I Win By Sacrificing All My Lands (what could possibly go wrong?) | Against the Odds



What are the odds of winning by burning opponents out of the game with mean girls Sawblade Skinripper and Popular Egotist by sacrificing all of our lands? Let’s find out!

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  1. Try Rollercrusher. I was brewing around the Skinripper Pitiless Carnage combo last week, and while Rakdos sac+discard is the obvious shell, I think it's actually too aggressive; it doesn't want to play combo, it wants to overwhelm and win before the opponent stabilizes. It dilutes both strategies.
    Rollercrusher is an absurd Magic card. Seriously. It's like the Flytrap, you think 'oh this sucks without delirium', but getting delirium is easy and dealing double non-combat damage to everything is insane; especially when it then makes it easy for Rollercrusher to kill important targets. Makes Skinripping math really easy (also makes Food Fight actually viable, + Forensic Gadgeteer and Enigma Jewel, Izzet or Jeskai, fun as hell).

    In that sense I think there's probably a very very strong build of this in Jund or Grixis to enable more self-mill/discard, and a slower game plan, either overwhelming with Green resource advantage or controlling the game with Blue.

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  2. could someone clarify for me why taking removal with bat is the go-to play? my instinct is always that taking an important card would be better because then you force the opponent to use their removal on the bat to get it back or you slow their gameplan, but this is never the way i see it played. if someone could explain why taking the removal is optimal i’d really appreciate it!

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  3. If this your flavor, you might try brewing "The Cheese Stands Alone":
    Scavenger's Talent/Vinelasher/Lumra/Pitiless Carnage: most of the time, win with Vinelasher pings. Other times you win with nothing on board except a food token, milling opponent with ST/Carnage… sometimes both wincons, at the same damn time!

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  4. I think Seth misses that you can sacrifice the Egotist too, the triggers will still all go on stack so every time he's been thinkin he has exactly enough with egotists on the field, he has an extra damage margin

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