I played two Maw of the Obzedat in a draft this saturday and realized how he could be used for some nasty shenanigans. Immediately Blood Artist came to my mind.The idea is to have Blood Artist out and keep your opponent at bay with all the nice removal we got. Abrupt Decay takes care of the low-cost aggressive creatures, Gaze of Granite instakills any tokens your opponent may throw at you (looking at you Advent of the Wurm) and Putrefy is for everything that is bigger. As we mainly focus to kill the 1mana and 2mana creatures with our massremoval, most of our creatures stay alive - if not the opponent will at least take some beating with the help of blood artist. Hopefully there will be some Blood Scriveners or Gravecrawlers out afterwards, so we can get any Gravecrawler back, we just lost.
Talking about Gravecrawlers... If you have a Blood Artist and Gravecrawler and happen to play a maw of the obzedat, you can have a funny mainphase. How about sacing gravecrawler, playing it again, sacing it again, playing it again and getting 1 life for everytime doing so (and your opponent losing 1), as well as boosting your creatures? Lingering Souls mainly is in here to have additional sac-creatures at hand, as well as swinging in with a pumped spirit.
Want to speed it up? Just use the ability of Vizkopa Guildmage. You only need maw of the obzedat, blood artist and him and can let your opponent lose double the life.
Deadbridge Chant (not yet sure about that one) can speed up the process as you want to watch you mana in the long run. We dont have any manaacceleration so after killing everything the opponent has with our removals we might lack the manabase to cast consecutevly. This way we not only get some removals back, but also can cast creatures for free - to kill them again :D
Let me know what you think! I like the idea, as it means you basically never have to actually attack your opponent to kill him (but might to do so once or twice after pumping a spirit to 5/5).
I took the Bloodbaron over Obzedat, as he might be much more likely to have his ability active by the time he might be played. The big problem of this deck might rather be to actually deal the killing blow and not get the life of your opponent down to 10 or around it. The protections from basically any removal is also not bad .
