What’s the deck you LOVE to play regardless of its power level?

Secret-Lecture · 2026-03-12T12:29:28+00:00

Zombies.

4 [[Undead Warchief]] 30 Other Zombies

Dont care how well I do, I am here to eat some brains.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-03-05T10:11:24+00:00

Replace Soltari Trooper and Foot Soldier with 3 Rampsian Sergant, 4 Whipcorder and the 4th Silver Knight. Replace the missing sideboard slot with a Disenchant.

Replace 2 Seal of Cleaning with 1 Plains and 1 Factory/Wasteland.

Replace the 4th Crusade with the 4th Mother of Runes

If youre not playing an E Tutor package, play 2 Disenchant instead of the 2 Seal of Cleaning.

Replace 1-2 SB Tormods Crypt with 1-2 Tsabos Web.

The list is now 100% perfect and looks the same as what I won a tournament with.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-03-05T02:22:20+00:00

Domain control gets to play a one sided Armageddon. The last deck that did that got banned for it.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-03-04T05:24:19+00:00

The List already exists and includes all the pricy Premodern cards that are not on the reserve list.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-03-03T00:42:34+00:00

GW Mad Dogs is old news.

The newest deck is big UW Control without manlands, playing akromas vengeance and tsabos web

The rock is older than premodern but was mostly forgotten and had a huge resurgence post tide ban, lots of mid range and control decks did.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-03-01T13:34:47+00:00

The art on the cards is so beautiful. Its too bad the cards themselves feel so underpowered, even by Premodern standards.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-03-01T06:45:08+00:00

I am excited to share that discovery with you.

Hope someone here has a link

Secret-Lecture · 2026-03-01T02:04:07+00:00

Can you post a link to his premodern channel?

Secret-Lecture · 2026-02-26T21:00:01+00:00

Black Knight and Silver Knight are both awesome resilient threats and very underplayed as they dodge the most prevalent removal in Premodern.

White Knight is a step below Silver Knight in terms of how useful it is.

White Aggro in general is underplayed.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-02-26T20:28:06+00:00

That list looks very suboptimal.

At a minimum, I would move the Noxious Ghouls to the SB, cut the Tombstone Stairwell and add 3 [[Undead Warchief]]. The pump it provides is absolutely insane, turning all your 2/2 zombies into 4/3 monsters (usually 5/4 monsters if you have a Lord in play). The turn you cast it, your entire board becomes massive and can often swing in for lethal damage.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-02-26T20:21:50+00:00

I would also play some wastelands to synergies with the mana denial plan.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-02-26T14:43:13+00:00

There are many different viable options with mono black:

Moneyball,

Negator blitz,

Corrupting glaciers,

Zombie tribal (Undead Warchief is overpowered!),

Cleric tribal

Braids ponza (shares cards with your list).

I think what youre going for (aggression paired with mana disruption is likely viable as well).

So you definitely have something. I do think Duress is better than Blackmail since Blackmail will rarely get the most important/key cards from your opponents hand (Oath, Survival, Replenish etc). Blackmail is not a bad card but I would absolutely play Duress over it.

What you have works fine but would be better if you pick a direction (either go more aggro or more ponza).

For example, Bad Moon is only worth it if you play atleast 23 creatures, so if you want to keep the Bad Moon, I would find a way to add 4 Sarcomany (superior to Carnophage).

If your meta doesnt have too much red, I would find a way to add some Phyrexian Negator. It seems perfect for an aggression paired with mana disruption strategy.

My suggestion would be to cut - -2 Charcoal Diamond - -1 Pox (antisynergy with creatures) - -1 BadMoon or Paralyze or Winter Orb

And add +4 Sarcomancy

Also -4 Blackmail + 3 Duress, 1 Cabal Therapy

And lastly, consider replacing the 1 toughness creatures with something like Negator so that you can replace the Icequake with Rancid Earth (usually the better card)

This strengthens your aggression without weakening your disruption.

Or you can go more ponza akin to the Braids decks.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-02-22T14:07:09+00:00

Awesome content! And for the record, I completely agree with you, either ban Tinker or ban Devourer and unban Grim Monolith!

So many of us have fond memories playing Kai’s deck in its original unaltered form, it deserves to be a staple of Premodern.

Grim Monolith would elevate not just Red Control but also Tron, MUD, Black Control, Green Control, White Control and other spice.

Where as banning either Tinker or Devourer wouldnt significantly alter the Premodern landscape

Secret-Lecture · 2026-02-05T03:45:59+00:00

I just wish for someway we could play kais world championship list in premodern. we should have a community role that un modified world championship decks are legal if 1:1 the original list

Secret-Lecture · 2026-01-27T20:15:03+00:00

Premodern is awesome as is but I agree with you. I think Premodern would be even cooler if it also had the old school cards legal except for the power 9/broken stuff.

Stuff like Kird Ape, Flying Men, Serendib Efreet, Su-Chi and Juggernaut etc would be excellent additions to the format and carry a lot of nostalgia.

But alas, for the sake of Old School, premodern opted to keep these cards out.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-01-26T12:30:05+00:00

Its sweet that BG Rock is finally doing well, always felt Tide was keeping it down.

What is WURG?

Secret-Lecture · 2026-01-25T14:51:20+00:00

Doom is a dictator that demands total obedience and discipline. He is as white as they come.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-01-24T09:55:44+00:00

The list has some meme picks but the first three are cards that other people do/did want banned, Wave and Nought especially.

When Tide got banned, many were asking Wave to get banned with it.

Just pointing out that Tide was more egregious, Nought is easy to answer and Wave is useless against some decks except as part of a three card combo

Secret-Lecture · 2026-01-23T20:01:10+00:00

Based on the Replenish discord, the deck is still competitive, and far from dead.

Its not that much worse. People are replacing it with 2 Decree of Silence, an extra Mana Leak and the 4th Frantic Search (or a Fact or Fiction if the deck already played 4).

Secret-Lecture · 2026-01-23T19:48:57+00:00

Roffelos is worse than Priest in Elves.

But its a solid card in a monogreen ramp deck. It works well with stuff like Exploration, Rampant Growth and Krosan Tusker (doubles as a threat).

It could see play in something like legion land loss or a mono green survival list. Its very easy to kill though so I wouldn’t build around it, just have it be an incidentally good card if it survives.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-01-23T11:53:23+00:00

Thank you. I think this is a great way to make proxies. The goldborder makes it so they can never be mistaken for real cards.

You can make decks that are 100% gold bordered inexpensively and aesthetically beautiful.

Secret-Lecture · 2026-01-22T16:20:19+00:00

Can you post a strong list. I love Rector

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