Type: Deck Idea
Format (invalid) vinVintage
Approx. Value:
$185.96
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Avg. CMC 2.42
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Main Deck - 60 cards, 20 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (27)
1 Anarchist
$0.08 Creature - Human Wizard
4 Balustrade Spy
$0.04 Creature - Vampire Rogue
2 Dimir House Guard
$0.16 Creature - Skeleton
3 Elves of Deep Shadow
$1.56 Creature - Elf Druid
4 Simian Spirit Guide
$1.40 Creature - Ape Spirit
4 Street Wraith
$0.26 Creature - Wraith
4 Tinder Wall
$0.71 Creature - Plant Wall
4 Wild Cantor
$0.25 Creature - Human Druid
1 Wirewood Guardian
$0.13 Creature - Elf Mutant
Instant (14)
4 Cabal Ritual
$12.28 Instant
4 Dark Ritual
$2.64 Instant
2 Manamorphose
$4.32 Instant
4 Songs of the Damned
$3.26 Instant
Sorcery (11)
4 Gitaxian Probe
$2.47 Sorcery
1 Haunting Misery
$0.25 Sorcery
4 Land Grant
$0.54 Sorcery
2 Morgue Theft
$0.16 Sorcery
Artifact (7)
3 Conjurer's Bauble
$0.40 Artifact
4 Lotus Petal
$17.40 Artifact
Land (1)
1 Forest
$0.09 Basic Land - Forest
Sideboard - 15 cards, 9 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (8)
1 Blood Celebrant
$0.87 Creature - Human Cleric
1 Cavern Harpy
$0.24 Creature - Harpy Beast
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
$0.61 Creature - Zombie
3 Ingot Chewer
$0.16 Creature - Elemental
1 Mnemonic Wall
$0.11 Creature - Wall
1 Pit Keeper
$0.06 Creature - Human Wizard
Instant (3)
1 Flaring Pain
$1.98 Instant
2 Fog
$0.37 Instant
Sorcery (4)
4 Duress
$0.04 Sorcery

Notes
 
1 land? Yea ... lets play some goblin charbelcher , BUT without charbelcher and burning wish, instead we play a crazy combo:

Get 7 mana, use Balustrade Spy on yourself, and then use Haunting Misery on your opponent if you have it in hand.

Get to 7 mana, use Balustrade Spy on yourself, and with Conjurers Bauble in play you use it targeting Haunting Misery, returning it to your hand and cast it for the win.

Get to 8 mana, use Balustrade Spy on yourself, play the Conjurers Bauble, use the Bauble to return Haunting Misery to your hand and cast it for the win.

Unusual winning:

Get to 5 mana, use Balustrade Spy on yourself, cast Songs of the Damned getting like 20+ mana, flashback Morgue Theft targeting Anarchist, flashback another Morgue Theft onto a Simian Spirit Guide, exile Simian Spirit Guide to cast Anarchist, and have it target Haunting Misery, which you use on your opponent for the win.

Get 5 mana, have a Conjurers Bauble in play, use Balustrade Spy on yourself, then Bauble the Songs of the Damned on top of your library, cast the Songs, and then complete the combo with the Morgue Theft and Anarchist stuff.So its faster then?Yep its faster and more consistent actually because you can use Songs and Bauble. In the end you increase a piece of the combo with no draw backs because Songs are often as good as Dark Ritual anyway, and Bauble ends up being a 1 mana cycler. Also things like Destroy the Evidence add additional redundancy, but at a cost of having dead cards in your hand.

Another wincon with sideboard is:

You Spy into Songs, then you use Morgue Theft on Pit Keeper and Morgue Theft a Blood Celebrant. Then you cast Pit Keeper targeting Cavern Harpy, cast the Harpy off of Celebrant mana, bounce your Pit Keeper and recast it targeting Mnemonic Wall. Then you use the Wall to target Songs of the Damned and you can make a bunch of mana here continuing to bounce the Harpy and Wall repeatedly. When you need life you bounce Mnemonic Wall and cast Gnaw to the Bone by actually getting it from the graveyard and casting it. Seeing as how with each cycle you get more mana than life this generates you infinite mana. You then bounce your Balustrade Spy with your Cavern Harpy targeting your opponent and milling them out. It is long and convoluted, but it works. These days the plan is to bring this alternative win condition in versus Azorius variants and Tron, or you can bring in Gray Merchant of Asphodel and instead of bounceing Balustrade Spy, you bounce Gray and take oponents life.

Sidebaord plan:

Everything that is very very creature Aggro bring in:

-2 Gitaxian Probe+2 fog

AFFY:-1 Gitaxian Probe-2 Street Wraith+3 Ingot Chewer

life gain decks(infinite milling):

-1 Anarchist-1 Haunting Misery-2 Gitaxian Probe

+1 Blood Celebrant+1 Cavern Harpy+1 Mnemonic Wall+1 Pit Keeper

Counterspell decks:

-4 Street Wraith+4 Duress
Comments
  • Aught3 | Edited 01-Oct-2014 06:37
    Some advice with the caveats that I have never played this deck and don't like combo:

    You need the land out of your deck before you can go off.
    This means, I think, that you need to start with the land or a land fetch in hand. So mulligan based on this consideration.

    You need either the Balustrade Spy (or Dimir Houseguard transmute) to flip all the cards into the graveyard but it is okay not to start with this in hand because you need to build up mana cards first.

    You need either to cast Songs of the Damned (possibly using Conjurer's Bauble) to complete the combo after you have flipped all the cards into your graveyard.

    I think you were too focused on getting to threshold for Cabal Ritual but it seems like that card is just Dark Ritual 5-8 rather than there for its full capability.


    So to sum up:
    1) Mulligan for land or land fetch
    2) Cycle cards until you find
         a) Balustrade Spy (or Dimir Houseguard)
         b) Songs of the Damned (or Conjurer's Bauble)
    3) Once you have enough mana generation, usually 8, go off for the win

    Hope that helps and better luck next time!
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