Chill of the Grave

by nik0li on 20 July 2011

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (9 cards)

Instants (3)


Land (2)

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Deck Description

Creature/Control.

Kind of an Ice/Zombie theme. Frost/Grave Titans, Cemetery Reapers. Wall of Frost, Frost Breath, Ice Cage.

Cryptoplasm to copy the Titans, or copy enemy baddies/flyers. Spellskite. Royal Assassin to wipe tapped out creatures.

Yay.

Comments/Suggestions welcome!

Deck Tags

  • Control

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Chill of the Grave

nice. my only suggestion is -3 horrifying revelation and add counterspells, but that is just a personal preference. can you look at my uw control?

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Posted 22 July 2011 at 23:22

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I agree that this needs more counterspells, but it might benefit from +2 spellskite too -2 pm. Just my opinion.

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Posted 24 July 2011 at 04:53

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The milling subtheme here seems a little out of place, given you have titans as your win condition. Perhaps replace Jace's Erasure and Horrifying Revelation with counterspells & targeted discard? I'm liking how well this fits the theme but stays an effective control deck.

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Posted 24 July 2011 at 22:38

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The only thing I can think of is add at least 3 Royal Assassin. It would be a good combo with Frost Titan, and take out the Onyx Mage. :)

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Posted 28 September 2011 at 02:38

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I liked that idea/the synergy so I added the Assassins in. Kind of playing with the idea of Snapcaster Mages also.

Thanks!

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Posted 28 September 2011 at 07:26

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Also, if you want more tapdown, tumble magnet is really good. You could easily replace the spellskite with those.

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Posted 28 September 2011 at 18:33

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Also, what are you using crypoplasm for? Not sure that is exactly needed in this deck. If you are wanting to put snapcaster mage in the deck then I think that's what you should take out.

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Posted 28 September 2011 at 18:36

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Cryptoplasm works beautifully in this deck. I can copy one of my titans. I can copy a spellskite. I can copy a wall. I can copy an enemy flyer (since this deck has no way to deal with flyers, if I fail to counter it), I can copy an enemy badass, I can copy enemy Legendaries and make them die, etc etc.

Cryptoplasm is one of the last cards I would remove from this deck. And I say that because having played this deck several times already, they work wonderfully.

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Posted 28 September 2011 at 21:47

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Nice deck, now that Innistrad is out I think I would drop the Horrifying Revelations and replace them with Grimgrin, Corpse-Born. He combos very well with the Cemetery Reaper and the Grave Titan.

If you really like the discard, I would use 2 more Despise instead. Does Horrifying Revelations come in handy more often than not, or more often than Despise? I imagine by the time you're looking for your titans, neither of them help.

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Posted 29 September 2011 at 10:23

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I basically have Horrifying Revelations and Despise in there 1) because they are cheap, and the deck needed a few low-cost cards, but 2) because forcing a little bit of discard would (hopefully) make them drop some creatures in the graveyard, which i could then exile with cemetery reaper.

I was contemplating Grimgrin, tbh. But the only problem I have had with this deck is that it can move a little slow on occasion, since there's really no ramp at all in here. Thus, adding a 5cost creature to the mix gives me a little hesitation.

I agree that there are probably better choices than Horrifying Revelations, I just like it because it's cheap and gets two cards in the GY instead of 1.

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Posted 30 September 2011 at 15:43

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