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Use your brain: kill things, gain life, repeat

Standard BG (Golgari) Competitive Control Cruel Control Lifegain Ramp

Drfrozenfire


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Are you sick of the same old boring aggro decks? The same old boring midrange decks? Tired of thinking about decisions? Well not anymore! Introducing the Brain in a Jar! Never think about anything again. Let the brain do the thinking for you! Simply kill anything that the opponent tries to put out, gain life for doing that, and then when you get bored use a Seasons Past and let the fun begin again!

The meanest deck around. Kill all the things, gain all the life, repeat.

Removal

Ruinous Path - Kills anything in the format except Ohrmendal

Blighted Fen - Gets rid of some of the things

Languish - Gets rid of all the things

Remorseless Punishment - Sacrifices must be made to the gods of slaughter

Grasp of Darkness - Kills most of the creatures in this format

Ob Nixilis Reignited - Kills a thing

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger - Blow up 2 things

Lifegain

Nissa's Renewal - Ramp it up and get some life in the process

Prism Ring - Nothing feels sweeter than a deck that gains life for killing things

Pulse of Murasa - Snag back a Blighted Fen to kill something, gain life for it

Card advantage

Ob Nixilis Reignited - Draw a card, lose a life

Read the Bones - Set up your next couple cards, draw them, maybe lose a life or two

Brain in a Jar - This sets up draws, can cast instant speed removal, and it's a brain in a jar... 'nuff said.

Seasons Past - After removing all the things, get your removal back so you can do it all again

Dark Petition - Find something and then use it

Duress - See their hand, get rid of something, all for one mana

Win conditions

Remorseless Punishment - No matter what they choose you come out ahead here

Ob Nixilis Reignited - Because Ob

Seasons Past - Alright, this is more of a won't-lose condition than a win condition, but it gets you back a win condition

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger - Because Ulamog, that's why

Kozilek, the Great Distortion - Kozilek fills the hand up, discard to counter then get em all back with Seasons Past

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Sideboard

Duress - To hate on control decks, the goggles decks, etc

Transgress the Mind - See above

Orbs of Warding - Stop those pesky burn decks, and that rogue mill deck

Seasons Past - Bring this in when you think they have counterspells or hand removal

Root Out - Clean up something nasty like a Pyromancer's Goggles, get a clue... seems legit

Virulent Plague - Shut down all those pesky Secure the Wastes and other shenanigans

Languish - Bring in against creature-heavy decks

Grasp of Darkness - See above

Remorseless Punishment - Bring in against midrange and control decks

Pulse of Murasa - When you need that extra lifegain

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Date added 8 years
Last updated 8 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

5 - 1 Mythic Rares

22 - 5 Rares

7 - 5 Uncommons

14 - 4 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.66
Tokens Clue, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited
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