Like Hawkes700 said, use less creatures but more often.I would remove "Markov Blademaster" nevertheless. It sounds good, but on the battlefield it is too expensive and comes too late. Also decide if you want to use "Rakish Heir" or "Curse of Stalked Prey". The curse is harder to get rid of, but the heir can serve as additional blocker.You should also use more point removal spells like "Go for the Throat", "Dreadbore", "Terminate" or "Doom Blade"GreetingsMuktol
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I would remove 1 "Fireblast", because I would use this as a finisher and the alternative costs of sacrificing 2 mountains will not always be payable. Furthermore I would change from "Incinerate" to "Magma Jet" and from "Chandra's Phoenix" to "Vexing Devil" or "Ball Lightning"Greetings Muktol
I would do the following changes -4 "Markov Blademaster": It is a good card but is to expensive and comes to late. You will normally have the problem to bring him through your enemys defence -4 "Blood Artist": Its more for decks that work with sacrifying mechanics, though you could put it into your sideboard and use it if your enemy plays board sweepers like "Wrath of God" or many point removals. -4 "Murder" and +4 "Dreadbore": Dreadbore is cheaper and can also remove planeswalker +2 "Rakish Heir" or -2"Rakish Heir" and +4"Curse of Stalked Prey". The Curse has the advantage of being harder to remove, the creature of having an additional defender +4 "Inquisitor's Flail" or +4 "Executioner's Hood". The flail for additional damage (getting double damage should not be a problem as your creatures should have first strike most time) or the hood for some evasion Cut the lands to 22 and try to get down to 60 cards :) Greetings Muktol
I would remove the control part (Banisher Priest) and focus on the graveyard mechanism: "Xathrid Necromancer" converts dying humans into damage, "Blood Artist" does this too, and helps you staing alive. (And a mass removal from your enemy will be his death, if you have enought creatures) There are many ways to sacrifice creatures and to benefit from it. Look at black cards from the last editions and try out what you like most ;) "Skirsdag High Priest" and "Village Cannibals" ("Unruly Mob" if you also want non humans) both benefit from dying and mass creatures. "Timely Reinforcements" helps you to get some creatures out and to stay alive. "Champion of the Parish" wont be that good here, because you don't want one strong creatures, but many small ones If you want some carddraw add "Mentor of the Meek" in addition to "Thraben Doomsayer". but be aware that "Intangible Virtue" can destroy that plan. Greetings Muktol
I would remove "Knight of Glory" for something like "Elite Inquisitor" or "Boros Elite" (With "Hamlet Captain", "Frontline Medic" and just "Rancor" as buff spell, you normaly wont attack with just one creature) You should also take a look at "Champion of Lambholt" as cc3 creature. Greetings Muktol
I would remove the following cards: "Chandra's Phoenix" with 3 mana you can do more damage than this "Keldon Marauders" 2 mana 2 damage and the option to attack once doesn't sound that good to me "Lightning Axe". Damage is creature only, and you normaly don't want to shoot on creatures "Banefire": Cards with 'pay X' are very mana intensive to play "Flame Slash": Damage is creature only "Goblin Grenade": If you have enought creatures to sacrifice for this, its OK, but otherwhise it's a dead card With those many low cost spells, you can try to reduce the number of lands to 20 or maybe even 18. Suggestions as replacement: Creatures: "Ball Lightning", "Hellspark Elemental", "Vexing Devil", "Vexing Shusher" (Sideboard against control) or "Young Pyromancer" (For longer games) Spells: "Seal of Fire", "Shard VolleySorcery" (not more than 3 times, it's a finisher), "Forked Bolt4" (if you have to deal with some small creatures), "Rift Bolt" or "Wheel of Fate" (Carddraw) Greetings Muktol
I would try focusing either on the aggro or the burn plan, mixing both normaly wont be that good.
