Discard-based MBC?
.So I think that I’ve made a mistake in trying to straddle two different kinds of control, the tempo-control of the Standard B/R RatCloud deck and a more traditional card-advantage-based control approach forced on me by the absence of both Stone Rain and Ravenous Rats in the MD5 environment. That being the case, I need to find a deck that is focused and able to exploit the current metagame.
The typical Black Control deck approach might actually provide a number of answers here, if I don’t get too caught up in trying to make Death Cloud work as the be-all and end-all.
- MD5 RatCloud (60)
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- Land (22)
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- 22 Swamp
- Mana (4)
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- 4 Wayfarer’s Bauble
- Creatures (10)
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- 4 Chittering Rats
- 4 Solemn Simulacrum
- 2 Greater Harvester
- Other (24)
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- 4 Consume Spirit
- 4 Wrench Mind
- 4 Fill with Fright
- 4 Night’s Whisper
- 4 Devour in Shadow
- 2 Echoing Decay
- 2 Barter in Blood
- Sideboard (15)
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- 4 Emissary of Despair
- 4 Shattered Dreams
- 4 Damping Matrix
- 3 Terror
Obviously, the deck is much, much weaker against Affinity here. Also, I begin to wonder if Promise of Power should come into it at all. But I don’t know where I’d put that, and it is a little risky against Big Red. I don’t think the deck can support both Promise of Power and Night’s Whisper.