I'm trying to increase my turn four percentage, but I think I may have to lean on some protection in the form of counters. This is a budget build obviously, and the sideboard is very rough. I would also like to strengthen the mana base with fetches, possibly giving me more options. I believe 17 lands is enough with all the ramp, but I'm kinda sketchy on the percentages given the drawing and search.
You make Pili-Pala blue with Grand Architect (only need to do this once), use Grand Architect's passive to tap Pili-Pala for free, generate 2 mana, use that 2 mana to untap Pili-Pala for 1 mana of any color, rinse and repeat.
You make Pili-Pala blue with Grand Architect (only need to do this once), use Grand Architect's passive to tap Pili-Pala for free, generate 2 mana, use that 2 mana to untap Pili-Pala for 1 mana of any color, rinse and repeat.
I have a deck that gains infinite mana by turn four involving Gilded Lotus, Filigree Sages, and Training Grounds.
2 Filigree Sages
1 Azure Mage
4 Vedalken Engineer
Spells [36]
4 Gilded Lotus
4 Training Grounds
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Serum Visions
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Reshape
1 Banefire
1 Door to Nothingness
2 Muddle the Mixture
2 Dizzy Spell
1 Scepter of Insight
3 Ichor Wellspring
2 Fabricate
17 Island
4 Spell Pierce
4 Repeal
4 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Spellskite
2 Myr Superion
The deck has two win cons, Door to Nothingness and Banefire
I'm trying to increase my turn four percentage, but I think I may have to lean on some protection in the form of counters. This is a budget build obviously, and the sideboard is very rough. I would also like to strengthen the mana base with fetches, possibly giving me more options. I believe 17 lands is enough with all the ramp, but I'm kinda sketchy on the percentages given the drawing and search.
Below is the board I look to achieve.
If your going to be vulnerable to bolt I suggest Grand Architect and pili-pala it requires 2 cards and less mana
I was thinking welding jars to protect the combo. Three cards seems inefficient, except I can tutor two of the pieces to the field.
It's a fun deck, just too slow to be competitive I guess.
I fail to see how the combo you describe is infinite.
The thread for the combo deck is here: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/modern-deck-creation/221245-deck-grand-architect-pili-pala-infinite-combo
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Got it, thanks. Wow, totally missed Grand Architect's ability being passive.