Ravus' Bladewing EDH - EDH Decks/Discussion

**Ravus** · 02-08-2010, 04:04 PM

Bladewing the Risen

Mana Vault

Dark Ritual

Innocent Blood

Earthquake

Grim Lavamancer

Ghastly Demise

Demonic Consultation

Cabal Ritual

Demonic Tutor

Recoup

Oversold Cemetery

Stitch Together

Terror

Doom Blade

Terminate

Pyroclasm

Orcish Librarian

Talisman of Indulgence

Rakdos Signet

Veinfire Borderpost

Coalition Relic

Darksteel Ingot

Bloodstone Cameo

Grinning Ignus

Buried Alive

Dimir Machinations

Footsteps of the Goryo

Infest

Volcanic Fallout

Dragonspeaker Shaman

Doomed Necromancer

Stinkweed Imp

Seething Song

Khalni Gem

Diabolic Tutor

Insidious Dreams

Dimir House Guard

Zombify

Makeshift Mannequin

Dread Return

Wrecking Ball

Anger

Bladewing's Thrall

Wild Ricochet

Grab the Reins

Void

Brainspoil

Anarchist

Corpse Connoisseur

Demonic Collusion

Beacon of Unrest

Rise from the Grave

Planar Portal

Two-Headed Dragon

Flameblast Dragon

Mordant Dragon

Ryusei, the Falling Star

Imperial Hellkite

Kilnmouth Dragon

Dragon Mage

Insurrection

Bogardan Hellkite

Vampiric Dragon

Dragon Tyrant

Dragonskull Summit

Blood Crypt

Sulfurous Springs

Graven Cairns

Akoum Refuge

Rakdos Carnarium

Bloodstained Mire

Rocky Tar Pit

Urborg Volcano

Tainted Peak

Molten Slagheap

Vivid Marsh

Vivid Crag

Barren Moor

Forgotten Cave

Volrath's Stronghold

Phyrexian Tower

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Barbarian Ring

Spinerock Knoll

Temple of the False God

Hall of the Bandit Lord

Kher Keep

Terramorphic Expanse

Arena

4 Swamp

7 Mountain

I have it loosely sorted by mana cost and kinda by what they do, within that cmc-categorizing.

The deck doesn't really function without a Buried Alive (well, it does, but not in any sort of productive manner), so I've got all sorts of tutoring for it. I once transmuted a Dimir House Guard to get a Diabolic Tutor to get Buried Alive. Three turns spent on one spell!

I have a fairly large amount of sweepers, but three of them don't usually sweep anything (Infest, Pyroclasm and Fallout). I intend to make the Fallout and Infest into Chain Reaction and Damnation, respectively, but what should 'Clasm become? Comet Storm, maybe?

I stumbled across the Demonic Consultation the other day and thought I'd try it out, but I don't think I'm liking it. If I need to get my Buried Alive, and RFG Anger and **** in the process, I become sad. Lategame (post-Buried Alive) tutoring usually comes down to removal and whathaveyou, and even then, I've usually got Bogardan Hellkite to serve as the removal. An alternative to Consultation (and/or just general tutelage) would be appreciated.

Any ideas to make this more and more consistent would be welcome. Other ideas also welcome (such as making a ten-card Wishboard and including a Burning Wish and the two-cmc transmuter... and maybe the black Wish?).

I would have gotten an Entomb on Saturday, if it didn't recently skyrocket to $35!

Edit: I'm working on getting a Patriarch's Bidding. It's pretty much the only thing worth transmuting Brainspoil for. Good thing Brainspoil is also good removal.

**Clem** · 02-11-2010, 06:45 AM

Have the mana rituals been valuable to you? They never appealed to me in EDH since the one time effect and ramp is usually only enough to play something big and make yourself a target. If it wins you the game, however, than there isn't a problem.

I was going to suggest cutting those three spells (Fallout, Infest, and 'Clasm) since as you noted, they suck in EDH. Rock Malfegor as another mass removal spell. You pitch your hand, but in your deck (and r/b really), I doubt you care too much.

I'd take Wrecking Ball out for either Reiterate or Vicious Shadows. Vicious Shadows is a must for any red EDH deck. It costs you maybe fifty cents to get so you should play it in every red EDH deck ever. Its that good.

As for a replacement for Consultation, try Gamble. Again, your deck really doesn't care if you discard stuff, and if the card you tutors for ends up in the bin, its not like you can't access it through other means.

