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BMoor's Magic The
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Deck Garage
Well, thank you very much, Tyler! I am sorry I wasn't able to get to this E-mail sooner, but I'll be happy to help you out. Now, your deck seems to be fairly focused on control. With all your discard and removal cards, you make it difficult for your opponents to do anything. Then swinging for 20 becomes fairly simple. Let's see what I can do to make you that much more effective at it.
First, let's look at your creatures. Blazing Specter seems fine, but let's replace Abyssal Specter with the original Hypnotic Specter. The extra point of toughness will rarely outweigh the extra mana to cast it. Ravenous and Gobhobbler Rats both look good, Cinder Shade is a nice touch, but I'm not so sure about Abyssal Nocturnus. For 1BB, it seems like you could get more. Maybe a Rakdos Guildmage would be of better use there. And also, one Rakdos the Defiler is enough. The other can become a second Avatar of Discord, a creature that works fairly well in multiples as long as you can keep enough cards in your hand.
Let's move on to your spells. I'd sort of like to bring your mana curve down a bit, just because you seem to want to make a Hellbent subtheme work and it'll help if you can play spells in your hand faster. So let's start by taking out Pain Magnification. The COTD team gave a good set of reasons not to play this card, and you've got enough discard as is. Twinstrike might be better as Cackling Flames, but Twinstrike does have more power. Anthem of Rakdos can come out, though. If you're into that whole "Bond of Agony" mentality, you can get it at a much better deal with Phyrexian Arena. Also, if The Rack is going to be a big point in your deck, you need four copies. I know, I know, they're hard to get, but they're worth it, and if you can't find any, you can achieve similar success with a number of other artifacts, like Skullcage for instance. Skullcage never really caught on, so it should be fairly inexpensive to get. I bet Shuffle and Cut Games could get you a few copies pretty easily (shameless plug). Also, since you don't seem to mind discarding cards and taking damage yourself, you might want to make room for four Feast of Flesh. They make good kill spells, and they give you some extra life on top of it so you won't kill yourself quite as fast.
All in all, that ought to help a good bit. The deck looked fine when it came in, if maybe a bit heavy on discard spells and lacking a tad in individual card efficiency. These modifications should give it what it needs to tear up kitchen tables, card game shop casual nights, and cafeteria playgroups for miles around. Especially the bit about Phrexian Arena-- you need a good means of replacing all those cards you discard. Good luck, and have lots of mean-spirited fun with it!
~BMoor
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