Snow Covered Pestilence Deck

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Force of Will Smith

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The idea for this deck was mainly this..

If a pestilence is in play, and i clear the board.. i still have sleeping hounds/skirges awake..
pestilence'ing for a bit.. and right when my opponents life hits 10, i get creature based hounds and my pestilence doesnt die!!


4 Terror
3 Diabolic Edict/Smother
2 Sickening Wind

4 Withering Wisps (just like pestilence,costs 1 less, just run SC swamps)
4 Pestilence
4 Lurking Hounds
4 Lurking Skirge
3 Screams from Within
3 Sadistic Glee
3 Noxious Field (T:1 to each creature) 1BB
2 Dry Spell (1 to each creature and player) 1B
2 Plague Spitter
2 Crypt Rats

screams from within is one of the greatest black removal cards ever..

Wail of the Nim could also be nice.. regenerating all my creatures for free.

I know what you're thinking... i have almost every black pestilence effect but Thrashing Wumpus..
My only thought about him is that he's 5 and i have numerous ways to kill beef as big as him, so i'd attempt without him first.

If i were to use him. i'd drop 2 crypt rats and 2 spitters for 4 of him.

Nothing better than using pestilence till your opponents are at 4.. then pitching your hand for sickening :D
 
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Force of Will Smith

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well its 40 cards.. so um.. 20 swamps :D..
and if i find turn 1 drops arent important, 4 Peat Bogs and 16 swamps.
Unless lake of the dead gives you mana for sac'ing creatures..
 
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Force of Will Smith

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OMG, 1/1's are NEVER safe... EVER.. i need to playtest this deck MORE!!! so FUN!!
 
Oversoul

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The Tentacled One
Don't you mean Snow-covered Swamps?

Anyway, the fact that its a monocolored deck helps, but if the manabase is so simple that we can guess and probably get it right, it should be even easier for you to just type it up. There's no point in not doing it...
 
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NorrYtt

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That's pretty cool but you forgot the most painful permanent ever: Last Laugh.

Last Laugh deals incredible amounts of damage. It takes something like 1 whole turn before everyone's dead. Last Laugh is simply the fastest way to end a FFA in multiplayer.

I like using stuff like Bottle Gnomes, Plague Dogs, and Phyrexian Plaguelord in my Pestilence decks. I also like Corpse Dance, which works well with these three creatures. Plaguelord has the nifty ability to kill Indestructible creatures as well.

Ever considered something like Urza's Armor or Demon's Horn? You're just gonna take all that pain?

B/W Pestilence is really strong with Lashknife Barrier, Sphere of Grace, and Spirit Link.
 
Oversoul

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The Tentacled One
Wow, Last Laugh is nice (it's from Torment so I'd never seen it before). If I were still into Pestilence decks, I'd use it. It works nicely alongside Urza's Armor, which I always used.

You might also want to try out Cemetery Gate if you haven't already. It's an excellent blocker and immune to Pestilence entirely.
 
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Force of Will Smith

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Yea i did mean snow covered swamps.

Hmm.. Urza's armor would work pretty well..

I saw last laugh but I thought at first that it would just be too hard for me to control.. for example.. if someone plays an atog and sac's all their land, 10 damage to all.. but then.. well.. i guess its not really any different..

okay.. last laugh works...

spirit link with crypt rats is just sick.. running walls of hope for further cheese, coupled with congregate.. ugh... I wanna make this deck bad but not to the point where people get pissed.. so i think the suicidal element works nicely..

Demons horn would be good, urza's better... maybe i'll run a couple last laughs.

i found that i can remove creatures pretty effectively..
dry spell and plague spitter get lost in the booming pestilence cloud that deals much much more damage than they do.
Crypt rats are good for 3cc, but wisps does just the same..

I'm not sure if sadistic Glee is really necessary either..
especially since it makes me plan out my destruction.. instead of "OMG... 1 more black... then we all die!!!"

Sickening dreams is pretty much a poor cost alternative... theres never really a time where i go.. oh man... i have no way of dealing 3 damage to each creature.. it ends up making me pitch better cards..

I've also found that a skirge is really easy to get.. but its a 3/2.. limiting my P'ing at 2.. so i'd either want to run 4 sadistic, or cut skirge for plague's and crypts..

4 Terror
3 Diabolic Edict

2 Urza's Armor
2 Last Laugh

4 Withering Wisps
4 Pestilence
4 Lurking Hounds
3 Lurking Skirge
3 Screams from Within
3 Sadistic Glee
3 Noxious Field (T:1 to each creature) 1BB
3 Crypt Rats
2 Plague Spitter

20 Snow covered Swamps

i'm thinking about killing spitters, upping rats and sadistic to 4.
 
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Force of Will Smith

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So damn cheesy... *shivers* good thing i'm not really trying to exploit them.
 
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Force of Will Smith

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well.. if i did i'd use spirit link, walls of hope.. and it would be an irritating multiplayer deck... perhaps later though.
 
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Force of Will Smith

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oh yeah i forgot about that one.. thats the 1BW one that gains life for damage dealt to and from it right?
 
Oversoul

Oversoul

The Tentacled One
Yes, that's the one.

It's really funny with Serra Avatar. Of course, if you can get a Serra Avatar out in a deck, it should usually mean you are in a winning position...
 
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Force of Will Smith

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true.. but never cast the bastard... my fav is my turboland deck that runs 4 polymorphs, 2 colossus's and 2 serra avatar's

animate a man-land...boom :D
 
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train

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Did you rebuild with Last Laugh included?...

(I was going to suggest it, but NorrYtt mentioned it first...)

Also - why not something like a Mindlsicer to work with Hand destruction...

For lands - you definitely need the Lakes - thay can also fuel a huge drain life... or consume spirit...;)
 
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Force of Will Smith

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k.. i'll try with a couple lakes..

need my withering wisps... they never ever came. :( ebay pisses me off sometimes.
 
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