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This Deck was built in 0:09:16

Total Deck Size: 40
17 Lands
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1 Island
8 Mountain
8 Swamp

10 Creatures
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1 Black Cat
1 Crossway Vampire
1 Falkenrath Aristocrat
1 Kessig Wolf
1 Rage Thrower
2 Ravenous Demon
1 Reckless Waif
1 Torch Fiend
1 Vampire Interloper

13 Other Spells
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1 Army of the Damned
2 Faithless Looting
1 Fling
1 Ghoulcaller's Chant
1 Increasing Vengeance
2 Reap the Seagraf
1 Runechanter's Pike
2 Tragic Slip
1 Victim of Night
1 Wrack with Madness

With Olivia being the biggest standout amongst the rares, I was quickly drawn to try a b/r build. The deck is a little creature shy with only 10, but with double reap the seagraf standing in as some additional 3 drops and a big finisher in army of the damned, I think it should probably be enough. Pike should easily make even the worst of the creatures into legit threats with 12 spells to put in the bin and faithless looting can pitch the situational spells like fling and increasing vengeance to dig for creatures or lands. You should never loot if you have valid plays in the early game. It's best saved for late when you draw into excess land, though this deck certainly makes use of an abundance of land through army and olivia. Fling is included for it's insanity with ravenous demon, although with only two humans in the deck, they will often just be 4/4 dudes for 5 which is fine. If you can sac a ragethrower or a waif though, getting in for 9 with the flipped demon and casting fling post combat should end games fairly quickly. Copying fling or any other of your removal spells with vengeance should be quite amazing, especially with a morbid tragic slip, and even more ridiculous with flashback. Even copying a reap the seagraf in a pinch should be a fine play. Ghoulcaller's chant is a fine way to get back Olivia or even just return a human to sacrifice and sort of acts as a 14th creature. The most notable exclusion is nearheath stalker, since the deck is creature light and it plays pretty well with Fling, but I just really haven't been all that impressed by the stalker. It usually just trades with the opponents two smallest guys when going on the offense, which is admittedly sometimes fine, especially if you have a ragethrower in play, but generally not very unexciting. The deck has enough high end with double demon, ragethrower and army, I just didn't feel it needed another 5-drop, though it might prove better than the second looting and would probably get boarded in against decks with a lot of bigger guys. A single island is included as a nod to double reap the seagraf, enabling it's flashback cost, and I think with so many double mana symbols in the deck, the two lootings might just be necessary to dig for the second swamp or mountain when needed, and letting you pitch your double mana spells if you blank on the draw. The deck seems to have alot of synergies going for it, making use out of most of the rares, and creating some very powerful endgame scenarios. The mana curve appears to be fairly decent, and despite the early creatures being fairly bad, I think with all the powerful endgame cards this deck possesses, just chumping and enabling morbid slips or having a guy to don the pike in the early game should buy enough time to get big with some of the deck's powerful finishers.

Mar 15, 2012 -- 7:15PM, fakestreet wrote:

I wasn't sure if the R was worth splashing or not.  The Aristrocat is pretty good with the amount of fodder in the deck and Rage Thrower just ends games (again with the amount of fodder in the deck).  Jar of Eyeballs is another card I'm unsure about.  I would probably end up replacing the Ravenous Demon for the Jar.  With 2x Deranged Assistant , Army of the Damned is actually castable and with Divination and Civilized Scholar , it's also pretty consistent. 

This Deck was built in 0:10:57

Total Deck Size: 40
17 Lands
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6 Island
3 Mountain
8 Swamp


13 Creatures
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1 Black Cat
1 Civilized Scholar
2 Deranged Assistant
1 Diregraf Captain
1 Falkenrath Aristocrat
1 Murder of Crows
1 Rage Thrower
1 Ravenous Demon
1 Relentless Skaabs
2 Rotting Fensnake
1 Vampire Interloper


10 Other Spells
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1 Army of the Damned
1 Divination
1 Ghoulcaller's Chant
1 Griptide
2 Reap the Seagraf
2 Tragic Slip
1 Victim of Night
1 Wrack with Madness

Murder of Crows will also help with the consistency of the deck.  With the Aristocrat in play, it is like playing a slightly worse version of Careful Study for free.

Total Deck Size: 40 17 Lands --------------- 6 Forest 5 Plains 5 Swamp 1 Haunted Fengraf

15 Creatures --------------- 1 Black Cat 1 Darkthicket Wolf 1 Doomed Traveler 1 Gravetiller Wurm 1 Hollowhenge Spirit 1 Lambholt Elder 1 Midnight Guard 2 Ravenous Demon 1 Sanctuary Cat 1 Unruly Mob 1 Village Bell-Ringer 1 Village Survivors 1 Villagers of Estwald 1 Voiceless Spirit

8 Other Spells --------------- 1 Caravan Vigil 1 Favor of the Woods 1 Gutter Grime 1 Hunger of the Howlpack 1 Ranger's Guile 1 Ray of Revelation 2 Tragic Slip

Land:
9 Island
9 Swamp

Creatures:
1 Black Cat
1 Civilized Scholar
1 Deranged Assistant
1 Diregraf Captain
1 Headless Skaab
1 Murder of Crows
1 Ravenous Demon
1 Relentless Skaabs
1 Rotting Fensnake
1 Vampire Interloper
1 Army of the Damned

Other Spells:
1 Artful Dodge
1 Bone to Ash
1 Bump in the Night
1 Curiosity
1 Divination
1 Ghoulcaller's Chant
1 Griptide
1 Gruesome Deformity
1 Night Terrors
1 Tragic Slip
1 Victim of Night