I got the inspiration for this deck from Sultai is Vexing! Advice wanted!, and decided that it'd be a good idea to change it up a bit and use some cards I already had lying around. Life-gain from Crypt Incursion and Profane Memento, and if that isn't enough for you, Crypt Ghast has your back. For when I'm not Playing Modern, Deathrite Shaman and Damia, Sage of Stone replace defenders in the deck. Suggestions are always welcome (as always).
My reasoning for everything in the deck:
Creatures:
4x Axebane Guardian: A very simple mana base, can easily get you a bunch of mana (depends on how many Defenders are under your control).
3x Consuming Aberration: A very nice creature to have out, although its power is dependent on how many cards you mill to the graveyard. Can get very powerful very fast.
3x Crypt Ghast: Easy lifegain, if combined with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, can essentially double your mana.
3x Drift of Phantasms: Transmute to go look for Axebane Guardian or Freed from the Real, as the combo is really nice, but can also be an extra mana count as it's also a defender.
4x Fog Bank: The ultimate blocker, a defender to help mana, and a bit tougher to kill than most 0/2s.
1x Kruphix, God of Horizons: Fills with colorless mana to help your X mana costs.
4x Overgrown Battlement: More mana, although it's only green, it still helps as it's how many defenders you have.
2x Prophet of Kruphix: You untap all of your things, it's essentially free Vigilance with all your creatures, then having flash to all of them is really nice as well.
Instants:
1x Crypt Incursion: Some life-gain.
Enchantments:
4x Freed from the Real: To untap my mana dorks, and continuously cast spells.
Sorcery:
2x
Increasing Confusion
: Milling with a Flashback for double the amount. Great for Consuming Aberration.
2x Mind Funeral: Make the opponent lose 4 lands, and everything between.
1x Mind Grind: The insta-win, I took a couple out because I would always draw a whole bunch of them, and never had the mana for it to do any real damage.
Planeswalkers:
2x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver: For those stubborn decks that have Elixir of Immortality or any of the 3 Eldrazi Titans that shuffle the graveyard back in when put there.
1x Jace, Memory Adept: We all know why this is in here, he has a great +0 ability, and his +1 is a free draw.
1x
Kiora, the Crashing Wave
: Some mana ramp in the -1 ability if you have a hand flooded with mana, and the +1 is pretty nice as well, and the -5 is protection from some enemies, a free 9/9 every turn.
Artifacts:
2x Profane Memento: You gain one life for every creature card put into a graveyard.
A list of all the key combos in the deck:
Axebane Guardian + Overgrown Battlement
Axebane Guardian + Fog Bank
Fog Bank + Overgrown Battlement
Consuming Aberration + Phenax, God of Deception
Crypt Ghast + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
(There's more I'm just lazy)
Thanks for viewing, +1s are appreciated.
