Subject: [deck] B/R Suicide Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:49:40 +0200 From: Haugen Justin Civ 52CS/SCBBH To: "'fkusumot@ix.netcom.com'" Here's a strong B/r Suicide Song Deck. I'm leaving slots of cards open, so they will up to you in order to choose creatures and such. The deck runs usually 17 to 18 mana, and a plethora of creatures (about 31 or 32). 4 Song of Blood (game ender in every way imaginable) 4 Shock or Incinerate (it is up to you, but Shock is quicker) 1 Goblin Bomardment 4 Mogg Fanatic (excellent with a Necratog, Ghoul or Vulture) 1 Goblin Vandal (aftifact removal in the form of a creature is good) 4 ____________ (fill with 1 CC ,comments on empty slots later) 3 ____________ 2 ____________ 4 Circling Vultures (flying fatness) 3 Dauthi Horror (better than the slayer against WW) 2 Dauthi Slayer (harder to cast than the horror) 2 Black Knight (still a staple creature) 4 Barrow Ghoul (fatness from the underground) 2 Necratog (the best atog ever) 2 Cursed Scroll (it used to run just one, now two) 4 Rocky Tar Pits 4 Sulfurous Springs 3 Mountains 7 Swamps Sideboard: 2 Bottomless Pit (If you expect a lot of U5C, use 3 or even 4) 2 Phyrexian Furnace (remove scrolls for these against anything with Gaea's Blessing) 2 Shatter 2 Boil 1 Flashfire 2 Gloom 1 Perish 3 Dread of Night Other choices for the Sideboard include Forsaken Wastes. The empty slots are to be filled in with your choice of one casting cost creatures. Don't use Sarcomancy, it's not a creature, and is less effective when using Song of Blood. Your choices are Carnophage, Sewer Rats, Pit Imp, or Shadow Guildmage. I would use a combination of 3 Rats, 4 Guildmage, and 2 Carnophage. The Guildmage are almost essential against other weenie decks. It can help to kill creatures with protection from Red if you can't shock a creature. The selection of 2 CC creatures is my selection of creatures, but you can use creatures like Foul Imp or Fledgling Djinn if you need more flying creatures. As I said in my previous post, graveyard manipulation is a task. Make it a habit of using the Vultures ability to be discarded in order to keep another Vulture or Barrow Ghoul in play. Wait until you have about 3 or more creatures in play before using Song of Blood, unless you have 1 to 2 graveyard eating creatures. You won't believe how painful it gets for people to kill your creatures and then you follow up with a Barrow Ghoul. Necratog, in combination with Song of Blood can do an amazing amount of damage. I've dealt anywhere from 11 to 26 points of damage on the 4th turn with a couple of creatures and a Necratog in play. Make sure that you use the Rocky Tar Pits. These are essential to the deck efficiency. The Tar Pits effectively thin out the deck, making card draws and Song of Blood more effective. Use the Bombardment and/or Fanatics as sacrifices to the Graveyard bunch, or as game finishers. Save Fanatics for Ball Lightnings agianst Sligh. This is the first weenie deck I've built that puts out the early game rush, but controls the late game flow with Scrolls and the Graveyard crew. The sideboard is easily self explanatory. Bottomless Pits wreck all other decks badly. The Pits effectively put creatures into your graveyard (another good thing), and makes it easier to use the Scroll. As noted, use more Pits in heave U5C environments. As metagame decision, you could even play it main deck. You may ask why no Bad Moon. My answer is, why not? You could use it. If you do, take out 4 Shocks for the Bad Moons, and work in 4 Pit Imps. Test this to your liking. Some people like the added removal, others like the beefy creatures. Against U5C and White Weenie, the Bad Moon will probably win you more games. If you would like to know the success rate of this deck, I've played an extended version (with Bolts instead) and went undefeated in 8 rounds of swiss, only to lose to my friend in the single-elim finals. 3 and 4 turns kill were extremely frequent. I strongly consider this a perfect metagame deck for the environment since I really haven't made this deck very public. No one would expect anything like this, and this is how decks usually storm nationals or pro tours. This is a strong addition to the Suicide Black family. Just remember when you play this, life is not an object, it's only a resource, and a card in the graveyard is as good as a card in hand. As for a name for the deck, I haven't chosen between Underground Soldiers or Grave Tech, so give your input. Justin a.k.a. Scylla