I really like playing control so I find it fun to try to take it out of it's traditional blue/white and fit it into new archetypes preferably mono colored. This is a highly reactive and destructive deck mainly. 7 spot removals mainboarded, 4 Go for the Throat, 3 Doom Blade. There's also another 5 spot removals in the sideboard, 4
Deathmark
s and another doom blade. Only have 2 mass removals mainboarded with Black Sun's Zenith but the sideboard features another 4 with 2 Life's Finale, 1 Contagion Engine, and another zenith. The primary goals are enemy hand discard, keeping the board clean of creatures, and when the chance arises drop out one of the massive control based creatures to quickly sweep in. Any comments, thoughts, and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
changes to build V1.1
mainboard-2 Go for the Throat,-1 Doom Blade,+3 Victim of Night
sideboard-1 Contagion Engine,+1 Vengeful Pharaoh
Considering taking out the Army of the Damned for a Lashwrithe but i don't see it fitting in to the slow rolling control theme as much.
changes to build 1.2
mainboard-1 Wurmcoil Engine-1 Sheoldred, Whispering One,-1 Army of the Damned,+1 Lashwrithe,+2 Tezzeret's Gambit
changes to build 1.3
mainboard-1 Wurmcoil Engine,-1 Swamp+1 Lashwrithe,+1 Tezzeret's Gambit
sideboard-1 Doom Blade,-2 Spellskite,-1 Geth's Verdict,-1 Life's Finale,+4 Consume Spirit,+1 Black Sun's Zenith
changes to build 1.4
mainboard -1 Isolated Chapel, -3 Swamp,-2 Lashwrithe,-1 Grave Titan,+1 Wurmcoil Engine,+4 Drowned Catacomb,+2
Batterskull
sideboard+4 Consume Spirit
I chose consume spirit over Exsanguinate because the only non black lands are the Inkmoth Nexus. Also consume spirit can kill threatening creatures and planeswalkers rather than just making an opponent lose life.
changes to build 1.5
mainboard-2 Doom Blade,+1 Victim of Night,+2 Go for the Throat,-3 Tezzeret's Gambit,+3 Phyrexian Rager,-4 Drowned Catacomb,-3 Isolated Chapel,+7 Swamp,-2
Batterskull
,-1 Unburial Rites,+2 Vault Skirge,+3 Lashwrithe,-2 Dismember
sideboard-1 Vengeful Pharaoh,-1 Sorin Markov,+2 Distress
changes to build 1.6
mainboard -1 Lashwrithe, +1
Batterskull
sideboard -2 Geth's Verdict, +2
Tribute to Hunger
, -4
Deathmark
, +4 Nihil Spellbomb
This will be the first build I feel comfortable enough with to try at a tournament. I completely forgot about Nihil Spellbomb until recently and realized there was no answers to flashback in the deck. Name change to try to attract more attention.
