I was gonna say, it would be pretty easy to Relic of Progenitus everything away. (A common Modern SB card.)

This is true. I guess it'd be worth considering maybe AEther Vial or Engineered Explosives or the like for competitive play?

You could make a really cool legacy version of this deck. You could pimp it out with Entomb , Dark Ritual , Cabal Ritual , Cabal Therapy (targeting yourself, if need be), and maybe even Tendrils of Agony as a win con instead of Bitter Ordeal .

Cool deck, +1 from me

Thanks! I doubt it'd be faster than the ANT decks running Tendrils, though I suppose it could work with enough Rituals in my opening hand. This build has been a ton of fun for me though, and Bitter Ordeal always gets people more riled up than dying by life loss.

after 3 hits of your combo someone could blow up your graveyard with Ravenous Trap for free :/ i'm not entirely sure if that will freeze your combo-ing that being said this is an awesome cheap combo and i really like it +1 from meeeee

I really like this... like... I've never seen this tried before in modern or competitively. I love changelings, I love black, and I love combos.

If I were to recreate this deck, I'd probably add some combination of 3x Bitterblossom with 1-2x Viscera Seer , then 4x Gitaxian Probe , 1-2x Noxious Revival , 2-3x Pact of Negation , and 3-4x Simian Spirit Guide all just to make the deck faster.

If you add Heartless Summoning , Blood Funnel , or Frogtosser Banneret to your combo, you now have infinite mana. ABOVE ALL THAT, I'd add 4x Cavern of Souls , since you only have 2 choices for the combo and either choice makes changelings uncounterable! :D

The only reason I'm suggesting so many things is because I feel like a couple of these cards were just put in here either because you had them laying around or didn't know what to put. I do love this deck though!

I think Korlash, Heir to Blackblade is the only real oddball choice, but in a deck sporting 18 Swamps he can become a powerhouse on his own. Everything else generally meshes together.

First off, I'm looking at a 3 card combo with a 4th card as the main win condition. With Haakon, Stromgald Scourge being the centerpiece of the combo, unless I find ways to cheat him onto the battlefield from my hand I'm going to have to concentrate on finding ways to discard him. Hence the reason for Inquisition of Kozilek , Mindlash Sliver , and Oona's Prowler . The first two also work for disrupting opponents, the Sliver interacts with 2 of the combo pieces, and nobody wants to be dealing with a 3/1 flying creature on Turn 2.

Counterspells haven't been a major concern because with the exception of Basal Sliver , having the rest of my combo pieces in the graveyard means I can just cast them from there whenever I have the available mana. That leaves me with Beseech the Queen and Nameless Inversion left, which a 3 mana tutor is hard to argue with as is reusable creature control. I could try out Cavern of Souls , but if Skeletal Changeling gets countered it'd likely be to stop me from comboing out so the mana used would be the BB coming from Basal Sliver 's ability in the first place. Which of course means if I have untapped lands I can just cast it again from my graveyard and get the combo rolling again.

great combo! +1

Thanks DH_Cell!

What about Buried Alive ? It lets you put the Skeletal Changeling or Haakon, Stromgald Scourge into your graveyard so you can play it from there. Perhaps that instead of Beseech the Queen ? Anyways, this is an AWESOME deck! +1!

Thanks! Buried Alive isn't Modern legal so I'm forced to find my combo pieces and discard them as necessary. I do miss the old days of mass reanimating multiple Laquatus's Champion and killing people in Standard though. :)

Sorry to bust the Party, but this doesnt work the way you imagine it to... Regenerate means, that if it WOULD be DESTROYED it INSTEAD gets tapped and all damage is removed from it. Sooo... The changeling doesnt enter your graveyard and neither can it be regenerated after being SACRIFICED. Wrote that in caps to emphasize the important parts :P

ist funny how 90 ppl upvoted this without understanding the game btw

Kaweiwu firstly, you can't regenerate a sacrifice. Ever. I mean you could try but it wouldn't do anything as the creature will STILL go to the graveyard.

Second, you are missing how this combo works. Skeletal Changeling is a knight and a sliver, Basal Sliver let's you sacrifice Skeletal Changeling to add to your mana pool. Then you use that to recast Skeletal Changeling from the graveyard (not regenerate it) because of Mr. Knightypants' text. (Haakon, Stromgald Scourge )

You rinse and repeat until you have done this 60 times, sac one final time and use a land for the third mana and cast Bitter Ordeal

Again, he isn't saccing and regenerating, he's saccing and recasting.

It's funny how you made two comments without understanding how the combo works. ;)

oh shame on me xD and why the heck are you repeating what i said in the first part of your comment :')

Ohthenoises is correct. The Changeling (This card is every creature type at all times.) ability allows me to sacrifice Skeletal Changeling as a Sliver using Basal Sliver 's ability. Since being every creature type at all times includes zones other than the battlefield, I can then use the BB to cast it from the graveyard using Haakon, Stromgald Scourge .

Plus all the other stuff mentioned, thus using Bitter Ordeal to exile the opponent's entire library.

Ya, not properly reading the description led me to my 2 stupid comments :P Which i would delete in shame if i could xD Soz

No worries, mate. Been mostly into EDH of late but this deck always brings a smile to my face whenever I get to mess with it. :)

Guess what my next deck on XMage is!?!? Love Infinite Combos. This deck is sweet! Nice work man.

Thank you! I've been pretty inactive lately, but I still play this every once in awhile. Only recently did I start trying out Raven's Crime and cut a few Mindlash Sliver from the deck, so I'm still getting used to it.

After I read the first two sentences in the description, I looked for the combo for myself. I got a good chuckle when I found it! Using Basal Sliver with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge to cast Skeletal Changeling any number of times. And then, of course, Bitter Ordeal. Bravo! Your abuse of cross-creature types is impeccable! Speaking of which, there was an interaction that I had missed but was pointed out in comment #10. Haakon, Stromgald Scourge is the core, but take a close look at Nameless Inversion. What? It's a Knight?
Mind.
Blown.
I might contest that Gravecrawler is just as valid a pick as Korlash, Heir to Blackblade. Even with Tendrils of Corruption in the sideboard.
It's a tight deck. I can imagine Wizards printing something to hard-replace Korlash eventually. Otherwise, it's unchangeable. Very well done! +1!
Anybody reading this may also enjoy Full Automatic. : )

Considering your deck works around generating infinite spells cast why not add some more storm cards to the deck considering the win already requires 4 cards, better yet, if you want the mill win you can do the same with two cards Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank .I'd almost consider some more artifact removal, Grafdigger's Cage has been in every sideboard ive seen this year

Cool strat,
running and irl Haakon Deck also but i play it more dredgey,liked your idea a lot +1.

that is just fucked up lmao

Love seeing how other people can make haakon work! +1