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A few thoughts that occurred to me last night when I was thinking about this deck, which I admit may well be completely janky, but inspired by Max Brown's brilliant list from the Blue Bell:
http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=39581.0
His approach, particularly in not relying on Null Rod and playing one ofs with all the tutors seems really liberating and got me thinking about what Zendikar actually does for black: essentially it has doubled the number of combo-like finishes available to black, in so much as instead of Helm + leyline and Tendrils, black now also has Hexmage + Dark Depths and, against certain decks Sadistic Sacrament.
Max argues in the above thread that people's attempts thus far to fit the Hexmage combo into decks have relied to heavily on that combo and he's probably right - why not play a deck that can access the full variety of black combo finishes?
Anyway - this is a very roundabout way of saying: has anyone thought about using Deathwish in this deck? With 3xLeyline/1xHelm main (one of each in sideboard), 3 hex mage + 2 Dark Depths main (one of each in sideboard), plus copies of Sacrament and Tendrils in the sideboard too?
Might be terrible idea but I'll give it a try. If you think I'm mental, let me know.
http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=39581.0
His approach, particularly in not relying on Null Rod and playing one ofs with all the tutors seems really liberating and got me thinking about what Zendikar actually does for black: essentially it has doubled the number of combo-like finishes available to black, in so much as instead of Helm + leyline and Tendrils, black now also has Hexmage + Dark Depths and, against certain decks Sadistic Sacrament.
Max argues in the above thread that people's attempts thus far to fit the Hexmage combo into decks have relied to heavily on that combo and he's probably right - why not play a deck that can access the full variety of black combo finishes?
Anyway - this is a very roundabout way of saying: has anyone thought about using Deathwish in this deck? With 3xLeyline/1xHelm main (one of each in sideboard), 3 hex mage + 2 Dark Depths main (one of each in sideboard), plus copies of Sacrament and Tendrils in the sideboard too?
Might be terrible idea but I'll give it a try. If you think I'm mental, let me know.
As a matter of fact I had a Death Wish in my first version of this deck. I played 3 of each Vampire Hexmage and DD with a 4th copy of each in the SB to wish for ... but I found the life loss combined with the sorcery speed of death wish just too much. It's almost good enough... if it were only an instant, sigh. It was very hard for me to cut it because I reeeeally wanted it to work but oh well..
