DESCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION
This is a heaven and heck theme deck centering around the combo of Tombstone Stairwell and Altar of Dementia. The theme comes from Wrath of God and the black version of that card, which is considered "offensive language", plus the interactions of the combo on cards like Soul Warden , Blood Artist , Suture Priest, and Teysa, Orzhov Scion . Basically, you gain life while your opponents loses life. It's the most fun in multiplayer games, though in those games you may want to main board additional Vengeful Dead, Zulaport Cutthroat plus your "fog" cards of Darkness and Holy Day. If a budget deck were desired you could make this deck cheaper by replacing Karlov of the Ghost Council with Ajani's Pridemate. Please comment with any feedback or ways to make the deck better or more fun.
EXAMPLE PLAY
Turn 1: Soul Warden
Turn 2: Altar of Dementia
Turn 3: Stinkweed Imp
Turn 4: Tombstone Stairwell
Turn 5:
If the Stinkweed Imp is not yet in your graveyard, sacrifice it to the Altar of Dementia prior to this turn. You can then dredge 5, for a net of 6 cards into your graveyard. If you have no other playable you can always replay the Imp for the same thing next turn. Things will typically spiral out of control from here as your Tombstone Stairwell is creating multiple 2/2 zombie token creatures, which can attack and then are sacrificed to the Alter of Dementia to mill, making your zombies horde larger and largereach turn. Yes, tokens enter the graveyard. Pretty much everything you play after this point is just going to be adding fuel to the combo. Like dropping a Karlov of the Ghost Council and watching it grow into a 20/20 or dropping a Teysa, Orzhov Scion and sacrificing your 2/2 zombies for 1/1 angels only to then sacrifice your angles for more instant damage and life gain. By this time your Karlov of the Ghost Council is probably close to a 60/60. So when you are tired of attacking you can sacrifice it to mill out your final opponent's deck.
PS: The "offensive language" filter here is a little too powerful in my opinion. I don't make a habit of swearing, but I honestly had a hard time find the offensive words. The first was pretty obvious. It was that word used in the AC/DC song "Highway to Heck". No worries, I made the change and hit submit. However, I still triggered the offensive language filter. I honestly had to guess and check by plugging words into the title to see what was still setting off the filter. I discovered it to be the actual name for the black version of Wrath of God.