New Eva Green | The Rusty Machete
17 Creatures:
4 Dark Confidant
2 Gatekeeper of Malakir
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Hypnotic Specter
3 Nantuko Shade
23 Spells:
4 Dark Ritual
4 Mental Misstep
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Ghastly Demise
2 Dismember
2 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Dark Confidant
2 Gatekeeper of Malakir
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Hypnotic Specter
3 Nantuko Shade
23 Spells:
4 Dark Ritual
4 Mental Misstep
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Ghastly Demise
2 Dismember
2 Maelstrom Pulse
15 Sideboard:
2 Perish
4 Duress
2 Engineered Plague
2 Pernicious Deed
2 Extirpate
1 Surgical Extraction
2 Krosan Grip
2 Perish
4 Duress
2 Engineered Plague
2 Pernicious Deed
2 Extirpate
1 Surgical Extraction
2 Krosan Grip
No, there's no Tombstalker. There's also no Snuff Out.
What does Mental Misstep do for this deck? It beats cards that murder the deck; Swords to Plowshares, Sensei's Divining Top and Brainstorm.
Why play this over Junk variants? Hypnotic Specter. While this guy isn't the end all of Legacy, the nut draw of Dark Ritualing this guy out early with Misstep backup is game breaking enough.
Additionally, all of the cards that you need to resolve don't cost 1 mana. Now if your opponents are playing Spell Snare... things are more awkward in a post-Misstep world.
Dismember is an interesting card for me - it hurts less off Dark Confidant and you can do partial payments, and it kills most all creatures. I think it's definitely good enough for the deck, even though it's not 100% free
The Surgical Extraction is in the board because I love 1-of's. No respect.
-G
2 comments:
Brings back bad memories of playing a friend who drew for his first turn, played a swamp, tapped, cast 4x dark ritual dropped 3 Hyppies. Ahhh, black summer.
That said, I don't know enough to know how this would fare. If something like this was successful it might tempt me into giving Legacy a shot, suicide black was always a favourite.
I'm more than happy to play things like this in local events, and put my results up here.
Give it about 5 weeks, so prices will come down a little from post-Grand Prix Providence, and I'll actually have Mental Misstep and Dismember in my hands for testing.
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