I'm leaning towards Duress, but I was hoping you would weight in. I understand that as you run it, Pact of Negation is the best to exclude of these, but it's just something I want to do. I simply love Pact of Negation too much for when the deck goes off, even if it costs me a game here or there. Gilded Lotus is probably the last of the above that I would cut, but it has hurt me a few games simply for it's costing 5. You're thoughts?
Hey Moxnix, I was hoping for some insight into the following cards as 'maybes' in the deck:
Personal Tutor
Sign in Blood
Also, I noticed twice where you described a turn 1 win that I dont understand:
While rare turn 1 wins are possible with this deck via doomsday (as well as other less for sure ways ie Ad Nauseam since and with fewer cards than most other turn 1 combos. These hands will have the most efficient cantrips and mana sources in your deck with doomsday. LED, Lotus Petal, Dark ritual, Doomsday, land that taps for black, ponder/preordain/brainstorm. With a six like this we can go
Play petal > play land > Dark Ritual off land > LED> Doomsday
Pile
Night’s whisper
Dark Ritual
Yawgmoth’s Will
Laboratory Maniac
Pact of Negation
Pop petal( POST DOOMSDAY!) Crack Led to cantrip, BBB
Night’s Wishper Floating B
Ritual YW
LED UUU
Petal + DR BBB
Night’s whisper BUUU
Labman U
Cantrip
How are you open-handing DR and then piling it too? And then the same thing here:
So I had not pulled off a turn 1 win in over 50 games with deck recently which does not really bug me as the decks not built to try and win turn 1 it's ment to win turn 4 but I had been feeling overdue For a true god hand.. I did not get one in this particular game but it's perhaps the most insane turn 1 kill I've ever pulled off up until this point I do not think I have EVER mulled to less than 6 and pulled off a turn 1 win this game I mull to THREE. I have not lost a FFA game in some time with this deck I pitch a perfectly playable 7 because it had no ramp no tutor no cheap cantrips. It was the last hand I saw with more than 1 land I mull all the way down to a 0 land hand of LED windfall mana crypt. Wow that's about as perfect as it gets aside from led not being a land. Turn 1 top deck mana confluence YES! Now I feel great about my mulls this is by far better than any of the other hands I had so I go turn 1 windfall crack led for black for value and there it is a hand with lotus petal ponder gitaxian probe and doomsday!
Pile
LED
Nights whisper
Dark ritual
Yawgmoth's will
Lab man
Petal > ponder grab led
Led + probe grab whisper
Whisper into ritual yawg win
Led crack blue
Petal blue
Probe grabing lab man
Labman
Ponder ftw
LED in opening hand and in pile? What am I missing? It looks like Mana Crypt would work in the first example, I have no idea how the second example would have happened. Can you help me understand?
I'm wanting to move Pact of Negation back into the deck and I'm agonizing over what to remove. These are the candidates:
Duress
Pyroblast
Red Elemental Blast
Counterspell
Impulse
Gilded Lotus
I'm leaning towards Duress, but I was hoping you would weight in. I understand that as you run it, Pact of Negation is the best to exclude of these, but it's just something I want to do. I simply love Pact of Negation too much for when the deck goes off, even if it costs me a game here or there. Gilded Lotus is probably the last of the above that I would cut, but it has hurt me a few games simply for it's costing 5. You're thoughts?
Personal Tutor
Sign in Blood
Also, I noticed twice where you described a turn 1 win that I dont understand:
How are you open-handing DR and then piling it too? And then the same thing here:
LED in opening hand and in pile? What am I missing? It looks like Mana Crypt would work in the first example, I have no idea how the second example would have happened. Can you help me understand?