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Poor Man's Standard

Standard*

Aelifre


Let's go!

So, I REALLY loved building this and I REALLY love this deck so, now that MTGO now has SOI, I built it for less than 1 ticket.

I'm going to keep updating the deck, I added a sideboard that I think could help some matchups as well.

Breakdown:

Instants

Grasp of Darkness: Mono-black, this is absolutely the best kill spell for a simple .

Merciless Resolve : This is a beast of a card. It allows me to bring on delirium, draw two cards, AND at instant speed. YES! YES! YES!

Sorceries:

Duress: Self explanatory, might change to despise or split them depending on how the meta begins to develop.

Transgress the Mind: Hits all the good stuff! Keeps your opponent from delirium!

Alms of the Vein : Oh hi improved Bump in the Night, how are you?!

Enchantments:

Sinister Concoction : An amazing card that can single-handedly activate delirium, trigger madness, and kill a creature your opponent has. The value is unreal!

Dead Weight: This gives us an edge against aggro decks. (Cough Mono white humans* cough). It would be amazing if it were an instant, but enchantments good enough since we don't have to deal with Monastery Swiftspear!

Call the Bloodline: Delirium helper, creature generator, madness enabler, can be done at any time... It's amazing.

Creatures!

Pale Rider of Trostad : A two-drop, madness enabler that most of the time is unblockable or gets chump blocked. It's good! Don't question it!

Kindly Stranger   : Holy shit this card is bonkers. A 4/3 for 3 that kills a creature. VALUE!

Accursed Witch   : My favorite card from SOI. Literally. That's not an understatement. It WANTS to die. I'll chump block with it all day or swing at you constantly. JUST KILL IT!! Then the flip is amazing! Let me start casting Transgress the Mind and Alms of the Vein for ! I don't care! It also keeps you in the game while slowly draining your opponent for the win! So good!

Leave any input you'd like! I'll upload my sideboard as soon as I figure out the best configuration. I'll keep this updated with matches from MTGO!

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My first match was against a Mono White humans/equipment deck and I almost lost one of the games until a top decked Accursed Witch  Flip That I was able to play and sacrifice to flip it and drain him for the last two! The other game was an easy one-sided game that I took easily.

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Revision 2 See all

(8 years ago)

-2 Angelic Purge main
-1 Biting Rain main
-3 Cathar's Companion main
-4 Forsaken Sanctuary main
+4 Grasp of Darkness main
+4 Kindly Stranger  Flip main
+2 Merciless Resolve main
+2 Mortuary Mire main
-3 Murderous Compulsion main
+4 Pale Rider of Trostad main
-2 Pick the Brain main
-6 Plains main
-2 Puncturing Light main
+5 Swamp main
Date added 8 years
Last updated 8 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

20 - 0 Uncommons

23 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.24
Tokens Vampire Knight 1/1 B
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