Sacrifice for Athreos

Standard Demons Humans WB (Orzhov)

Stevens

Creature (30)

• 3x Athreos, God of Passage
• 4x Eater of Hope
• 19x Shadowborn Apostle
• 4x Xathrid Necromancer

Land (24)

• 10x Plains
• 14x Swamp

Artifact (2)

• 2x Door of Destinies

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Read the Bones

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Maybeboard

Creature (5)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Desecration Demon
• 1x Eater of Hope
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Master of the Feast

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All right, now I love Athreos, God of Passage. I'm not gonna lie, I almost never play with black. I don't like it. Try to make something stronger by killing your creatures or yourself. Not a lot of fun in my opinion. BUT Athreos, God of Passage man now that is a fun card to abuse the living heck out of. So that's about where I started with this deck. How can I make my opponent squirm and go insane?

All right, now you might be looking at this deck build and thinking what on earth is this thing? Well, lets look at it this way. If you sacrifice six Shadowborn Apostles you can take a demon (whatever floats your boat in standard) and put it on the field. Fun? Absolutely! Useful? Usually not. But now if you look at this with Athreos, God of Passage and Xathrid Necromancer it becomes abusable. Six humans die all at once so you put six 2/2 black zombies onto the field AND a demon! Now your opponent has a choice. They can take somewhere between 0-18 damage depending on how many Shadowborn Apostles they want returning to your hand. If they allow all of them to return sure they aren't taking any damage but in the next turn or two BAM! another demon comes out! If they take 18 damage well, you have six zombies AND a flying demon. They're gonna lose. Chances are they'll take 3-9 damage so that you can't abuse this as fast as possible. Now how you fix this is 1) You have more then six Shadowborn Apostles in your deck you'll be getting more fairly soon and 2) read the bones allows you to draw two cards with a good chance of at least one of them being a Shadowborn Apostle.

Now for our one and only "odd card" out of the group. Our wonderful and spectacular artifact Door of Destinies.. Now when you choose !Humans! you just have it trigger again and again and again every time you play a Shadowborn Apostle making a rather interesting army of incredibly strong humans. All in all I have no idea how this deck will work but I plan on getting the cards soon enough and look forward to trying it out.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 10 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.44
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Black fun