Why no Isochron Scepter+ Dramatic Reversal combo? You have the rocks and dorks to support it.Īnd if you're playing Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, why not play Basalt Monolith? â€“ Amareth's Beautiful Baubles 1 year ago Will mostly likely try Idyllic Tutor some more but I'll have to find space for it first. Once again, thanks for the feedback! I'll certainly add in Intuition and Long-Term Plans, as well as test out Basalt Monolith to see how that goes.

It could likely go into the list but I need to test it more to make a decision tbh.įor Stony Silence effects that's exactly why we have the Thrasios, Triton Hero / Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy line as our secondary wincon. Idyllic Tutor I've been on the fence about here. The reason I include Muddle the Mixture is because it's also a budget counter as well. I'm personally not a huge fan of cards like Drift of Phantasms which only exist for their Transmute effect. I actually forgot about Long-Term Plans as well which is funny since I actually like it a lot in general, so thanks for reminding me about it! Thought Lash and Paradigm Shift are also dead cards in the same fashion since their only purpose would be to pair with Oracle. It's definitely a combo piece and an excellent one at that, but by itself it just sits in our hand if we draw it. When it comes to Thassa's Oracle the reason I say it's a dead card is because it does nothing on its own. I'd most likely swap it out for Verity Circle actually since currently my meta runs a lot of dorks hence its inclusion. It's great when it works and awful when it doesn't, but I'll probably sideboard it for matchups where I'm against decks it gets a lot of value from. Runic Armasaur I have a love/hate relationship with. Honestly the reason I didn't take Intuition is because I forgot about it lmao, I'm so used to playing Rest in Peace decks that I usually don't think about it. I feel like having Bloom Tender and Faeburrow Elder is enough when it comes to the untap combos. I didn't include Incubation Druid since it's one of the weakest dorks IMO and takes too much to get set up in comparison with the other two.

Also it gets shut down by Null Rod effects which is part of the reason I have Thrasios as the deck's main backup, since he isn't affected by them. While Ballista is hit by artifact tutors, chances are if I have those tutors I'm going to be aiming for our Sensei's Divining Top line instead. The main reason I haven't included it is because if I have infinite mana available and a tutor, I'm going to be fetching Thrasios, Triton Hero anyways.

Walking Ballista is something that I've been on and off about. I've actually never thought of that synergy with Basalt Monolith! While I'm generally not a fan of Basalt due to how slow it is, I'm gonna add it to my list of things to test so I can see how well it fits into the deck. Unlike a commander such as Urza, Lord High Artificer we can't use Isochron Scepter as a rock, and Dramatic Reversal doesn't help dorks ramp when they just came into play. I decided not to run Dramatic Scepter as they tend to be fairly dead cards on their own in this list. Â€“ Amareth's Beautiful Baubles 1 year ago

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