U\B controlish with out faries

Zachariah · Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

Lands 24
2 Sunken Ruins
4 Underground River
6 Island
3 Swamps
2 Reflecting Pool
3 Frost Marsh

Spells 28
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Cryptic Command
4 Terror
4 Rune Snag
2 Nameless Inversion
4 Raven's Crime
4 Damnation
2 Cancel

Creatures 8
2 Soul Snuffers
2 Creakwood Liege
4 Necroskitter

Random SB
3 Cruel Edict
4 Bitterblossom
2 Mind shatter
2 Slaughter Pact
3 Cold Eye selkie
1 cancel

What I want to try to get this deck to do is to either try to control the board with my counterspells and removal and sit back with my Creakwood liege. Or get a soul snuffer out with a necroskitter in play with a decent amout of creatures out then damnation the board. I didn't want to go the U\B faerie because that is to easy to build. I wanted to challenge myself to see what I could do. The SB is a mess, I know, I just threw it together. I haven't played against anyone yet, but in my own play testing it seems a little slow but normally can get it self out of a rut. The only thing I think it has a problem with is that the win conditions aren't as awesome as I could have hoped for. What do you guys think?

Daveslusher- · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 37

Just play faeries

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 904

whats with people not playing oona in their ub decks

Stucco · Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 558

Tombstalker would be a fine fit into your deck.
I'd also put those 2 slaughter pacts in main, possibly for the 2 cancel.

gmoney · Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 24

If your deck can beat the fae unsideboarded then I think UB is fine If you can't beat the fae unsideboarded then it's really not the time to play the deck.

btw oona, teferi, wizard cycling guy arn't too bad for win conditions

Kryptnyt · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

I'm pretty sure you don't need 4 damnations, it's a little too much Laughing

Maybe put one in there, and replace the three others with cards that would let you win
Like- Blowfly infestation
cemetary puka
smolder initiate

And the rune snags are easily replaced with Negates and Remove Souls, for more impact countering.

curly · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 60

Vedrfolner · Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 1401

The win conditions in your deck aren't as good as you'd hoped for because they aren't very good creatures.

Play Teferi, Oona, Shadowmage Infiltrator, Bitterblossom, Venser, Wydwen and other good win conditions instead.

Kryptnyt · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 6