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Tsukimi on Things Betor Left Undead [Primer]

2 days ago

legendofa All great suggestions! I had considered all of these when building except Tainted Sigil and Plunge into Darkness. I do like that Tainted Sigil hits all players including us. I am now realizing we can recur it with Sun Titan, Angel of Indemnity so it's definitely going high on the maybelist. Right now if I make cuts it will most likely be for some self mill effects. Thanks for the feedback!

legendofa on Things Betor Left Undead [Primer]

3 days ago

I'm not sure if there's room for more combo suggestions, since this looks really solid as-is, but:

• Plunge into Darkness lets you fine-tune your life for a turn, and combos with Children of Korlis and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose to take out an opponent.

• Vizkopa Guildmage has an activation cost, but it turns Vito's life drain into an untargeted effect that hits all your opponents. It basically switches the "target" and "all" parts of Vito.

• Tainted Sigil allows you to totally rebalance your life total.

• Near-Death Experience + Plunge into Darkness/Necropotence is an instant-speed win, but might need an Angel's Grace or something.

• Phyrexian Unlife might be a good safety valve.

Journeytodiscoverychannel on The Big Eleventy-One

1 year ago

Tainted Sigil and Children of Korlis make great with Pain's Reward If you have Rhox Faithmender out you could easily get to 111 life by just bidding the difference, between current life and 111, then gain double the amount you bid and draw 4 cards too.

Journeytodiscoverychannel on Queza Go Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

1 year ago

Sorry double comment but I forgot about Tainted Sigil even more powerful than Children of Korlis since it’s all life lost by players this turn

Niko9 on What's your dream play?

2 years ago

Necrosis24 Anything that wins with phasing is just amazing : ) I like it!

Oh and one I've managed to do a few times in my lifegain deck is Selenia, Dark Angel + Sanguine Bond + Tainted Sigil It's nice because each part works well in the deck on it's own, and I don't want to run many copies of any of the three, so it's just every once in a blue moon that it comes together and those are the kind of crazy "I win" combos that I like.

multimedia on Liesa, Liesa, they so flying...

2 years ago

Hey, if you want to stop No Mercy then consider Cathar Commando? It's a budget creature so it can be reanimated or recurred with Liesa, Forgotten Archangel as well as other ways which I will mention in my next comment :)

If your getting Jumpstart packs there's several cards to look for other than Exquisite Blood:

• Reanimate
• Witch of the Moors
• Phyrexian Reclamation
• Sheoldred, Whispering One
• Blood Artist
• Selfless Savior
• Speaker of the Heavens
• Phyrexian Tower
• Drana, Liberator of Malakir

I believe in using my money getting singles to build my decks not on $5 packs, but if you enjoy cracking Jumpstart packs look for these cards. Selfless Savior and Blood Artist are uncommons, you might have these cards.

If you're interested in Exquisite Blood then maybe you want to make your deck more combo? I don't think Exquisite is worth $18 since with $18 you can make several upgrades not just one card. For $18 you can make close to 20 card upgrades. Even if you're playing casual having a combo to win the game is helpful. Just don't combo off right away, let the game build up, have fun and then boom.

• Vizkopa Guildmage
• Children of Korlis
• Bond of Agony
• Tainted Sigil
• Mischievous Poltergeist/Wall of Blood
• Revival / Revenge(Revenge)

There's no budget alternative card for Exquisite Blood, but you can mimic the outcome of what the Blood combo does with budget cards. By making yourself lose a lot of life and then gaining the life you lost right back.

• Vizkopa Guildmage + Children of Korlis + Bond of Agony

Vizkopa Guildmage's ability is like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose/Sanguine Bond except it's more powerful because it affects each opponent all at once not just one opponent. It however costs three mana to have the effect until end of turn. The combo is to cast a spell or activate an effect to lose a lot of life such as Bond of Agony where you can control how much life you lose which then makes each opponent lose that same amount of life. When you lose the life then sac either Children of Korlis or Tainted Sigil to gain all that life back. This then triggers Guildmage to make each opponent lose that same amount of life again, most likely killing each of your opponents for having 0 life and you win the game.

Children of Korlis is a good card for gaining life because it looks at all life you lose for the entire turn. You can gain a lot at one time after a big attack from opponent doing combat damage to you or a small amount, you choose. It's a one drop creature who can be reanimated or recurred to repeat this effect, great with Liesa, Forgotten Archangel. Outside the combo if you're paying a lot of life for draw such as with Greed then Children can help to gain that life back.

In my last comment I mentioned you can get quality from filler creature cards you play with Infantry Veteran as example of not quality. Children of Korlis and Selfless Savior are examples of quality budget one drops. Mischievous Poltergeist/Wall of Blood's ability can be paid as much as you want, each time losing 1 life, but it's not a good card outside the combo. I suggested it because it's a creature who can be easily reanimated or recurred which can be helpful to more easily combo or repeat the combo. If I was playing this combo I would play it for that reason.

I'll continue with more advice in another comment later.

Niko9 on Impactful Lifegain to improve black …

2 years ago

I do love a good lifegain deck : ) The one I built a while back is a variation of 60 card soul sisters with Soul Warden and Soul's Attendant gaining me life from Lingering Souls or afterlife creatures like Seraph of the Scales or Orzhov Enforcer all to power up a Bloodthirsty Aerialist

Revival / Revenge is a great versatile card, and my favorite lifegain combo is to use Selenia, Dark Angel with Sanguine Bond and Tainted Sigil Selenia is a great flying blocker that your opponent will never actually get rid of, bond is bond : ) and sigil can actually save you in a pinch, but when you put them all together, it's a kill one player combo. Stacking Selenia triggers can be fun when it works : )

But again, I use this in 60 card, so not sure how applicable it is to commander. I also really like Ivory Tower or Sun Droplet just for constant gain effects for Bloodthirsty Aerialist but I'm not sure if it would work in EDH.

Best of luck with the deck! Looks pretty awesome.

Niko9 on Convoluted Combos

3 years ago

Ha, that is definitely a convoluted combo, but that kind of makes it so much more awesome : ) And I like that a lot of the pieces are just good cards, so it's not like you are running them just for the combo.

I'm definitely not quite pushing it that far, but I really like a combo of Tainted Sigil+ Sanguine Bond in my Selenia, Dark Angel lifegain deck. If you get both into play, and have more life than an opponent, then Selenia triggers you down to 1 life, gain it back with tainted sigil, and that's a damage bomb headed their way. It almost never works, but I do enjoy that it can work : )