I wanted to build around creatures with combat damage triggers, and have some control aspects as well.
This deck can make some nice Gifts/Intuition set-ups, let me tell you. Your thoughts on what the best would be, assuming you could get any four cards?
There's *very* little room for change with what I have right now, although I might be able to squeeze out a land for something. Needs testing.
What do you think?
EDIT: Exotic Orchard and Reliquary Tower once Conflux hits. Other changes might be made when more is spoiled, but that's all I think will make it from what we have now.
I have a similar Rafiq deck. My build has a few more wrath effects, about 10 counterspells, and a few other cards to make double-strike more effective. I'd suggest testing out the following:
Other than that I'd just do an MWS card search for anything with the text "deals combat damage to a player" and filter out black and red. That should give you plenty of sexy bodies.
I was wondering about more ways to use the sub-theme of 1/1 tokens other than Skullclamp, and the idea popped into my head: Opposition! Spawnwrithe fits into this idea and is neat with Rafiq. I'll still have to test how worth it this little fella is, but for now Soltari Visionary gets the boot (hopefully Trygon Predator will be enough of that effect). Also, while I hate to see Bribery go, in the end, Opposition has more synergy with the idea of the deck, so in it goes.
I also already considered Disk, Multani, and Wonder, but they ultimately didn't make the cut for one reason or another.
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Yeah, but the idea is that I found a couple of big guys that have that bonus, so I wanted a couple of cards to interact with that small bonus. I don't want Multani because that would give me 3 creatures that make my equipment useless. That's the other thing, the 1/1 dudes become threats when they sport the equipment if need be.
Then again, I could be off. What do you recommend in place of the cards that would be part of that theme?
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I've just started thinking about a Rafiq deck, so I may be way off base, but doesn't Might of Oaks = 1 turn general kill w/ Rafiq? Seems like that could be pretty good.
It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came and the grasshopper died and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?
I know people like Lightning Greaves in most decks, but in Rafiq I prefer stuff that boosts power. At least I run more mass removal than targeted kill if I have enough cards. Quietus Spike would be my replacement. Blight Sickle perhaps as well.
You also have enough legends to justify Time of Need, IMO. It's nice for this deck because Rafiq is prone to Hallowed Burials.
seeing as how it hasn't already been mentioned, Gifts Ungiven has been banned. So you might want to consider taking out any combo's that you can't get the entirety of using Intuition.
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This deck can make some nice Gifts/Intuition set-ups, let me tell you. Your thoughts on what the best would be, assuming you could get any four cards?
There's *very* little room for change with what I have right now, although I might be able to squeeze out a land for something. Needs testing.
What do you think?
EDIT: Exotic Orchard and Reliquary Tower once Conflux hits. Other changes might be made when more is spoiled, but that's all I think will make it from what we have now.
Other than that I'd just do an MWS card search for anything with the text "deals combat damage to a player" and filter out black and red. That should give you plenty of sexy bodies.
Yeva (88/92 foils)
Raff
Scarab
Rakdos
Wort ($50 budget, 94/97 foils)
Trostani
-1 Bribery
+1 Spawnwrithe
+1 Opposition
I was wondering about more ways to use the sub-theme of 1/1 tokens other than Skullclamp, and the idea popped into my head: Opposition! Spawnwrithe fits into this idea and is neat with Rafiq. I'll still have to test how worth it this little fella is, but for now Soltari Visionary gets the boot (hopefully Trygon Predator will be enough of that effect). Also, while I hate to see Bribery go, in the end, Opposition has more synergy with the idea of the deck, so in it goes.
I also already considered Disk, Multani, and Wonder, but they ultimately didn't make the cut for one reason or another.
Yeva (88/92 foils)
Raff
Scarab
Rakdos
Wort ($50 budget, 94/97 foils)
Trostani
Then again, I could be off. What do you recommend in place of the cards that would be part of that theme?
I know people like Lightning Greaves in most decks, but in Rafiq I prefer stuff that boosts power. At least I run more mass removal than targeted kill if I have enough cards. Quietus Spike would be my replacement. Blight Sickle perhaps as well.
You also have enough legends to justify Time of Need, IMO. It's nice for this deck because Rafiq is prone to Hallowed Burials.
Hope that helps!