Lands:
20 Snow-Covered Swamp
2 Mouth of Ronom
2 Scrying Sheets
Creatures:
4 Ridged Kusite
4 Skirk Ridge Exhumer
4 Mindslicer
2 Fleshwrither
1 Hell's Caretaker
1 Faceless Butcher
4 Nihilith
3 Gleancrawler
1 Phantasmagorian
Other Spells:
4 Coldsteel Heart
4 Dread Return
4 Damnation |
 The
End is Nihilith.
Description of deck by its author (quoted):
At last we come to the end of the line, the
end of the road, perhaps the end of life as we know it (or at least the
end of this column). The last tribe I'm going to look at should be
familiar to those who clicked on the link to Jay's article from The Past
Returns Week. They are the horrors, and they've made great strides since
we last checked in on them in the days before Planar Chaos.
When I first got into Standard Tribal Wars, it was
possible to build a horror deck. The problem was that the mana curve was
unavoidably terrible, basically starting at four (for Mindslicer and
Hell's Caretaker) and going all the way up to eight (for Mindleech Mass).
You had pretty much one option: it was reanimator or nothing. Even several
sets later, Jay still found that horrors were very slow. Nowadays, with
the printing of some cheaper horrors, you don't have to build a reanimator
deck. You know what, though? I'm going to do it anyway.
First off, we've got the anagrammatic and
reanimation-enabling Ridged Kusite in the one-slot. Future Sight gave the
deck Nihilith, which is essentially a two-drop. Those time counters will
come flying off when Mindslicer does its trademark mind-slicing or when
you sweep the board clean with Damnation. Fleshwrither is another nifty
Future Sight card, and it conveniently fetches Mindslicer, Hell's
Caretaker, or Faceless Butcher by way of its transfigure ability. It gets
even niftier with a Gleancrawler by its side.
The other new card that gets me excited about this deck
is Skirk Ridge Exhumer, the Festering Goblin factory. It does so much! It
allows you pitch your fatties into the bin where they can be reanimated.
It gives you creatures to sacrifice to Dread Return. It forms a nice
one-two punch with Hell's Caretaker. On top of all that, those Festering
Goblin tokens happen to be nice little defenders.
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