Arcum is redundant and slow.
Shackles seems redundant and worse than Legacy's Allure
Having more than one counterspell is redundant too. And don't forget to cut sol ring, mox opal, etc....because they're redundant. As you can see, calling something redundant is not a valid argument.
Arcum has been a star in my urza deck. He'll cheat in paradox at instant speed unless he's dealt with, and any card that has to be dealt with is a good card.
Not sure which is better between legacy's allure and shackles. But if there's a creature shutting you down or threatening to combo off, there's plenty of cards that will tutor for shackles and maybe one or two that will fetch the allure. And even if I do find the allure I'll probably have to wait a while before I can use it.
Hey has anyone playtested howling mine in this deck? I find the interaction between it an Urza rather amusing.
I think that there are better draw effects available to the deck? And if Urza were to somehow not stay in play, than the Mine does benefit the table. Not the worst thing I suppose, but the fact that it helps the table when Urza ISN'T in play seems like a strike against the card, in my mind.
Yeah, I'm of the opinion that Shackles is better than the Allure. Being a repeatable effect is the bee's knees (where did this expression even come from??) and it helps increase the Artifact density in the deck. It's tutorable via the majority of the tutors in the deck and it can be cast and activated the turn it comes into play, more often than not. I like Shackles and have always liked Shackles and will continue to run it in any mono-Blue deck.
I don’t want my opponents drawing extra cards!!!! I have Slivers in my meta. Noooo.
Found holes for Invoke Prejudice and Forcefield. Works better actually.
The sky ship is way to slow to me and just not reliable.
Echo of Eons is really good for me as I can not afford a timetwister.
Need to pick up trinisphere and transmute artifact. Not cheap but attainable.
Power artifact is still needed in my opinion as it’s another infinite combo.
Dispel and trickbind/stifle needs to be considered as I have been seeing it do some work in games.
I like the futuresight combo buts a lot of cards to assemble. Adding a spot a for the sculptor is hard.
Thoughts on null rod?
Yeah, Echo of Eons is a godsend to budget cEDH players. I'm so glad they printed one. Now, they just need a functional Transmute Artifact replacement.
I think you're underestimating the Future Sight combos. All of the pieces are individually good and Future Sight + Engine is really awesome too. I'm now at the point where I'm beginning to consider Future Sight as a staple card (for me).
I can't wait for my Urza to get here!
The Functional Transumute was already printed it is Reshape the power level is very different but that is what Reshape is.
The Functional Transumute was already printed it is Reshape the power level is very different but that is what Reshape is.