Erinis, Gloom Stalker + Scion of Halaster: Live, Laugh, Loam™️

[kirkusjones]

My first draft of Erinis, Gloom Stalker and Scion of Halaster. It's a dredge/lands deck with a large toolbox that seeks to flood the board with tokens from stuff like Field of the Dead, Scute Swarm and Avenger of Zendikar, or make my non-token critters indestructible with Ashaya + Timber Protector.

Live, Laugh, Loam

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

Creatures (24)

1 Birds of Paradise

1 Deathrite Shaman

1 Elves of Deep Shadow

1 Elvish Reclaimer

1 Sylvan Safekeeper

1 Hermit Druid

1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking

1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

1 Endurance

1 Eternal Witness

1 Ramunap Excavator

1 Scute Swarm

1 Tireless Provisioner

1 Tireless Tracker

1 Wood Elves

1 Oracle of Mul Daya

1 World Shaper

1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild

1 Golgari Grave-Troll

1 The Gitrog Monster

1 Titania, Protector of Argoth

1 Underrealm Lich

1 Ancient Greenwarden

1 Avenger of Zendikar

Planeswalkers (1)

1 Wrenn and Seven

Artifacts (6)

1 Mox Diamond

1 Zuran Orb

1 Amulet of Vigor

1 Altar of Dementia

1 Crucible of Worlds

1 Horn of Greed

Enchantment (6)

1 Burgeoning

1 Exploration

1 Manabond

1 Squandered Resources

1 Sylvan Library

1 Pernicious Deed

Instants (9)

1 Crop Rotation

1 Entomb

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Assassin's Trophy

1 Harrow

1 Realms Uncharted

1 Force of Vigor

1 Necrologia

1 Harness Infinity

Sorceries (13)

1 Green Sun's Zenith

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Life from the Loam

1 Nature's Lore

1 Three Visits

1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt

1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary

1 Cultivate

1 Kodama's Reach

1 Toxic Deluge

1 Natural Order

1 Skyshroud Claim

1 Splendid Reclamation

Land (39)

1 Barren Moor

1 Bayou

1 Bloodstained Mire

1 Bojuka Bog

1 Boseiju, Who Endures

1 Cabal Coffers

1 Dark Depths

1 Deserted Temple

1 Dryad Arbor

1 Fabled Passage

1 Field of the Dead

4 Forest

1 Glacial Chasm

1 Lake of the Dead

1 Lotus Field

1 Marsh Flats

1 Maze of Ith

1 Misty Rainforest

1 Nurturing Peatland

1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

1 Overgrown Tomb

1 Polluted Delta

1 Prismatic Vista

1 Strip Mine

3 Swamp

1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

1 Thespian's Stage

1 Tranquil Thicket

1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

1 Verdant Catacombs

1 Vesuva

1 Volrath's Stronghold

1 Windswept Heath

1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Approximate Total Cost:

Still deciding if I want the generic good stuff tutors, but I'm not sure what I'd replace them with. As always, open to suggestions!

EDIT - after assembling the pile, pretty sure Harness Infinity is going to get cut. Same with Cultivate and probably Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor in order to put in Scapeshift, Kamahl, Fist of Krosa, Worm Harvest and Noxious Revival. Will probably swap a land (not sure which) for Urza's Saga, as being able to fetch Mox Diamond, Zuran Orb or Amulet of Vigor seems real good.

Would love to find room for Mirage Mirror and Courser of Kruphix, too.

[TheAmericanSpirit]

I would consider Centaur vinecrasher, bloodghast, Skyclave Shade, and Buried Alive. Having a resilient package of dudes to augment your aggro could be useful (you have go to the combat step for Erinis anyway).

I'd also play a %$#% ton more removal and wraths than you currently do. Because your value is mostly tied up in sacred ground, you can afford to be a bit more liberal on the removal front because your actual gameplan doesn't need to consume many nonland slots. Having a ready answer to common nonbasic hate like Blood Moon, Back to Basics, et al. is mission critical. Easy cuts I see would be K Reach, cultivate, Avenger of Zendikar, Burgeoning, and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove. Burgeoning in partcular requires a 45+ land count to be able to do its job more than once ime. I'd also cut the mana dorks for more lands. 39 is kinda low for this strategy. 42-46 is the sweet spot imo.

Other than that, the deck is sweet! Hope it tests as well as it reads!

[kirkusjones]

@TheAmericanSpirit got in a game with it last night and you are 100% correct. I ended up with a great board presence, but lacked ways to close the game. Will definitely be making cuts and adding in more spot/mass removal as well as something like Exsanguinate, because sometimes the game just needs to be over.

Or maybe Death Cloud? I would love to do the Necrotic Ooze + Phyrexian Devourer + Walking Ballista combo, but the big black X spells take up less slots. Infernal Tribute is another card I'm kicking around, but Abundance might be better.