Drafting ideas for dnd set decks
Biggest problem I see with this right now is that the 3 drop slot is loaded. Might want to pick a few and keep a dungeon plan honed and provide support for that rather than just slam venture cards in.
Dungeon of the Mad Mage (7 rooms):
You gain 1 life
Scry 1
Create a Treasure Token | Target creature can't attack until your next turn
Scry 2
Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them. | Create two 1/1 black Skeleton creature tokens
Scry 3
Draw three cards and reveal them. You may cast one of them without paying its mana cost.
Lost Mind of Phandelver (4 rooms)
Scry 1
Create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token | Create a Treasure token
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature | Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life | Target creature gets -4/-0 until your next turn
Draw a card
Tomb of Annihilation (3 or 4 rooms)
Each player loses 1 life
Each player loses 2 life unless they discard a card > Each player loses 2 life unless they sacrifice an artifact, a creature, or a land. | Discard a card and sacrifice an artifact, a creature, and a land.
Create The Atropal, a legendary 4/4 black God Horror creature token with deathtouch.
Acererak the Archlich
and
Triumphant Adventurer
seem like the best two to build around. Acererak will need a bit of attack danger.
Will want to be offensive with Triumphant Adventurer and will be taking some hits from Tomb of Annihilation, so ideally some bulky walls or lifegain to keep the train going would be good.
Soft combos with Acererak the Arclich in BW in standard:
Mace of the Valiant
,
Kor Celebrant
,
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
. In order: Eldraine, Zendikar Rising, Theros Beyond Death. Latest rotation is Zendikar Rising (
Kor Celebrant
)
In colorless:
Bloodline Pretender
- Kaldheim (doesn't rotate)
Also:
Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Throne of Eldraine
Not good enough payoffs to justify using those options, especially with their early rotations. Maybe look more to B/W beatdown.
Circle of Loyalty is cool but is probably too slow for this deck with only two knights, and it rotates very soon. Look towards the other two relevant Legendary Matters options, which are from Kaldheim:
Tyrite Sanctum
and
Kaya the Inexorable
Kaya the Inexorable
is removal and the emblem is insane for this deck as well as the +1, very natural fit and not an expensive planeswalker
Tyrite Sanctum
is a colorless boosting land that can make
Acererak the Archlich
scary af.
Shadows' Verdict
is a huge threat.
Pelakka Predation
and other discard in the sideboard can help against it but they ofc can't stop a topdeck.
Fifty Feet of Rope
is a multi-purpose temporary creature lockdown, an artifact for Oubilette if necessary, and can venture further into dungeons as butter on top.
Problem cards in existing Standard decks:
-
Shadows' Verdict
- brutal eliminator, have a few 4+ mana cards but they're not as inspiring as the low drops. Can handle with stacking targeted discard in the sideboard, potentially more "block this card name" sideboards if they exist.
Duress
,
Pelakka Predation
-
Stonecoil Serpent
- shuts down Triumphant Adventurer's ability to safely attack w/ its protection from multicolor
-
Reidane, God of the Worthy
- temporarily slows down Triumphant Adventurer with the shield half, but shouldn't be that big of an issue
-
Cinderclasm
- can be a little annoying
-
Kaervek, the Spiteful
- again a little annoying
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Guardian of Faith
is a great sideboard card suggestion
