Life/Death board control

[AlexFromOmaha]

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Blank spots are three death pendulums and two forest scorpions.

The deck works brilliantly when it works.  Stacked boneyards and empathic bonds, combined with poisoned creatures, ramp up to a deck that has me gaining 30+ life per turn, while my opponent's creatures don't get to stay out long.

...that's when it works.  My problem is that it's absurdly inconsistent.  About half the time, I run into a problem, and it's not like it's always the same problem.  I end up with creature issues, defense issues, quanta issues, lack of combo cards, you name it.  I'm out of ideas for tweaking it.  Any suggestions?

EDIT: Offense generally comes from those creatures and early applications of poison.  It's not the skeletons that kill in the end, since many decks have shields to stop them.

[deathalo44]

By somehow lessening the amount of cards, your deck will be less unpredictable. Remove heals, some pillars, remove viruses and trade in pendulums for towers is my suggestion. Hope it helps

[kev]

By somehow lessening the amount of cards, your deck will be less unpredictable.

Agreed.  Here's a possibility:

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