Sewers Under Kasprah – Black Drain & Red Backup

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The black drain triggers are mostly on death, as one might expect from a deathy color. Glorifier of the Purge has a sacrifice ability on it for when you just need to get through that last point of damage. Vicious Sweeper has a slightly different kind of on-death trigger, letting you drain when it kills another creature. I am considering a Black/White sacrifice Drain deck as an archetype for the next version of this set. Though Black/Red is the usual sacrifice colors, White often allows you to sacrifice creatures for some benefit, such as giving another creature Protection, etc.

Gnawing Rats lets you create rats, so you have a repeatable Drain with each trigger. With black rats and green frogs (we'll see later), I'm considering Black/Green be a possible tokens strategy. The problem here, I think, is that I also do generate a lot of tokens in White with 1/1 soldiers, and I don't want too many token decks. Depending on how silly or serious I make things, perhaps one of those tokens goes away. It would be interesting to almost color-shift all the archetypes, making tokens the Green/Black strategy....

Anyway, Bloodthirst (oops that's a mechanic name) is an uncommon lifegain (and therefore Drain) payoff for black. Priest of the Purge give all of your creatures an on-death Drain trigger. That would certainly work for a tokens deck, wouldn't it... hmm...

Not too much to say about these red Backup cards, apart from they are all very aggressive. Springing Flailer is a Backup payoff that does not have Backup on itself.

Impatient Purger is an uncommon payoff for the Instants & Sorceries Izzet deck, though as I've mentioned before I think I'll try to come up with something more interesting for that color combo. Purgeball I just think is a really funny card. If your opponent can find a way to block it with five creatures, it will kill itself. Crazed Cleaner is a bit of a sweeper, or makes a headache for your opponent if it goes unblocked. Untamed Rage is a rare Backup payoff. One of the cycles I made throughout this set is a collection of rare payoff enchantments for each new mechanic.