Well, let me first say welcome to magic. Your idea for this deck looks pretty promising, Primordial Hydra is a great creature to rotate this deck around. Being a very strong creature coming into play it will also be the creature with the biggest target on it's back. So, first thing I would start is protection best for this guy I would say is Lightning Greaves, giving him haste & shroud (protection from spells and abilities), so stopping any other player from casting spells on him down the line. I do agree with manaburn on adding 2 more of each of the Birds of Paradise and Llanowar Elves which adds even more mana for playing this bad boy and also think about tossing out an Khalni Hydra on turn three or four with his nice ability. It also looks as your concerned about the flyers. I would toss in a Silklash Spider (being able to kill any flyers on the field plus giving the other player another target other then Primordial Hydra) and then toss in a couple Deadly Recluse for added insurance. Another idea is Fungal Sprouting, think about being able to bring out an army of 1/1 creatures equal to the power of your biggest creature toss on Overwhelming Stampede to add insult to injury. I would replace Gilder Bairn with Doubling Season for the counters, not sure about Dungrove Elder I would take him out, Tree of Redemption & Primeval Titan just have one, and take out Geist Trappers, Nightshade Peddler, Wolfir Silverheart and Blunt the Assault. Remember low costing is your best bet for a fast deck. Hope maybe this help a little.
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Damn you Storm Crow! I would added Chaos Confetti and call it Storm Crow Droppings.
Can't go wrong with a counterspell
Best combo I could give you for this deck squirrel nest and earthcraft giving you infinite amount of squirrels.
Nice idea never thought about using Malfegor as a general, now discarding your hand to do some serious damage have you thought about maybe adding Haakon, Stromgald Scourge, then maybe some black and red knights, so having some more graveyard play so you could discard Haakon and your knights then just play them right from your graveyard.
If you could please let me know what you think of it. http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=264512
Morbidly Beautiful! I have been re-designing something new with the Graveborn deck, it's somewhat of an idea so far but I know I have been having fun with It That Betrays. Plus, been running some sacrificing tactics as well to hopefully work with the idea that works around him.
Best card I would have to say would be Hatred, pay all life on a creature that can't be blocked or has haste for a sneak attack, and game over. It is though a older card but still a pretty good combo. Also, Melira, Sylvok Outcast would be a very good (though given) combo. Also any card that would involve paying life such as: Phyrexian Processor or Minion of the Wastes then toss in a Rite of Consumption to sacrifice your massive life payer and you gain it all back while your other player losses it all.
Have you thought about maybe tossing in a Rite of Consumption in your sideboard just in case of any protection decks or maybe even playing multi player games?
You could think about adding Elspeth, Knight-Errant making everything on your side indestructible, but you got to remember that would put an even bigger target on your head, also another idea is False Prophet or Final Judgment for not just destruction but massive removal.
Very well put, the deck seems to work very well with one another only thing I see that could hurt is luck. Two Emrakul, the Aeons Torn and four Show and Tells, plus depending on the card they are playing could end up being a favor in there case. Now something like Tinkers (depending on standard playing) and Blightsteel Colossus, percentage would be more in your favor. Also with the idea of Show and Tell have you thought about Boomerang or Unsummon to bounce back whatever is played?
Oh, I completely forgot about Hex Parasite too, could be a killer for Chronoza too, beefing him up and massive reproduction of Chronoza.
Nice idea, I forgot about Chronoza with him a good combo I found was Paradox Haze getting out the tokens and reproducing them twice as fast. Grand Architect is good but I am thinking more around artifacts being able to tap a blue creature to add 2 colorless for artifacts or artifact abilities and all I see you having as artifacts is Spellskite so it may not be needed. Also you may what to add some countering abilities more as a back-up incase so can counter the spells that could counter any of your Illusions.
Oh yeah also a combo I used with Phyrexian Dreadnought is Volrath's Shapeshifter, it's three mana but becomes a 12/12 Trampling Shapeshifter and I think one of my favorite combos I used a lot was Academy Researchers and Eldrazi Conscription.
Have you thought of adding a few Trinket Mage, a 2/2 that you could use as a search engine for Phyrexian Dreadnought, I see you already have Artificer's Intuition. Also, Trickbind is a great card to cancel the abilities of the Dreadnought (and being placed on top of the stack) or use a Squelch to counter the ability and being able to draw a card. Plus, countering I find Spell Snare is great for countering those (2 costing spells) or a Pact of Negation as insurance. Plus, what about adding Misty Rainforest or Scalding Tarn to cycle through your deck better chance of getting the cards you want (even by a few) or even adding Gitaxian Probe for more cycling abilities by looking at the players hand and drawing a card (for a small cost of 2 life). Torpor Orb is a great card for him but could be opened up as a large target due to the idea of countering acting abilities for your stuff and there's like Gatekeeper of Malakir, Acidic Slime, etc.... But, they are some small ideas the deck it's self looks great. Plus with (ability removers) you could toss in Cunning Wish (even sideboard) and bring one from outside the game incase of Surgical Extraction or another search and removal spells.
Neat idea, but the only thing that I see that could hurt this deck is be Shrine of Burning Rage becoming a huge target. I know you want to keep rares down but what about adding a couple Spellskite or maybe something to act as a decoy so most of the targeting would be targeted on that instead of The Shrine?
I'm very intrigued in your decks, I keep coming back looking at your decks with the question, what do you feed that hamster running in your head? :D I’m really liking the idea with germs, knowing something so small could bring down something so massive (Like squirrels eating a Leviathan) or a crab attack on a prostitute. Well, anyway wanted to give you some appreciation. Plus why not toss in some Tezzeret's Gambit’s draw two cards and proliferate doubling up your germs, also Tumble Magnet may be useful. Plus, this deck has me thinking your doubling up germs, so when they come into play they are 0/0 creatures that would then die (without no abilities added) so with black you play a Grave Pact you have control of creatures entering the battlefield (just thinking out loud). If you find the time I would appreciate if you could toss me bone and take a look at my Kozilek, Slaughter of Hope! deck. Keep building :) http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=136067
This is a great idea, I like how you are using Isochron Scepter with the Pacts, then just voiding out the upkeep with Eon Hub, but the the possibility of getting a pact over an Isochron Scepter is somewhat slim have you thought about maybe adding a few islands and some Fabricate's or Tinker's for search engines for the scepter?
I would toss in a few Hellkite Overlord's they have haste so can attack the turn they come into play plus, if you have any additional mana you could beef him up.
Nice looking deck, now is the Jace more for a drawing method and decoy over the rest of the deck? Plus, instead of Nissa Revane why not run Garruk Wildspeaker same as Kamahl's ability +3/+3 trample plus ables you to untap creature/lands to re-use for adding counters. Also if combo doesn't play out quite well with Gilt-Leaf Archdruid, you could toss in a couple Prodigal Sorcerer (if Kamahl, Fist of Krosa is in play) allowing you to start toasting there lands over and over.
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