Portrait of Ruin

Standard Combo UB (Dimir) WUB (Esper)

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Creature (23)

• 3x Clone
• 4x Evil Twin
• 4x Geralf's Messenger
• 4x Gravecrawler
• 4x Restoration Angel
• 4x Snapcaster Mage

Land (23)

• 4x Cavern of Souls
• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 4x Isolated Chapel
• 6x Swamp

Instant (12)

• 4x Ghostly Flicker
• 4x Tragic Slip
• 4x Ultimate Price

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Sever the Bloodline

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Sideboard

Creature (9)

• 2x Blood Artist
• 3x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 4x Knight of Infamy

Planeswalker (3)

• 2x Jace, Architect of Thought
• 1x Liliana of the Veil

Instant (2)

• 2x Victim of Night

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 3x Geist of Saint Traft

Instant (3)

• 3x Forbidden Alchemy

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This blue-black lowcost-removal zombie-clone deck might yet have a place in a standard world filled with obscene creatures and crazy strong enter-the-field effects.

The deck was built to win with its own creatures on its own plan while being flexible enough to survive the proverbial cascade of fatties like Thragtusk, Thundermaw Hellkite, Angel of Serenity and Craterhoof Behemoth. This is all thanks to Ghostly Flicker & Restoration Angel allowing instant speed Clone targets!

Standard plan is to plant a Geralf's Messenger and just milk those enter-the-field effects. With an effective 11 in the deck and over 20+ effects that will cause additional lifeloss, things get truely insane. Even if you can't hit a Geralf's Messenger, the fear of being overrun by creatures larger than your own is a non-issue.

The deck can start fast, with Gravecrawler. It can start like a control deck utilising Snapcaster Mage & Ultimate Price . It can be a combo deck exploiting Geralf's Messenger. This deck is every aspect of deck schemes that gel into one reactive package all at once! You might be thinking "Jack of all Trades" and you'd be right for the first match. With careful sideboarding the deck can further specialise into any niche, providing an optimal matchup scenario for any encounter.

Anyone who is looking for a challenging deck to play or something completely unique, try this deck out!

Date added	12 years
Last updated	12 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 6 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 7 - 6 Uncommons 8 - 2 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	2.74