Thursday, January 12, 2012

Rotting Legion Control

so six (seven) months later... :^)

I find myself fixing up a pauper deck I built a while back, search "Zombor" in this blog and you will find the original list, here it is again new and improved (complete with Side board):



Creatures:

Rotting Legion x2
Spellstutter Sprite x4
Bala Ged Scorpion x1
Mnemonic Wall x1



Spells:

Preordain x2
Gitaxian Probe x4
Fog x2
Staggershock x2
Lightning bolt x2
Blightning x2
Firebolt x2
Doom blade x2
Foresee x2
Manaleak x2
Flame slash x3
Prophetic Prism x4

Lands:

Terramorphic Expanse x2
Forest x1
Island x8
Mountain x7
Swamp x5



Side Board:

Ancient Grudge x2
Manic Vandal x1
Staggershock x2
Incinerate x2
Duress x3
Mind Rot x1
Rotting Legion x1
Firebolt x2
Terminate x1

So not much has been done to the main board, gravedigger got booted for Bala Ged Scorpion, because I enjoy that they both cost the same but the scorpion had +1 toughness and still had some form of card advantage in that it could kill a creature. Incinerate MB was removed and added to the SB, for the cheaper Lightning Bolt. Preordain was bumped down to x2 in favor of Gitaxian Probe, taking a peek at an opponents hand is great when you have discard and counterspells in your deck, plus a first turn probe followed with a preordain is pretty fun.

The side board, I had many great options, but overall I kept the SB pretty straight forward. For swarm or weenie decks I added more Staggershocks & Firebolts, for control decks I added discard in the form of Mind Rot (easier to cast than Blightning) and Duress, with Gitaxian Probe, discard becomes more useful than normal, a single Rotting Legion was added as well as something decent to swap with doom blade vs mono black or near mono black decks. Terminate & Incinerate are both useful vs Regenerators, Terminate is also useful for targeting Guardian of the Guildpact if one is controlled by the opponent. Manic Vandal & Ancient Grudge are just good card advantage towards artifact based decks.

I forget how much fun I have writing this stuff up, I should get more posted, tomorrow is a brand new day and hopefully yours is a good one.