[Budget] Life Rippers

by exodd1994 on 23 December 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (10 cards)

Sorceries (1)


Instants (4)

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Deck Description

This is a black/white casual deck built for multiplayer purposes. Use the 'enter the battlefield' effects with the whip, rescue, or march of the returned. Use Blind Obedience, Azorius Arrester, and Baleful Eidolon for control.

How to Play

Turn 1: Hopeful Eidolon/Orzhov Guildgate
Turn 2: Baleful Eidolon/Blind Obedience/Azorius Arrester
Turn 3: Seller of Songbirds/Scholar of Athreos
Turn 4: Whip of Erebos
Turn 5: Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Turn 7: Abhorrent Overlord

Deck Tags

  • Orzhov
  • Budget
  • Lifegain
  • Multiplayer

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for [Budget] Life Rippers

For the how to play, Asphodel on turn 5 only deals 5 damage/give you 5 life, I'd hope for better, even in casual play. Your deck just doesn't seem like it was designed to be a devotion deck. Take out Asphodel, Underworld, and Overlord for something else or make the deck more devoted to black.

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Posted 23 December 2013 at 02:42

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Thank you for your comments! In fact, I did make a different mono-black deck for that purpose. Please have a look at that one as well XD. Also, this deck was built for multiplayer, as noted in the tags. In that case, would this deck be viable?

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Posted 23 December 2013 at 18:19

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Devotion isn't affected by other people's permanents if that is what you were thinking.

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Posted 23 December 2013 at 18:53

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No, but Merchant is since it takes from each opponent XD

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Posted 24 December 2013 at 17:24

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Oh… good point, still Abhorrent Overlord may be a problem.

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Posted 24 December 2013 at 17:55

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Indeed. What would you recommend in place for it?

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Posted 24 December 2013 at 20:45

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Sorry, missed your comment, how about Dark Prophecy, to help out your merchant?

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Posted 11 January 2014 at 19:50

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It's a good card, but the triple black is quite daunting. Instead, I replaced it with Gift of Immortality. Maybe it would work well with the 'enter the battlefield' effect for merchant :)

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Posted 12 January 2014 at 03:19

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Fair point.

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Posted 13 January 2014 at 04:49

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If you are not interested in standard, there is cloudshift to flicker your arresters and merchants. Also, strionic resonator would be good in this deck since you have so many trigger abilities.

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Posted 15 January 2014 at 17:52

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You are absolutely correct. What should I replace in stead of them?

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Posted 16 January 2014 at 22:56

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I am still new to this somewhat so feel free to ignore me. For cloudshift, id take out the beckon apparitions, and for resonator I would take out one of each of the eidolons. If that performs well go ahead and throw in one or two more resonators.

Also, I don't really like the scholar in this deck, or in any deck. For the same amount of manage, you can cast kingpin's pet which does the same thing for one manage because of extort. It also has flying. Another extort creature I like is tithe drinker. It has extort and lifelink for two mana. I would definitely look at other creatures with extort because extort is powereful in multiplayer.

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Posted 17 January 2014 at 02:25

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