Oppression

Casual* Control Discard

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Creature (3)

• 3x Stuffy Doll

Land (20)

• 2x Cabal Coffers
• 7x Island
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Enchantment (12)

• 4x Animate Dead
• 2x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Breathstealer's Crypt
• 2x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Soul Barrier
• 1x Underworld Dreams
• 1x Waste Not

Artifact (7)

• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 2x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Mana Web
• 2x Mindcrank
• 1x Portcullis

Instant (7)

• 4x Recoil
• 3x Simulacrum

Sorcery (11)

• 2x Demonic Tutor
• 4x Hymn to Tourach
• 3x Mind Twist
• 2x Wash Out

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This deck personifies control & utility. The goal is to not worry about filling valuable card slots with your own creatures, but rather feed off (and oppress) your opponent's expected use of them.

The extra card slots saved (by not pumping the deck full of creatures) allow for a more direct route to controlling your opponent.

The deck themes in creature-hate, board control, mostly discard and utilizing the opponent's graveyard to an extent. It is possible to control a great variety of the opponent's creatures at very little cost Animate Dead once discarded. An alternate use of Recoil allows for bouncing your own Animate Dead to swap for something better in their graveyard. This can even be done as the currently animated creature is about to die. Hehehe...

Simulacrum + Stuffy Doll if your opponent is getting out of hand. Simulacrum works with direct damage too!

If your opponent has an infinite combo deck, do not worry! Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank can likely handle that for an infinite mill/life gain/life loss combo.

I own each of these cards and this is a real deck sitting on my desk in front of me.. Please help me improve it!! If you have any suggestions, especially for better lands, lend me your thoughts!

Thank you :)

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Key combos	Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank Simulacrum + Stuffy Doll
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.60
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B