Advice on B/W Cleric Deck: Scion/Sheoldred

RieksH · Joined: 29 Nov 2011 Posts: 4

Hi guys,
How would you play but most importantly, alter this deck? Make it faster or more powerful?
I'm thinking about adding [Withered Wretch] for reanimate or threshold, or maybe [Cabal archon] for more life, [Auriok Champion] ... [Misery Charm], [Gravepact], [Gravestorm], [Exhume], [Unearth], [Dark Ritual] and maybe something like [Terror], [Smother] etc .. Suggestions are welcome

Thanks!

win = [scion of darkness] or [sheoldred, Whispering one] by:

-[buried alive] + [oversold cemetery]

-[dark supplicant] + another cleric + another cleric

-[buried alive] + [doomed necromancer]

-[buried alive] + [Patriarch's Bidding]

-[Wrath of God] + [Patriarch's Bidding]

DECK:

Enchantment (3 )

3x Oversold Cemetery

Land (18 )

5x Plains
5x Swamp
4x Tainted Field
4x Marsh Flats

Sorcery (6 )

2x Patriarch's Bidding
4x Buried Alive

Artifact (8 )

4x AEther Vial
4x Lightning Greaves

Creature (25 )

4x Dark Supplicant
2x Scion of Darkness
4x Doomed Necromancer
4x Rotlung Reanimator
3x True Believer
4x Mother of Runes
1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
3x Grand Abolisher

Sideboard?

4x Dash Hopes
4x Disenchant
4x Duress
2x Wrath of God

Halldir · Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 177

too much graves, add rituals for sure

RieksH · Joined: 29 Nov 2011 Posts: 4

Mr_Weebles · Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 154

Sideboard option: Ethersworn Canonist

Spyx · Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 1186

Dash Hopes is not a card.
How do you expect to ever cast your spells if you don't draw a vial every game? 18 lands in a deck with 3 drops and no drawspells is horrible.
You are better off trying to reanimate those expensive creatures, since that takes much less work. Cemetery is really bad since it just returns them to your hand not to play, and it's also awful against the most played removal (swords to plowshares).

magicman85 · Joined: 22 Aug 2009 Posts: 548

2 Island
2 Verdant Catacombs
4 Polluted Delta
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Swamp
4 Underground Sea
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Empyrial Archangel
1 Angel of Despair
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
3 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
3 Animate Dead
4 Careful Study
3 Daze
4 Entomb
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Reanimate
3 Ponder
3 Duress
4 Exhume
SB: 1 Blazing Archon
SB: 1 Inkwell Leviathan
SB: 3 Echoing Truth
SB: 3 Pithing Needle
SB: 2 Spell Pierce
SB: 2 Thoughtseize
SB: 3 Show and Tell

RieksH · Joined: 29 Nov 2011 Posts: 4

Thank you for your reaction.
I agree 18 lands may not be enough indeed.
Adding [Reanimate] instead of [Oversold Cemetery] is a good option. On the other hand it will cost me lifes, while [Doomed Necromancer] and [Dark Supplicant] wont.
[Oversold Cemetery] can be handy to get a [Doomed Necromancer] or a [Dark Supplicant] back, attaching them to [Lightning Greaves].

Maybe?

Add:
2 [Reanimate]
2 [Exhume]
1 [swamp]

Out:
2 [Oversold Cemetery]
1 [True believer]
1 [Mother of Runes]
1 [Lightning Greaves]

What do you mean by [Dash Hopes] is not a card? What should i play instead?

RieksH · Joined: 29 Nov 2011 Posts: 4

That would be a lot of change :p