Pioneer - Evralasting Life (Budget Control)

32
35
15
23
0
24
Control
Combo
TCGPlayer $48
Cardmarket €35
Cardhoarder 2 Tix
Main 62 cards (21 distinct)
Creature (15)
$0.30€0.170.02
$0.20€0.120.03
$0.32€0.280.03
$0.18€0.090.03
$0.23€0.120.03
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (23)
$0.99€0.790.02
$0.50€0.390.02
$0.25€0.180.03
$0.50€0.450.02
$0.45€0.270.02
$0.64€0.410.02
$0.48€0.520.03
$26.85€20.620.02
$2.87€2.300.02
$0.21€0.100.03
$0.46€0.310.03
$0.25€0.150.03
Land (24)
$0.53€0.430.03
$0.45€0.410.03
$0.20€0.080.03
$0.25€0.170.03
Side 15 cards (7 distinct)
$0.15€0.070.04
$0.20€0.100.03
$0.24€0.090.03
$0.25€0.110.03
$0.33€0.22
$0.40€0.200.02
$0.19€0.090.03
Maybeboard 10 cards (10 distinct)
$6.37€5.110.41
$2.65€1.860.02
$4.79€3.660.02
$0.18€0.120.03
$0.90€0.960.02
$0.15€0.020.04
$0.15€0.150.03
$5.14€3.810.02
$0.19€0.100.03
$0.23€0.240.03

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Description

The goal of this deck is to gain as much life as possible while maintaining a reasonable board state to beat down opponents. Late game, we can use Evra, Halcyon Witnessimage in tandem w/ Axis of Mortalityimage to set Evra's power to our current life total on the opponent's end step and then swap life total's w/ them on our upkeep, leaving them at 4 life and us w/ their prior life total.

 

Vs. aggro, mulligan for Fountain of Renewalimage, Vicious Rumorsimage and Cry of the Carnariumimage or the Imperious Oligarchimage + Plaguecrafterimage combo.

Vs. control, virtually every hand is keepable. After they've drained most of their resources w/ counter spells, board clears and jailbait artifacts/enchantments they're pretty open in general. Most don't think they can die at 40+ life.

 

CHANGELOG

2/2/19

- Plaguecrafterimage x1

- Ill-Gotten Inheritanceimage x3

+ Basilica Bell-Hauntimage x3

+ Revival // Revengeimage x1

Sure we get less cummulative procs for Epicure of Bloodimage cutting the Ill-Gotten Inheritanceimage, but getting 3 life, having the opponent discard and getting a 3/4 is some great value. Ill-Gotten Inheritanceimage may find a home on the sideboard for those grindy control matchups, but board presence is always a good thing. It especially forces the opponent to choose the creature proc of Cleansing Novaimage, leaving our artifacts and enchantments open.

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vulpide
Thanks to you for sharing this beauty!
T145
@vulpide Ah yes that's correct. For some reason I interpreted it as power instead of CMC. I've made the necessary corrections.
vulpide
Hi, I'm impressed, this Deck is using one of my last-time favourite combo, which I did a bit differently some days ago but with a kind of the same system.
I have a note about your 2/2/19 addendum, you wrote:

"Our friendly neighborhood spirit can also be brought back for only 2 mana w/ Revival, repeating the process (...) so essentially we have 5 copies of the Bell-Haunt, leading to 15 life gained."

But Revival can only return creatures of converted mana cost of 3, our Spirit has 4!
T145
Last Updated: 01 Jan 2020
Created: 02 Feb 2019
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