#Mahadi, Aristocrats Deck

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wicked spadeBOT
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Enchantment — Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When this Class enters, create two tapped Treasure tokens.
mana1manar: Level 2
Treasures you control have "manat, Sacrifice this artifact: Add two mana of any one color."
mana4manar: Level 3
Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, this Class deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to each opponent.

winged pawn
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First off you should probably ask yourself if you want it to be competitive. You're at 4 GCs right now so you could try to make the deck stronger to be Bracket 4 or you could go down to 3 GCs and build intentionally for Bracket 3.

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Ok so for Bracket 4 the main place you're looking is to increase efficiency. Like cutting [[In Garruk's Wake]] in favor of [[Blasphemous Edict]], for example

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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I also feel like in this game plan the Krenkos are gonna be slow, better to play cards that make tokens immediately

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Some interesting cards to consider for the deck are like [[Priest of Forgotten Gods]], [[Tallyman of Nurgle]], [[Blood for the Blood God!]], and [[Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER]]

wicked spadeBOT
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Legendary Creature — Human Avatar Soldier
Whenever Sephiroth enters or attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. If this is the fourth time this ability has resolved this turn, transform Sephiroth.
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Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
Legendary Creature — Angel Nightmare Avatar
Flying
Super Nova — As this creature transforms into Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel, you get an emblem with "Whenever a creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life."
Whenever Sephiroth attacks, you may sacrifice any number of other creatures. If you do, draw that many cards.
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winged pawn
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I'd also try to cut noncreatures for more creatures, so you have more to sacrifice

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Also more grave pacts

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[[Dictate of Erebos]], [[Sothera, the Supervoid]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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as far as creature sac outlets go, they're a-dime-a-dozen

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[[Viscera Seer]], [[Carrion Feeder]], [[Umbral Collar Zealot]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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I also don't hate [[Jadar, Ghoulcaller]] in your deck

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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doesn't seem thematic in your deck

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If you wanna do a thematic win combo for aristocrats there are a million versions of [[Gravecrawler]] + [[Phyrexian Altar]] + [[Blood Artist]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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Or since you run Ashnod's Altar already you'd just need like [[Nim Deathmantle]] and [[Su-Chi Cave Guard]]

wicked spadeBOT
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Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay mana4. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach this Equipment to it.
Equip mana4

winged pawn
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You can probably cut Exquisite Blood from your deck, I think that card is only really for lifegain decks

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yeah I'd cut both pieces of the Sanguine Bond combo for sure

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It's a pain in the butt to tutor it and you can't reanimate it

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What's [[Dualcaster Mage]] doing in there? Am I missing a combo piece?

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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Btw if you wanna just convert a bunch of treasures into a win, I see you already have Exsanguinate but you don't have [[Torment of Hailfire]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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I also see that if you're saccing and reanimating stuff you don't have [[Gray Merchant of Asphodel]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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If you wanna protect from counterspells just use like [[Imp's Mischief]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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Or if you're a rich person, [[Deflecting Swat]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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Like if you cast Reanimate and someone casts Swan Song on it, you can cast Imp's Mischief to redirect the Swan Song to Imp's Mischief

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Speaking of... since you are a Bracket 4 graveyard deck you should probably worry about [[Rest in Peace]] and run some enchantment removal

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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So like [[Feed the Swarm]], [[Withering Torment]], [[Chaos Warp]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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Also in case of something like [[Grafdigger's Cage]] you might want something like [[Vandalblast]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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though I guess you don't need things to come back from the graveyard

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you just need them to die

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Start your cuts with high MV spells

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Like In Garruk's Wake, Brass's Bounty, Blood Money (people play more combo in Bracket 4 so you don't need as many board wipes anyway)

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[[Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls]] is kinda bad in Bracket 4

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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if it were the other Valgavoth it would be worth running

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but only if you're cheating it into play via reanimation spells

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I think your deck isn't really set up for Impact Tremors type effects so you can cut [[Weftstalker Ardent]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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[[Marionette Master]] is good but it costs a lot of mana, you might prefer things like [[Marionette Apprentice]] or [[Disciple of the Vault]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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oh Weftstalker is creature or artifact

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ignore my comment about Weftstalker

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I didn't know the card worked for artifacts, that actually totally makes sense

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"Reading the card explains the card, JEFF"

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🤦‍♂️

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Unless you expect to kill people with Combat Damage I'd cut [[Cranial Plating]]

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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I'd probably replace [[Professor's Warning]] with [[Malakir Mire]]

wicked spadeBOT
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Instant
Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
"Those who fail to escape Malakir become part of the city's defense." —Doros, expedition guide

Malakir Mire
Land
This land enters tapped.
manat: Add manab.
"Getting into Malakir isn't difficult. It's getting out that's the hard part." —Doros, expedition guide

winged pawn
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anyway I think I've already given you quite a lot to think about, maybe once you make some edits we can circle back

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You're welcome, good luck!

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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I don't think that works as a combo?

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Because every time you cast or copy Unearth you need to immediately choose a target

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So you don't have time to sacrifice Dualcaster Mage in the middle in order to target him with Unearth

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The only reason [[Sharuum]] can target itself when you do the combo with [[Sculpting Steel]] is because Sharuum dies as a state-based action before his ETB goes on the stack, so it ends up being able to target itself in the graveyard. It's a very specifically silly interaction

wicked spadeBOT
winged pawn
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I see, you need another 3-drop in your graveyard and you need to hold priority multiple times

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I do not have experience building for cEDH, not my thing

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If you want like a middle 4 with some fun stuff, maybe. If you want it to be competitive I'm the wrong guy

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Yeah if you're winning with Thoracle Combo you're into competitive territory and you're better off asking a spikier player

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Yeah if the deck is winning with Thoracle combo I'm not the guy to help you with it

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I cannot tell you anything about Tergrid you don't already know lol

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Yeah so if you're trying to do Thoracle combo, which is only really appropriate in cEDH, you should get someone who can help you with cEDH. It's a completely different beast

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I'm not good at cEDH and I don't enjoy it personally, but many people do, and if you wanna get really good at tactics and at efficient deckbuilding and at knowing what is truly strong then it's worth digging into

wicked spadeBOT
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Enchantment — Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When this Class enters, create two tapped Treasure tokens.
mana1manar: Level 2
Treasures you control have "manat, Sacrifice this artifact: Add two mana of any one color."
mana4manar: Level 3
Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, this Class deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to each opponent.

winged pawn
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Awesome, glad it's been working out for you and that it's been fun!