[Deck] Behold, Gentlemen! I bring you Dragon Hermit!

[Sheik al Kaji]

One day, while musing on the game, I read articles about Extended before the last rounds of banning and realized how much fun the Angry Hermit decks were. I thought to myself, there is a superior engine for mass graveyard dumping that doesn't force you to win on the same turn if you were to use it for the Hermit/Sutured Ghoul combo. That engine is Worldgorger Dragon/Bazaar of Baghdad.

It can kill just as fast as it's Ambassador/Silver Queen/Caller counterparts.

With Necromancy, you could, at the end of the Tog player's declare attackers step, create a huge Ghoul that will eat even a Berserked Tog.

Most aggro decks would not be able to stop the huge Ghoul you send at them by the second or third turn, they would be completely overwhelmed.

This is that the Ghoul regularly becomes a 54/54 when you are ready to kill and are in total control of the game.
(The 54 is four Dragons plus two Cloudscrapers.)

The deck's worst enemy is Stifle, but Duress and FOW should be enough protection. Cabal Therapy might be as useful, as it would tear thru multiple Stifles in the hand. (Stifle kills your enchantments and Dragon Breath especially.)

Now, the decklist.

Engine
4 Worldgorger Dragon
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Animate Dead
4 Necromancy
(Dance of the Dead is cut because it brings the creature in tapped.)

Kill
2 Sutured Ghoul (Might need to be bumped up to avoid Coffin Purge.)
2 Krosan Cloudscraper
2 Dragon Breath

Search/Draw/Brokenness
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ancestral Recal
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Compulsion
2 Intuiton

Disruption
4 Duress
4 Force of Will

Mana
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
5 Moxen
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Underground Sea
4 Polluted Delta
4 Badlands

[Tempe]

Why are you animating a Ghoul and removing the Dragon, when you could just animate the Dragon and win?

--Tempe

[Sheik al Kaji]

@ Tempe
Um yeah, you do animate the Dragon to win.

With either a Bazaar or a Compulsion out, you animate the Dragon and then tear apart your deck for the other pieces to dump into the grave, namely a Dragon Breath and as many creatures as you can get in there.

Then, you animate the Ghoul and swing for the win.

[DEA]

why are you animating the ghoul instead of a laquatus and milling your opponent to death?

[jpmeyer]

Needing to devote 1 card in your combo to the kill >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> needing to devote 6 cards to the kill