Ravnica

I have obviously spent an inordinate amount of time talking about Magic the Gathering in this blog. If I thought for half a second that anyone actually read this, I might actually be embarassed by the level of geekhood that I am displaying.

That being said, I can't tell you how much I love the new set that was released: Ravnica, City of Guilds. I have several decks that I have built, but there is one deck of which I am particularly proud. It is built around the Dark Confidant, a card which I was highly skeptical of before using it.

When I first saw the card, I figured using it was a death sentence. All it would take was one or two big cards getting turned over and it would kill the user. But I put in two copies to see how they worked. Well, let me tell you...they were so good that I put in two more copies and changed the structure of the deck to take advantage of them.

The deck is primarily Black, with a splash of Green. The vast majority of the cards have a converted mana cost of 2, to allow the Dark Confindant to work his wonders and allow for tutoring with the transmute feature of Shred Memory.

Without further adieu:

Discard Confidential
Standard

Creatures
4 Hypnotic Specter
4 Ravenous Rats
4 Dark Confidant
4 Hand of Cruelty
1 Nezumi Graverobber
2 Nezumi Shortfang

Other Spells
2 Last Gasp
3 Shred Memory
4 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Cruel Edict
3 Blackmail
2 Naturalize
3 Putrefy

Land
4 Llanowar Wastes
7 Swamp
2 Quicksand
2 Golgari Rot Farm
4 Overgrown Tomb
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
3 Svogthos, the Restless Tomb