4 Infectious Host
4 Ravenous Rats
4 Wood Elves
3 Nekrataal
3 Dimir House Guard
1 Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
4 Night of Souls' Betrayal
3 Bloodbond March
4 Buried Alive
3 Oversold Cemetery
3 Darkblast
10 Swamp
7 Forest
4 Overgrown Tomb
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
1 Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers |
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Clark.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
...I'm talking about Infectious Host and its
ilk.
This always-say-die flesh-eater puts the “supper” in “suppurating
pustules.” The more he dies, the happier he gets. He is not in the least
bit scared to be mashed into a pulp. Or, for that matter, to have his
eyes gouged out and his elbows broken. Basically, he wants to be dumped
in the graveyard, sent to the bin, and put in the grumper. As often as
possible.
To accomplish this, I turned to my friend and yours: Night of Soul's
Betrayal. With one of these bad boys in play, Infectious Host becomes
like a two-point Blaze, except Black, and with life-loss instead of
damage. Other Enchantments that I have anthropomorphized and befriended
include Oversold Cemetery and Bloodbond March. All those Hosts whose
souls have been betrayed? Bring 'em back from the grave with the, uh,
Cemetery. Later in the game, with the help of Buried Alive or just
Darkblast-dredging, your graveyard should be full of creatures. When you
cast one that you've returned to your hand with Oversold Cemetery,
Bloodbond March will be there to put the rest of the Infectious Hosts
quick-dyin' clones into play. Once you have all three Enchantments in
play, and a graveyard full of Infectious Hosts, you can cause your
opponent to lose upwards of eight life a turn! With Shirei, Shizo's
Caretaker also in play, you can make them lose eight life on your turn
and on their turn! At that point, victory is all but assured. For whom,
I'm not sure. I don't want to say that the combo is fragile, but if you
tried to mail it, you'd have to put it in a box marked Fragile.
Now that I've won the Metaphor of the Year Award, here's the deck:
There used to be more copies of Shirei in the deck, but sadly, Bloodbond
March does not get along well with Legendary Creatures that aren't
Dragon Spirits from Champions of Kamigawa. Plus, you can fetch him with
Buried Alive if need be. Dimir House Guard fetches half of the combo
pieces (or Nekrataal) and can also serve as a means to sacrifice
Infectious Host and company in the absence of a Night of Soul's
Betrayal. As it stands, the deck is pretty inconsistent, but I'm not
sure how to make it better while maintaining Infectious Host as the
primary or sole kill mechanism. If you have any ideas, please post them
in the forums.
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