zenatic's Bring out Your Dead
 
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This is a complete Legacy deck.
Total deck value: $107.55.
 
Columns
# Name Type Cost 
 Price
Color
Creature (22)
2
Death Cultist
Creature - Human Wizard $0.10  
4
Bloodghast
Creature - Vampire Spirit $3.30  
3
Hellspark Elemental
Creature - Elemental $1.13  
3
Reassembling Skeleton
Creature - Skeleton Warrior $0.17  
3
Blood Cultist
Creature - Human Wizard $0.18  
4
Hissing Iguanar
Creature - Lizard $0.11  
3
Deathbringer Thoctar
Creature - Zombie Beast $0.49  
Instant (10)
4
Dark Ritual
Instant $0.92  
2
Lightning Axe
Instant $0.16  
4
Lightning Bolt
Instant $0.77  
Artifact (2)
2
Quietus Spike
Artifact - Equipment $2.60  
Enchantment (6)
3
Animate Dead
Enchantment - Aura $1.68  
3
Grave Pact
Enchantment $4.25  
Land (20)
2
Akoum Refuge
Land $0.41  
1
Arid Mesa
Land $10.66  
3
Dragonskull Summit
Land $3.49  
1
Marsh Flats
Land $10.40  
4
Mountain
Basic Land - Mountain $0.11  
7
Swamp
Basic Land - Swamp $0.13  
2
Teetering Peaks
Land $0.18  
Sideboard
# Name Type Cost 
 Price
Color
3
Deathgreeter
Creature - Human Shaman $0.12  
2
Demystify
Instant $0.10  
2
Celestial Purge
Instant $0.16  
2
Prodigal Pyromancer
Creature - Human Wizard $0.16  
3
Extinction
Sorcery $1.36  
2
Liliana Vess
Planeswalker - Liliana $6.68  
1
It That Betrays
Creature - Eldrazi $5.03  
Notes
 
So after a weekend of playtesting, I modified this deck slightly.  I only played against a Creature deck and hope to do some more play testing.

Quietus Spike is nice for Deathbringer Thoctar & Blood Cultist.  Might not be bad for Bloodghast and Arc Runner when I know they will get killed anyways.

Leyline of the Void really changes the deck strategy, any ideas on how to deal with that?
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  • [avatar]
    Pheonix29 ()
    If you are going to put Quietus Spike in the deck you might want to add something with trample.  Look at Ball Lightning, Cosmic Larva, Elemental Appeal, Fatal Frenzy and Goblin Gaveleer.  I think Goblin Gaveller and Ball lightning may be the best bet for the mana they cost.  Spark elemental would still be good and cheap as well.
     
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      zenatic ()

      Yeah, Arc Runner's are not the best "sacrifice at end of turn" reds, but they are the ones I have in my collection.  Ball lightning would be tougher since i don't always have 3 red mana, but Hellspark Elemental gives me 2 chances to do 3 dmg for each one (unearth) and is a little faster than arc runner, i could drop the death greeters and put in 2 spark elementals and add the teetering peaks back in.


      However, the Quietus Spike is for Blood cultist or Deathbringer, since deathtouch works for their damage abilities.



       
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        Pheonix29 ()
        Right on.  I see now what you are doing with the quietus spike.  I was suggesting getting a cheap trample out and equipping it with the spike.  That way you only need one damage to go through and they lose half their life or you've just destroyed a bunch of their creatures (3 in the case of ball lightning or spark elemental)
         
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          zenatic ()

          Yeah, the beauty of the equipment is i can use it many different ways and with deathtouch being static its nice a 3/1 trample deathtouch can still come through with a possible 2 dmg to the player.

           
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    Pheonix29 ()
    You might want to look at "Animate Dead" instead of "Rise from the Grave".  The returned creature gets -1/-0 and isn't a zombie, but its only a 1B, 1 colorless mana cost.