Already made more major renovations from Lost Hope 3. Version three I was mostly happy with, but against heavy control decks that make my start falter, Lost Hope is not able to recover fast enough. So here comes version four.
My biggest goal was to incorporate a board wipe that could be used when I'm low on creatures so unable to use
Eliminate the Competition
. I removed Bone Splinters in favor of Torment of Hailfire to accomplish this, hopefully.
I also feel like I don't have effective enough card draw, but deciding how to implement it created a conflict of interest between card draw and graveyard dump. I like Pore Over the Pages for the card draw, graveyard dump, and mana return, but is expensive to initially cast so adding more seems like it might not work. Cards like Divination I don't like, one, for what feels like a slow turn, and two, lack of graveyard manipulation. I decided that
Take Inventory
would be good, cheap card draw that can trigger itself if it ends up in the graveyard without being cast and also to trigger Rise from the Tides. However, subbing them in for my current drawing cards would remove a lot of graveyard dump, which I need. I'm often frustrated when I can't get anything in my graveyard. So I put in another
Corpse Churn
. I don't know if this is going to be enough. I'm considering putting in zombies that put cards in my graveyard like
Crow of Dark Tidings
, but I'm not the biggest fan of the crow's stats. So to continue trying to think about my graveyard, I removed both copies of Moan of the Unhallowed in favor of zombie creature cards. I have numerous abilities to generate tokens, and I think having more non-token zombies to trigger
Diregraf Colossus
and to occupy my graveyard will help me. I added Eternal of Harsh Truths to again help with card draw potentially. And finally, I tweaked my special lands for Amonkhet block deserts that have cycling, and one where I can mill myself if needed.
Other changes were made that don't really need to be discussed but I will answer questions if there are inquiries.
Changes:
Removed: x1 Ammit Eternal, x1
Bone Splinters
, x1
Cemetery Recruitment
, x1 Contingency Plan, x2
Dismal Backwater
, x1
Graf Harvest
, x1
Jace's Sanctum
, x2
Moan of the Unhallowed
, x1
Pore Over the Pages
, x2
Swamp
, x1
Unbreathing Horde
, x1
Forgotten Creation
.
Added: x1
Corpse Churn
, x1
Desert of the Mindful
, x1 Ipnu Rivulet, x2
Desert of the Glorified
, x1
Sidisi, Undead Vizier
, x2 Lord of the Accursed, x1 Torment of Hailfire, x4
Take Inventory
, x2 Eternal of Harsh Truths.
