Yeah this curve is over the top, but did you know that by using liliana’s first ability you can pitch a creature and put it on the battlefield with Necromatic summons? At the begining of the game I move kills spells up front and what ever reanimate target I want to the back. After a few turns pitch one of the finishers and bring them right back out.
There is lots of room for improvement, much better kills spells, better creatures available but this is a fun deck and it works.
While not my fastest deck, my favorite deck is probably my Liliana Vampire deck:
Bloodbond Vampire
Drana’s Emissary
Kalastria Healer
Kalastria Nightwatch
Malakir Cullbalde
Hagra Sharpshooter
Unholy Hunger
Scour From Existence
Bone Splinters
Smoldering Marsh
The deck has two major synergies: Bloodbond Vampire + lifegain (Drana’s Emissary, Kalastria Healer & allies, Unholy Hunger) and Cullblade + removal (Unholy Hunger, Scour From Existence, Bone Splinters, Grave Mist PW power)
Ideally, the deck builds up a big critter from a small one, eventually running over the opponent. It also has a lot of removal for dealing with things. I believe there are some cards out there that would work better in the deck than some of the filler cards I am using (Retreat to Hagra comes to mind), but I don’t have those cards yet.
Looks fun. I’ve been wanting to build this, but am missing the Emissary that would seem to make it tick. Retreat to Hagra just isn’t as effective. I do regret that Healer is a 1/2 for 13 mana, though. I was hoping it would come in cheaper.
Yeah, I go back and forth on whether to have the Healer (as well as the Nightwatch, which is really only in there to trigger the healer) vs taking them out and adding more generically useful cards. I went without for a while, now I’m back to having them in lately. It seems the core of the deck is strong enough that it doesn’t suffer much one way or the other. I totally agree that the Healer is way to expensive. Though not as bad as the god-awful Zulaport Cutthroat - who thought THAT was an appropriately-costed card?
My Noran Dar version has gone full combo deck mode:
Creatures: 1
Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper
Spells: 9
Talent of the Telepath
Day’s Undoing
Rush of Ice
Stratus Walk
Coastal Discovery
Evolving Wilds
Artificer’s Discovery
Anticipate
Clash of Wills
It hasn’t lost since I went with this mix, except–ironically–to blue bounce decks. Thankfully, those aren’t part of the meta anymore, so the deck is pretty fun to play.
It was expected.
While blue has cheap spells it lacks a way to gain mana and usually you have to use some spells with little to no benefit just for pumping noyan.
With green you can remove those spells and get nice substitutes.
Mantle of webs can ensure your noyan will tank all incoming damage
Seek the wild will fetch your noyan and put the rest on bottom so you do not draw it again(but will be able to refetch if needed).
Some green gem production of you want to.
As I thought from the very beginning, since the amount of different cards in deck is so low, any single improvement has a big impact.
Also prism array can be a game winner in this low mana cost decks
If you do not get day undoing is another way to get combo pieces cause drawing THREE card when ANY player landfalls is just insane…