One more card you really should consider is Myojin of Night's Reach. She really just isn't fair at all. Grinning Ignus seems slow to me so maybe cut him? I'm just guessing here, though.

It looks good though, Ravus. I notice you run the same reanimator spells I do. All of the good ones.

Tracking down Reanimate itself would be good too, just remembered that.

P. S. Entomb skyrocketed months ago after its unbanning in Legacy.

**Ravus** · 02-16-2010, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Clem

Have the mana rituals been valuable to you? They never appealed to me in EDH since the one time effect and ramp is usually only enough to play something big and make yourself a target. If it wins you the game, however, than there isn't a problem.

They have been fairly valuable, actually. Given that my "big spell" is usually Bladewing (who everyone's already aware I have

), and he's such an otherwise-expensive general for the amount I'd like to use him, I've never been particularly upset with a mana-ritual.

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Originally Posted by Clem

I was going to suggest cutting those three spells (Fallout, Infest, and 'Clasm) since as you noted, they suck in EDH. Rock Malfegor as another mass removal spell. You pitch your hand, but in your deck (and r/b really), I doubt you care too much.

I was thinking about Malfegor. I had him in once upon a time, but somehow he got cut in a bit of a mass-refurbishment and I forgot to put him back in, somehow.

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Originally Posted by Clem

I'd take Wrecking Ball out for either Reiterate or Vicious Shadows. Vicious Shadows is a must for any red EDH deck. It costs you maybe fifty cents to get so you should play it in every red EDH deck ever. Its that good.

Vicious Shadows seems awesome. Not sure how it missed my radar. Reiterate, on the other hand, was relocated to my ten-card sideboard-thing (which never really gets used

). It costs a bit too much for something I'd mostly cast on not-my-turn, which as a black-red player, I don't really do.

But I understand from other red-decks I've played, that Reiterate is a great card. I'll put it back in over those terrible wannabe-sweepers.

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Originally Posted by Clem

As for a replacement for Consultation, try Gamble. Again, your deck really doesn't care if you discard stuff, and if the card you tutors for ends up in the bin, its not like you can't access it through other means.

I suppose you're right. I'd usually be using my tutors for getting Buried Alive, and discarding that randomly would be upsetting, but I could just use Gamble to get that Anger or whathaveyou in the first place.

I'll add it in.

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Originally Posted by Clem

One more card you really should consider is Myojin of Night's Reach. She really just isn't fair at all. Grinning Ignus seems slow to me so maybe cut him? I'm just guessing here, though.

Ignus is like another ritual, but reusable. his slowness is usually overshadowed by his invulnerability to sweepers and his recursion. I usually smile a little when drawing him, unless of course I'd been direly needing that Buried Alive.

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Originally Posted by Clem

It looks good though, Ravus. I notice you run the same reanimator spells I do. All of the good ones.

Tracking down Reanimate itself would be good too, just remembered that.

I don't know, actually. As ironic as it might seem given a red-black deck that starts at forty life, I don't really feel I can afford to be losing too much more life than necessary. Once people grow aware of the fact that once I get going, I'm a powerhouse, I begin wishing for some lifegain.

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Originally Posted by Clem

P. S. Entomb skyrocketed months ago after its unbanning in Legacy.

That's what I mean. I said "recently" because... eh, whatever.

**Ravus** · 04-15-2010, 04:37 PM

Later tonight I'm going to post my most recent decklist, and I expect a lot of harsh critique on it. I feel compulsive about changing something about it, but I alternately can't bring myself to cut things and have much too many things to change. It is irritating.

**Ravus** · 06-30-2010, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Ravus

Later tonight I'm going to post my most recent decklist, and I expect a lot of harsh critique on it. I feel compulsive about changing something about it, but I alternately can't bring myself to cut things and have much too many things to change. It is irritating.

I like how "later tonight" with me comes weeks later.

I think I actually will have something by tomorrow morning, though.

For now I'll go off and post my Phelddagrif decklist...

Edit: Here we go!

Decklist

...More alphabetizing, but only the nonlands. The lands are organized some other way, apparently.

I used to have a hell of a lot more nonbasic lands, but I couldn't help but think that only six basic lands in a two-colour deck was a problem. Especially in the case of Blood Moon... I don't need to run into a Blood Moon with only six basics...