Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
Yeah, I think its possible to set some more themes. These are the ones I've toyed with for B/W:
1) B/W humans: while xathrid necromancer is in the cube, there arn't a lot of humans card, and black is already supporting zombies and vampires, making space an issue.
2) B/W life drain: supported by cards like scholar, extort cards, and ghost council. I think the problem with this deck is that it tends to be very attrition and removal focused, and there is just no really exciting control cards in the cube right now to support it.
3) B/W spirits: This was part of why I was toying with the idea of kokusho, the evening star. Ghost council is the most sucessful of the B/W cards in the list, and kokusho would give help create a density of powerful B/W spirits for angel to abuse. The problem is that the deck dosen't really come together unless angel shows up in the draft, so it dosen't really feel like a fully realized theme.
4) B/W zombies: supported by necromancer's covenant, the problem here, of course, is that white has no zombies.
Ghost council has been really good: you can combine him with the white token makers to powerful effect, especially since he is a very difficult to deal with threat in this format, provided he has food. The other big card is unburial rites, of course, which a lot of decks want. Pontiff was in there because I wanted another human to encourage B/W humans, but he hasn't really been an incentive card.
I do think that a B/W sacrifice humans deck is possible, using skirsdag flayer, falkenrath noble, and blood artist in conjunction with gather the townsfolk. The new card drawing human from Khans would be another incentive card.
Another possibility, is to push more towards control, with cards like culling sun, or merciless eviction. I'm less excited about that though, still pretty wary of sweepers.
Porcelain Legionnaire is an interesting card. I've gone back and forth with having it listed as a white card or an artifact, but neither one really feels right to me. It shows up a lot in lists that run white, and when it dosen't, its usually in some control deck. Its also a card the humans deck wants, because those decks want a certain density of non-humans, due to stromkirk noble.
I like Atheros, but would want a theme in B/W to fit it into before adding it. I think that was a mistake I made with my other B/W attempts: not really thinking out clearly how I wanted to structure my incentive cards.
I know what you mean about combat tricks; I think I just generally don't think about them, as they seem incidental to a lot of the core interactions and themes I want to encourage. I think its one of those, like planeswalkers, that i've been reluctant to focus on, until I can get a better measure of the format. I'm open to suggestions though.
1) B/W humans: while xathrid necromancer is in the cube, there arn't a lot of humans card, and black is already supporting zombies and vampires, making space an issue.
2) B/W life drain: supported by cards like scholar, extort cards, and ghost council. I think the problem with this deck is that it tends to be very attrition and removal focused, and there is just no really exciting control cards in the cube right now to support it.
3) B/W spirits: This was part of why I was toying with the idea of kokusho, the evening star. Ghost council is the most sucessful of the B/W cards in the list, and kokusho would give help create a density of powerful B/W spirits for angel to abuse. The problem is that the deck dosen't really come together unless angel shows up in the draft, so it dosen't really feel like a fully realized theme.
4) B/W zombies: supported by necromancer's covenant, the problem here, of course, is that white has no zombies.
Ghost council has been really good: you can combine him with the white token makers to powerful effect, especially since he is a very difficult to deal with threat in this format, provided he has food. The other big card is unburial rites, of course, which a lot of decks want. Pontiff was in there because I wanted another human to encourage B/W humans, but he hasn't really been an incentive card.
I do think that a B/W sacrifice humans deck is possible, using skirsdag flayer, falkenrath noble, and blood artist in conjunction with gather the townsfolk. The new card drawing human from Khans would be another incentive card.
Another possibility, is to push more towards control, with cards like culling sun, or merciless eviction. I'm less excited about that though, still pretty wary of sweepers.
Porcelain Legionnaire is an interesting card. I've gone back and forth with having it listed as a white card or an artifact, but neither one really feels right to me. It shows up a lot in lists that run white, and when it dosen't, its usually in some control deck. Its also a card the humans deck wants, because those decks want a certain density of non-humans, due to stromkirk noble.
I like Atheros, but would want a theme in B/W to fit it into before adding it. I think that was a mistake I made with my other B/W attempts: not really thinking out clearly how I wanted to structure my incentive cards.
I know what you mean about combat tricks; I think I just generally don't think about them, as they seem incidental to a lot of the core interactions and themes I want to encourage. I think its one of those, like planeswalkers, that i've been reluctant to focus on, until I can get a better measure of the format. I'm open to suggestions though.
