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Ugh, now that really sucks.  At least you got to do the pre-release to hold you over!

I've heard that MSRP is $25, but I'm not sure if that was official or not.

I believe the Wastelands generally go for ~$5 a piece.  The Cursed Scrolls (I actually have two now that I look) go for around $1, but I'm flexible on that number.

Well, just to tag on a little bit (hope you don't mind), I also have 2x Gold Bordered Wastelands, as well as a Cursed Scroll.  Feel free to send me any offers.

Yep, these are pretty awesome.  Great work!  I always thought about trying this, but I don't think I have the talent nor the patience.

For your commander, do you plan to keep an extra copy around, in case it gets shuffled into your library?

In the ideal world, that is definitely true, but in reality it could easily be thrown to the graveyard by Grisly Salvage or if it gets countered, or if they destroy the creature that I'm targeting it at (thus countering it since the target is no longer valid).  At least if Rush of Blood gets countered or discarded I can still use the Deathrite Shaman to drain a couple life, where Rancor is only usable by Cremate.  I guess only playtesting will tell which is better....

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I deleted posts where I had the ability to, but there are more places than not that I do not have that authority.

This is what I did now, but I'm still not entirely sure about all the changes because they make me sad to lose them, but they make sense......

-4 Vile Rebirth
-2 Auger Spree
-2 Jarad's Orders
+2 Murder (Cheap option)

The one issue with running Rancor entirely over the other pump spells is that Deathrite Shaman actually can't do anything with Rancor if it gets dumped from a Grisly Salvage, but it can do something with a Rush of Blood or other similar pump spells.  So, I'm not entirely sure what I want to run more.....  At this point in time I have 2 Rancor and 2 Rush of Blood and I'm two cards heavy in my deck......

I just want to preface this by saying that the numbers of cards were mainly just "Start with 4 of everything and narrow down from there."  So I wasn't actually expecting to necessarily keep four of everything, and some things I just forgot to update the numbers (like Grisly Salvage).

Pack Rat was there because it both feeds the graveyard to help both pump Jarad and give those graveyard exile cards more to work with, and it creates an ever growing number of ever growing creatures that can easily be sacrificed to deal damage.  Discard two cards and you have three 3/3s, plus you can use those discarded cards to deal damage, gain life, draw more cards, etc.

I'm a bit reluctant to get rid of Treacherous Pit-Dweller, regardless of the necessary additional cards to make him work properly.  2 mana for a 4/3 is very hard to pass up, and at the moment I have a lot of things to remove it from the graveyard.  But yeah, it definitely is a bit risky.  Even if we remove him though, getting rid of the Vile Rebirths might not be the best idea, because that can combat a lot of other decks as well, like anything using Gravecrawler, Undying or Reanimator type decks.

Traitorous Instinct was just a random idea I had, and the +2/+0 is basically the whole point of it.  A temporary bump to increase the damage done when I sacrifice it.  My issue with using something like Mark of Mutiny is that they could do something like destroy Jarad before I can sacrifice their creature, and then I'm just giving them their creature back, bigger and better. Act of Treason is cheaper by 1, but it doesn't give the pump, and I think that the extra one mana is worth the extra two damage.  And yes, I actually very much like Zealous Conscripts instead, totally forgot about that!

The same general principle applies to Rancor.  I'm not using it to give my creatures trample, I'm using it as a 1 mana 2 damage bump that can be reused again and again, which is really powerful, personally, especially if I get a couple of them that I can continually recur over and over.  The plan isn't ever to attack unless I have to, even with something like Cryptborn Horror I don't particularly care about the fact that it has trample, but rather the fact that I can sac a Desecration Demon for 6+ damage and then have Cryptborn Horror come into play just that much bigger, and for only 3 mana.

You're right that I don't really have all that much removal, which could be a problem, but I'm not entirely sure what to do about it.  I'm not sure if I want to include more Auger Sprees because they can fail to kill my opponent's creatures if they get too big, and they can fail to pump my creatures if they aren't big enough.

Thanks for all of the suggestions guys, definitely appreciated since this was just a random idea I had and threw together in a few minutes.  Definitely still a work in progress.  Here are the changes I made so far:

-4 Pack Rat
-2 Cryptborn horror
-4 Treacherous Pit-Dweller
-2 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
+2 Zealous Conscripts
-2 Traitorous Instinct
+3 Grisly Salvage
-2 Jarad's Orders

Although I'm still at 68 cards, and currently lacking a two drop creature (still looking at options, including the ones suggested).

I heard something about a moderator meeting?

I will say that I actually played with Trostani at the Pre-release, and she was surprisingly powerful.  Not necessarily in the sense that she is going to quickly overwhelm the board with one extra token per turn, but rather she provides a very solid body for blocking larger threats, and that extra life gain adds up VERY quickly, especially if you're getting two-for-ones with things like Seller of Songbirds (That's three mana for a blocker, a flier and three life).  And then, once you get up and running with some bigger guys (Grove of the Guardian, Ajani tokens, etc.), that adds up even more quickly.  Plus, if you're pumping your tokens with something like Intangible Virtue or Phantom General or Collective Blessing, things could quite easily get out of hand quickly. 

As far as the rest of the deck idea goes in general, I think it will probably take some time for the right token strategies to emerge, because I think they'll initially be seen weak because of Detention Sphere, Sever the Bloodlines, Electrickery, etc.  But I do think that it could definitely be a viable deck with the right combination.

I also made up the cost of my draft with cards I pulled.

From my guild box:
1x Vraska the Unseen
1x Steam Vents
1x Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Bought an Intro pack too, just because, where I pulled an Abrupt Decay to pay for it and then some.

I guess I don't think there were any higher numbers of mythics than usual.  I saw lots of people pull awesome cards, and some people pull complete junk.