little help with card gathering
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Posted on May 16, 2013, 4:40 a.m. by zandadoum
hello there,
trying to build my golgari FNM standard deck and finish some changes before tomorrows FNM and one of my main concerns is running out of cards in hand.so what i seek is some sort of instant speed Disciple of Bolas in black or green.anyone got some suggestions?
thx in advance
what i have been using now (currenlty sideboarded or maybeboard) is Garruk, Primal Hunter or Staff of Nin , the staff being my favourite
then i started to like Disciple of Bolas , specially due the life gain, but the problem with it (and garruk or the staff) is that i cannot respond with it at instant speed.
i got a suggestion to use Deadbridge Chant but that would mean i should redesign my deck a lot to use more graveyard mechanics...
May 16, 2013 5:41 a.m.
Timekeeper says... #4
Well, you could always make two different versions of the deck. One with Altar's Reap and one redesigned to work with Deadbridge Chant . As a general rule, redesigning and existing deck around a particular card tends to leave one unsatisfied with the deck, since it strayed from the original inspiration. It would be much more useful to think of the Deadbridge Chant suggestion as an entirely separate deck idea.
May 16, 2013 5:45 a.m.
My super-secret tech is Triumph of Ferocity when I need additional card drawing in G/B or Junk. I see your deck is already running Predator Ooze . Toss in Ulvenwald Tracker , and you'll have no problem drawing cards every turn.
There isn't anything at instant speed, but Triumph of Ferocity is really strong and so is Sign in Blood . I haven't had very much luck with Blood Scrivener yet.
I play Junk Zombies myself, which started off as G/B. Our decks have a lot of overlap.
May 16, 2013 6:15 a.m.
Triumph of Ferocity sounds ok... on the other hand i hate stuff like Blood Scrivener because of the life loss. it's not my style but i might consider it in the future.
also, what pisses me off most, is that people suggests me great cards... but i have no clue what to remove to fit it in, as i like all my cards so much, haha.
May 16, 2013 8:13 a.m.
You might also just find you don't need to draw that many cards - just win! You can get a lot of value off of favorable graveyard interactions like Scavenge, etc, if you have them. Not as powerful as pure draw, but still quite good.
Timekeeper says... #2
Altar's Reap is the only instant speed card drawing engine you'll find in those colors in standard. Conveniently it functions very similarly to Disciple of Bolas . However, you might also want to look at passive card draw such as Underworld Connections , Bloodgift Demon and their ilk.
May 16, 2013 5:29 a.m.