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Here we go! Shadows Over Innistrad. Back to the times of superfriends. Here is what I am have been playing and fine tuning.

Deck Logic:

Access to up to 20 copies of 10 different removal options. We have the tools to kill virtually anything very reliably.

Access to up to 6 copies of 4 different board wipes.

Access to up to 5 copies of 2 different recursion options.

Access to up to 12 copies of 7 drawing/digging options.

Main Board:

3x Grasp of Darkness - Getting a grasp on roughly 85% of the field.

3x To the Slaughter - The best complement to the rest of our removal suite. This one often requires tricky timing, but the slaughtering value is off the charts when played judiciously. EOT, kill your Mindwrack Demon and your Chandra, my turn. Evolving Wilds help us get delirium here.

2x Anguished Unmaking - The best "dumb card" removal for the modest price of 1WB.

2x Languish and 1x Descend upon the Sinful - Great sweeper suite for game 1, often tweaked postboard.

3x Epiphany at the Drownyard - Underated by everyone in the community. This card is FAN-TAS-TIC. Nothing wrong with playing it for x=1 or x=2 in early game to get our digging going, to fuel baby Jace and/or to tickle our ICE THANG. Mid to late game this card is BONKERZ, easily netting 3 to 5 cards. With a playset of Jace, 3 is a good number for this one.

4x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy   - <3 <3 <3

2x Thing in the Ice   - Awesome defender against most decks, awesome decoy, awesome threat, awesome board-sweeper.

1x Jace, Unraveler of Secrets and 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited - I like to think of them as half bros. They both do very similar things but Ob is better at killing and Jace is better at digging, the split is therefore ideal.

Sideboard:

2x Dispel - Against other decks running a lot of instant removal.

2x Horribly Awry - Against threats better killed in the egg like Kalitas, Mindwrack Demon, etc...

2x Ruinous Path - Extra PW killspell, notably against RB which are running a lot of Chandras and Sorins, but also against threats with toughness higher than 4.

1x Silumgar's Command - Great card in grindy matchups and VS decks running a lot of PWs.

3x Transgress the Mind - More effective on the play like any disruption spell, great VS pretty much anything except ultra aggro decks and the RDW builds of the like. After I board in the most effective removal against whatever I'm playing, I will often round up the deck with some number of these.

2x Virulent Plague - Removed from side, found that Declaration in Stone along with Languish are more than enough to deal with tokens.

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Revision 2 See all

(8 years ago)

+2 Negate main
-2 Virulent Plague side
Date added 8 years
Last updated 8 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

14 - 0 Mythic Rares

24 - 5 Rares

3 - 7 Uncommons

9 - 3 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.00
Tokens Angel 4/4 W, Clue, Emblem Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, Emblem Jace, Unraveler of Secrets, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Emblem Narset Transcendent, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Knight Ally 2/2 W, Vampire Knight 1/1 B
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