After reading your description, I'm going to offer two separate comments regarding card choice. If you have some expendable cash, say around $20, more lords is always a benefit. If you can bring your undead warchief and cemetery reaper counts up to 4 each, it will help your consistency and will make all your zombies more powerful more regularly. If you don't have money to spend, you can likely trade for a lot of good commons and uncommons that will greatly help your deck. One example would be replacing dross crocodile with skinrender. It's the same mana cost, but Skinrender is effectively a 2 for 1 and is also more resilient to burn since it has higher toughness. Basically, try to replace cards that are just a power and toughness with cards that have abilities. Value trumps no value most (if not all) of the time.
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I feel like that's debatable, my good sir. if you have one storm crow with 99 bone-saws, you get the image of a ball of bone saws, to which most people would respond with a "meh." The other way, you get a ball of Storm Crows... Think about it :P
Have you considered the 7 mana bomb's for this deck? I know that Elesh Norn is cost prohibitive, but Rune-scarred Demon with Phyrexian Metamorph can be a huge gain with a Summoning out. The combo I like is 6 mana and two life with a summoning on the board: Play a Rune-scarred Demon, fetching a Phyrexian Metamorph, play the Metamorph as another Demon, fetching a Myr Superion that you can just put on into play. You've probably thought of this already, but I thought i'd mention it if you hadn't. On the real, though, sweet deck. I love Heartless summoning builds.
This deck wants overgrown battlement. It wants it bad. The compounding effect you get from having multiple battlements out is game ending when you can kick a Wolfbriar elemental 8 times.
Man, I totally forgot about Tree of Redemption. That would actually work pretty well in either form of the deck. Also, commented on your deck.
Why Young Wolf over one of the one mana green defenders? Wall of Vines helps you defend against flyers and has better synergy with Overgrown Battlement.
Grafted Exoskeleton? It's use is more or less limited to Invisible Stalker, but on the Stalker it's a pretty fast clock.
This type of deck can go infinite on Turn 3 with the Havengul Lich combo. I built a version that tried to streamline only that aspect of it. Here is the link: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=318166 The turn three win is in the description. It still needs work as getting the combo every game does not always happen.
I haven't playtested with it yet, so as of now, I have a perfect record :P I can foresee this deck running into a lot of problems against aggro decks, which is why I have the three slagstorms in the main.
Yeah, I think wizards is trying to phase out extended with modern. Even so, this deck would be sweet in Modern. I might make another version for that, especially since Game of thrones season 2 has started. You should definitely make this deck if you've been thinking about it.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm trying to work within the confines of Standard, otherwise I would definitely add cards like Fabricate and the various other tutors to get the cards.
Really liking the Doubling Chant tech. Why Bifurcate though? Seems like they would be better served as more rats or the 4th Doubling Chant and Thrumming Stone.
That's true, but it's essentially a combo deck. How many times do you draw the perfect opener for Splinter Twin as compared to how good it is as a deck? You won't always get the combo, but you have ways to buy time in lightning bolt and ways to get the combo faster in Preordain and Ponder. You also have delver in a deck with 28 spells that will flip it, which can also serve as a win con. So yeah, is it perfect? Of course not. Is it fun? Hell yeah.
I actually have the gut shots already, the only problem is what to take out. The obvious contender is Lightning Bolt, but I think the versatility that it offers outstrips Gut Shot. Now that I think about it though, If I took out delver, I could put in either Gut Shot or Gitaxian Probe.
You should really be playing blue if you want to hose his decks. Echoing truth is a two mana board sweep against him. It also has the added benefit of bouncing Coat of Arms as a combat trick.
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/TCG/Resources.aspx?x=judge/resources/sfrmodern. Sorry for the double post. Forgot to add the link.
Rite of Flame is banned in Modern. Too much synergy with storm.
A pauper deck (only commons, for the few that may not know) that can kill on turn three. What's not to like? http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=310795
Thanks :P. It's a fun combo. I have another UR decks that runs similarly, but it uses the UR Hybrid cards to get a 5/5 shroud unblockable creature on the battlefield. It's super fun. The combo is Riverfall Mimic and Clout of the Dominus, with every other card in the deck being a UR hybrid for the trigger.
Get to it, then! If you don't have most of the cards already, you should still be able to build it for around 10 bucks.
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