveyard?
So far it seems like to make Sidisi good you wanna be running a shell that has 25 or more creatures in it for Sidisi to turn into zombies.
Based on that I've had thoughts of running Haakon, Stromgald Scourge combos, or running big creatures and making unburial rites combos.