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What up JVL,
Here is my first run at your challenge this week for the Bloodchief Ascension Deck. Let me know what you think still need help on a lot of things including the Side-Board. Hit me up if you have any questions, look  forward to see what you write up next week.

// Lands
    4 [ROE] Swamp (4)
    4 [SOM] Blackcleave Cliffs
    4 [M11] Dragonskull Summit
    3 [M11] Mountain (2)
    4 [WWK] Lavaclaw Reaches
    4 [M11] Terramorphic Expanse 

// Creatures
    4 [M11] Ember Hauler
    4 [ZEN] Gatekeeper of Malakir
    4 [SOM] Perilous Myr
    3 [M11] Reassembling Skeleton

// Spells
    3 [ZEN] Bloodchief Ascension
    3 [M11] Sign in Blood
    4 [M11] Lightning Bolt
    4 [ZEN] Hideous End
    1 [M11] Dark Tutelage
    4 [ROE] Staggershock
    2 [M11] Jinxed Idol
    1 [SOM] Livewire Lash

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [M11] Sign in Blood
SB: 1 [M11] Dark Tutelage
SB: 1 [SOM] Livewire Lash

Nov 5, 2010 -- 7:11PM, AdAlta1 wrote:

I just can't seem to get the last few counters using my mono green infect deck. I'm thinking of shifting to a blue black manna base to get access to proliferate. my latest thought on a Blue Black infect deck is below.

4 Thrumming bird
2 Neurok invisimancer
4 Ichor Rats
4 Plague Stinger
1 Hand of Praetors
4 Ironclaw Myr

4 Steady Progress
4 Turn Aside
4 Distortion strike
3 Virulent Swipe
3 Grasp of Darkness

10 Islands
10 Swamp
4 Evolving Wilds



 

Pretty good.  I would consider using a few more Hand of the Praetors (unless you don't have them) and  Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon (unless again you don't have them).  I'd suggest removing two of the Ichor Rats .  Fast poison is nice but giving yourself four poison doesn't seen that great.

I love how this deck went from Bloodchiefs ascension to "Vampires with ONE BCA".

Seriously, that's a whole bucket of fail.

Not that the Vampire deck is bad or anything, it's just that he doesn' use the BCA enchantment by the end of the game.

It seems to me that a more creative approch would be Goblins with splashed black BSA.  Goblins currently try to run the Quest for the Goblin enchantment to make the deck 'power out' by turn 4 or so.   Meanwhile they're vunerable to sweepers.  If instead you went Turn 1 BCA, turn 2 Hasty Goblin, turn 2.5 Bolt (assuming new dual land from Scars).  Turn 3 is goblin, Goblin Kicked, swing for 7 or so and power up the BCA.  Now what ever your opponent plays to deal with the goblins is going to deal 2 to them plus pump your life total. 

Sorry, but the deck migration just went to known vampire variants and didn't do much else.  No innovative recurring offense and plinks of damage (such as a sacrifice outlet such as blade of the bloodchief , bloodghast with Kalastria Highborn)

Nov 12, 2010 -- 9:42PM, Oscuridad wrote:

Livewire Lash has great synergy with this deck. "Troll Shroud" is an understatement to what it does for this deck if ever it is in play. Turn 3 finishes are always exciting but if ever the games get dragged down to a slow, boggy, control matchup, the Lash is a great accompaniment to incremental Poison-ing of an opponent. I have even considered adding U in the mix just so I can play Trinket Mage to fetch it and play Distortion Strike as a utility card. I just haven't tried testing those.

Also, Fling has been really great off the sideboard because it gives your deck extra Poison speed if you need it and also added evasion from Instant removal. Sac it for 1 Poison counter, why not?

I hope this deck gets a competitive breakthrough. It's just really good! Especially considering how cheap the pieces are. Wiping the field with expensive Jace, the Metasculptor-powered decks around is also really fun.

Livewire Lash is good, and when playing infect my biggest problems are with other fast decks that can match its creatures or even put more into play right away than I can. Having my first several creatures removed or blocked puts me into topdeck mode too soon, the Lash is a reusable source of damage that even makes my pump spells reach that much further.

However, Trinket Mage can't tutor the Lash because it costs 2. And Fling doesn't give poison counters, it just counts the power of the creature you sacrificed. Fling doesn't have infect and it is the source of the damage, not the creature.

The G/u version of infect can be pretty powerful though... in some ways Distortion Strike is better than Assault Strobe since it ignores blockers for two attacks and pumps the creature a bit. Counters and bounce can go further than Flame Slash in removing threats. I've tried a deck with just Distortion and one with a few counters too, and the blue spells have won me some games that would have been unwinnable otherwise.

Canopy Cover seems like an unlikely choice, given that people have the automatic "Auras are bad! Two-for-one!" reaction, but it has really performed well for me. It's cheap enough to sneak in when your opponent taps out - by casting a blocker on his turn 2 for example, you can Cover your attacker your turn 3 and still have a mana available to cast Groundswell . Or turn 4, if he taps out to cast a creature and remove your attacker next turn, with 4 mana you can cast a 2-drop and Cover it. Unless your opponent has bounce or enchantment kill, your attacker is hard to block and immune to targetted removal, but you can still target it with pump spells.

I think a combination of Canopy Cover and Livewire Lash should help against creature-heavy and removal-heavy decks. The deck is very powerful but loses if the game drags out too long. I think it could be a contender but we'll probably have to wait a few months for more options in Besieged to push it over the top.