MTG Combo: Fate Unraveler + Underworld Dreams

Hobbez9186 on Outrageous Misfortune

8 years ago

It really puts the screws to those that like to draw cards like all those B/W control decks. They typically have answers to your creatures, but not necessarily your Enchantments.

Also, sorry... Dark Ritual is not Modern Legal... That is all kinds of lame...

Ok, so now I'm card searching and see some options to use like:

Augur of Skulls. Regenerate on a Flyer is a fantastic chump blocker, but being able to just sac him to force 2 discards whenever you want can be clutch. He's also cheap enough to Disentomb and immediately replay. Hell, if you had 5 mana you could play him and use him twice on the same turn :)

Blackmail is another powerful spell that I actually like a lot better than Duress. No wonder it's listed at $3 a piece lol.

Call to the Netherworld is Disentomb with a crazy Madness mechanic. It's Modern Legal, absolutely no reason to not trade those out.

Cry of Contrition is a fun spell to play on Black Cat, but would also work pretty well on Augur of Skulls.

Despise is another good alternative to Duress that can target Planeswalkers. I'd say good for sideboard.

Drainpipe Vermin is kind of fun.

Dream Salvage is an interesting option to help speed you up after the first few turns.

Fade from Memory would be good against Delve or Reanimation in the sideboard.

Funeral Charm was such a fun little card, I forgot about this guy...

Hypnotic Specter is apparently Modern legal. I didn't expect that, and he may be good to split with Master of the Feast with two of each in the deck.

Liliana of the Veil is a... holy crap she's over $100 lol. Nevermind :)

Quest for the Nihil Stone does.. wait, back up. Damn. Modern legal and stacks just fine with The Rack. You can put two counters on that on turn 2 if you play and sacrifice Augur of Skulls. This makes the discard engine much more of a machine than the draw engine, but holy cow.

I'm not even going to finish the alphabet here, I think I have your answer.

+2 Quest for the Nihil Stone, -2 Underworld Dreams

+2 Hypnotic Specter, -2 Master of the Feast

+4 Augur of Skulls, -2 Black Cat, -2 Ravenous Rats

+4 Blackmail (or Funeral Charm or two of each), -4 Duress

+2 Dream Salvage, -2 Fate Unraveler

+4 Call to the Netherworld, -4 Disentomb

+2 Drainpipe Vermin, -2 Black Cat or Ravenous Rats.

I'd say Vermin is slightly better than Black Cat since you can force the trigger to happen and Ravenous Rats is still a good drop to force a card. The timing part of Drainpipe Vermin though for the same cmc might make it better to have 4 of them instead. Drop and immediately trigger or wait if they don't actually have any cards and trigger as soon as they draw one. Augur and Vermin also can act in response to control, so that should give you a little more bite.

For Black, the Discard mechanic is definitely easier to force than draw so it makes sense to focus heavier on that than right in the middle. I still like Sign in Blood with Fate Unraveler + Underworld Dreams and since they will draw at least one card per turn no matter what it is still a decent output of damage every turn. Hopefully all of that didn't discourage you from keeping the dream alive, but after digging through all the options that Modern has to offer, I think this is a good way to go.