Loaming Cobra [An Extended Deck]

Here’s a deck I’m dying to try out, tentatively nicknames Loaming Cobra. It’s a GBW Rock deck that takes advantage of the synergies between Lotus Cobra, Knight of the Reliquary and Life of the Loam.

With the cycling lands cycling out of extended, it doesn’t have the card drawing power it used to. Which is why I’ve gone an bumped up some of the threats (adding Baneslayer and Ob Nixilis), and an couple of extra extra recursion engines (Goglari Thug + Eternal Witness, Makeshift Mannequin + Eternal Witness, Miren + Gogari Thug, Life from the Loam + Gargoyle Castle]

The deck has a lot of disruption, through Raven’s Crime, Ghost Quarter and Maelstrom Pulse – Ghost Quarter being particularly brutal in this deck.

The one ofs represent a toolbox of solutions you can grab from the graveyard.

The longer the deck stays alive, the more likely you are to win, though the endless land destruction and hand destruction, and the endlessly recurring threats.

Here’s the deck:

[19 Creatures]

4x Lotus Cobra
4x Tarmogoyf
3x Kitchen Finks
4x Knight of the Reliquary
1x Eternal Witness
1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
1x Baneslayer Angel
1x Golgari Thug

[7 Instants]

3x Path to Exile
2x Doom Blade
1x Harrow
1x Makeshift Mannequin

[8 Sorcery]

3x Raven’s Crime
3x Life from the Loam
1x Maelstrom Pulse
1x Worm Harvest

[1 Artifacts]

1x Umezawa’s Jitte

[25 Lands]

4x Marsh Flats
4x Verdant Catacombs
3x Overgrown Tomb
3x Temple Garden
1x Godless Shrine
2x Ghost Quarter
1x Treetop Village
1x Gargoyle Castle
1x Mutavault
2x Forest
1x Swamp
1x Plains
1x Miren, the Moaning Well