An Aristocratic Bargain

by Jessie on 05 October 2014

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Deck Description

1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Yawgmoth's Will
----------------------- (Limit of 2 Rares)
3 Radiant's Dragoons
3 Skirge Familiar
3 Soul Feast
3 Enlightened Tutor (Limit of 12 Uncommons)
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4 Blind Hunter
4 Bloodhunter Bat
4 Dark Ritual
---------------------- (Limit of 3 Common Playsets)
3 Highway Robber
3 Cathedral Sanctifier
3 Raise Dead
3 Disenchant

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Inspired by KnightoftheHokeyPokey
A creature driven Yawgmoth's Bargain deck.

How to Play

One of the first decks that I truly fell in love with.
To be specific, the mechanics involved with the combo of Yawgmoth's Bargain/Skirge Familiar.
It is a thing of Beauty.

You can draw your entire library with Bargain/Familiar to kill your opponent.

So, those 2 cards are what this deck is made around.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Very basic Example.
Get Skirge Familiar and Yawgmoth's Bargain in the game.

1) Pay lots of life to Bargain to draw lots of cards.
2) Discard lots of cards to Familiar to gain lots of mana.
3) Use all of the mana to play life drain cards on your opponent.

4) Pay lots of life to Bargain to draw lots of cards.
5) Discard lots of cards to Familiar to gain lots of mana.
6) Use all of the mana to play life drain cards on your opponent.

7) Repeat until you draw Yawgmoth's Will (if your opponent hasn't already died) as the finisher. Put ALL of your graveyard into your hand.
8) Discard lots of cards to Familiar to gain lots of mana.
9) Use all of the mana to play life drain cards on your opponent.

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Cards:

- Blind Hunter, Bloodhunter Bat, Highway Robber, Soul Feast to life drain.

- Cathedral Sanctifier and Radiant's Dragoon to gain life.

- Skirge Familiar, Yawgmoth's Bargain, Yawgmoth's Will combo pieces.

- Dark Ritual for mana ramp into Bargain/Familiar.

- Disenchant for artifact/enchantment hate.

- Enlightened Tutor to fetch you Bargain.

- Raise Dead to get back your Skirge Familiar (or other creature).

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Final Thoughts:

Like any Combo deck, this one is easily disrupted. One single Lighting Bolt to Skirge Familiar or one single Disenchant to Yawgmoth's Bargain blows this deck out of the water.

However, when this deck does go off, it is a thing of beauty.
The expression on your opponent's face when he watches you end up drawing 40 cards of your library, and life draining him to death, is priceless :)

Deck Tags

  • Feel
  • Yawgmoth's
  • Power
  • Aristocrat

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

1603300

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for An Aristocratic Bargain

Ouch. This is just plain cruel.

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Posted 05 October 2014 at 11:03

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It was a pro winning deck, back in the day. :)
Lots more Tutors, Wills, and Bargains though.
This is a watered down version.

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Posted 05 October 2014 at 17:07

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Make this public!

Oh, and my ash zelot and marelen of the morningsong have been known to annoy the crap out of Yawgmoth.

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Posted 05 October 2014 at 18:33

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I imagine they would shut down Yawgmoth!

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Posted 06 October 2014 at 00:09

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Thank you very much.

I finished the elf deck ... it looks nasty. I will post it on the challenge page. It's going to be hard for the poor little goblins ... I forsee using a crapload of global burn spells.

I want to make a ... sci-fi planetary defense deck. You know, with robots, automated defense systems, and plenty of sneaky traps.

The core of the deck will be ensaring bridge, bottled cloister, defense grid, witchbane orb, and topor orb. With those in hand, I imagine I can shut down most all decks that I come to face. The combo with the first two is even worse than multiple copies of prpoganda. Since all my creatures are colorless, I am immune to fear and intimidate. Also, invoke predjudice becomes so cruel. Oh, and the commander will totally be platinum angel. The deck won't even try to win ... just prevent anyone else from winning.

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Posted 06 October 2014 at 01:11

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Sci-fi planetary defense deck!!!
You know how much I adore a good Theme deck!!!
Post it here when you get it done, you know you have an automatic comment/like going toward that deck.

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Posted 06 October 2014 at 01:20

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Aw shucks ... do you have anything you want me to look at?

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Posted 06 October 2014 at 01:24

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Wait ... think of it as Urza's anti-Planeswalker defense grin. :)

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Posted 06 October 2014 at 01:25

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http://www.mtgvault.com/jessie/decks/832552/

A rough draft. Very rough draft.
Having issues with it.
Some decks are easier to build than others.

Urza...you made me blush! He is my hero (except the entire dying part).

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Posted 06 October 2014 at 01:30

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Wow Jessie. Love it! +1 here!

The fact it's an Aristocrat deck removes most of the punch, but you already mentionned this is watered down version of the original one that had no restrictions. I had never really thought of that combo to be honest.

The only problem I see is that your Enlightened Tutor won't get you Will as it only fetches Enchantments or Artifacts.

I don't think anything but Diabolic Tutor could be inserted into this deck to fit the restrictions. We're up to 4CMC however.

Cheers,

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Posted 07 October 2014 at 21:11

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I played when this deck was Standard legal. It was brutal.

If someone didn't play a Lighting Bolt on Skirge, or use something like Misdirection or Counterspell on Bargain/Skirge...the Bargain deck would usually win on Turn 5.

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Posted 07 October 2014 at 22:06

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I can see how :) That's one beast deck indeed.

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Posted 08 October 2014 at 02:26

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Wow, this deck looks like it could really kill someone quick a crazily for an aristocrat deck, it looks really awesome. Aven riftwatcher would probably be good in hear, gray merchant of asphodel and lone missionary would also do. I hope I helped. :)

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Posted 26 October 2014 at 15:21

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