Tainted Remedy - Legacy

Legacy* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Combo Competitive

-Logician

Creature (14)

• 4x Dark Confidant
• 4x Deathrite Shaman
• 2x Gaddock Teeg
• 4x Skyshroud Cutter

Land (20)

• 4x Bayou
• 1x Forest
• 2x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Karakas
• 4x Savannah
• 4x Verdant Catacombs
• 4x Windswept Heath

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Sterling Grove
• 4x Tainted Remedy

Artifact (2)

• 2x Sensei's Divining Top

Instant (19)

• 3x Enlightened Tutor
• 4x Invigorate
• 2x Nature's Claim
• 2x Rest for the Weary
• 4x Summoner's Pact
• 4x Swords to Plowshares

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 2x Scavenging Ooze

Enchantment (4)

• 2x Choke
• 2x Sterling Grove

Instant (7)

• 3x Abrupt Decay
• 2x Hallowed Moonlight
• 2x Surgical Extraction

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Thoughtseize

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Tainted Remedy

Introduction

The idea of this deck is to abuse the power of Tainted Remedy to drain your opponent's life using very unfair interactions. This deck has the ability to steal a win on turn 2, but usually takes until turn 3 or 4. The primary unfair cards that synergize with Tainted Remedy are as follows.

• Skyshroud Cutter : You can replace his cost to cast with making your opponent gain 5 life, which in this deck actually means they lose 5 life. If this spell is countered, they still lose 5 life because it was a cost to cast.
• Invigorate : Same bullshit here.
• Rest for the Weary : Target player loses 8 life.
• Swords to Plowshares : As if this card needed to be any better.
• Nature's Claim : Answers artifacts and enchantments + makes your opponent lose 4 life.

Card Choices Explained

• Sensei's Divining Top : I chose this over Sylvan Library because I feel as though it is more reliable in terms of getting our combo pieces.
• Dark Confidant : We can only lose a maximum of 4 life here, and if we get too low, I mean, we can gain 8 life from Rest for the Weary if we really need to. It's good draw power, and a target for Invigorate.
• Gaddock Teeg : He doesn't shut down anything we do. Skyshroud Cutter is a 4-drop, but he's a creature, so he gets around the ability. He's great against miracles and storm.
• Deathrite Shaman : I choose this instead of Noble Hierarch because he interacts with my opponent's graveyard and can make them lose life, which is essentially what this deck is trying to do anyway. Noble Hierarch is indeed more reliable in terms of being able to tap for mana on turn 2, because there's not always a land in the graveyard on turn 2. A turn 2 Tainted Remedy is certainly better than turn 3 one, so that can be very important.
• Skyshroud Cutter : The main abuser of Tainted Remedy. This interaction is insane.
• Sterling Grove : Obvious synergy with Tainted Remedy.
• Enlightened Tutor : Tutors Tainted Remedy.
• Invigorate : Another ridiculous synergy with Tainted Remedy.
• Nature's Claim : As explained in the introduction, this card is the best artifact/enchantment removal available for this brew.
• Rest for the Weary : For 2 mana, 8 life is unmatched by any other card, not counting Ordeal of Heliod because, well, you know.
• Summoner's Pact : This is our way of running 8 Skyshroud Cutter s.
• Swords to Plowshares : This card is already good even outside of this obvious synergy. No need to explain.

Looking for suggestions!

I would strongly appreciate any suggestions you have for both the mainboard and the sideboard. I pretty much threw the sideboard together without testing. Thank you for showing your interest, and have a wonderful day. :)

Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is not Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 2 Mythic Rares 38 - 11 Rares 8 - 2 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.82