Muldratha and Chulane are both "get out of hand quick" decks that will cast several cards a turn--Liesa seems like a shoe in there, particularly combined with a deck that synergizes with her effect. I want to like white Akroma but she seems a little too battlecruiser to go up against those two.
It's not a counter, but marty'rs bond, grave pact, butcher of malakir et al will make the attacker rethink it, or somehow cheated into play at instant speed can make them really regret it.
There's this notion that "casual" players just don't care about these things, aren't as financially invested as tournament grinders, and just have an anything goes attitude. In my personal experience all of those are categorically false. Almost every casual player I know are sticklers for the rules, particularly construction rules, are extremely proud of their collections, and spend way more money on the game than they ought to.
In particular, I think I'm the first sentence but actually I'm the second sentence. Perodequeso has held a mirror up to my soul and I can't look away.
It's a pretty reasonable idea, and how I figured they would work, as it's an otherwise catchall zone. It's just probably incorrect. I can't find an up to date comprehensive rules to check it so it may even be true.
also: emergence zone winding canyons
(I feel like there's an artifact I'm forgetting but it may be near the 20$ range.)
Then just... standard big threat reanimator that fits in the budget. Use maralen to tutor for answers or big threats to play on turn, then immediately sac her to any number of black sacrifice effects? Immediately sac her the first time you play her of course, or try to use her to draw out your opponents threats, eat a kill spell on her, then reanimate her right before your next turn?
I've never put two and two together with rings of brighthearth and saclands and i feel bad.
They can be kind of awkward but I do feel like these guys were missed in blue: Dreamscape Artist cast harrow every turn Patron of the Moon ramps tons if you've already ramped?
I've thought about blue/red/black, mixing some goblins and merfolk and changelings in, but the combination of being barely good enough for casual and constantly tutoring/shuffling seems terrible. It literally requires extra labor for all those terrible cards you're playing.
I really like it in my rebels and elves deck. It's less awesome without green, but you can still get some value out of I don't know, angel of condemnation, brigid, hero of kinsbaile, a bajllion pingers, a scant few mana dorks like soldevi adnate or myrs. It's probably not the most competitive idea but it's not like black/white/red don't have creatures that can mitigate attackers by tapping.
Tibor and Lumia were in the first precon deck I ever bought. I filled it full of janky counterspells and lost a lot of kitchen table games. Wee dragonauts was also in the deck, and really easier to get a win out of than the wonder twins, but I still have a nostalgic fondness for these two. I keep thinking up commander decks for them but just... never have gotten around to it.
It's not a counter, but marty'rs bond, grave pact, butcher of malakir et al will make the attacker rethink it, or somehow cheated into play at instant speed can make them really regret it.
In particular, I think I'm the first sentence but actually I'm the second sentence. Perodequeso has held a mirror up to my soul and I can't look away.
betrayal of flesh
corpse dance
goryo's vengeance
makeshift mannequin
rescue from the underworld
shallow grave
dawn of the dead
strands of night
whip of erebos
(probably a lot of creatures as well)
also:
emergence zone
winding canyons
(I feel like there's an artifact I'm forgetting but it may be near the 20$ range.)
Then just... standard big threat reanimator that fits in the budget. Use maralen to tutor for answers or big threats to play on turn, then immediately sac her to any number of black sacrifice effects? Immediately sac her the first time you play her of course, or try to use her to draw out your opponents threats, eat a kill spell on her, then reanimate her right before your next turn?
They can be kind of awkward but I do feel like these guys were missed in blue:
Dreamscape Artist cast harrow every turn
Patron of the Moon ramps tons if you've already ramped?
scaretiller land from hand to field or sacland back to the field.
walking atlas land from hand to field
journeyer's kite guarantee land drops at some mana cost
mycosynth wellspring can be fun with sac outlets, recursion
pilgrim's eye, skittering surveyor colorless scouts
wild-field scarecrow is kind of just a worse burnished heart.
was surveyor's scope not mentioned?
Tibor and Lumia were in the first precon deck I ever bought. I filled it full of janky counterspells and lost a lot of kitchen table games. Wee dragonauts was also in the deck, and really easier to get a win out of than the wonder twins, but I still have a nostalgic fondness for these two. I keep thinking up commander decks for them but just... never have gotten around to it.