Braids' Nightmares

[MrBloo]

The more of those things you run the more attractive mass reanimation spells like Living Death becomes too. I myself am brewing a version to hopefully get to test soon.

[cheonice]

Updates! I finally managed to update my decklist! Hope I get to test the new version next week.

There are still some choices I'm not sure about:

• I think I want to play 30 Swamps. The cuts would probably be Barren Moor and maybe Pit of Offerings or Downyard Temple. I like that the Pit is another Bojuka Bog variant, but it's a bad one. I can sac the Temple to Braids and get it back later, so that's nice. Other than that it's quite a bad land. Not sure, why I cutted Cabal Coffers last time :D
• I'm not sure that I need both Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar. I'm not a actually spamming creatures, but with my reanimation suite and my big mana spells, both are quite potent.
• My reanimation package. All the cards in this list worked quite well for me, but maybe I'm blinded by nostalgia.

Additions, Cuts and Considerations

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

//Adds

1 Bitter Triumph

1 Cabal Coffers

1 Exsanguinate

1 Fallen Ideal

1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

1 Mephitic Draught

1 Noxious Gearhulk

1 Phyrexian Altar

1 Stitch Together

1 Throne of Eldraine

1 Vesuva

1 Demon's Disciple

//Cuts

1 Chittering Witch

1 Cult Conscript

1 Despondency

1 Dreadhorde Invasion

1 Gixian Puppeteer

1 Junji, the Midnight Sky

1 Murderous Rider // Swift End

1 Myriad Landscape

1 Phyrexian Delver

1 Syr Konrad, the Grim

1 Viscera Seer

1 Swamp

//Considerations

1 Stitcher's Supplier

1 Treacherous Blessing

1 Young Necromancer

1 Night's Whisper

1 Not Dead After All

1 Ugin's Nexus

1 Nether Traitor

1 Viscera Seer

1 Chittering Witch

Approximate Total Cost:

Braid's Nightmares

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

//Commander

1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare

//Lands (39)

1 Witch's Cottage

1 Barren Moor

1 Bojuka Bog

1 Cabal Stronghold

1 Drownyard Temple

1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

1 Pit of Offerings

28 Swamp

1 Thespian's Stage

1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

1 Cabal Coffers

1 Vesuva

//Synergy (10)

1 Bloodghast

1 Reassembling Skeleton

1 Ophiomancer

1 Ichor Wellspring

1 Mycosynth Wellspring

1 Mephitic Draught

1 Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher

1 Bitterblossom

1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

1 Fallen Ideal

//Ramp (10)

1 Walking Atlas

1 Crypt Ghast

1 Jeweled Amulet

1 Jet Medallion

1 Thran Dynamo

1 Gilded Lotus

1 Caged Sun

1 Dark Ritual

1 Sol Ring

1 Throne of Eldraine

//Reanimation (9)

1 Balthor the Defiled

1 Chainer, Dementia Master

1 Sepulchral Primordial

1 Corpse Dance

1 Reanimate

1 Living Death

1 Phyrexian Reclamation

1 Animate Dead

1 Stitch Together

//Removal (14)

1 Plaguecrafter

1 Massacre Girl

1 Oblivion Stone

1 Feed the Swarm

1 Mutilate

1 All Is Dust

1 Decree of Pain

1 Grave Pact

1 Dictate of Erebos

1 Dauthi Voidwalker

1 Baleful Mastery

1 Bitter Triumph

1 Noxious Gearhulk

1 Demon's Disciple

//Carddraw (4)

1 Morbid Opportunist

1 Deadly Dispute

1 Sign in Blood

1 Necropotence

//Tutor (3)

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Profane Tutor

1 Entomb

//Sac Outlet (3)

1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

1 Ashnod's Altar

1 Phyrexian Altar

//Win Option (5)

1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel

1 Grave Titan

1 Massacre Wurm

1 Torment of Hailfire

1 Exsanguinate

//Other (2)

1 Rankle, Master of Pranks

1 Bloodchief Ascension

Approximate Total Cost:

[duducrash]

Im still putting my list together, early in the year its hard to justify buying cards.

