Comments on: Building Blocks: Innistrad Block Getting Darker

By: Lee McLeod

Lee McLeod — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:34:54 +0000

@Tothelight: I don’t want to go too in-depth on decklists in the comments, but feel free to message me online sometime.

By: Tothelight

Tothelight — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:28:18 +0000

Ok…so here’s what I’m thinking:

4 Champion of the Parish
4 Doomed Traveler
2 Cloistered Youth
3 Elite Inquisitor
3 Fiend Hunter
4 Hellrider
2 Mikaeus, the Lunarch

4 Brimstone Volley
4 Midnight Haunting
4 Gather the Townsfolk
2 Increasing Devotion

14 plains
6 mountains
4 Clifftop Retreat

Sideboard:
2 Graffdigger’s Cage
2 Blasphemous Act
4 Urgent Exorcism
4 Devil’s Play
1 Fiend Hunter
2 Silverchase Fox

Let me know your thoughts!

By: Lee McLeod

Lee McLeod — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:05:51 +0000

It only has synergy with Rally the Peasants-type effects (and Champ when you draw it, but it’s pretty marginal), and even then it’s kind of slow. I’d play some Lingering Souls before the Doomsayer.

By: Tothelight

Tothelight — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:20:28 +0000

Also…what about Thraben Doomsayer as the three drop over Fiend Hunter?

By: Tothelight

Tothelight — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:18:23 +0000

@puddingtime and Lee McLeod

re: Hellrider

Ok…you convinced me! : )

By: Lee McLeod

Lee McLeod — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:07:41 +0000

Since the comments seem to be mostly revolving around Boros (yay, Boros!), here’s my most current list: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Digital/MagicOnlineTourn.aspx?x=mtg/digital/magiconline/tourn/3428307
(Ctrl+F for Gard)

A rough list, but what isn’t at this point?

By: Lee McLeod

Lee McLeod — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:05:50 +0000

@ChrisKool: I don’t look at magic-league events since I have no experience with them, but I went and looked for you.
Deck looks kind of… all over the place. The maindeck looks fine, but it plays about 8 hate artifacts in the board which is insaaaanely too much. It’s probably better than U/R Stalker just because of Sever vs Burn is clearly in Sever’s favor right now, but the list is very unpolished. Definitely worth trying out.
Also, thanks for the Baltimore well-wishing!

@Tothelight: The only advantage Instigator gang has over Hellrider on average is that it costs only a single red mana. Having your four and five drops count for Champion of the Parish is gravy, but far from necessary. Usually, if Champion is doing it’s work, they have to deal with it way before you’re playing Increasing Devotion – otherwise they’re just dead regardless if you play it or not. As mentioned by Puddingtime, Hellrider also has the advantage of burning out planeswalkers through a Witchbane Orb without needing to attack them. This is MUCH bigger than having a Champ out and it getting a +1/+1 counter from your 4 drop that doesn’t immediately attack for 3.

As for Devil’s Play, it might be too slow, but I like having them in the maindeck. For sideboard games, I generally sideboard them out and bring in more specialized answers to whatever I’m playing against (my sideboard is vastly different than ouedec’s list from when I wrote this article).