Despair II

by Dankirk on 03 July 2016

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (11 cards)

Creatures (4)

Sorceries (7)

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Deck Description

A double edged discard deck with some synergy from madness

Any ideas for improvements?

How to Play

Smallpox and Rotting Rats affect you aswell, so some foresight is required before playing them. At the start of the game you won't have mana for madness costs, but you should still go with the discards. Call to the Netherworld plays a key role in getting back the self discarded/sacced creatures.

Oona's Prowler has self discard ability, which can be used with madness cards to cast them as instants. This way you may keep some mana open for a Murderous Compusion or Asylum Visitor as the situation needs.

As last advice, remember when everyone is out of cards and creatures, you'll win with Shrieking Afflication.

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Discard
  • Budget
  • Madness

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Despair II

Hello. I have some Ideas to make the deck more modern competitive.

First, cut all the creatures! :) Sorry, but they are, other than the gatekeeper (maybe) not so good in term of your discard strategie.
The affliction is perfect and is even better with a playset of the wrack, basically an old, but modern legal artifact for 1 mana with the same effect as shrieking affliction.
Ravens crime and smallpox can be kept too.
Duress and wrench mind and blackmail are the best, modern legal BUDGET discard spells, so wipe away crome, discovery and mutilate. for removal add bile blight as a playset, maybe varie with heroes downfall or other more versatile removal such as tribute to hunger to assure lost life.
Pack rat is the perfect creatures in this deck, because it keeps coming and assures last demage, when attaking. the multiple copies and it's ability to reproduce itself, makes smallpox a no-brainer to your boardstate.
Mutavault would be a great creature land to include, but it costs approx. 10Euros per vault.
24 Lands are way to many, you can go with 20-21 without a daud, trust me! :)

Feel free to add what pleases you, for it is your deck. i just wanted to state some modern ideas here.
Have a nice day, mate!

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Posted 10 October 2016 at 13:28

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Made some changes to lower the need for mana and also some more madness effects.

-2x Desecration Demon
-4x Grim Discovery
-3x Mutilate
-1x Oona's Prowler

+1x Gatekeeper of Malakir
+1x Cry of Contrition
+4x Call to the Netherworld
+2x Scourge of Nel Toth
+2x Murderous Compulsion

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Posted 25 December 2021 at 12:25

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