My latest quest into budget decks. Go big or Golgari is a control deck designed to use heavy removal spells, while surviving your opponents removal. Awesome versus other control decks, and a bruiser against aggro decks.
While $50 dollars, may seem like a lot for deck, the leading mono black deck will cost you over $350. A steep price to pay for unoriginality.
The focus of this deck is the use of my own graveyard. Pharika, God of Affliction and
Nyx Weaver
abuse my graveyard, while Lotleth Troll only gets stronger for putting my creatures into my graveyard. Meanwhile, I focus on destroying everything my opponent puts out onto the battlefield.
Lotleth Troll is the beast here, he hits liike a truck once he warmed up, and he doesn't go down easily. On the plus side, he eats up any extra creatures that I don't need.
Pharika, God of Affliction is another key card. By herself, she doesn't do much, but with my deck putting creatures into graveyards, she provides intsa deathtouch blockers. She is also going to spam late game
Thoughtrender Lamia
triggers. Oh, you just topdecked the card you needed? Insta discard.
Nyx Weaver
is a graveyard engine, everyturn I get a bigger and bigger graveyard. The best part, she can pull whatever I need, whenever I need it. I'm going to instantly pull that Golgari Charm you survive your Supreme Verdict
Rot Farm Skeleton is a rinse and reuse creature, the only penalty? He buries my own library, wait, that's not a bad thing. His best quality? After I discard him to pump Lotleth Troll, I can pay his mana cost and put him out anyway.
Thoughtrender Lamia
is a surprisingly cool thing here, combined with Pharika, God of Affliction, he can insta discard your opponent. As long as you have creatures in your own graveyard, it's going to be real hard to catch up after he's out. It's also an uncounterable discard mechanic.
Extinguish All Hope is a late game board wipe. Almost all of my creatures are enchantments, and if they aren't they come back pretty easily.
Grisly Salvage is my card advantage, it helps me draw almost anything in my deck.
Golgari Charm,
Bile Blight
, Putrefy, and Brain Maggot all serve the same function. Removal. There's nothing excepts gods that I can't wreck. And any of the gods alone won't be able to stop me.
I may put in another Enchantment Creature like
Doomwake Giant
, it's just one more thing I can search for and pummel my opponents, I haven't yet, because I'm not sure I'll need it.
Any help, feedback, or discussion I would love, and as usual, +1's are much appreciated. Thanks for taking a look!
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