Fear the Old Blood (Tier 2 Competitive)

Commander / EDH* Silverf1sh

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lemmingllama says... #1

Archeomancer would allow you to reuse some of your good spells.

Eternal Witness lets you retrieve any good cards you have.

Psychosis Crawler can make your Prosperity effects deadly.

Vedalken Orrery is a better version of Vernal Equinox, assuming you want to keep the effect to yourself. Also it uses colorless, so can be entirely cast using Kruphix's mana.

Awakening is another great untap effect.

Arcane Denial is superior to Remand for EDH.

April 25, 2015 5:13 p.m.

Revel_in_pain says... #2

I'm just going to say, with all that mana put a hydra in there. And call it the moon presence or something (Also Karn if you want to mention New game+)

May 4, 2015 1:01 a.m.

Silverf1sh says... #3

I had Lifeblood, but I found it wasn't really they necessary to what I want to be doing. Karn is a nice consideration, however.

May 4, 2015 6:14 p.m.

hubatish says... #4

Woah, such flavor in description. The deck themes don't seem to relate to Bloodborne so much though - I would imagine a blood themed deck to be Black

May 6, 2015 9:03 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #5

I think the themes relate fairly well, I give everyone resources and otherwise to benefit from their insight while they hunt each other while I'm off plotting my own Great One-y deeds, like making someone go insane with am infinite blue suns, or creating the One Reborn off a Weird Harvest/Genesis Wave

All that reaching aside, I don't think it necessarily needs black, for all the horrors there wasn't much directly stated evil, just moral ambiguity and experimenting on creatures the Great Ones see as lesser to further survival, which seems fairly in line with Simic to me.

May 7, 2015 9:50 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #6

Maybe more insignificant then lesser, but the point remains.

May 7, 2015 9:52 p.m.

markbeloit says... #7

I'd recommend Vedalken Orrery as mentioned above for flash you can keep to yourself. Leyline of Anticipation also does this (maybe run both?) In a similar vein Mana Reflection doubles only your mana, if your budget will allow for a copy. Finally Mind Over Matter will allow you too infinite combo with Temple Bell and a legendary eldrazi (you already run Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre)-- not to mention Mind Over Matter is damn strong just on its own.

That's all for comments on cards. But going to play style, I feel I should say I'm not sure group hug is a good style-- unless you're sure you can do it the right way. As I see it (and I've played group-hug before), sure, people leave you alone at first. But once a player feels they have a good position established, I think they're likely to go after you very early, to the deny the advantage you give to other players. So I'd hedge your bets a bit by running stuff like Vedalken Orrery that gives an advantage to you instead of all opponents, and run some good control too (think you already do that though). Just my 2 cents on the matter.

May 24, 2015 2:08 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #8

I've been considering the orrery, but it generally turns out that the same advantage I'm giving them has me dug in enough to have combo protection and one combo ready to go, so I haven't worried about it too much yet. If I had to, I'd probably replace Vernal Equinox.

Aside from that, I'm working to up control elements and win cons, probably going with Venser, Shaper Savant first.

May 26, 2015 10:38 a.m.

RedUndead40 says... #9

+1 just for the effort of making everything relative to Bloodborne :D

May 27, 2015 2:48 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #10

Bless us with blood!

May 27, 2015 5:27 p.m.

RedUndead40 says... #11

Umbasa!

May 27, 2015 5:38 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #12

Yes, I have aquired all Ravnica lands for this deck.

May 29, 2015 3:31 p.m.

yoshiman95 says... #13

+1 for blood borne references And shenanigans. Id love a two headed giant with this deck and my nekrusar deck

June 3, 2015 6:27 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #14

If you ever wanna untap or something I'm totally game!

June 3, 2015 7:59 p.m.

i recommend using a mindslavor lock to as another combo just in case. Academy Ruins + Mindslaver and you floating colorless mana will pay for your combo all day

June 5, 2015 1:46 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #16

They're good suggestions, but much like adding Mind Over Matter to help with Temple Bell I think I'll pass because the parts themselves don't help me as much as they do solely together.

Take Palinchron, Peregrine drake, Deadeye, Capsize, blue suns, and phantasmal image. Even without a combo ready, the pieces themselves serve as utility to help move the deck along. Peregrine and palinchron help stick mana from kruphix, Deadeye bounces all the good things, Capsize takes care of threats, blue sun's draws me tempo, and phantasmal let's me clone anything I need, say an opposing teferi.

With Mindslaver if the combo isn't out, I've got something that suddenly draws hate for an ok payoff that only maximizes when going infinite, and academy ruins, while I own and would be able to easily include, doesn't have enough high priority targets to matter otherwise.

Great suggestions though, and much appreciated!

June 5, 2015 4:32 p.m.

Jkr says... #17

Man, i don't like commander at all, but a bloodborne reference deserve a +1 haha

June 5, 2015 7:02 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #18

Good blood be with you my friend!

June 5, 2015 11:11 p.m.

Forkbeard says... #19

Awesome deck, +1! It looks like you've covered all of the evil angles here.

I have one humble suggestion...Voidslime, perhaps in place of Disdainful Stroke. Voidslime is so versatile, I don't think you'd regret throwing it in here.

June 13, 2015 1:59 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #20

Voidslime is one of those cards where it's not entirely important to have, but if I happen upon a copy it's probably going in. Thanks for the suggestion!

June 13, 2015 9:41 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #21

It actually evens out with my mana, so I might as well.

June 13, 2015 9:47 p.m.

FGKG123 says... #22

Doubling Cube makes your never emptying mana pool increases exponentially. Especially with Seedborn Muse

June 15, 2015 10:18 p.m.

Silverf1sh says... #23

I've been thinking about it recently, but it hasn't been necessary yet. I threw it in for some testing yesterday however. Good suggestion!

June 16, 2015 1:23 a.m.

Pennelope says... #24

It looks like you have 2x city of solitude in the deck hun.

July 9, 2015 12:21 a.m.

lemmingllama says... #25

@Pennelope If you look closely, he actually only has one in the list, just that it is in two categories. Try sorting the cards by type.

July 9, 2015 5:41 a.m.

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