Underworld Aristocrats

After all these years, I've finally managed to get my hands on one of my favourite creatures, Takinom. With a number of my friends coming back to the game, I decided to build a deck based around her, with some backup firepower in Zapetur, but I've got a limited supply to work with. I'm hoping to pick up some singles and packs in the coming weeks, so I'm looking for some suggestions of what to look for. I really enjoy the sacrifical nature of the deck. It reminds me of one of my favourite archetypes in M:TG, Aristocrats (Thus the name).

Creatures:

1. Takinom w/ Skeletal Steed
2. Barath Beyond w/ Sword of Khy'at
3. Zapetur w/ Mowercycle
4. H'Earring w/ Mugician's Lyre
5. Vyll w/ Lightning Canister
6. Toxis w/ Lightning Canister

Mugic:

1. Song of Futuresight
2. Canon of Casualty
3. Refrain of Denial (Overworld)
4. Stain of Ash
5. Elemental Denial
6. Song of Fury

Attacks:

2x Progressive Speed
2x Arbor Smash
2x Windslash
2x Dexterous Storm
2x Spirit Gust
2x Enlightend Tenacity
2x Squeeze Play
2x Shriek Shock
1x Flash Kick
1x Scout's Strike
1x Web Cocoon
1x Incinerase

Locations:

2x Cordac Falls Plungepool
2x The Hunter's Perimeter
2x Queen's Gate
2x Brawler's Burrow
1x Vidav's Refectorium
1x Crystal Cave

awesome I love me some OG takinom I always wanted to see more underworlders who sacrificed others, there was barath and all but he used other tribes more. also shoutout to hearring I competely forgot what his effect was and its actually pretty useful. overall a pretty cool retro sort of deck

Oracle Afjak wrote:Not entirely related, but can I just say that I love the Chandra art in your avi? Glad to have another Magic player on board here (even though I'm a Bant mage myself.)

It's also a bit refreshing to see an aristocrats-style Chaotic deck in straight UnderWorld for a change. Most of the time it's with the Mipedians—Sobtjek, Tiaane, Alazdan, oh my—or Danian, or various mixes.

Thank you! I was pretty excited to say the least when I saw Fire of Kaladesh/Roaring Flame in Origins. She quickly became the only EDH deck that I even bother playing any more. Even got the SDCC all-black promo version of her.

Chiodosin1 wrote:awesome I love me some OG takinom I always wanted to see more underworlders who sacrificed others, there was barath and all but he used other tribes more. also shoutout to hearring I competely forgot what his effect was and its actually pretty useful. overall a pretty cool retro sort of deck

My first exposure to Chaotic was the episode in the first season where Kaz is using Takinom, and sacrificed all his other creatures to keep her going. I assumed that sort of playstyle would carry over to the other Underworlds. Boy was I a little dissapointed. Barrath: UG is pretty sweet, though. If I end up putting together another deck, he'll probably be the basis. Kind of reminds me of the original Ravnica cycle of Guild Champions in M:TG, especially Lyzolda.

H'Earring was always my go-to utility creature back in the day. Most of us that played had really bad location decks, with only 4-5 locations that actually benefitted us. Being able to find one of my good locations or deny my opponent one of his was insanely strong in our meta.