Necro in Vintage?

clayparson · Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 25

3 Ivory Tower
1 Drain Life
1 Cabal Coffers
11 Swamp
3 Polluted Delta
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
3 Diabolic Edict
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Nether Void
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Duress
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sinkhole
4 Nantuko Shade
1 Necropotence
4 Dark Ritual

any suggestions?

COOLBOY · Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 399

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COOLBOY · Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 399

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Dr_Moo · Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 954

Fun for casual, maybe. This is pretty much suicide black with less disruption and less threats. It's sort of like a mish-mash of Sui and Stax, and doesn't play either side very well.

To make it better, you absolutely have to cut Ivory Tower. The card is just awful. When you do draw the lone Necro, it will help, yes, but when you don't, it does nothing. Even when you do draw Necro, it isn't that good because it only helps in the long term. Your deck can't play the long-game because nearly every competitive vintage deck is much more powerful than yours and will win the game when given enough turns. That is also why you need a significantly better clock than 4 Shades. You absolutely have to run Negator to win before your oppenent gets enough resources together to play something powerful enough to win the game, which you probably won't be able to answer, because you're monoblack. The only game you can win is the game in which you apply quick pressure and disrupt the opponent long enough for your threat to win the game. Negator is the ideal creature for this strategy.