Some ideas: Reduce "Arms Dealer" to 3, you don't want two of them on the board or in your hand. Remove "Goblin King" for some more "Goblin Chieftain", ideal would be 4 chieftains "Krenko, Mob Boss" could be used one more time, but this is a "could", not a "have to" Remove "Raging Goblin", there are much better goblins than this one Some suggestions: Equipment: Infiltration Lens (Carddraw is never wrong) Creatures:Bloodmark Mentor (First strike for all your red creatures); Goblin Wardriver (Battlecry); Mogg Sentry (cheap goblin and good defender in your enemys turn); Mogg War Marshal (Replaces himself with a token); Spikeshot Elder (converts spare mana into damage, even more usefull when pumped up); Warren Instigator (THE goblin you want on the table to speed up your game) Enchantment: Quest for the Goblin Lord (cheap and good pump for all your goblins) Sorcery: Goblin Grenade (converts goblins into damage, can also be shot on players (not like Arms Dealer) to make the final move) Greetings Muktol
I think we all know such moments ;)
I would change some of the numbers here ;) "Goblin Chieftain" up to 4 and remove "Goblin King" instead. Your goblins need haste, especially "Krenko, Mob Boss" and the load of tokens he produces "Goblin Wardriver" up to 3, and "Krenko, Mob Boss" down to 3, since he is legendary, you don't want to have him twice in your hand. "Burn at the Stake" down to 2 or 3, again this is a finisher and you don't need it from the beginning. In my goblin deck (OK, I play with 18 lands) I normaly never see that much mana on my side of the table ;) "Teetering Peaks" down to 2 or 3, great for late-actions when you allready have enough mana, but in erly game, it slows you down. Suggestions: Quest for the Goblin Lord (Enchant), Bloodmark Mentor (Creature), Furystoke Giant (Creature, Finisher), Mogg War Marshal (Creature, works great with Quest for the Goblin Lord), Spikeshot Elder (Creature), Mogg Sentry (Creature) Greetings Muktol
Remove "Lightning Axe", it's creatures only, and "Staggershock", 4dmg for 3 mana is not that good. Reduce the number of "Banefire", it's a finisher, so you dont need in in your starting hand. I would also change from "Pyromancer Ascension" to "Quest for Pure Flame" Put "Skullcrack" into your sideboard, not every deck so much lifegain that you need to worry about it. Some suggestions: Creatures: Ball Lightning, Hellspark Elemental, Vexing Devil; They are all more like burn spells rather than reall creatures Other Spells: Seal of Fire (cc1 2dmg), Magma Jet (cc2 !SCRY 2! 2dmg), Shard Volley (cc1 3 dmg), Forked Bolt (cc1 2dmg, you can remove utillity creatures with this one and still shoot 1 dmg on your enemy) Greetings Muktol
Suggestions Equipment: "Loxodon Warhammer", "Basilisk Collar" Artifact: "Well of Lost Dreams", usefull in longer games (And I think lifegain matches normaly last longer ;) ) Creatures: "Serra Ascendant", best beater lifegain can get; "Martyr of Sands", your enemy will know what you have, but for 3 x cards life, this should be irrelevant; "Ranger of Eos", can tutor you cc1 creatures Enchantment: "Cradle of Vitality" Sorcerys: "Proclamation of Rebirth", "Survival Cache" Land: "Miren, the Moaning Well"
I have tested "Markov Blademaster" in my own vampire deck, and found it to 'weak'. Even with "Blade of the Bloodchief" it needes to much support to do it's job properly. If you manage to get it through you enemys defences it's great, but otherwise it will only end like an insect on a cards windshield *splatter*. You could change to something like e.g. "Vampire Lacerator" or, if you want to work with many +1/+1 counters, "Falkenrath Exterminator" You should also try to focus un either "Curse of Stalked Prey" or "Rakish Heir". I prefer the curse, because it's more difficult to remove for your enemy. Fot "Vampire Nocturnus" I have no expirience in a B/R deck. To work well, you should have somithing like the 'Scry X' abbility. If you relly on luck, it can happen that your vampires stay grounded for some turns. (Personally I also dislike the 'Play with the top card of you library revealed' because your enemy can see, and easily react, what you gonna do) You also could remove the number of lands to 20. With the free spaces, I would add some more point removals like e.g. "Go for the Throat", "Lightning Bolt" or "Terminate". A faster alternative to "Rakdos Guildgate" would be "Blackcleave Cliffs" Greetings Muktol
I would remove "Fencing Ace" for e.g. "Elite Inquisitor"With so many low cost spells you can try to reduce your lands to 20, or maybe even 16"Mentor of the Meek" would be a good choice for carddraw and "Thalia, Guardian of Thraben" against anything that runs many non-creature spells but I don't see anything I would remove at the moment. If you feel that you don't like a card, give one of those a try. ;) . Same thing with "Champion of Lambholt" it is a great card, , like papercliptrip said, but I wouln't know what to change at the moment. "Bonds of Faith" is a great control/ buff card and "Call to Serve" made my day often enoughI run "Sublime Archangel" as finisher in my own (modern) Human Deck.
