Flesh / Blood is a sorcery, so you wouldn't be able to respond to attempted creature removal... it is a good card, though.
How well has Domri Rade worked out? I haven't tried him in a deck like this.
May 30, 2013 11:01 a.m.
Domri Rade is a lot of fun, his second ability is what really does it for me. As long as my creature number stays as high as it is he'll be sticking around. I have been toying with the thought of dumping Flinthoof Boar and putting in 2 lands along with 2 Sire Of Insanity . Any thoughts?
May 30, 2013 5:03 p.m.
Sire Of Insanity would wreak havoc with the control decks, but at 6 cmc is a mid-game card. I think he's too expensive to be in your mainboard, even if you go to 22 land. I think you would need to regear your deck to fit the sire in your board.
Now if you want to dump Flinthoof Boar , I would consider the classic aggro finishers of either Falkenrath Aristocrat or Hellrider . The only 4 cmc critter you have right now is Ghor-Clan Rampager , which is in there for RG bloodrush rather than a RG2 4/4 vanilla. I put the aristocrat in my deck as I don't mind sacrificing creatures too much when it's needed.
You may want 1 more land, though... 20 may be light.
May 30, 2013 6:42 p.m.
Hmm, not sure i wanna drop the scratch for Falkenrath Aristocrat but i do have a playset of Hellrider s. Maybe ill try out one land with three Hellrider s.
May 30, 2013 8:39 p.m.
I've posted my deck Slumber Party if you want to take a look.
May 31, 2013 1:29 a.m.
General_Meow says... #7
Heya, nice deck +1. I have a similar one, where I run Falkenrath Aristocrat for a fast 4 drop. I have also been testing Zealous Conscripts as removal (8 sac outlets) which means I can run a all creature spell deck which works great with Domri Rade . Ive been thinking about taking out my Gravecrawler for Blood Scrivener , how have you found the Blood Scrivener, do you find him more often being a 2/1 with no draw or do you generally get your draws?
For reference this is my deck Varolz, the experimental devil
May 31, 2013 6:53 a.m.
vintagebeat says... #8
Got some nice ideas here. Didn't even think about Slumbering Dragon. I can't resist adding Gyre Sage to any Varolz list, though. Your power seems high enough to evolve it reliably without the use of a broken Vexing Devil scavenge. It will allow you to put fat bonfires through, maybe even cast a big drop like big Garruk, or an earlier Sire of Insanity. Having a flier like Falkenrath Aristocrat or Thundermaw Hellkite does wreck even more when you put counters on them, but perhaps it's just overkill. I've also been thinking about Strangleroot Geist instead of Spike Jester. Jester does have higher power, but is so bad against large or recursive creatures ie smiter, geist, voice.
May 31, 2013 3:36 p.m.
add Rancor over Strangleroot Geist or Flinthoof Boar . Turn a Spike Jester into a 5/1 which you can scavenge 3 for 2 and then play Rancor again on another creature.
June 8, 2013 1:47 a.m.
restless_nights says... #10
Might i suggest Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord :3 great card to have on the battle field if something like creature hate starts to happen!
GdSvThQn says... #1
Hmm, I really do like Flesh / Blood and have run it in other decks with great success. I will definitely have to play around with substituting it in. The only reason I would hesitate using it is because it would replace creatures and slow up the deck but it might work well in place of Flinthoof Boar .
May 30, 2013 8:12 a.m.