Lock and Loam

Legacy BRG (Jund) Control Land Destruction Loam Pox

Eskrimador

Creature (6)

• 2x Bloodghast
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 3x Vampire Hexmage

Land (32)

• 2x Badlands
• 1x Barren Moor
• 2x Bayou
• 3x Bloodstained Mire
• 2x Dark Depths
• 1x Forest
• 3x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 4x Mishra's Factory
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 2x Thespian's Stage
• 2x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 4x Wasteland
• 3x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Exploration

Instant (7)

• 2x Abrupt Decay
• 3x Crop Rotation
• 2x Punishing Fire

Sorcery (14)

• 3x Hymn to Tourach
• 4x Life from the Loam
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 4x Smallpox
• 2x Thoughtseize

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Ashen Rider
• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Engineered Plague
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (1)

• 1x Zuran Orb

Instant (5)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ancient Grudge
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Mindbreak Trap
• 1x Rakdos Charm

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Innocent Blood

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Nether Spirit
• 1x Squee, Goblin Nabob

Land (1)

• 1x Barren Moor

Instant (1)

• 1x Abrupt Decay

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Sinkhole

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Please Help - This is my take on a loam lock deck with a few experimental win-cons. I am used to playing combo (belcher, dredge, ANT/TES) to name a few, but I'm looking into delving into a deck that I'm actually interested in and not one that I net decked. I'm still fairly new to magic (less than a year of real legacy experience) so I appreciate all constructive criticism. I still have a lot to learn about Magic, especially legacy, so all comments and advice are welcome!

The idea is to basically similar to most loam decks, achieve early control through wasteland, hymns etc. until I can either beat the opponent down with the man lands or one of the win-cons: a one of dark depths, punishing fire for grindy wins, and an experimental one-of Vraska. The only creatures in the main are the 2 deathrites and 2 bloodghasts which keep coming back thanks to constant land drops.

For the side board, I would typically side out the Vraska other irrelevant cards for the matchup and bring in oozes and pack rats as they get out of control with the mutavaults and assuming the opponent is boarding for what they saw game one, an aggro creature strategy will catch them off guard. The side board is in need of some work, I currently have 2 ghost quarters as place holders essentially until I get feedback on something better. (maybe shattering spree?). Note Lilli of the veil is not an option for this deck, I recently unloaded all of my copies before deciding to play this deck and refuse to line SCG's pockets by pay ing 90+ for her /endrant. My main question is how to make this more consistent, I've seen some variants run 1 Squee and 1 Nether spirit or a new favorite seems to be vengeful pharaoh but not sure how successful this would be with bloodghast. I plan on adding in one more Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage when I acquire an extra copy of each to make the kill combo more efficient. One thing I'm not too certain about is the inclusion of exploration and 4 lightning bolts. Any advice or opinions about these in particular would be appreciated.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is not Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 3 Mythic Rares 33 - 5 Rares 20 - 5 Uncommons 1 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.71
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Marit Lage