Butcher immediately made me think of Hellhole Flailer which I ran in very early builds of the deck but cut long ago. It'll surprise me if Butcher makes the cut for that reason.
In the end, I guess we'd have to wait until Unstable gets released in December and Oracle is updated. For the moment, I guess the only legal format for silver-bordered cards is Block Constructed (with Unglued, Unhinged, and Unstable) and Cube.
There'll be what, around 400 silver bordered cards after Unstable? There's 0% chance they pick some arbitrary number of them and call them tournament legal.
I've got 22. I usually only bring 3-4 with me to the shop, usually my two favorite plus a rotation of the others. I like playing most of them, but there are a few I'm kinda bored of. I generally build to a theme though, which results in having a bunch of cards that don't really have another home and so the deck stays together.
If you perfectly curve, you don't have time to pay Equipment costs. If you have less expensive cards, suddenly you do. Hell, I'm considering adding a few Swords of X and Y to my Marchesa to give my dorks more punch.
@ Slikwilly: I think Jokulhaups is the definite haymaker. If you're going to piss off the table, might as well win. It's also easy to telegraph with 5 mana open. And since we're playing Aggro, leaving mana unspent is hurtful - specifically with Marchesa being a tempo deck. After all, we don't have the big mana combos or creatures that everybody else in the format does; we grow our beaters.
Already running Jokulhaups (and Death Cloud), just kinda looking for another card to set the table back.
Has anyone ever tried running Sunder? Seems like being the only player w/ a respectable board and then casting an effective Armageddon might be useful.
This may not be the right place to ask, but I will anyway:
say I have three creatures on board, all with +1/+1 counters: Marchesa, a Trinket Mage, and a clone. Opponent wraths. Marchesa will bring them all back, but they're all separate triggered abilities and are all going on the stack at the same time, right? Which in turn means that I can arrange them so that the clone comes back last (and is thus able to copy the Trinket Mage)?
It's unclear from your description if you mean these clone effects came in off the Living Death, but if so, then those creatures couldn't copy Gary.
There'll be what, around 400 silver bordered cards after Unstable? There's 0% chance they pick some arbitrary number of them and call them tournament legal.
2B
Menace
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, that player discards that many cards.
Eternalize
1/2
Not bad.
I run a Sword of Feast and Famine in my list, but that's largely because I also run Pestilence, Crypt Rats, and Thrashing Wumpus.
Already running Jokulhaups (and Death Cloud), just kinda looking for another card to set the table back.
say I have three creatures on board, all with +1/+1 counters: Marchesa, a Trinket Mage, and a clone. Opponent wraths. Marchesa will bring them all back, but they're all separate triggered abilities and are all going on the stack at the same time, right? Which in turn means that I can arrange them so that the clone comes back last (and is thus able to copy the Trinket Mage)?