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Grim Tidings #30 - 5C Proliferate Decklist

No more waiting. Here’s my decklist at last: 91 Creature/Equivalents 1 Academy Rector 1 Avenger en-Dal 1 Kazandu Blademaster 1 Meadowboon 1 Mother of Runes 1 Phantom Flock 1 Shinewend 1 Sun Titan 1 Transcendent Master 1 Wall of Omens 4 Enclave Cryptologist 4 Sphinx of the Magosi 4 Thrumming Bird 1 Bribery 1 Bringer of the Blue Dawn 1 Helium Squirter 1 Lighthouse Chronologist 1 Master Transmuter 1 Mulldrifter 1 Myojin of the Seeing Wind 1 Sage of Fables 1 Sphinx of Lost Truths 1 Animate Dead 1 Carnifex Demon 1 Dusk Urchins 1 Guul Draz Assassin 1 Mirri, the Cursed 1 Necroskitter 1 Skeleton Ship 1 Skinrender 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon 1 Spirit Monger 1 Vorosh the Hunter 1 Vulturous Zombie 1 Witch Maw Nephilim 1 Apocalypse Hydra 1 Kulrath Knight 1 Lightning Reaver 1 Lord of Shatterskull Pass 1 Rakavolver 1 Spitting Hydra 1 Stigma Lasher 1 Taurean Mauler 1 Avenger of Zendikar 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Bloom Tender 1 Cytoplast Root-kin 1 Eternal Witness 1 Fangren Firstborn 1 Fauna Shaman 1 F

Fetchlands: From a Budget Tool Perspective

Most everyone understands that when it comes to eternal formats the original Dual Lands are about the best investment you can make. Which ones you get first, and how many repeaters you want really is a function of what decks you want to play. I really feel that you can't go wrong with having at least one copy of each. The Ravnica Shocklands play an acceptable role as cheap substitutes, while you are filling in your collection of originals. At some point in your collecting days, you will need to turn your attention to the power of fetchlands, and here is why. Lets say you luck up and find a Bayou on the street, so you decide to begin turning your Legacy Mono Black Control list into Eva Green. That Bayou is a great start, but is only going to show up in your opening hand about 12% of the time. Not Bad, but not very consistent to say the least, so you want more. Naturally you decide to bust your hump on you paper route and in no time you have saved up the $50 needed to get a Bayou a