This also helps me fill my grave with bloodghasts and whatnot. With this tech, under chains I can use both Rankle's draw and discard ability, replacing the draw with dredge and then discarding it, while everyone else rummages and then discards, netting me +1 card overall. While I'm at it, I should point out that the reason I'm running every single dredge card is because it circumvents chains of mephistopheles by allowing me to replace a draw with a dredge. Although with all the dredge I'm running, maybe it does make sense to run stuff like skullclamp, idk. Not running a bunch of otherwise strong draw because the goal is to abuse chains of Meph, which goes not-so-great with regular draw. Generating 20 mana doesn't really interest us, by that point we should have the game locked down anyway. Not running Coffers because this deck aims to be low to the ground. Reasons for certain otherwise-obvious inclusions: Let's give Rankle the deck that bastard deserves. Probably goes without saying at this point, but this deck has no limits in terms of budget or morality.
#Anvil of bogardan and chains of mephistopheles windows#
This does leave windows for our opponents to interact and get back into the game, but rankle is built to shred defenses quickly while our other stax cards choke out their options for recovery, so that any attempt to recover will require consecutive lucky topdecks, while our own strategies are quite durable. The goal is to ensure our opponents never get to keep cards in hand or creatures on the board. I'm not really a stax expert, but the way I see it, stax generally either tries to deny you mana, but let you have as many cards as you like, or deny you cards, but let you have as much mana as you like. So screw it, let's make something really gross and see if I can lose whatever slim good will I have at my LGS's commander night. And I've got some real nasty old stax cards sitting in a box doing nothing. He really is a whole stax package in himself, he's got discard, sac, and a hasty evasive wincon in one tasty package.Īnyway, I'm not generally a stax guy, but between the weaksauce EDHrec suggestions (no chains anywhere? C'mon!) and the "cedh tier list" ranking his in tier 4 (wtf?) I feel like people are sleeping on him pretty hard. And by cool, obviously I mean evil beyond all reckoning. Pulled a Rankle in a winston draft last night (or rather, my opponent did), and I'd almost forgotten how cool that dude is.
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