I've thought a little about card drawing in EBA, people removes 'phid for Skeletal Scrying. Well, I don't agree. I've thought about Deep Analysis, wouldn't it be great? It's a great sink to mana drain mana and the loss of life is well compensated by Exalted Angel. I will try 2-3 of them to see if they make the cut. What do you think about it?

that's just fucking shit, WS shold have been restricted. (and Gush unrestricted =P)

Blood moon is there to hose control, 7 discard spells should be enough to break through the counterbarrier. I think is more important to win fast to control than to disrupt them even more because otherwise they may find an answer to your threat and that could cost you the game. If you play Unmask or Duress(and pick their FoW) they can't do very much about your FT combo.

Well, actually i didn't cut anything from the deck because i designed it from the beginning with Greaves and I'm very happy with them. As you can see in my list I'm more light on discard than the other decks and in the spot of the hymns there is greaves instead. I don't think Hymn is a good card in this deck because when you have 2 mana you want to drop a mask so the only discard cards I use is Duress än the "free" Unmask.

I have played Lightning Greaves for about two months for now and for me it's absolutley amazing. It's damn good with the Dreadnought, it's like a little TW when in play when you drop the combo and it's amazing with negator so for me it's a absolute main-deck card, I play 3 of them which I think is a good number.

This decks seems very much like the Mask deck with redsplash i made up in december last year, I made it without power and I think this is a pretty optimal build if you want to splash red. My list has changed a bit since then but it's still very good. (Funny that our decks even have the same name)


Bloody Mask 1.1 by Johan Andersson, December 2003

//Mana 18
9 Swamp
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Badlands
1 Stripmine

//Mana acc 8
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Vault
4 Dark Ritual

//Kill 12
4 Illusionary Mask
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
4 Phyrexian Negator

//Protection 3
3 Lightning Greaves

//Search 7
4 Spoils of the Vault
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation

//Disruption 7
4 Duress
4 Unmask

//Broken 4
1 Necropotence
3 Blood Moon

//Sideboard 15
4 Red Elemental Blast
3 Rack and Ruin
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Withering Wretch


In your list I find these very strange, you don't want it to be so much like sui, so cut those cards because they don't make the cut in this deck:
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sphere of Resistance
2 cabal therapy