Pioneer - Evralasting Life (Budget Control)
Control Combo
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 Witness
in tandem w/ Axis of Mortality
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 Renewal
, Vicious Rumors
and Cry of the Carnarium
or the Imperious Oligarch
+ Plaguecrafter
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
- Plaguecrafter x1
+ Basilica Bell-Haunt
x3
+ Revival // Revenge
x1
Sure we get less cummulative procs for Epicure of Blood
cutting the Ill-Gotten Inheritance
, but getting 3 life, having the opponent discard and getting a 3/4 is some great value. Ill-Gotten Inheritance 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 Nova
, leaving our artifacts and enchantments open.
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Created: 02 Feb 2019
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Mainboard - 62 cards (21 distinct)
| Creature (15) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| $0.31€0.180.02 | |||
| $0.20€0.070.03 | |||
| $0.38€0.260.03 | |||
| $0.20€0.110.03 | |||
| $0.25€0.100.03 | |||
| Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (23) | |||
| $0.99€0.770.02 | |||
| $0.50€0.370.02 | |||
| $0.25€0.190.03 | |||
| $0.59€0.460.02 | |||
| $0.49€0.310.02 | |||
| $0.69€0.420.03 | |||
| $0.51€0.590.03 | |||
| $25.00€15.410.06 | |||
| $4.45€2.660.02 | |||
| $0.21€0.150.03 | |||
| $0.45€0.270.03 | |||
| $0.26€0.150.03 | |||
| Land (24) | |||
|
9
Swamp
|
$0.49€0.440.03 | ||
|
10
Plains
|
$0.44€0.210.03 | ||
| $0.18€0.080.03 | |||
| $0.25€0.140.03 | |||
Sideboard - 15 cards (7 distinct)
| $0.15€0.120.04 | |||
| $0.20€0.100.03 | |||
| $0.23€0.150.03 | |||
| $0.24€0.190.03 | |||
|
2
Mortify
|
$0.33€0.26 | ||
| $0.35€0.180.02 | |||
| $0.18€0.100.03 |
Maybeboard - 10 cards (10 distinct)
| $6.17€7.010.07 | |||
| $2.58€1.460.02 | |||
| $4.27€3.110.02 | |||
| $0.15€0.050.03 | |||
| $1.50€1.290.02 | |||
| $0.15€0.120.04 | |||
| $0.15€0.080.03 | |||
| $3.84€2.390.02 | |||
| $0.18€0.210.03 | |||
| $0.23€0.150.03 |
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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!