I heard the early comments about dono deck thurs and I am heartbroken that viewership is lower on thursdays and it won’t continue, i look forward to specifically thursdays when you stream 💔
I’ve spent a lot of time with this archetype. I have found that Undead Butler is the missing piece you need for the deck to really tick. You need to selfmill more, you need sac fodder and you more more ways to recur Griefs. Also, I like around two Accursed Marauder main. I also think some number of Malakir Rebirths in place of NDAA is correct to shave the land count.
I’m trying 3 birthing ritual shells. 1: abzan food. Get cat, Sam gam, and a sac outlet and win at instant speed. You can use Soultrader with peregrin tool and Chatterfang to do the same combo. 2: midrange pile like this using grief 3: abzan zombies using gravecrawler and warren Soultrader. Use the WB discard zombie, accursed marauder, carrion feeder. Birthing ritual feels really strong, but it requires a lot of creatures and a good curve. You want creatures you’re fine to sacrifice at every MV so you can keep the value rolling. Having good 1 drops is also great so you can sac bowmaster tokens or marionette apprentice tokens into some cheap value. 2 rituals on board at once is like a cheat code. Most of the time with a well built Deck it means you just get 2 good ETBs and upgrade your creature by 2MV in your end step. Also creature based hate is amazing. Endstep ritual into collector ouphe or phyrexian revoked is great. End step turn a bowmaster into a fulminatror mage and take out a tron land. End step turn a bowmaster token into a mite and remove their artifact. It’s great.
Try running Abzan with the white mh3 creature package and don't worry about comboing. Guide of Souls/Ocelot/Ajani with Nethergoyf/Bowmasters and go from there. Been running a list like that in Timeless and it's been disgustingly good.
I almost feel like you want a split of Village Rites and Scam spells because Rites works better with your other creatures and still recovers value from Grief
I play this in paper! -1 not dead, -1 nightmare, -1 Bloodghast for 3 grist the hunger tide. It’s sweet and can ritual or nightmare it as well.
I heard the early comments about dono deck thurs and I am heartbroken that viewership is lower on thursdays and it won’t continue, i look forward to specifically thursdays when you stream 💔
Keep the great work up - still can’t wait for going back to Pioneer! 🙈👍🏼😍
I’ve spent a lot of time with this archetype. I have found that Undead Butler is the missing piece you need for the deck to really tick. You need to selfmill more, you need sac fodder and you more more ways to recur Griefs. Also, I like around two Accursed Marauder main.
I also think some number of Malakir Rebirths in place of NDAA is correct to shave the land count.
I think I would much rather see ripple over ritual. It’s keeps your graveyard fueled up and makes nightmare much better 🤙 more aggressive take
I’m trying 3 birthing ritual shells.
1: abzan food. Get cat, Sam gam, and a sac outlet and win at instant speed. You can use Soultrader with peregrin tool and Chatterfang to do the same combo.
2: midrange pile like this using grief
3: abzan zombies using gravecrawler and warren Soultrader. Use the WB discard zombie, accursed marauder, carrion feeder.
Birthing ritual feels really strong, but it requires a lot of creatures and a good curve. You want creatures you’re fine to sacrifice at every MV so you can keep the value rolling. Having good 1 drops is also great so you can sac bowmaster tokens or marionette apprentice tokens into some cheap value. 2 rituals on board at once is like a cheat code. Most of the time with a well built Deck it means you just get 2 good ETBs and upgrade your creature by 2MV in your end step.
Also creature based hate is amazing. Endstep ritual into collector ouphe or phyrexian revoked is great. End step turn a bowmaster into a fulminatror mage and take out a tron land. End step turn a bowmaster token into a mite and remove their artifact. It’s great.
Try running Abzan with the white mh3 creature package and don't worry about comboing. Guide of Souls/Ocelot/Ajani with Nethergoyf/Bowmasters and go from there. Been running a list like that in Timeless and it's been disgustingly good.
This makes me want to run a birthing ritual e-wit deck. Cut down on nightmare and grist for more quality dudes
I almost feel like you want a split of Village Rites and Scam spells because Rites works better with your other creatures and still recovers value from Grief
Grief is a villain not a hero.
It may a villain but a lesser evil
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.