Strionic Resonator + Sanguine Bond or Exquisite Blood = double trouble; pulling each Sanguine = Ping pong effect game over
Blind Obedience for extortion and to ensure no aggroHigh Priest of Penance as its basically deathtouch Tithe Drinker due to Extort and lifelinkVampire Nighthawk due to Death touch and LifelinkFiendslayer Paladin due to lifelink + Protection and first strikeCrypt Ghast due to Extortion along with the Black mana production which allows for the important play of...Debt to the Deathless and its high cost to be a game over with a Sanguine Bond out as it doubles their damage; Sanguine Blood to ensure you pull off the 180 health win I had that drew down to a finale on the last round of overtime where I finally pull a Debt to the deathless to finish off my opponent. then if Strionic Resonator is attached its a whole new story as you add another instance of that effect.Having two Sanguine Bond and two Sanguine Blood is part of the patience; you'll get one - if you get two you are groovy; thus having two Strionic Resonator incase you need to temp harrass by copying one of the effects... but then we have three other HUGE factors with The Sanguine cards and / OR the Resonator
Congregate if things are looking iffy; or both sides have a pretty damn good amount of mobs out; BOOM 2 life gained for anything I control and they control = the life I gain from this; they lose - 5 cards on each side is a game over if they havent gained any life.
But let's say we are getting into the trenches with our mobs and attacking quite a bit; gaining life here and there -Archangel of Thune everytime you extort BOOM add +! +! to all creatures; everytime life is gained in genera; you have so much Life link in this deck that your smaller two and three drops that flood the deck become insanity; while controlling the game early on gaining you life; chipping at their life - Or use the Strionic Resonator onto that Gain Life = +1 +1 to all creatures and double up.
Finally Blood Baron of Vizkopa you'll have 30 life at some point easy; they'll have 10 life - and even if you dont need him for this reason its more lifelink.
+++ ISSUES AFTER ROTATION+++
Ping Pong effect is gone due to no more Exquisite Blood - I am thinking of adding ONE MORE Sanguine Bond and ONE MORE Strionic Resonator to see how that ends up flying.Speaking of flying we also lose two more important cards - the 3 drop Vampire Nighthawk which is more or less an easy Lifelink and Deathtouch harrass with flying; nothing else intended in the deck; it can be replaced by the M14 lifelink only 2 drop; - or go crazy and figure out how to implement Lifebane Zombie into the mix.
With Theros / Born of th eGods ... I feel its a very COMMANDER set; and I don't dig the cards themselves, scrying aids in being mana flooded or mana fudged; so the four Isolated Chapel 's need to go due to rotation which leaves us screwed for the quick awesome shockland;So we add two more Godless shrines and if we are not into the Theros set yet could always use two Orv Guild-gates for the dual land...Although having Temple of Silence actually will make this deck more efficient; so I am trying to figure out the benefits of swapping the 4 Isolated with 4 Temples of Silence and keeping just 2 Godless Shrine - --------------- The Vampire Nighthawk and Ultimate Price changes will be added soon; Theros really screwed the pooch for this style thus far; I will figure out a pretty damn good if not better alternative to aid in the synergy; despite the synergy of the Bond and Blood being lost this deck is still insanely solid just with life-link, extortion, Sanguine Bond still existing alongside Strionic Resonator Hell; The vampy can EASILY be missed if this is done right ;)
This is the original Pro Thune build that Wind0wned ENDLESS competitions; Any advice to someone who did not like what he saw and STOPPED playing magic on a 4-5 day basis at tournament centers due to Theros initially coming back in to make this deck work with Theros cards and excel that can drop a few ideas to the cards that ended up being rotated out; please do comment.
Trust me, everything else is in good place (Debates about adding another blood and resonator are interesting though; as a resonator could just dedicate to a different effect if you end up getting 2 in use with only one Bond out.
Thanks Guys!
"Kenneth Wind Spaziani"
