Standard: $40 Devour the Dead

by Vr on 29 August 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (27 cards)

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Deck Description

**Yes I know the sideboard has more than 15 cards. If you replace the cards as suggested below you don't need the current cards in the deck in the sideboard**

If you're willing to spend more money...
- Use the shock lands in the sideboard (they make the deck faster and more efficient)
- Replace 2 Trestle Troll with 2 Scavenging Ooze
- Replace a Trestle Troll and a Kalonian Tusker with 2 Deathrite Shaman

**SIDEBOARD**
- If you need more card draw or are having trouble finding cards for your combo you can use Grisly Salvage
- If you're fighting a control deck put in Golgari Charm

How to Play

The main card you want to buff up with scavenge is Lotleth Troll because he has trample, regenerate, and can discard cards from your hand (Note: When a creature dies they lose all counters unless you use Regenerate). When you have Varolz, the Scar-Striped on the battlefield you can discard any creature card from your hand and scavenge it to get massive +1/+1 counters on Lotleth Troll. With Corpsejack Mauler on the battlefield all those counters get doubled.

Use Alpha Authority on Lotleth Troll to make him hexproof, and Gift of Orzhova to get him flying and lifelink.

Essence Harvest does a ton of healing and damage when used with Lotleth Troll

I would suggest using at least one scavenge on a Gyre Sage to increase your mana pool greatly.

Kalonian Tusker is for cheap discard + scavenge to get your Lotleth Troll a threat as fast as possible (8 +1/+1 counters for only 2 mana).

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

Deck Tags

  • Standard
  • Budget
  • Scavenge
  • Vr

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Standard: $40 Devour the Dead

You can't regenerate something you sacrifice. Other than that it looks good. Lotleth troll is broken.

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Posted 31 August 2013 at 07:18

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Oops. Good catch, I removed Disciple of Bolas from the deck because he's pretty useless without that. I just added in another Treslte Troll and Kalonian Tusker.

Thanks, and yeah Lotleth Troll is broken :).

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Posted 31 August 2013 at 16:16

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