If you want to make a RDW deck, I can't help you, I have never played one of those, but If you wan't to make a pure burn deck, here are some ideas: Remove "Charmbreaker Devils" and "Fire Servant" and replace them by "Hellspark Elemental" and/or "Vexing Devil". You can put those into your sideboard, and if you feel that the match takes longer than expected (e.g. against lifegain), you can board them in after the first round. Like ergon314 allready said, remove "Curse of Bloodletting" for "Quest for the Pure Flame". The curse is more for midgames, wich you normaly don't want to get in. I would furthermore remove the following cards: "Brimstone Volley": Normaly you don't want to shot on creatures, so the morbid wont trigger. "Incinerate": Your main target is the enemy player, and creatures that can be regenerated are normaly expensive and slow. "Reverberate": Most of your damage spells should be cc1 and do 2-3 damage, and a cc2 copy of a cc1 spell is not really effective. If you're using cc3+ spells, you can think of it, but normaly a burn deck focuses on cheap and fast spells. "Seething Song": I think this comes to late to be of great use. Within T3, if everything goes well, you have 3 cards in your hand and 3 lands on the board. One of those handcards is Seething Song and the other two are cc1 oder cc2 spells, so you can't really use the whole mana you're getting from the spell. "Reforge the Soul": If you want carddraw I would change to "Wheel of Fate" as it is more stable in it's costs. If you want to stay modern legal you also should remove "Browbeat" Here are some ideas to replace the spells you remove: Seal of Fire (cc1, 2dmg, player or creature), Pyrite Spellbomb (cc2, 2dmg, player or creature, possible carddraw), Magma Jet (cc2, 2 damage, player or creature, scry2), Shard Volley(cc1 3 dmg, player or creature), Forked Bolt(cc1 2dmg, plaayer and/or creature), Lava Spike(cc1, 3dmg, player), Rift Bolt (cc1, 3dmg, player or creature) Greetings Muktol
I use "Thraben Doomsayer" and "Mentor of the Meek" as card producing machine in my own human deck. Works very well in longer games, and safed my day once or twice for sure ;)
"Mentor of the Meek" is not a really good choice here. If you have 1 "Honor of the Pure" on the field only "Boros Elite" and "Champion of the Parish" will trigger the effect, with 2, nothing will. I would also just use 2 "Path to Exile" and 2 "Oblivion Ring". The free slots could be filled with "Bonds of Faith" or "Call to Serve" (Flying doublestrikers are really bad news for your enemy ;) )
The question is, what do you want to cast when "Cast Through Time" is on the table?
I play "Chronozoa" as a second win- option in a similar Deck. It also serves as counter-safe, and those can easily be moved with "Power Conduit". http://www.mtgvault.com/muktol/decks/counter-transfer/
Creatures:I would change from "Crosstown Courier" to "Shriekgeist". The spirit hast evasion and it is far more likely that he can really deal damage to your enemy and thus mill him. If the attacking creatures have some sort of evasion, you could also remove "Tricks of the Trade"Think of removing all "Consuming Aberration" for one more "Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker". With the free spaces you could up "Jace's Phantasm" to 4 and "Duskmantle Guildmage" to 3, or add 3 "Wight of Precinct Six". Planeswalkers:Decide either for Jace or Lilian and remove the other one, in a mill deck I would prefer JaceSorcerys/ Instants: I would remove "Grisly Spectacle", you normally don't want to keep 4 Mana unused in your pool. Use the free place to up the number of "Dimir Charm" to 4 . "Mind Grind" will be of to little use with only 20 Lands, and you got yourself better alternatives. Use the free slots to up "Mind Sculpt" and "Pilfered Plans" to 4, or think of adding "Dream Twist" instead. I have no experience with "Reap Intellect" but it seems awfully expensive. Effective for sure, but expensive. 5 mana for 4 cards, 6 mana for 8 is expensive. You could remove annoying cards from your enemy's hand, but this spell comes T5+ without ramp and normally your enemy wont have that many cards on his hand left, the dangerous pieces will be allready on the board.Lands:I would remove 3 standard lands for "Nephalia Drownyard". It is a You can mill your enemy, even you are in topdeck modus and the chance of drawing the right card is small.
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