WhiteAndBlueTheyKillYou

Our elf player was the reason I made my first MBC, kickstarting our damnable arms race, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were the one who did that in your group Wumpus. Aggro players make control players, and vice versa, then that situation is what breeds combo players... It's all a vicious cycle, this MtG arms race, and the victims are our wallets.

Artemis, I can entirely understand why he'd make you do as you do. I added 10L Stompy to the gauntlet I throw my control decks through before I debut them, and it alongside Affinity are probably the reason I've come to rely on the poxes so much nowadays.

This is why we can't have nice decks on the vault.
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You're the reason I play what I do, or at least people like you are. Freaking brilliant green players, you're all the reason!

*poke* Are you still alive?

This is DEFINITELY how Korlash should be done in mono-black!

There's always a way to slip a bit more evil into a deck :D

Mill I never really cared for, except when I'm doing it to myself. Me and most of my friends have at least one graveyard shenanigans deck, so if anybody wants to run mill they have to ask themselves if they feel lucky. It's too much of a liability to be worth it usually.
Extraction however does amazingly, because to hell with you, your combo, and anything in the deck that you might have loved. And it's a fun deck to build, and probably just below those three.

Sacrifice was my first really competent deck, it was slow, it was steady, and it made people hate me at the multiplayer tables. One friend ran Elves, one ran Zombies, and I thought it was time to make things manageable. I became the Cuba to their Cold War USA and Russia.

If Balance wasn't banned in Legacy, I'd probably play it too. In place of Smallpox it's interesting, but there are situations where it would be a bad call where Smallpox would be brilliant... I'd love to find out though.

And in retrospect you're right Sure, the poxes are so cool I want to collect a playset of each artwork for both of them.

It truly has been disappointing lately, but hopefully it will pick back into full swing once the next set arrives. I'd very much like to see what it has to offer to the eternal formats, it could be amazing, or it could be terrible.

Surgical Extraction is something I'm mostly running because of the rampancy of Storm I've been seeing, dealing with Rituals, Tutors, or other such nastiness can be quite useful. However I do see the logic behind running Hymn(as you said, it's Hymn for Christ's sake), and Inquisition would be a great way to stabilize the pressure I exert over each archetype, but as a power play Thoughtseize into Surgical Extraction is hard to top.

I'm really happy to know you like the use of the poxes, it's a bit more costly in every respect than Sinkholes, but that's what makes it so interesting. It applies pressure to my opponent in just as many ways as it does myself, but the deck doesn't really need to worry as much as the opponent due to the design of it all.

If you did it'd probably end up in the worst possible case of frostbite.

I love Pox man, it's one of the three styles I truly enjoy building. The others being Reanimator, and Doomsday.

If you want more of such shenanigans I suggest you check the good fellows below. Drumhead, and Quasimofo are the ones who inspired me to tinker with Nether Void, and a good deal of this design is based upon various ones they've done.
Winter Orb+Nether Void was a setup I didn't fully understand how to build around before SureWhyNot posted a deck Quasimofo uses, and MBC in general I'm only capable of building because of Drumhead.
Pox is something I've worked a long time on making my own though, and I must say I'm proud of that.

You forgot the most broken artifact ever printed; Bonesaw.

This is a really cool design, and it has a really stable setup, albeit at the cost of toolbox flexibility, I like it man.
One thing to include would be, as you brought up on my deck, Abrupt Decay. Perhaps in the slot of Vindicate, but that would reduce your mana denial, so I'm not entirely sure.

Also, I highly recommend trying Extirpate at three for a while, it's a really comfortable number in Iso-Pox.

Welcome back Dag! And I don't quite see how this deck could use a Stomping Ground, the only card that uses green is Deathrite. Could you elaborate?

Tangle Wire is a great card against aggro strategies, and an okay one against combo in game one(It gets replaced with Liliana G2). It just provides a good flexibility to the deck for game one, and can easily be replaced in game two, so I've come to love it in Contamination designs.

I'm really happy I managed to reduce the price so much, but I hate losing Entomb, and Rishadan Port.

I probably do, but you have to admit it's awesome to take one third of everything from everyone.

That's the spirit! This deck was challenge to see if I could do Pox for less than a grand, as stated in response to Sure above, but I've been playing more multiplayer matches again, and laid it out to make as many people as possible at a table hate me.
I'm a Johnny/Spike hybrid at heart, but not that I want to win, I want to make people lose :D

TL;DR I'm the griefing dick in my group.

When I can't call somebody whatever expletive comes to mind for whatever reason, this is generally what I call them, and it seems to fit Pox quite well.

I got challenged to make Pox for less than a grand, and being in the mood for multiplayer, this is how it came out. Granted the sideboard could probably jack it up to that with Chains, but if the guy actually uses it, he's smart enough to know that the SB for any mono-black design needs to be tailored extensively to what you expect.

Demigod of Revenge is insane, but it's just too costly. The real reason Vengevine gets a pass in the SB is mostly because of Gravecrawler casting from the graveyard for just one black mana a pop.

Well the Mortician Beetle gets insanely huge, but Viscera Seer is nicer in the multiplayer environments I'm expecting. That's not to say that they won't make an appearance from time to time at a few shops, but generally I'd rather the scry.

And I'm glad you all seem to like it, and welcome back Wumpus!
Also, the name is a reference to the song in the description. Was listening to that, and felt the urge to build sacrifice again

When Sure showed this list on the Vault it had been the first time running Winter Orb crossed my mind in something other than a 10L Stompy, this list is the reason I could make my last batch of Iso-Pox as powerful as I did. Thanks Arty, for showing me that there's always a way to make it more evil.