I have done several wallish ahrimane decks in the past that featured heavy amounts of permanents and ousted very slowly through attrition. Now I wanted to try something different, so I made a toolbox leaning towards bleeding, but still with enough intercept and combat to keep people guessing. I cut heavily in the amount of permanents from my typical ahrimane decks to speed the deck up, and instead put lot more transient bleed, stealth, and intercept.
This deck especially gets lot of use out of the awesome versatility of Swiftness of the Stag. As a note, this is my first Ahrimane deck that uses presence in any notable capacity. Pool gain comes from dolls + perfectionists, as well as abuse of church of st. blaise with all the various powerbases that use counters, for example can get 3 pool every 2 turns from Chicago with minimum risk with the church, or keep Barranquilla going forever.
Combat is mostly aimed for survivability, though there is enough crows and presses there to bin people when the opportunity shows up, as well.
Crypt: (12)
4x Muricia(G4)
3x Gentha Shale(G4)
3x Sahana(G4)
2x Effie Lowery(G4)
Library: (90)
Master: (15)
4x Blood Doll
4x Perfectionist
1x Church of the Order of St. Blaise
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Barranquilla
1x Powerbase: Chicago
1x Powerbase: Washington, D.C.
1x The Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper
1x WMRH Talk Radio
Action: (17)
6x Deep Song
4x Entrancement
3x Heart of the City
3x Sanguine Instruction
1x Army of Rats
Combat: (26)
10x Carrion Crows
8x Aid From Bats
2x Canine Horde
3x Leapfrog
3x Staredown
Combat/Action Modifier: (14)
14x Swiftness of the Stag
Reaction: (18)
8x Speak with Spirits
6x Cats' Guidance
4x Ears of the Hare
EDIT: I tested the deck in a game, and found out it had too many actions and not enough combat, so I changed it some now, taking out the legals, squirrels, and moles, and adding some aid from bats and couple more crows and doubling the number of deep songs, also added couple intercept locations so I can give my grandprey intercept if my 1 stealth bleeds get bounced. I also took out the flesh bonds and put in one more of each leapfrog and staredown instead. Overall this took out about all blood costing cards from the deck, so I should be able to bloat with dolls much more as well.
EDIT2: After some more tinkering I took out 2 deep songs, 1 army of rats, 1 sanguine, and put in 4 entrancements instead. There is usually at least Carlton or Mylan in about every table so there should be targets for them.
Muricia's Zoo
