A_Magikarp: Thanks for the support and suggestion. I do like Rhox Faithmender as it adds a nice blocker and interacts very well with the rest of the deck. If might try 2 of them if the price ever drops.
Tapcave: Thanks for the comment. To answer your question, during the combat phase there are multiple steps:
- your opponent declares attackers
- you declare Valor Made Real as your only blocker and cast Valor Made Real at instant speed which allows you to block any number of creatures.
- Combat damage is assigned
Since you assign blockers before even calculating damage, yes it can block anything regardless of legally assigned damage (unless it has flying, unblockable ...).
August 20, 2015 8:32 a.m.
om3gaweapon says... #4
hey, just guessing what about [card:Dark ritual] for accel?
August 22, 2015 12:31 p.m.
om3gaweapon: Dark Ritual sure is nice for speeding up a combo but it's not modern legal.
August 22, 2015 1:24 p.m.
+1 for sure!
What is keeping this out of Modern? cause i really want something like this to blow out my local meta when i play modern for the first time.
October 8, 2015 1:04 p.m.
HeavyR: Well unless i'm mistaken this deck is modern legal.
October 9, 2015 6:15 a.m.
Is it a good idea to replace 4x Sanguine Bond with 2x Wall of Blood and 2 x Rite of Consumption ?
October 26, 2015 11:08 a.m.
om3gaweapon says... #11
hey there, i really enjoy your deck and made my own version a bit faster and efficent but no more modern for one card if you want to check It may seems i lose life however...
October 27, 2015 6:41 a.m.
DooMijasz, om3gaweapon: You sure can experiment with Wall of Blood, Essence Harvest, Rite of Consumption, Dying Wish ... I chose not to include them into this deck because i've already made another budget deck using the cards. You might want to check it out : Budget creatures for a budget deck.
October 27, 2015 12:21 p.m.
Karn862 thank you for a reply :) I have a lot of fun playing this deck and gonna for sure play it more. Last question for now : If I somehow get my hands on Athreos, God of Passage, what should i replace for it?
October 28, 2015 9:58 a.m.
moxChyrsalis says... #14
played this against a G/B eldrazi mana ramp deck and got annihilated. out of 8 games, it could never pull the win condition on time. it was very close some games , but was missing land drops, and could never get a win condition out. curious how to adapt to to a more aggro decsk , as the idea is super cool :) the biggest issue i found was bouncing back the damage , sanguine bond is just so slow...
November 6, 2015 7:40 p.m.
Is there a non budget version of this? Cause I really enjoy how this plays. Just want it to be more consistent!
November 24, 2015 10:45 p.m.
Darkmagi1131 says... #16
There's my version at Risky Business it's non budget and pretty consistent.
November 25, 2015 12:08 p.m.
A player may bid more life than he or she has. so if i pay 1000 whit Pain's Reward and have Intervention Pact do i get 1000 hp ?
July 21, 2016 4:27 p.m.
killmeplz: Intervention Pact reverts damage not losing life, so it will not work with Pain's Reward.
July 22, 2016 4:01 a.m.
KaiserWilhelm says... #20
karn862: I love this deck so much. Here is my non-budget version of this: Life Is But Another Resource. Love your work
August 4, 2016 6:43 a.m.
nyctophasm says... #21
Dude, I need to try this. This is exactly the sort of oddball deck that delights my imagination.
August 31, 2016 8:57 p.m.
Dark_Globe says... #23
Big fan of this deck concept, seems like a lot of fun. +1 for sure.
I know it's not modern legal, or particularly budget, but I feel like Toxic Deluge should have a home in this deck.
November 5, 2016 7:02 p.m.
TheWrongBunny says... #24
well this is a deck that I am glad to be proven wrong. I was always under the impression that while paying life decreases your life total it didn't count as "life loss" although through this deck made me double check and I am happy to be proven wrong on this. Defenite +1 on this, good job dude.
April 10, 2017 11:22 a.m.
HI This deck is awesome!but I have two questions
1.Pain's Reward + Children of Korlis/ Tainted Sigil : i dare you to pay 20 life so i don't draw 4 cards, i double dare you ! (if you dare more life that you have, no matter if you sacrifice children of korlis you kill yourself)
Can you be more specific when you use pain reward. I dnt understand very much this card.
you can use pain reward if you have less life than your oponennt?
- How you defend yourself with flying deck?
I will like try to understand better this awesome deck! thanks
Tapcave says... #1
This looks like a very fun deck to play with! I have one question though (it might be stupid, I am not that advanced in the game): When you use Valor Made Real on Souls of the Faultless, does damage have to be legally assigned to block? Like, can Souls block four 1/1 creatures or two 2/2 creatures, or can it block whatever for one turn? Thanks!
August 20, 2015 7:38 a.m.