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Deck Comments / Re: Varina - Comments

« on: September 06, 2022, 04:01:50 pm »

The first playtests went ok, but could be better. Some other cards worth considering are:
- Dolmen Gate (to prevent Zombies from dying)
- Wight (more tokens, but not sure if he will do a lot with 3/2)
- Liliana's Devotee (more tokens + "lord")
- Rise of the Dread Marn (could be very nice after a boardwhipe)
- Graveyard Marshal (tokens, but a little expensive (3 cmc)
- Tomb Tyrant (lord, graveyard recursion "gambling")
- Liliana's Mastery (2 tokens + lord effect but 5 cmc)
- Liliana, Dreadhorde General (carddraw, tokens, removal for 6 cmc)
- Anointed Procession (more tokens)
- Shepherd of Rot (risky but could be worth it)
- Endless Ranks of the Dead (really not sure about it because it feels very slow to me. You need 2 zombies to start the engine and even if you have 3 zombies in play on round 4 it will generate the first zombie token in round 5.)
- From Under the Floorboards (tokens; the flexibility because of the madness costs is nice)
- Stitch together (recursion, threshold should be easy to achive)
- Call tot the Netherworld (recursion for free because of madness costs)
- Approach of the Second Sun (due to Varinas draw ability we will get it very soon back to our hand, but it is risky because we need 2 times 7 cmc we maybe could use in a other/safer/better way).
- Zombie Trailblazer (can be very mean but 3cmc in black could be difficult for a threecolored deck)
- Alhammaret's Archive (really good, more life, more carddraw (this would make Varina very strong -> draw 2 discard 1 per zombie!)
- Grave Titan (why he is not a zombie? but still very good with deathtouch and 2 Tokens) mabye with Nim Deathmantle for the combo (combos with Ashnods Altar for Mana, Tokens, etc)
- Havengul Lich (strong graveyard recursion)
- Sidisi, Undead Vizier (Deathtouch and build-in demonic tutor)
- Bident of Thassa (Carddraw and force opponents to attack)
- Vicitimize (Graveyard recursion)
- Tainted Adversary (Deathtouch, Tokens)
- Wand of Orcus (provide Deathtouch, Tokens)
- Wonder (not a zombie but easy placed at the graveyard for provide "flying" to all creatures
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed (protection for boardwhipe, combos piece) + Walking Ballista (combo piece) (not sure if I want to add walking Ballista just for 1 combo...
- Fatestitcher (could be a very nice tool)
- Lich Lord of Unx (tokens, mill, lifeloss; the mill effekt is not very important but would synergize with Havengul Lich, The Scarab God, etc.
- Plague Belcher (not sure about this card)
- Dictate of Erebos / Gravepact / Call to the Grave expensive (ins cmc) but very painfull for the opponents
- Elexier of Immortality (not sure if we really need it)

Some help would be really appreciated