Since you're trying to build a ton of decks for your personal challenge, is this budget constrained? If not, there's literally like 50 superior card choices that can be made.
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Since you're trying to build a ton of decks for your personal challenge, is this budget constrained? If not, there's literally like 50 superior card choices that can be made.
It's restrained to what I have kinda-sorta. Suggest away I have a fairly large collection (although not what some here have) and some $$$ for additionals.
I'd like to see your "literally" 50 superior choices
Edit: Had a look at your list - food for thought there, certainly. However when you say that you're thinking of making Tariel your general instead and making it RWB goodstuff you may be thinking in a different direction than I am.
Yeah Fallen Angel just seems bad, and Oni is mildly useful but probably not good enough in the long term. Good call on Seizan forgot about that guy, and I'd never even heard of Spirit of the Night before. Red Akroma is pretty underwhelming but I'm hoping in a deck that - in theory - never pays for her (leaving mana for firebreathing action) that she may actually work out.
Will try and track a Seizan down, may have to buy a Spirit.
Spirit is a beast (and him being labeled a Demon now is fun to). I picked one up years ago when I built up a burial deck along with most of what's in my Tariel deck. Seizan though is just plain good. He can also buy you an ally if you have a friendly neighborhood control player who wants to keep it kicking so long as it doesn't get pointed at him in combat.
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I don't know which of these you have, the most expensive are around $20 each. Obviously original dual lands should be played optimally, but lots of people don't have the money for those. I'm also omitting things like Zodiac Dragon, Grim Tutor, Imperial Seal, Wasteland, Sneak Attack, etc. as those are all great cards, but more pricy than most people are willing to spend on a single card.
Edit: The reason that I made the comment about potentially switching to Tariel as my general and playing RWB Goodstuff is because my deck gets hated out of every single game that I play in with the more casual players at my LGS. I'm talking like, "it's turn 3 and I have no permanents," hated out, because they're just scared to death that they'll get steamrolled. More experienced players (arguably with better decks) that know how to tempo a game and are able the make the better plays, generally get along fine with Kaalia. Switching Tariel to my general would mean an entire restructuring of the deck, leaving only the mana-base basically and working from there, which I don't really feel like doing at all. My deck's strategy and build is highly Kaalia-involved. Just kinda clarifying if you thought by that comment that my deck was already leaning away from Kaalia and to Tariel - it really isn't.
I completely bypassed the entire idea of using Kaalia as anything more than a spot in the deck just because I know how she's seen on alot of boards. "ZOMG IT'LL KILL US IF WE DON'T RAEP IT FIRST!!!" Tariel doesn't seem nearly as threatening. Until the Mimeoplasm realizes it's staring down half it's beaters and wondering how that happened at least.
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01 Kaalia of the Vast
Angels
02 Aegis Angel
03 Akroma, Angel of Fury
04 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
05 Angel of Despair
06 Angelic Arbiter
07 Archangel of Strife
08 Basandra, Battle Seraph
09 Firemane Angel
10 Pristine Angel
11 Shattered Angel
12 Tariel, Reckoner of Souls
Demons
13 Carnifex Demon
14 Kuro, Pitlord
15 Malfegor (also a Dragon)
16 Reiver Demon
17 Rune-Scarred Demon
18 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
19 Stronghold Overseer
Dragons
20 Bladewing the Risen
21 Dragon Tyrant
22 Flameblast Dragon
23 Hellkite Charger
24 Hoard-Smelter Dragon
25 Mana-Charged Dragon
26 Mordant Dragon
27 Oros, the Avenger
28 Rakdos Pit Dragon
29 Akroma's Vengeance
30 Culling Sun
31 Damnation
32 Demonfire (Demon, geddit?)
33 Earthquake
34 Mortify
35 Path to Exile
36 Terminate
Getting Big Killy Things into My Hand
37 Blood Speaker
38 Diabolic Tutor
39 Liliana Vess
40 Morbid Plunder
41 Plunge Into Darkness
Gettin' to 4 Mana, Toot-Sweet
42 Sol Ring
43 Boros Signet
44 Orzhov Signet
45 Rakdos Signet
46 Darksteel Ingot
Protecting My Own Stuffs
47 Bathe In Light
48 Champion's Helm
49 Ghostway
50 Lightning Greaves
Randoms (Misc other stuff)
51 Avatar of Slaughter
52 Crescendo of War
53 Death By Dragons
54 Glory of Warfare (RAWR)
55 Hide // Seek
56 Land Tax
57 Orim's Thunder
58 Phyrexian Arena
59 Rage Reflection (RAWR)
60 Resurrection
61 Return to Dust
62 Sword of the Paruns (here for testing... probably really bad )
63 Vow of Lightning
64 Akoum Refuge
65 Arena
66 Barren Moor
67 Battlefield Forge
68 Blood Crypt
69 Bojuka Bog
70 Boros Garrison
71 Command Tower
72 Evolving Wilds
73 Forgotten Cave
74 Godless Shrine
75 Molten Slagheap
76 Orzhov Basilica
77 Rakdos Carnarium
78 Sacred Foundry
79 Secluded Steppe
80 Sulfurous Springs
81 Vivid Meadow
7 Swamp (82-88)
6 Mountain (89-94)
6 Plains (95-100)
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- Demonic Tutor (I only own one and it's in my Ghost Council deck)
- Rakdos the Defiler (especially now Blood Clock is in)
- Wrath of God
Any other suggestions?Viperion
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It's restrained to what I have kinda-sorta. Suggest away I have a fairly large collection (although not what some here have) and some $$$ for additionals.
I'd like to see your "literally" 50 superior choices
Edit: Had a look at your list - food for thought there, certainly. However when you say that you're thinking of making Tariel your general instead and making it RWB goodstuff you may be thinking in a different direction than I am.
Viperion
Yeah Fallen Angel just seems bad, and Oni is mildly useful but probably not good enough in the long term. Good call on Seizan forgot about that guy, and I'd never even heard of Spirit of the Night before. Red Akroma is pretty underwhelming but I'm hoping in a deck that - in theory - never pays for her (leaving mana for firebreathing action) that she may actually work out.
Will try and track a Seizan down, may have to buy a Spirit.
Cheers
Viperion
Kaalia loves all those cards.
Edit: The reason that I made the comment about potentially switching to Tariel as my general and playing RWB Goodstuff is because my deck gets hated out of every single game that I play in with the more casual players at my LGS. I'm talking like, "it's turn 3 and I have no permanents," hated out, because they're just scared to death that they'll get steamrolled. More experienced players (arguably with better decks) that know how to tempo a game and are able the make the better plays, generally get along fine with Kaalia. Switching Tariel to my general would mean an entire restructuring of the deck, leaving only the mana-base basically and working from there, which I don't really feel like doing at all. My deck's strategy and build is highly Kaalia-involved. Just kinda clarifying if you thought by that comment that my deck was already leaning away from Kaalia and to Tariel - it really isn't.
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