{"id":574,"date":"2018-09-30T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2018-09-30T20:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T18:21:36","slug":"brewing-with-andy-angry-ghoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/brewing-with-andy-angry-ghoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewing with Andy: Angry Ghoul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello again, Premodern humans!\u00a0 Tempest block notably contained four broken green two-drops that are currently banned in Legacy: Earthcraft<\/a>, Survival of the Fittest<\/a>, Oath of Druids<\/a>, and Hermit Druid<\/a>.\u00a0 Earthcraft<\/a> is also banned in Premodern, and plenty of decks have already been built around Survival of the Fittest<\/a> and Oath of Druids<\/a>.\u00a0 My friends, let me introduce you to Hermit Druid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The first thing that jumps out about Hermit Druid<\/a>, is that if you don’t put any basic lands in your deck, you can simply activate it to flip over your entire library into your graveyard.\u00a0 Sure, you could use it as a grindy card advantage engine, like a Land Tax<\/a> that also stocks your graveyard, but that whole flipping your deck over thing is…in a word, busted.<\/p>\n

There are a number of things you can do when your entire deck, or most of your deck, is in your graveyard.\u00a0 You can go crazy with Ashen Ghoul<\/a>s, Ichorid<\/a>s, Nether Shadow<\/a>s and Krovikan Horror<\/a>s.\u00a0 You can use Songs of the Damned<\/a> to make tons of mana and Drain Life<\/a> your opponent.\u00a0 You can cast Living Death<\/a> or Haunting Misery<\/a> for the win.\u00a0 But the most straightforward thing to do is just make one giant, hasty trampler and attack.<\/p>\n

Here’s my Premodern version of Angry Ghoul, or if you like, Ghoul Breath:<\/p>\n

Angry Ghoul<\/div>
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MAIN DECK | 60 cards<\/h4>
Lands: 22<\/div>
4<\/span> City of Brass<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Gemstone Mine<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Llanowar Wastes<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Darigaaz's Caldera<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Reflecting Pool<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Yavimaya Coast<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Karplusan Forest<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Underground River<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Instants and Sorceries: 19<\/div>
4<\/span> Worldly Tutor<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Cabal Therapy<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Krosan Reclamation<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Living Wish<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Duress<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Exhume<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Reanimate<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Creatures: 14<\/div>
4<\/span> Birds of Paradise<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Krosan Cloudscraper<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Hermit Druid<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Elvish Spirit Guide<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Sutured Ghoul<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Others: 5<\/div>
3<\/span> Mox Diamond<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Dragon Breath<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

SIDEBOARD | 15 cards<\/h4>
3<\/span> Defense Grid<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Hermit Druid<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Hydroblast<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Pyroblast<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Monk Realist<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Sylvan Safekeeper<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Uktabi Orangutan<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Coffin Purge<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Swamp<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Deck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n------------------------------------------------\nAngry Ghoul\n------------------------------------------------\nMAIN DECK (60)\n\nLands: 22\n4 City of Brass\n4 Gemstone Mine\n4 Llanowar Wastes\n2 Darigaaz's Caldera\n3 Reflecting Pool\n2 Yavimaya Coast\n2 Karplusan Forest\n1 Underground River\n\nInstants and Sorceries: 19\n4 Worldly Tutor\n3 Cabal Therapy\n2 Krosan Reclamation\n4 Living Wish\n4 Duress\n1 Exhume\n1 Reanimate\n\nCreatures: 14\n4 Birds of Paradise\n3 Krosan Cloudscraper\n3 Hermit Druid\n2 Elvish Spirit Guide\n2 Sutured Ghoul\n\nOthers: 5\n3 Mox Diamond\n2 Dragon Breath\n\n\nSIDEBOARD (15)\n3 Defense Grid\n1 Hermit Druid\n3 Hydroblast\n3 Pyroblast\n1 Monk Realist\n1 Sylvan Safekeeper\n1 Uktabi Orangutan\n1 Coffin Purge\n1 Swamp\n------------------------------------------------\nDeck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n<\/div>
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The reason this deck was originally called Angry Ghoul, in Extended circa 2002, is that it used Anger<\/a> to give your Sutured Ghoul<\/a> haste, as winning the game within a turn of flipping over your deck is kind of important.\u00a0 The thing about Anger<\/a> is that it requires you to have a Mountain in play.\u00a0 A Mountain?\u00a0 You mean like, a basic land?\u00a0 Yeah, not the best with Hermit Druid<\/a>.\u00a0 The deck was still very functional, but you had to bend over backwards to try to get the Mountain into play before comboing off, or possibly be forced to do it over two turns.\u00a0 Scourge brought a powerful replacement for Anger<\/a> in Dragon Breath<\/a>, and now the need for the basic land was gone.<\/p>\n

We’ve talked about the haste enabler, but let’s talk about how the combo actually works.\u00a0 Step one is to get a Hermit Druid<\/a> into play.\u00a0 The Druid’s main weakness is that it’s a fragile card, but we are loaded up on proactive disruption in the form of Duress<\/a> and Cabal Therapy<\/a>, as well as a substantial tutor package to add redundancy.\u00a0 Worldly Tutor<\/a> is an efficient way to find the Druid, and Living Wish<\/a> can tutor up the single sideboard copy, as well as a number of other utility creatures to answer hate cards or permanents that make it difficult to combo off.<\/p>\n

Step two of the combo is to activate the Hermit Druid<\/a> and flip your entire library into your graveyard.\u00a0 This can be done at the end of the opponent’s turn, or during your upkeep after the Druid comes into play, if you have enough mana to complete the combo.\u00a0 Once your graveyard is full, you simple need to reanimate the Sutured Ghoul<\/a>, exiling some number of Krosan Cloudscraper<\/a>s to make it huge, give it haste with Dragon Breath<\/a>, and attack.\u00a0 There are only two reanimation spells in the main deck, a single Reanimate<\/a> and a single Exhume<\/a>, so most of the time you’ll also need to flashback Krosan Reclamation<\/a> before you draw for turn, effectively returning one of those spells to your hand, which you will cast main phase on the Ghoul.<\/p>\n

To activate Hermit Druid<\/a>, flashback Krosan Reclamation<\/a> and cast Reanimate<\/a>, you need a total of four mana on the combo turn (or five if you’re using Exhume<\/a>).\u00a0 Four or five mana isn’t a whole lot, but the deck has plenty of mana acceleration in the form of\u00a0Birds of Paradise<\/a>,\u00a0Mox Diamond<\/a> and\u00a0Elvish Spirit Guide<\/a>, to make sure it happens consistently on turn three, or turn two with a god hand.<\/p>\n

So that’s it!\u00a0 Let me know what you think, did I miss any important cards or useful tech?\u00a0 As always, leave comments in the Premodern Facebook group<\/a> or hit me up on Instagram<\/a> @mtgdojoera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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