Havengul Graverobber

Standard* Combo Mill UB (Dimir)

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Creature (18)

• 4x Consuming Aberration
• 4x Crypt Ghast
• 3x Evil Twin
• 2x Fog Bank
• 1x Griselbrand
• 4x Vampire Nighthawk

Land (24)

• 3x Blood Crypt
• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 3x Island
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 9x Swamp
• 4x Watery Grave

Instant (9)

• 1x Far / Away
• 2x Murder
• 3x Thought Scour
• 2x Tragic Slip
• 1x Victim of Night

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Artful Dodge
• 2x Breaking / Entering
• 2x Essence Harvest
• 2x Mutilate
• 1x Sever the Bloodline
• 1x Sorin's Vengeance

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Snapcaster Mage

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Maybeboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Black Cat
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Griselbrand
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Melek, Izzet Paragon
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Secrets of the Dead

Artifact (1)

• 1x Witchbane Orb

Instant (2)

• 1x Rewind
• 1x Think Twice

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Artful Dodge
• 1x Hands of Binding
• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Stolen Identity

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This deck sort of looks like a train wreck, and I'm soliciting advice for improving it. However, it works very well in multiplayer games and better than you might think just looking at it.

Goals

• Casual "Standard" multiplayer deck; not a deck for dueling.
• Use my opponents' creatures against them.
• Seek impressive wins: combo, big creatures, flashiness.

Strategy

• Ramp with Chromatic Lantern, Heartless Summoning, and Crypt Ghast.
• Keep the board under control with Mutilate, Murder, Far / Away, Sever the Bloodline, and Vampire Nighthawk
• Mill a tiny bit with Breaking / Entering or Thought Scour
• Consuming Aberration to pose a threat and to mill more. A beast in multiplayer.
• Havengul Lich to steal threats from their yard or reanimate my own downed Vampire Nighthawk or Consuming Aberration or whatever. If Consuming Aberration is in play, this also has the effect of milling.
• Evil Twin fills a similar role, 'stealing' their threats or copying my own.
• Finish with Rogue's Passage, Artful Dodge, Essence Harvest, or mill (unlikely)

Weird Interactions

• Havengul Lich + Chromatic Lantern helps me play their creatures of any color. Both Crypt Ghast and Heartless Summoning give me greater reach.
• Havengul Lich + Snapcaster Mage is pretty brutal. With Heartless Summoning I can re-cast a bunch of stuff in my yard.
• Consuming Aberration is great in multiplayer, great with Havengul Lich (because it allows me to cast so many things), pretty good in multiples (with Evil Twin, for example).
• 1x Black Cat was in there for a while. If I can stick Heartless Summoning and Havengul Lich it gets pretty ridiculous, and early in the game it can persuade an opponent to attack someone else (rather than attacking me and tossing a card). I took it out for a Far / Away though.

Looking for specific advice

• I want to tighten it up, make it more consistent and more inevitable.
• I feel that some of the key cards in the deck I'm only running 2x or 3x, which feels weird.
• I feel like I have a few singletons that may or may not be contributing. Deathrite Shaman provides a lot of value, can ramp, can do some damage, can mitigate their graveyard, but is he needed? What about the 1x Snapcaster Mage - he's pretty awesome but maybe I've already won by the time I want him. And should Essence Harvest just be Artful Dodge?
• Should I splash Grixis?
• Should I up the Crypt Ghast and play Griselbrand?

Credits

Although this was my own conception, it does bear a lot of similarities to "Welcome to Havengul Industries" (no longer online) by 10vernothin, so shout out to that build.

Also superficially similar to Woo Brews Black Tide: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/woo-brews-black-tide-combo/

Date added	12 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 2 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.67