{"ops":[{"insert":"Yawgmoth with no aristocrats or value reanimation. Why?\n\nThis deck aims to be a weave of high-synergy but discrete combos to make the deck very powerful, but fun to play without relying on the exact same plan every game. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"This deck has no ultra-value reanimation and no [[Blood Artist]] / aristrocrat ping drain effects and leans away from relying soley on the \"Yawgmoth's Bargain\" combo, ie the undying loop combo as those generally funnel a Yawgmoth deck into a streamlined, but repetitive, gameplan."},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Basic Gameplan:"},{"insert":"\nStarting hand needs to be min. two lands and a ramp piece, ideally with some \"Simpler Fodder\" and a tutor also. \nThen get an \"Advantage Combo\" or two to leverage you into a \"Wincon Combo\". I realize these terms are kind of contrived, but it's the best way I could think of framing what I want to do.\n\nNote that I am constantly rotating this deck between a pool of about 140 cards, always trying to eventually land on the perfect 99, so some of the strategies below may not be present in the current decklist. They are superset of all the options possible with this larger pool. \n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Solid Early-Game:"},{"insert":"\nLocking things down with Braids/Contamination and a Body Generator, or Winter Moon if applicable. This usually gives you a lot of breathing room to do what you need to attempt a win, or at least position yourself with a significant resource imbalance.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Generically Good Early-Game Tutor Targets:"},{"insert":"\nNecropotence, Ophiomancer, Winter Moon, any of the other \"body generators\", Nest of Scarabs, Nine-Lives Familiar, Grave Pact\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Wincon Combos"},{"insert":"\nMikaeus + yawg + any non human + (gary or kokusho)\nLilliana + yawg + proliferate\n(Gravecrawler or Forsaken Miner) + warren soultrader + aetherflux reservoir \nForsaken Miner + phyrexian altar + (bitter ordeal or aetherflux reservoir)\nForsaken Miner + Warren Soultrader + Deathgreeter + Bitter Ordeal \nGravecrawler + Any Zombie + phyrexian altar + (bitter ordeal or aetherflux reservoir)\nGravecrawler + deathgreeter + warren soultrader + bitter ordeal\nPlague Myr poison counter + yawg's proliferate\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Advantage Combos / Synergies"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Draw"},{"insert":"\nYawgmoth's Bargain Combo (two undying creatures and yawgmoth, with deathgreeter to remove the life penalty)\nSkullclamp + Nine-Lives Familiar \nSkullclamp + Yawgmoth's Bargain for extra draw\nBraids, Arisen Nightmare + \"Body Generator\"\nNecropotence + Mindslicer: make everyone discard, then fill your hand for 7 life\nNecropotence + (Reliquary Tower or Thought Vessel): draw as many cards as you want with no hand size, 1 life per card\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Stax / Control"},{"insert":"\n[[Nest of Scarabs]] + Yawg + Any Creature: lets you wipe the whole board by saccing the first creature and chaining -1/-1 counters via insect sacrifice. \nBraids, Cabal Minion + \"Body Generator\": opponents must sac an important permanent every upkeep\nContamination + \"Body Generator\": No one can make anything but black mana\nNecroskitter + (Nest of Scarabs or Grave Pact): kill and steal opponents' creatures\nGrave Pact + (Nine-Lives Cat or any number of disposable bodies) + Yawg: boardwipe by sacrifice \n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Ramp"},{"insert":"\nNine-Lives Familiar + Phyrexian Altar\nYawgmoth's Bargain + (Pawn of Ulamog or Pitiless Plunderer)\nYawgmoth's Bargain + Relic of Legends: This is a weird one, but you can tap Hancock every time he comes in during the loop for one mana per etb. This equates to 2 life for 2 cards and 1 mana of any color.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Other Synergies"},{"insert":"\nSaw In Half + (Gray Merchant or Hoarding Broodlord or Nine-Lives Familiar): double drain, free double tutor, or nine extra sac bodies respectively\nMikaeus + Hoarding Broodloard +(Any Non-Human Creature or Undying Creature) (+ Yawg to force the deaths / etbs): free repeateable tutor\nCabal Coffers + Urborg: let cabal tap for mana normally, let all lands count towards cabal\nConqueror's Flail will let you combo off without fear, you might want to wait until you have it to attempt a win, depending on the table and how many wincon combos you can currently attempt.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Dealing with Life"},{"insert":"\nLife is tough! We spend a lot of it in this deck, but most of our midrange bodies have some way of giving it back to us. You'll likely need the bump from at least one of them at some point, which is a good enough reason to keep at least one in your hand so you don't stall out and ping yourself to death fishing for combos\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Terms to Define"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"\"Yawgmoth's Bargain\""},{"insert":" = Butcher Ghoul + Hancock + Yawg (with Deathgreeter to draw whole deck)\nUndying Creature + Undying Creature + Yawgmoth lets you remove the new counters from the recursed undying creature to let it, un-die, again. This lets you just draw 1 card per 1 life, which equates to [[Yawgmoth's Bargain]], a 6CMC banned card. Neat! Add in a [[Pawn of Ulamog]], and each draw also generates a body that you can sac for one colorless. Add in a [[Deathgreeter]], and you can negate the life loss and draw your whole deck. We only have two undying creatures in this deck to make room for other combos, other Yawg decks generally run five or six for redundancy.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"\"Body Generator\" "},{"insert":"= bitterblossom, bitterbloom bearer, ophiomancer, lord skitter, (Reassembling Skeleton and two mana), (Gravecrawler + Any Zombie and one mana)\nThese cards generate one body a turn, which is integral to many of our advantage combos\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Notable Excludes:"},{"insert":"\nNo fast mana because I can't afford it lol\nNo aristocrat or blood artist effects as mentioned in the initial header.\nTorment of Hailfire and Exsanguinate are dead cards until you have enough mana to win outright, at which point you can probably win other ways. They're good mana sinks for all the mana we make, but we don't need them.\nNo abusing reanimation because that's also a pretty common monoblack theme that gets run into the ground and repeated each game. Personally, I also have an esper deck that focuses on reanimation, so I didn't want something that played so similarly. Small-scale reanimation to get back combo pieces with [[Agadeem's Awakening]].\nThere are only two undying creatures because you only need two for the combo, and relying on just the undying combo can get old. \nNo Karn, No Tevesh Szat, no Bolas' Citadel, no Crypt Ghast: all of these have come in and out of this deck multiple times, but ultimately were cut to smooth out the consistency.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Upgrades:"},{"insert":"\n[[Sheoldred]], [[Imperial Seal]], [[Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx]], [[Deadly Rollick]]\nThese are all cards I don't have and don't want to buy right now. They're all auto-includes in the deck if you have them already.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Older Combos:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"These are combos that used to be in the deck, but have since been taken out. They're still here as a reference if anyone wants to modify this list."},{"insert":"\n[[Karn, the Great Creator]]'s +1 ability can kill artifacts with creature removal or Yawgmoth, a huge weakness of monoblack typically.\n\n"}]}