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Jan 30, 2013 -- 7:04PM, Noohj wrote:

RAAAAAAPES.

First off, stow this language. I can ignore a lot of stuff on the net, but using this word as a synonym for winning is wrong on many, many levels and socially toxic.

Onto the deck:

You are trying to do waaaaaaaay to many things here. You can make a black reach deck without, well, reaching so much. If you want to kill them slowly, you need to slow them down first. Employ some removal and disruption to ensure that you and your threats are safe. 

Your threats should function well on their own. Thrull Parasite + Messenger + sac outlet is cute, but the first and last card here are rarely good enough by themselves (unless the sac outlet is Falkenrath Aristocrat). Obzedat is good as well. Deathrite shaman fits in here too well, you should have a higher than average ratio of spells to dudes, so activating his ability should be easy and provide you with some extra reach. You also have access to both of the M13 Knights, which block dang near everything in the current meta, outside of straight-up RDW.

If you want to run extort cards, use Blind Obedience . Hedges you against Red's hasty dudes, and gives you an extra attack through each blocker they play, giving you a whole additional draw step to find removal for it. 

Here's an example:

4 x Deathrite Shaman
4 x Knight of Infamy
2 x Knight of Glory
4 x Geralf's Messenger
3 x Obzedat, Ghost Hitchikers

2 x Victim of Night
2 x Ultimate Price
3 x Orzhov Charm

3 x Duress
2 x Mind Rot

4 x Bump in the Night

3 x Blind Obedience

2 x Vault of the Archangel
1 x Gavony Township
4 x Godless Shrine
4 x Overgrown Tomb
4 x Isolated Chapel
6 x Swamp
3 x Plains


Completely untested, off the top of my head, but none of these cards are bad on their own, and they all play well together.