Odd Grimus Things

[mtheory]

Character- Grimus Gravorcious

4 JoJo
4 Bindakoo
2 Honor Guard
4 Dark Knight
3 Mountain Giant
2 Ghoul
3 Thought Devourer
3 Sneaky Snyder
4 Cranial Leech
4 Bat Zombie
4 Tortured Soul
4 Breath Stealer
2 Talon Oakthine
2 Territorial Guard

2 Ring of Temporal Acceleration
2 Staff of Bone

[Nosferatu]

Wow, no structures or Spells. How uncommon for a deck. It's also all 1st Edition cards. You may want to look into Reckoning cards, and even Dark Union since your Grimus, for more ideas.

Anyway, I'd cut Talon Oakthine and Terrirotial Guard. Since you aren't contained by loyalty, you can easily find better creatures to replace them.

I'd try to focus your deck a little bit. You have some aggressive cards, some flying cards, and even a combo of sorts with Bindakoo (although you don't have anything to use it with). Since you mostly have removal in creature form, you will probably want that to be the focus. I would choose a path and adjust your deck accordingly.

PS: I like to see Thought Devourer in a deck. It's a great card, but it never gets played.

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I hadn't noticed your deck mTheory...I like it. It's seems to be a good mix of aggro and defense while taking advantage of Grimus' leadership priveleges.

I'm gonna go ahead and jot down some things that have worked for me, mostly ideas, and see what you think of them. I'm going to assume since your deck is entirely core set that it is what you have access to so I won't suggest anything outside of that. I'll also stay along the side of what I think your deck is doing.

Crystal Ball (core set inexpensive rare)- This card is a natural synnergy with Staff of Bone, allowing you to not only see what you're opp is doing, but also be able to discard hards from their deck while drawing 2 cards by a mere creature sacrifice, which is great with all those tokens you have...not to mention Bindakoo reanimating them all!

Where? Well, your other items are essential, so no taking them out. However, maybe you can cut some less vital creatures since it is a little high. Remember that with this card you will gain many advantages like seeing parts of your opp's hand and/or drawing more cards.

Tree Ent (core set common)- Fat defense with 5, can block fliers and unblockable, and true loyalty...tailor made for Grimus.

Where? I like him a tad more than Territorial Guard bc even though the guard has 3 power, it will still abandon you once it takes a point in damage. Tree Ent won't.

Wandering Cleric (core set common)- With 15 creatures in your deck with sacrifice abilities, the Cleric is a crazy garbage-picker getting multiple uses out of those goodies. And with Crystal Ball, you can even sac it just before it would wander. And if you ever draw 2 WCs, then they start propogating each other in and out every third turn while recycling the goods inbetween.

Where? This one is tricky. This might require rotating out some muscle like Mountain Giant, but now that is totally your call if your deck is more control or aggro.

Illusionist (Core set rare[found in Zycon precon too]) At speed 7 I like him a tad more than Breath Stealer because he can freeze enemy Cranials and Snyders in their place and also provide all the power of fully engaging creatures.

Where? As noted, replacing 2 of the Breathstealer, or taking all 4 of them out for other cards too.

Quenavean (core set rare [available in Lady M precon])- She works great with your Honor Guard to prevent all damage that would be done to him the whole turn, meaning you take none either, and good all around anti burn damage too.

Where? You could snip some cards you play 4 of like Bindakoo (since he's Dominance) and Cranial (since you have so much removal already and Cranial still leaves you with a zombie to deal with.

So my version of your deck might look something like...


Grimus Gravorcious
4 Jojo
3 Bindakoo
2 Honor Guard
4 Dark Knight
2 Ghoul
3 Thought Devourer
3 Sneaky Snyder
3 Cranial Leech
4 Bat Zombie
4 Tortured Soul
2 Illusionist
3 Tree-Ent
2 Talon Oakthine (love the quickness on this guy for Grimus!)
3 Wandering Cleric
2 Quenavean

2 Ring of Temporal Acceleration
2 Staff of Bone
1 Crystal Ball

I hope you like some of my ideas. A lot of these concepts have helped me in the past, so I'd like to also hear you think about how this type of thing works in your area. Let me know. And thanks for posting!