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3 years ago ::
Oct 19, 2010 - 9:28PM
#21
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Date Joined:
Feb 22, 2010
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I dont even waste time with anything fancy. Infect is all about pumping fast creatures, before your opponent can get anythign going, its the ultimate aggro. 4x blight mamba  4x ichorclaw myr  4x necropede  4x plague stinger  4x putrefax  4x giant growth  4x groundswell  4x vines of vastwwod  4x primal bellow  4x verdandt catacombs  2x terramorphic expanse  10x forest  8x swamp 
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3 years ago ::
Oct 20, 2010 - 2:14AM
#22
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Date Joined:
Mar 16, 2006
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@Pdr_Br - Why Green/Blue, if I may ask? It just seems like a weak color combination for what you're trying to do. You'll also want more threats - and Carrion Call is a really bad card, truth be told.
And I'm positive that you know this already, but Jace, the Mind Sculptor  would look good there. And maybe replacing Green with Black, to be honest.
Truthfully because I wanted to make a UG deck with infect simple as that, originally I thought of having a Mimic Vat  control style but since I still haven't got them I tried this and it went well, Carrion call it's good for me due to being able of dropping it for blocking or at the end of the turn. It's still work in progress and RDW and the like a real pain to beat. Jace 2.0 is good I give you that but still too expensive for me.
The avatar of laziness 
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3 years ago ::
Oct 20, 2010 - 3:16AM
#23
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2003
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// Lands 2 [ZEN] Crypt of Agadeem 3 [WWK] Bojuka Bog 15 [RAV] Swamp (3) 4 [WWK] Tectonic Edge // Creatures 1 [SOM] Carnifex Demon 3 [SOM] Corpse Cur 4 [SOM] Hand of the Praetors 4 [SOM] Ichor Rats 3 [SOM] Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon // Spells 2 [M11] Liliana Vess 1 [ZEN] Sorin Markov 2 [ZEN] Mind Sludge 4 [M11] Sign in Blood 4 [SOM] Contagion Clasp 1 [SOM] Contagion Engine 1 [SOM] Lux Cannon 4 [WWK] Everflowing Chalice 1 [M11] Doom Blade 2 [SOM] Mimic Vat // Sideboard SB: 2 [ZEN] Mind Sludge SB: 2 [M11] Doom Blade SB: 4 [ZEN] Sadistic Sacrament SB: 1 [SOM] Nihil Spellbomb SB: 4 [ROE] Consuming Vapors SB: 2 [ROE] Consume the Meek
It's really not even about giving niche cards to black.
It should be about giving black cards to Niche.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 20, 2010 - 7:09AM
#24
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Date Joined:
Dec 30, 2009
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Ebontail - I like your list, but I have to question your reasoning behind Primal Bellow  , the general lack of evasion, and the only critter protection you have being 4 Vines. The Bellow is a champ for mid to late game in mono-green, but you're only running 10 forest - that's less than half your lands. I have a feeling that more often than not, Primal Bellow will just be Giant Growth (or less), even in the late game. I'd switch out your Giant Growth with something to defend your creatures. You can't win without them. Pdr_br - that's what I'm talking about. I love a RDW matchup 80% of the time - but that's because I have cards in my hand that make their burn irrelevant and I have a mana curve comparable to theirs. Just saying, man. // Lands
2 [ZEN] Crypt of Agadeem
3 [WWK] Bojuka Bog
15 [RAV] Swamp (3)
4 [WWK] Tectonic Edge
// Creatures
1 [SOM] Carnifex Demon
3 [SOM] Corpse Cur
4 [SOM] Hand of the Praetors
4 [SOM] Ichor Rats
3 [SOM] Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
// Spells
2 [M11] Liliana Vess
1 [ZEN] Sorin Markov
2 [ZEN] Mind Sludge
4 [M11] Sign in Blood
4 [SOM] Contagion Clasp
1 [SOM] Contagion Engine
1 [SOM] Lux Cannon
4 [WWK] Everflowing Chalice
1 [M11] Doom Blade
2 [SOM] Mimic Vat
// Sideboard
SB: 2 [ZEN] Mind Sludge
SB: 2 [M11] Doom Blade
SB: 4 [ZEN] Sadistic Sacrament
SB: 1 [SOM] Nihil Spellbomb
SB: 4 [ROE] Consuming Vapors
SB: 2 [ROE] Consume the Meek
I love this. Wow, I love this. You've actually just won my heart, goodsir - I'm a monoblack player all day long, and this just makes me happy. It's extremely organic, too, which I can dig. I also really like the fact that you've got Sorin and Liliana in here (just because I like the Black PWs), but I have to ask - is Sorin intended to be removal on a stick, or just an alternate pseudo-wincon?
Basically this is just a solid MBC list with Infect as its premise. And I can dig that.
