Wanted:League of Assassins!

by batman69 on 26 May 2011

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Deck Description

Just when you've seen it all....ahhh shit! assassin deck!

Deck Tags

  • Tribal

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Wanted:League of Assassins!

25 lands + 4 dark rituals will make for a lot of weak opening hands with excess mana and nothing to do with it. I also dislike the inclusion of Dragonskull Summit and Drowned Catacombs just for a single Thraximundar. IMO, either drop some lands and make it mono-black, or drop the dark rituals and add more U/R mana production and make better use of the colors.

These suggestions are tied around the idea of running mono black.
-4 Dragonskull Summit
-4 Drowned Catacombs
-4 Dark Ritual
-4 Grasp of Darkness
+4 Marsh Flats
+1 Swamp
+4 Geth's Verdict
+1 Demonic Tutor
+2 Diabolic Intent
+4 Bloodghast
+1 Buried Alive
+3 Thoughsieze

Other cards you might want to look into: Curse of the Cabal, Phyrexian Arena, Necropotence, Braids Cabal Minion, Black Sun's Zenith and/or Damnation, Bitterblossom.

Hope this helps!

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Posted 26 May 2011 at 16:51

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hell yea u helped out, thanx for the advice, ill update as fast as i can click lol

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Posted 26 May 2011 at 17:08

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what do you think of it now? to many x1's ?

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Posted 26 May 2011 at 17:17

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Not at all. Good deck building is all about balancing the amount of cards needed. x1's are usually those cards that do something completely awesome within the theme of the deck, but isn't necessary to win. They're those "if you draw this, it'll change the pace of the game, but if I don't draw it, I have other answers too" cards.

I definitely like the changes, this is shaping up to be something awesome. In my opinion though, you're running too few creatures to make use of Braids and Gravepact. Assassins are made by design to kill creatures, I think you should drop Go for the Throat for more creatures. Even something with death touch, like Vampire Nighthawk. Also, I think Kiku, Night's Flower is too inefficient. For the same cost as it takes to activate her ability, you could cast a Phyrexian Obliterator. So, I suggest replacing her with a pair of them.

So..
-4 Go for the Throat, +4 more creatures (preferably CMC 2 or less, but Nighthawk would work too)
-2 Kiku, +2 Phyrexian Obliterators

You could also run +3x creatures replacing Go for the Throat, and run a Crucible of Worlds as well. It turns Bloodghast from being good sac fodder into being a full out sac engine, and provides obscene ramp and deck thinning with Lake of the Dead and your fetch lands. This also works well with Attrition or Hell's Caretaker.

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Posted 26 May 2011 at 18:19

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i did the adjustments, i thought they were pretty good ideas. i want to add in the caretaker and attrition but couldnt figure out how to put them in. any ideas?

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Posted 27 May 2011 at 01:46

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If you really want to make it a TRIBAL assassin deck, check out some of mine.

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=168137

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=176928

http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=185889

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Posted 26 May 2011 at 17:21

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hell yeah ill check them out thanx budd!

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Posted 26 May 2011 at 17:23

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Posted 20 August 2011 at 15:51

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im having a lot of fun with my assassin deck, you might get some ideas!

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Posted 23 August 2011 at 10:23

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