Kazzong

yeah in a deck like this I really can't praise wall of shards enough. :) it is a good kill clock.

@Pushkin
it is totally ok. we all have our moments... :)

false cure is fantastic. :) heck there are even some cards that work with it that would be... bad with tainted remedy actually, for instance there is a card similar to skyshroud cutter (in the alternate casting cost) that destroys all enchantments. so you hit your opponent for 6 life but then lose your kill card. with false cure you don't have that issue. :)

meh, it is a fairly casual deck so not really competitive enough to warrant putting in shock lands, and evolving wilds suits my needs for fetch lands for the same reason.

How did I come up with it?

well, not sure really. I was browsing cards here on the vault and I came across a couple of interesting cards. ruby leech and bazar trader. I had a bazaar trader a while back, but I didn't like it so I didn't think much of it at the time.


I liked ruby leech and bazaar trader but I wasn't sure how to make use of it. at first I was going to put in the leech from each color, then a friend of mine told me about painter's servant, which made it much simpler. but it still was not ideal because ruby leech was actually a usable creature, so I decided to keep white and swap to alabaster leech instead.

so I put two and two together and this is pretty much what I came up with, after a few tweaks of course. :)

I was fascinated by prison decks at the time so... yeah. :)

Silence is really good, not sure if I need Ajani's presence but also a good card. it is good before I give alabaster leech to my opponent so that is certainly something to look into. my only problem is what I would swap it for. certainly a great sideboard card to be sure. :)

Yeah I am usually not a fan of forbidden orchard, but it's weakness becomes a tremendous strength in a deck like this. I am glad that you like it.

If you like odd but effective decks like this you might be interested in my deck called Leeched Lockdown. It should be close to the top of my first page.

Fine by me. :)
I think that vizkopa guys really well with tainted remedy when you don't have any life gain cards in hand. Add really good with life gain cards when you don't have tainted remedy out. :)

I see. That makes much more sense then. :)
Yeah, I really like this deck a ton. :)

I like this deck. I always like seeing people use tainted remedy, as it is such an oddball card. it just seems so good, but there are very few cards that make can make use of it really. but when you can... it makes W/B burn a pretty scary thing to see, particularly because life loss is harder to prevent than damage. not to mention life gain cards are usually pretty cheap to play, hence very effective and fast for just this kind of deck.
I think that you have done a great job of it here. :)

I have a similar deck, but no green, so no wall of blossoms and no heroes reunion.


my brother just finished a deck based on tainted remedy and false cure. he had some... interesting creatures in it, like Skyshroud Cutter.
normally a pretty horrible card. possibly worse than alms beast. Skyshroud Cutter is a 2/2 for 3G to play. BUT it has an alternate casting cost. if you control a forest then you may have each opponent gain 5 life instead of paying the 3G. :) might be a valuable card in here I think. :)


also, I am a bit curious about the overgrown battlements. they seem a bit out of place here. you have no real need for lots of green mana. perhaps I am missing something? either way... this deck gets a like from me. :) oh, I also really like the use of life burst!!! :)

I don't think that you really need Ancestral Recall in here do you? or perhaps Gitaxian probe...?

gotta love Juxtapose with Scornful Egotist. :)

yeah Transmute for tutor is very good IF you have something specific to tutor for. that being said it is harder to counter as it is ability, so I like it a lot. :) plus it is cheaper than most generic search cards. :)

very interesting. :) I don't think that it is competitive, but I approve, as it is really cool.

Yeah. Same thing here. :)

you might think about having Thespian's stage in here, so you can have a second swarmyard.

um... actually I would be interested in both. please share. :)

I am a tad curious here, I see the infinite combo with krenko, intruder alarm and purphoros. but you say there is an infinite attack combo here, but I can't see it. or am I off in saying that?

With what?

perfect hand... gosh. perhaps something like this:
dark ritual x2
swamp
island
hive mind
psychic purge
horrifying revelation.

and draw a paradigm shift.

that would be a pretty good opening hand. perhaps drawing a few lands or land-cycling cards.

indeed removal is also a bit of a nuisance.

I will sideboard Rebuff the Wicked to deal with removal.

as good as Pact of Negation is I can't run it in this deck because I can't pay the blue mana required to not lose the game at my next upkeep step. so even if my lock is in place I still lose if my opponent doesn't scoop.

and thanks for pointing out that I missed this. huge flaw that I missed. :)

EDIT: also thinking about Mana Tithe and Lapse of Certainty for this as well.

as a 1 of, sure it certainly doesn't hurt to have an instant kill card. in this deck it essentially says: target player loses the game.
so I can certainly see the value in that. like I said, I almost put it in my own, but I am sucker for little cheap cards rather than the big ones. although that philosophy may not apply in this particular style of deck.

let me know how this runs. I would be really interested to hear.