Love the theme! I have a similar deck using Volrath the Fallen. Always great to see an old school deck!

I've had a soft spot for decks like these since I got stuck playing a Jacques le Vert deck in a random commander competition I had with my friends. Love it.

Oh, and there's always Sol Ring. :^))) Shame it's $10 more than the newer prints, but it does fit the theme.

Thank you so much for the update and suggestion, Peoni! I would definitely add an old Sol Ring if I can find find one at a good price. Right now, the deck only costs $50 without the commander and lands but I may expand it in the future and slowly add those better pieces. Lifeline is also high on the list along with Sol Ring and Jet Medallion; I think adding just those three would probably bump up the consistency of the deck quite a bit... I just wish they were cheaper! :)

*upvote! Dang autocrorrect

Love builds like this. I have a 5 color Karona, False God deck myself that is strictly old border.

My mono-black Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet deck has it's fair share of old-bordered cards as black as the best old border of all the colors IMO.

Thanks StasisAbuser! I will have check that deck out too! I totally agree, black old borders are the best ;)

Phyrexian Ghoul is another good sac outlet.

Thanks for the recommendation, bushido_man96. I'll have to try this out!

I feel the same way. Its always the same 70 cards in this format. I just put an old green black deck together with Vhati il-Dal and its been CRAZY good fun! Cheers to premodern magic my friend!!

I always felt that Slaughter was an underplayed card in EDH, as 4 life to buy it back is a lot less intimidating when you're starting with a whole 40. Dregs of Sorrow is big and clunky, but in a format this slow, it could very well be worthwhile in the lategame.

If you're going for such a graveyard-heavy strategy, though, there's really no bigger recommendation I can make then Tortured Existence! Being able to swap out any creature for whatever you need from a well-stocked graveyard is the closest you can come to Recurring Nightmare in the format. Likewise, Apprentice Necromancer, Doomed Necromancer and Undead Gladiator should have no trouble finding homes in such a build. You might also consider Ashen Powder as a budget way to lift some powerful fatty from your opponent's graveyard if you're at risk of accidentally reanimating it as collateral with Balthor.

Tortured Existence is a super good card as is Phyrexian Reclamation

Wow, thank you for all the advice, ClockworkSwordfish! I have a lot try out! I think I drooled a little after I saw Ashen Powder... This deck as increasingly grown a janky control sub theme with the likes of Ritual of the Machine, Withering Boon, Ashes to Ashes, Reckless Spite, etc and this would fit in perfectly!

Thank you as well 3n3rgy2! I am a little skeptical with cards that only bring creatures back to my hand but I will definitely have to give it a shot!

This looks fun! You might like these: Abyssal Gatekeeper, Syphon Mind, Noxious Toad, Cackling Fiend, Mindslicer, Pox, Maddening Imp, Koskun Falls

Thank you for the recommendations, king-saproling. I have been stearing away from discard themes just because it's not a very welcomed mechanic in my play group. When I first blue-printed this deck, I had Mindslicer in there but for the above reason as well as it's high pricetag, I ended up looking elsewhere.

I will have to look into trying out some of those others though! Abyssal Gatekeeper paricularly looks like a really interesting option! Thank you again!

A deck after my own heart!!! Seeing decks like this makes me feel less insane for having my screwball decks. +1 for certain!!

Thank you very much for the upvote and kind words, FormOverFunction! :D

This deck is sweet. I've been looking at it for the last few months trying to formulate a unique premodern deck myself. It's not an easy task XD

kingc0rn, thank you!

If you do end up making one, I would love to look at your premodern deck! Are you thinking of going EDH as well? I'm curious what kind of Commander you would run, if so! :)

You are right, it is challenging! This deck has taken way more research time than any other deck I have made. Months after my initial build, I am still finding new pieces for it! I've found that it also takes quite a bit more time to set up search engines since the parameters are so strange.

Peoyogon as of right now I'd really like to make a Dromar, the Banisher color manipulation deck...but that's very ambitious. If it proves too difficult I'll probably go with Hanna, Ship's Navigator. Right now I have a decklist of applicable cards on Archidekt here hopefully I find the time to put into it soon.

I absolutely love your deck because it just brings back this mono-colored nostalgic feeling. I used to love Fallen Angel and the fact that it could be replaced by a million and one modern cards but still makes it into your deck is glorious. I'm really hoping to be able to capture that feeling with mine.

Thank you kingc0rn, I really appreciate the kind words!

Those both sound like really cool Commanders to play around! It will be sweet to see what kind of nostalgic things you include! :)

So the big question at this point is: are you going to use any of the "timeshifted" cards from the new Timespiral set?

That's a good question, Metroid_Hybrid - someone from my playgroup was wondering that too! For me, I'm going to keep it to just cards printed before 8th Edition. It also helps that I'm pretty much running a very un-optimized build anyways. I think it would be much more tempting to include some of those higher powered Staples (like Gray Merchant of Asphodel ) if I was running a more competitive list. I know other people that build old-border decks who are really excited though and are definitely going to be updating some of their slots for some of these Timeshifted cards - so everyone is a little different! :)

Even though this deck won't see any, I think it is awesome they made these and I am excited to try and get more old-border love in my other decks :D Looking at you Sram, Senior Edificer

How about you? Do you plan on getting any of Timeshifted cards for your decks?

I wasn't at first, but then I heard the set was a limited print run...

So I bought a bunch of foils I wanted before they disappear/skyrocket. I bought stuff for my Legacy Eldrazi deck, a couple of smaller things for my Konrad deck, plus stuff for my Yawgmoth deck.

Yes including Yawgmoth, Thran Physician himself.. If there ever was a card that deserved the old-border treatment— it's the OG supervillain of the MtG universe.. I was actually considering getting an old-border alter before this came around..

Wow, Yawgmoth looks amazing and so at home timeshifted! Something about those black old-borders just look so damn good. It's awesome you got to snag one before the prices shot up! :D

now this is epic