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3 years ago ::
Mar 03, 2010 - 6:13PM
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Jul 19, 2007
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Smallpox  is clearly very good in this format. It's a beating against Zoo, stops Thepths and Scapeshift from developing their mana, and is just generally a very good card. However, there really isn't a well-established deck playing Smallpox at the moment. There are many ways to build around it: discard, land destruction, a The Rock-esque deck, and even a Loam deck with Raven's Crime and the like. Personally, I think that a GB build looks really good: Tarmogoyf, Tombstalker, Thoughtseize, Pulse, etc. The problem is, I'm not sure how to fill out the rest of the deck. Ideas? Decklists? Anything?
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3 years ago ::
Mar 03, 2010 - 9:21PM
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Date Joined:
May 28, 2007
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You are so very right, It breaks any advantige depths gets with a big turn 2 play. No land no critters for you. There have been 2 recent decks at PTQ San Jauns that won the event. One at Millford the other in Cordoba, Argentina. Millford Deck
4* Auger of Skulls  3* Smother  4* Dark Confidant  4* Smallpox 4* Gatekeeper of Malakir  3* Stupor  4* Nyxathid  4* Thoughtseize  4* Tarmogoyf  3* Umezawa's Jitte  The rest land. Cordoba ,Argentina
4* Dark Confidant 4* Smallpox 4* Tarmogoyf 4* Thoughtseize 2* Slaughter Pact  2* Wretched Banquet  2* Smother 3* Engineered Explosives  3* Cry of Contrition  4* The Rack  4* Raven's Crime 
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3 years ago ::
Mar 09, 2010 - 1:08PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 25, 2008
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Please refer to my Freightliner deck. Its in the Deck Help section.
It continues to surprise me with its power.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 09, 2010 - 2:00PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 19, 2007
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Please refer to my Freightliner deck. Its in the Deck Help section.
It continues to surprise me with its power.
Oh, good, you've got testing results now. I'll take a look.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 10, 2010 - 9:17AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 25, 2008
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Please refer to my Freightliner deck. Its in the Deck Help section.
It continues to surprise me with its power.
Oh, good, you've got testing results now. I'll take a look.
Sort of. I tested a lot against DD/Thopter and found it a pleasing matchup. You can't answer a resolved thopter foundry but by destroying all lands you're still in it. I had this deck locked down to a Chrome Mox and 1 land to make tokens each turn and it was a brutal game, but I won.
I then lost another game where he was in the same setup but I couldn't find a Tombstalker to apply pressure.
I don't feel compelled to test Zoo. That matchup reeks of 90%+
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3 years ago ::
Mar 13, 2010 - 3:24PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 15, 2007
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It is very good, yeah.
I'm currently playing a mono-black "Pox" deck with Bloodghasts, Abyssal Persecutors, a Beseech the Queen toolbox (to fetch singletons of cards like Rite of Consumption, Death Cloud, Tendrils and Unmake) and a lot of sac-effects obviously.
It's quite fun to play, but as always going mono black ends up being a bit weak. I'm currently considering adding some white for sideboard options, but red might also work well with the theme.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 16, 2010 - 9:00AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 25, 2008
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I've made some more adjustments to my list and its getting better.
In my testing Bloodghast was the most unexciting card I could draw unless I had a smallpox in my opening hand. And its lack of impact on the board, and purely aggressive nature in a mid/range control type deck made him awful. I clung to him endlessly... until I figured out the bad and dropped him entirely.
Persecutor is fun and games, but there's so many other dynamic and less damning options in Extended so you don't have to use him.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 16, 2010 - 9:07AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 30, 2007
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Smalpox is good. And i agree with a sentiment above that monoblack leaves something to be desired.
I'm workign on a new deck with smallpox in myself, but it's going a very different direction.
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3 years ago ::
Mar 29, 2010 - 11:45PM
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Date Joined:
May 29, 2009
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I play a blackwhite version for the Flagstones. Ghostly Prison also found its way in there. Ulitimatly though I wish I had more to attack their mana base with...
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3 years ago ::
May 04, 2010 - 12:04PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 17, 2005
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I think it best fits in a classic deathcloud type of a build. I do not think a classic Rock type of a deck should run Smallpox. You need a Loam engine in place to consistently play Smallpox and get measurable advantages. The loam engine synergizes with Deathcloud's archetype quite well imo.
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