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Daily Digest: Bloodghast’s Revenge

Ever since its resurgence at Grand Prix New Jersey, Standstill has been fighting hard to come out of irrelevance. Gerry examines its latest attempt in today’s Daily Digest!

Similar to the decks that Glenn Jones was working on before he went to Wizards of the Coast, today’s deck features a card drawing engine rarely seen in Legacy — Standstill!

In order to make sure the Standstills work in his favor, Klobster runs a Faithless Looting package featuring multiple Bloodghasts. Innocent Blood works well with both of them, as it’s cheap removal that helps keep the board clear for Standstill, and it’s basically one-sided when you have a Bloodghast. Dack Fayden is another great card when you’ve got a bunch of Bloodghasts, but it can also sift through dead removal against creatureless decks.

I’m a little surprised not to see any Cabal Therapy in the 75, but maybe they’re not worth it without Gitaxian Probe. There’s a singleton Entomb, but I could easily see having access to more of those, especially since Reanimate plus Keranos, God of Storms is pretty cute, and it even gets around Containment Priest!