Gary the Souleater

by HuecoMundo22 on 07 August 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (38 cards)

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Deck Description

Gary meets obliterator was the basis of this deck. The phyrexian horror is a god by itself and now with the addition of devotion nothing will be left standing. As with all my decks, this is intended for casual play. Build your devotion and then smack a Gary on the field and watch your opponents cringe.

How to Play

I'm not gonna lie, this deck struggles in the early game, but with the ideal hand, this is how things would pan out:

Turn one: Death Cultist. An early chumper to make sure you're not defenseless until turn 4

Turn 2: Fog of Gnats. Double black for devotion and a cheap regenerator while you stockpile mana

Turn 3: Souls of the Faultless. Literally the best chump blocker ever created by wizards. In addition, double black for Gary and a white for when athreos rolls around.

Turn 4: Obliterate or Crypt Ghast. The obliteration needs no explanation. Crypt Ghast makes sure you can cast a dirty exsanguinate and brings mikaeus back from the grave that much earlier. And urborg makes sure you get your bonus mana from every land you tap.

Turn 5: Gary + death. Jk you won't be killing anyone yet, but hopefully you will have a solid field standing to do what this deck was meant to do.

Undying + Gary means Gary will be making many entrances and sucking your opponents lifeblood every time. Cloudshift + Gary for the same purpose. And being instants they also make sure you can chump your opponents big guys and stick around to keep devotion up.

Athreos is a viable turn 3 card to help with your field advantage and forces your opponents to choose between death or Gary. And with all this devotion, he'll be taking a few swings of his own.

Nykthos for that late game mana to help get out the big guns and make exsanguinate sting that much more.

As I mentioned this deck struggles in the first few turns, so the sideboard currently consists of cards I thought might help fix things up in that area. As per usual, comments always appreciated!

Deck Tags

  • Devotion
  • Athreos
  • Black
  • White

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Gary the Souleater

Why not replace Fog of gnats with Gatekeeper or Bloodghast?
I also feel if you replace exsanguinate with some discard spells like IoK It should have a better early game?

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 18:06

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I like that idea, I'll try it out! Thanks!

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Posted 08 August 2014 at 23:07

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