I played another game with this deck this week. I was doing ok but suddenly I got attacked by two people in a row for a ton of damage in the air which sucked. When I went to Gravepact it ate a counterspell. I ended up having to yolo for a win on like turn 7 or 8 due to being pushed down to like 7hp after taking something like 20-25 damage the turn before.
I managed to
Demonic Tutor for
Deathrender. I played out
Ashnod's Altar using it on several of my remaining non key creatures to fuel the
Deathrender and equip it to one of my few remaining creatures. I still had a
Skullclamp so I started sacrificing my creatures to make mana and use
Skullclamp to turn my hand over repeatedly. I finally made enough mana from this to cast
Phyrexian Altar which I had drawn and start making a little colored mana so I could cast more creatures from hand. I slowly got a second aristocrat in play letting me draw from Erebos as well. As time went on I got
Sifter of Skulls which insulated me allowing heavier draws and or mana generation. I kept chugging until I could play
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed from hand. At this point I hit
Gray Merchant of Asphodel and called it a game doming the remaining players for 21 each (with the sac). Really though, they were already dead from my board I just found it faster to gary them out.
So, that was my non infinite but largely play my deck play of the night. It was kind of gross given that it seemed to be more or less play my deck.
DECK CHANGES:
- Dimir House Guard → Sword of the Animist I think I need to just push for having more resources. Attacking creatures into their death isn't really a big deal for this deck and the option of Sword making Bloodghast come back twice in a turn sounds kind of great.
- Merciless Executioner → Boompile I haven't been impressed by the single sacs lately. It seems like people have had a lot of tokens so far. I also have had some issues with opponents just playing a bunch of artifact / enchantments and not having interaction for those. I considered if I wanted Oblivion Stone instead but I think in this case I would rather it be cheaper even if it isn't guaranteed to go off.
Moving forward, I guess maybe I should look at more anti token things, maybe
Mindslicer, and maybe more ways to interact with artifacts and enchantments.