Stopping Hitting Yourself 2.0

by StrategicMuffinExhausted on 31 May 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)


Sorceries (2)

Instants (6)


Enchantments (2)

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Deck Description

I've been thinking of ways to make this deck even nastier, then it hit me: add red. Lust for War and Pyrohemia struck me as particularly nasty additions, though I'll have to see how they play out. As per usual, any comments or crit are very welcome.

Original deck can be found here:
http://www.mtgvault.com/strategicmuffinexhausted/decks/stop-hitting-yourself/

How to Play

Abuse the Kor and a few other sneaky tactics to redirect enemy damage onto the creatures they really don't want to be hurting. The big endgame combo is:

Phyrexian Obliterator + Darksteel Plate + Pariah

which makes you completely unkillable from a health standpoint: any time your opponent attack you, they have to sacrifice a bunch of permanents and any damage they cause is negated completely. With Lust for War, they'll not even have a choice in the matter!

Once Pariah is out onto one of the big boys, your creatures can attack freely without fear of being blocked: either blocking them will hurt the enemy more than it will help, or they've got a way to redirect the damage where it hurts the most.

High Priest of Penance + Divine Favour is a wonderful early/mid blocker and while Goblin Arsonist + Divine Favour lacks the same punch, it's a nice way to stay alive until the big boys get out.

Now here's the big scary one you might've missed: the way the En-Kor's ability works, each time it resolves counts as a separate hit against the other creature of yours. So if you've got two Nomads and High Priest + Darksteel Plate out then cast Pyroclasm, the Nomads redirect 4 damage onto the priest, which results in FIVE DESTROYED PERMANENTS of your choosing.

Let me know what you're thinking, people: I wanna see if I can sharpen this bad boy until it's more a force of nature than a deck of cards.

Deck Tags

  • Experimental
  • Combo

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

24022220

Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Stopping Hitting Yourself 2.0

What if you replace one of your pyrohemia's with a pestilence? If you draw both in a game, you can spend black AND red mana for damage.

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Posted 31 May 2013 at 18:45

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WARNING: If YOU deal damage to your Obliterators you will have to sac permanents in case you didn't notice (referring to Pyrohemia). Other than that this deck seems very solid.

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Posted 31 May 2013 at 19:02

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What the above guys said.

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Posted 15 January 2014 at 21:41

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Inquesters flail for phyrexian

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Posted 21 January 2014 at 04:44

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