I haven't posted here in...forever, but, here's the Vorosh list I've been running for a few months now. Open to suggestions as I always like to improve a well tuned deck.
Offalsnout is awesome. There's no way I'm playing something like Relic of Progenitus or Tormod's Crypt. I like to remove specific cards rather than entire graveyards, mainly to be less of a hoser. Shred Memory was the other consideration. Either way I shape games so that the smaller bodies are a little more relevant, thanks to equipment; if he ends up just being a Coffin Purge on a guy, he's doing his part anyways. Come on, it's Offalsnout!
I'd prefer to use Bone Shredder due to nostalgia, I have used Shriekmaw in the past. Shriekmaw costs one less to recur with Genesis for the Evoke. I have a foil Maw to switch with my foil Shredder if I ever wanted to go back, which I might.
I also originally had Barter in Blood, but, there never was there a time I could get full value out of it and usually ended up being another Innocent Blood, I'm not paying 2BB for Innocent Blood, if I need something else I tutor for it
I decided against Decree of Pain months ago. It was cut simply because this deck really doesn't require more than a few wrath effects. Usually I would find myself drawing a wrath when I didn't need it. Then again, at the time I was also running Plague Wind as well. The draw is nice, but most times I found myself discarding things I didn't want to get rid of, despite some recursion, I would prefer to obtain draws from blue sources. I love the card though and it's going in Oros, but I just didn't see it fitting in Vorosh anymore. I'd rather be making threats than removing them.
This deck works out to be more mid range than anything else, so finding the balance is what I was seeking. A quickly Tinkered Sundering Titan or a very hard to beat late game is usually good enough for a W. Its a dangerous pile of (mostly) foil goodness.
1 Vorosh, the Hunter
Lands (39):
1 Academy Ruins
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
1 Maze of Ith
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Vesuva
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 Cabal Pit
1 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Watery Grave
1 Breeding Pool
1 Golgari Rot Farm
1 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Tainted Isle
1 Tainted Wood
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Windswept Heath
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
4 Forest
3 Island
3 Swamp
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Wood Elves
1 Eternal Witness
1 Wickerbough Elder
1 Forgotten Ancient
1 Spike Weaver
1 Genesis
1 Offalsnout
1 Bane of the Living
1 Shriekmaw
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Mulldrifter
1 Body Double
1 Shadowmage Infiltrator
1 Trygon Predator
1 Mystic Snake
1 Vulturous Zombie
1 Simic Sky Swallower
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Duplicant
1 Sundering Titan
1 Darksteel Colossus
Spells (37):
1 Crop Rotation
1 Regrowth
1 Life from the Loam
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Restock
1 Tooth and Nail
1 Chord of Calling
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Necromancy
1 Buried Alive
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Damnation
1 Beacon of Unrest
1 Profane Command
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Frantic Search
1 Capsize
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Treachery
1 Putrefy
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Sol Ring
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Dimir Signet
1 Simic Signet
1 Golgari Signet
1 Scroll Rack
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Sword of Light and Shadow
1 Fireshrieker
1 Mindslaver
First - Offal Snout? Why? There's much better graveyard removal, and the 2/2 body is far from releveant in this format.
Second - I've never understood why anyone runs Bone Shredder. It's a Dark Banishing with a piddly little 1/1 flier attached. You'd be better off with Ashes to Ashes, Reckless Spite, or Barter in Blood. And if you really need the creature, Shriekmaw and Nekrataal outclass Bone Shredder by a large margin.
Also, Decree of Pain is black's best friend in EDH.
I'd prefer to use Bone Shredder due to nostalgia, I have used Shriekmaw in the past. Shriekmaw costs one less to recur with Genesis for the Evoke. I have a foil Maw to switch with my foil Shredder if I ever wanted to go back, which I might.
I also originally had Barter in Blood, but, there never was there a time I could get full value out of it and usually ended up being another Innocent Blood, I'm not paying 2BB for Innocent Blood, if I need something else I tutor for it
I decided against Decree of Pain months ago. It was cut simply because this deck really doesn't require more than a few wrath effects. Usually I would find myself drawing a wrath when I didn't need it. Then again, at the time I was also running Plague Wind as well. The draw is nice, but most times I found myself discarding things I didn't want to get rid of, despite some recursion, I would prefer to obtain draws from blue sources. I love the card though and it's going in Oros, but I just didn't see it fitting in Vorosh anymore. I'd rather be making threats than removing them.
This deck works out to be more mid range than anything else, so finding the balance is what I was seeking. A quickly Tinkered Sundering Titan or a very hard to beat late game is usually good enough for a W. Its a dangerous pile of (mostly) foil goodness.
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