 STI - Standard Tier 1 Infect  Credit goes to zpikduM for the image.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 20, 2010 - 10:56AM
#25
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Date Joined:
Oct 10, 2010
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What do you guys think of Fume Spitter  ? One mana for a Necropede  , it looks like to me. Sac for a -1/-1 counter, which you'll basically do anytime it's about to die anyway. Having another artifact to sac to Throne of Geth  is useful but it looks like a pretty decent one drop. Thoughts on Corpse Cur  ? Useful?
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3 years ago ::
Oct 20, 2010 - 1:24PM
#26
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Date Joined:
Aug 29, 2009
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decklist
I like the general idea. However, I'm concerned by the lack of removal in the main. Skinrender should work well with Mimic Vat. Also I'm not convinced that Crypt of Agadeem is needed here; you only have a few black creatures. It's a combo card.
Also, there are really two themes in this deck. There is Proliferate + Counters (Lux Cannon, Carnifex Demon, the Planeswalkers) and there's Proliferate + Poison. The net result is that you have two sets of win conditions: the Demon and the Planeswalkers on one hand, and the Infect creatures on the other. Neither of those is particularly fast or mana-efficient. I'm aware that these two themes do support each other to a degree, it's just that you have few win conditions, and the list looks a bit diluted because of that.
In Legacy, Blue is the best color. Let's punish blue, in Modern. And they listened!
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3 years ago ::
Oct 20, 2010 - 1:25PM
#27
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Date Joined:
Jan 21, 2010
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Changed my deck around now. Added more useful pump spells, here is what it looks like.
Creatures: 20
4 Putrefax
4 Ichorclaw Myr
4 Plague Stinger
4 Ichor Rats
4 Necropede
Spells: 16
4 Vines of Vastwood
4 Virulent Swipe
4 Doom Blade
4 Groundswell
Lands: 24
14 Swamp
10 Forest
Please comment.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 20, 2010 - 3:23PM
#28
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3 Blight Mamba
3 Ichor Rats
3 Putrefax
3 Hand of the Praetors
3 Skinthiryx, The Blight Dragon
3 Plague Stinger
3 Tangle Angler
3 Ichorclaw Myr
2 Contagion Clasp
2 Assassinate
4 Giant Growth
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
2 Contagion Engine
12 Swamp
12 Forest
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3 years ago ::
Oct 20, 2010 - 4:05PM
#29
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I've been dabbling with Infect a bit, and here's what I brewed up. It looks a little un-conventional since it's pretty much just a B/r Aggro deck. Creatures 2 x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon  3 x Hand of the Praetors  3 x Corpse Cur 3 x Ichor Rats  4 x Plague Stinger  4 x Vector Asp  Spells 4 x Flame Slash  4 x Lightning Bolt  4 x Assault Strobe  4 x Grasp of Darkness  3 x Sign in Blood  Lands 4 x Blackcleave Cliffs  4 x Dragonskull Summit  10 x Swamp  4 x Mountain  SB 4 x Combust  4 x Doom Blade  4 x Deathmark  3 x Brittle Effigy  The gist is pretty obvious. Beat down with infect guys and use removal to keep blockers out of the way. Strobe gives some utility, SiB and Cur help get you some CA. The SB is just a nice removal suite to help you board in optimal removal for what your playing against. In what little testing I've done it's faird well VS Ramp decks thanks to Strobe, and all the removal helps against other Aggro Decks. Even Control's walls don't want up long thanks to Flame Slash and Grasp of Darkness. And kind of Mid-Range deck, or RDW list kind of wrecks it's day though.
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3 years ago ::
Oct 20, 2010 - 6:10PM
#30
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Date Joined:
Oct 23, 2009
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15 Swamp 6 Mountain 1 Dragonskull Summit (Everybody around me has none extra because of extended) 1 Blackcleave Cliffs (Same as above, except everybody wants just to collect the land) 3 Corpse Cur 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon 4 Hand of the Praetors 2 Necropede 3 Plague Stinger 2 Ichor Rats 2 Ichorclaw Myr  3 Throne of Geth 3 Livewire Lash  (Fantastic! Even without pump your opponent has to get rid of it somehow. And if a Day, nothing lost, same with Journey, but everything else targets and they'll get poison counters) 2 Lux Cannon  1 Mox Opal  (Would love to get more, but nobody has 'em) 3 Galvanic Blast  2 Lightning Bolt 2 Grasp of Darkness 2 Consuming Vapors  2 Assault Strobe (Don't know what to take out for a 3rd) Actually did really well at my last fnm. I went 4-1 and destroyed vampires, knight weenie, Jace's Erasure (First round), and barely beat Holy armor. I was shut out against RUG Titan control. And I didn't have time to make a sideboard, so I went without.
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