But I keep thinking about Braids and the more I do, the more I like the idea of Cursed Totem

[cheonice]

Im still putting my list together, early in the year its hard to justify buying cards.

But I keep thinking about Braids and the more I do, the more I like the idea of Cursed Totem

Sounds neat, but is probably a meta call. Does your playgroup play a lot of mana dorks or commander's with activated abilities? Than it's probably a slam dunk. On the other hand it curves nicely into Braids, so you can sac it, if the game has no need for that kind of hate.

[cheonice]

My cards arrived, so this is the new decklist:

Decklist

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

//Commander

1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare

//Lands

1 Witch's Cottage

1 Barren Moor

1 Bojuka Bog

1 Cabal Stronghold

1 Drownyard Temple

1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

28 Swamp

1 Thespian's Stage

1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire

1 Cabal Coffers

1 Vesuva

1 Demolition Field

//Synergy

1 Bloodghast

1 Reassembling Skeleton

1 Ophiomancer

1 Ichor Wellspring

1 Mycosynth Wellspring

1 Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher

1 Bitterblossom

1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

1 Mephitic Draught

1 Despondency

//Ramp

1 Walking Atlas

1 Crypt Ghast

1 Jeweled Amulet

1 Jet Medallion

1 Thran Dynamo

1 Caged Sun

1 Dark Ritual

1 Sol Ring

1 Throne of Eldraine

//Reanimation

1 Balthor the Defiled

1 Chainer, Dementia Master

1 Sepulchral Primordial

1 Corpse Dance

1 Reanimate

1 Living Death

1 Phyrexian Reclamation

1 Animate Dead

1 Stitch Together

//Removal

1 Plaguecrafter

1 Oblivion Stone

1 Feed the Swarm

1 Mutilate

1 All Is Dust

1 Decree of Pain

1 Grave Pact

1 Dictate of Erebos

1 Dauthi Voidwalker

1 Baleful Mastery

1 Bitter Triumph

1 Noxious Gearhulk

1 Demon's Disciple

1 Toxic Deluge

//Carddraw

1 Morbid Opportunist

1 Deadly Dispute

1 Sign in Blood

1 Necropotence

1 Night's Whisper

//Tutor

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Profane Tutor

1 Entomb

//Sac Outlet

1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

1 Ashnod's Altar

1 Phyrexian Altar

//Win Option

1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel

1 Grave Titan

1 Massacre Wurm

1 Torment of Hailfire

1 Exsanguinate

//Other

1 Rankle, Master of Pranks

1 Bloodchief Ascension

Approximate Total Cost:

Decklist

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

//Cuts

1 Pit of Offerings

1 Fallen Ideal

1 Gilded Lotus

1 Massacre Girl

//Additions

1 Demolition Field

1 Despondency

1 Night's Whisper

1 Toxic Deluge

Approximate Total Cost:

I recently played a game where I my hand was full of lategame stuff and nothing worked. It was kinda frustrating. So I tried to lower my mana curve and put in another draw card for some lategame ramp. We'll see how this works out.

[cheonice]

Finally I got the time for a few games. Braids did absolutely everything! I played against Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter, Pantlaza, Sun-Favored, and Jinnie Fay, Jetmir's Second.
I got the following dream start:
Turn 1: Swamp, Sol Ring, Mycosynth Wellspring
Turn 2: Braids, sac Wellspring, draw 3
Turn 3: Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, draw 3
and so on.
I pretty much dominated the whole game, even with Pantlaza, Sun-Favored cascading into scary dino after scary dino.
The game ended, when I managed to drop Cabal Coffers next to Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, casted Exsanguinate for 20 and killed the last standing player with an attack
- a stereotypical MBC-Style win!

I think I want to play some additional removal, even with drawing a bunch of cards I didn't see as many as a wished.