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Nov 29, 2012 -- 9:47AM, BlackFro wrote:

Nov 29, 2012 -- 9:19AM, Flyheight wrote:

The curve is a bit iffy, but this deck looks to stabilize and then pound with quality so I swapped the vermin and dryad for the second indrik and the jailbreaker.  Obviously against a faster deck I would side those 2 back in, but this seems like a good default.

Not picking on you specifically, but everyone who put in the Ogre Jailbreaker realizes you have no gates so he will always be a 4/4 defender, right?

Also I see alot of people with Jarad's Orders and Grisly Salvage , I didn't like them here because you have more than just 1 or 2 win conditions and only 1 card provides you anything if you dump it in the bin.  Sure you can find that land/creature you might want/need, but I think more often you are going to regretting the cards you choose to put in the graveyard.

There are just so many combos, I find I don't want to lose any of the cards, even the lands.  You need half of them for your high end finishers anyway.

And don't sleep on Perilous Shadow ... This is a bomb card, 4 toughness is hard to kill in this set AND he pumps +2/+2 for each 1B you put into him, just from being able to cast him you should be able to attack with a 4/8 the next turn at least.  He doubles as a wall and a finisher.

Valid comments here.

I did recognize I had no gates but I took the jailbreaker anyway because I knew I wanted to stall and not only does the jailbreaker provide a decent butt, but he also has a good front end too so he can chip away at opposing forces if they decide to team swing.  For me he was competing with the shade, but the shade loses b/c it's double black weight and b/c it has no power unless you dump mana into it (and I'm tri-color).  I mostly want to minimize the number of double color weight cards in the deck, but you do make a relevant argument and the shade may be worth a slot.

I took Jarad's orders b/c I do have 3 bombs: Hellkite, Archweaver, and Hellsteed.  This can fetch me any of them, which one I pick depends on how much mana I've got for next turn.  As for putting stuff in the dustbin, if the scorpion's already out of your deck you can always just fail to find a second creature and just put the first one in your hand.

Personally I don't care so much for salvage in this deck, but I can see the reasoning behind wanting a digging card.