Nice write up. Short and sweet.
Also, concerning the Mishra's Factory flavor... That's an excellent point. Is it an Assembly Worker (a la Timespiral) doing the damage? Or is the factory itself animating and smacking with .. its walls?
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Should we be concerned?
I'm also considering going to FNM tonight, thoughts on SB? How many copies of Ray?
re: Raven's Crime
You won't find me without at least 1 somewhere in the 75. It only really sucks against GW bears. It can save you 3 life on average against Burn and sends them into topdeck mode sooner. It's excellent against Tron because they want to keep a buffered hand in the early game, even if they pitch an egg that's still 1 less green mana to cast Ancient Stirrings or Sylvan Scrying. It's not great against Snapcaster decks, but I have limited experience testing against blue control with this deck. An unchecked Raven's can take over a game.
After Eldrazi gets knocked down a peg, I think it will start to make more sense to run a few Molten Vortex as part of the core considering how removal light we are. Then again, if Tron becomes the best deck Vortex is garbage.
Thoughts on this card? Seems like it could be the inevitability ticket that decks like Tron enjoy so much. 5 creatures is steep though.
If you play the flying zombie, how much restructuring to the mana base will it require?
@carl: Lingering Souls is amazing IMO, it's almost always more useful being cast from the GY, synergizes beautifully with Zinfest, gives us reach, stops flyers for a time. What else would you use in its slot?
I've been thinking about GY hate and ways to minimize its effectiveness. I have to say I haven't come up with any satisfying answers. Is this deck going to be blown out of the meta after Helldrazi banning? In my MU against UW eldrazi, the opponent put down a Grafdigger's Cage. It singlehandedly shut my deck down. Even loaming into Ancient Grudge wasn't an option. The only way out of it was to 1. naturally draw Grudge, or 2. dig with Faithless looting from hand. That's a garbage prospect. While my opponent stacked up 4/4s and 2/1 flyers, I played draw-go.
Has anyone considered Noxious Revival? Anti-GY hate, allows us to recycle anything we want. I get that it does nothing from the Yard, but it would have partially saved my ass in the aforementioned draw-go scenario.
Finished 2-2, broke even with prize.
Round 1: 2-0 Young kid playing Tron. Game 1 I got down a very early Zombie Infestation and proceeded to GQ lock him out of colorless mana. Beautiful. Game 2 was a mess of Zombies and Spirits, had him to very low life when he played Ulamog, exiled my infestation and Ghast, Spirit beatdowns for another turn. He didn't swing with Ula because his life was so low, played Wurmcoil and passed. Spirits over the top followed by Conflagrate.
Round 2: 0-2 Affinity. Guy plays the deck frequently, usually finishes top 4. Needless to say, this was rough and I was unprepared. Game 1 was a blur, and i botched Game 2 so hard. I played fetch, pass. He played Memnite, then Ravager. Because I suck at this game, I didn't Darkblast the Memnite while Ravager was on the stack. This I feel cost me the game. Not worth going into further.
Round 3: 0-2 UW Helldrazi. What a degenerate pile of cards. It's really difficult to stock up for a Conflagrate when you have to make multiple zombies per turn just to survive to midgame. Killing TKS with Pharaoh trigger is amazing, especially with Loam in the yard. I think this match highlighted for me that it isn't always necessary to dredge dredge dredge when the board is not in your favor. Also, Drowner of Hope is very intimidating when your only answer to it is a Souls on flashback.
Round 4: 2-1 Naya something. Game 1 was another blur of zombie tokens. Game 2 he trumped me with a Scooze. GOD that card butchers dredge. Game 3 was a very epic grind-out where he had Huntmasters flipping, wolves pooping out, etc. He slammed RIP which I thought was game over, but I had spent the previous turns setting up Godless Shrine + Vault of the Archangel. I will happily throw 2 cards into exile to make a 2/2 DT LL zombie. Also had souls going over the top. Got him to 2 life, then Conflagrate closed it.
Wow what a fun deck. I still find it very skill-intensive to know when to dredge and when not to, especially when you desperately need a Ray of Revelation but dumping it into the yard is useless when RIP is out. Weird.
I love love love turning Squees into zombies.
Yeah, thanks for clearing that up. I'm sold
Feels like a truly busted card against elves. Can you post your decklist?
That is amazing. Is it fair to say that Infestation+Loam is the key deck engine?
Valor was suggested above, and I'm curious how good it could be as a 1-off in a build using Lingering Souls (backed by Vault of course).
While I'm here, is there an optimal time to GQ someone? Particularly while setting up a GQ lock? The only obvious situation to me is after a scry or the like.
Correction: I just clicked the above CFB article, 4 copies of Pharaoh in the list
edit: Pardon the noobery, can someone explain why one would want 4 copies of Conflagrate? You basically need a full hand in order for it to work... I'm missing something here