MTG Salvation

Reki, History of Kamigawa. A very weakish card that I feel like could use some more love. Its always had my eye, but never really seemed worth it....


1. Follow the rules.
2. Banlist: Legacy. Price limit... what price limit?
3. Use this list for ease.
4 So here is the biggest kicker Unless you can come up with an extremely good reason, all non-basic permanents must be Legendary. Using Instants/sorceries are still fine, just a little rider to breed innovation. I'd be willing to lax this a little bit if things stall.
5. More of a sidenote: I love combo/toolbox decks and my group really doesnt care, so dont feel constrained by politics. Basically, everything is fair.

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		Creature-3 3 Reki, the History of Kamigawa	24 Lanz

I'm going to suggest Mox Opals for later if the artifact count can support it. The new legendary rule means playing a second one is like playing a lotus petal that cantrips.

For now adding Dosan the Falling Leaf due to the fact that he helps against control. If this turns into a legendary toolbox, then Sisay or Green Sun's Zenith would help too.

I will start by breaking Rule 4:

4 So here is the biggest kicker Unless you can come up with an extremely good reason, all non-basic permanents must be Legendary. Using Instants/sorceries are still fine, just a little rider to breed innovation. I'd be willing to lax this a little bit if things stall.

I will add 4 Honor-Worn Shaku to the deck for mana acceleration. This card squezes mana out of freshly summoned creatures and even Legendary Enchantments and Artifacts/Equipments. I have good experiences with it in a legendary themed mono-red deck, so in with it!

+2 Day of Destiny

We're already stacking small utility legends. This turns 'em to beef, charges the Shaku, and is fetchable by Sisay.

Adding one Glissa Sunseeker for artifact removal.

EDIT: Not adding Azusa, Lost but Seeking because the legendary land combo with Reki doesn't work, duh.

How about 3x Umezawa's Jitte? Legendary equipment.

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How about 3x Umezawa's Jitte? Legendary equipment.

Sounds like a fine addition, but it will only count if you update the decklist when you suggest it.

Up to you if you want to do so.

Karakas- the best possible land for this deck, it allows us to protect our creatures, draw extra cards, and possibly bounce our opps. cards.

Adding 1 Gaddock Teeg to protect us from big spells. Only one because we can have Sisay fetch him [or if someone wants to bring in Skyship Weatherlight].

I'd say someone bring in Kentaro, the Smiling Cat so we can work in Brothers Yamakazi without having to splash red.

Would two time of need be appropriate? It allows us to search for our turn three utility legends on turn two and adds some consistency.

I added the Jitte.

I'd just like to note that Gaddock Teeg and Day of Destiny are incompatible.

if we get Sisay out, we get the Day of Destiny out first (unless we have need of other Legends), then fetch Gaddock when/if we need some protection against cards like Blasphemous Act. Gaddock is utility at best, DoD has precedence over Gaddock. heck, gaddock has low priority until mid game when players start getting ready to play more expensive spells.
If we added the Kaldra stuff, then Gaddock would have even little priority... if only a legend who bounces itself or one that bounces things to fully play off Reki.

If anyone wants to add something, but has no idea... might I point out: Linvala, Keeper of Silence. Shuts down our opponents mana dorks/utility creatures, and her fat butt puts her out of bolt range.

Wouldn't Glorious Anthem be a better choice than Day of Destiny?

Or should I say, is Day of Destiny needed, if we can maintain card advantage via equipments and legends? 4cc for a +2/+2 is just ok but it conflicts with Gaddock Teeg and being legendary itself you cannot have more than one DoD in play either.

As we're going to be playing with all Legends, why not force our opponents to do so as well? Token decks basically have to scoop on turn 0. Also, with Honor-Worn Shaku, permanents you control have T: Add (1) to your mana pool.

4 X Leyline of Singularity



EDIT: I indeed meant Leyline of Singularity. Fixed.

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As we're going to be playing with all Legends, why not force our opponents to do so as well? Token decks basically have to scoop on turn 0. Also, with Honor-Worn Shaku, permanents you control have T: Add (1) to your mana pool.

4 X Leyline of Anticipation

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Creature 9 3 Reki, the History of Kamigawa 1 Dosan the Falling Leaf 3 Captain Sisay 1 Glissa Sunseeker 1 Gaddock Teeg	Artifact 4 4 Honor-Worn Shaku 3 Umezawa's Jitte 2 Day of Destiny 4 Leyline of Anticipation	Sorcery 2 2 Time of Need Land 24 21 Lanz 3 Karakas

How does anticipation help our plan? Its also not legendary, so there is that as well.

I am pretty sure he meant the other blue ley-line, Leyline of singularity.

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Wouldn't Glorious Anthem be a better choice than Day of Destiny?

Or should I say, is Day of Destiny needed, if we can maintain card advantage via equipments and legends? 4cc for a +2/+2 is just ok but it conflicts with Gaddock Teeg and being legendary itself you cannot have more than one DoD in play either.

I'd run the white weapon over Glorious Anthem. Also the Green Weapon will allow some recursion as Sisay can just search out whatever you put on the bottom. Hua Tuo, Honored Physician might also belong here.

This is already reminding me of when I was running Sisay in EDH. Some ideas: Linvala is amazing, particularly if you can run it along something that turns lands into creatures... Also Elesh Norn + some lands = creatures shenanigans is pretty awesome. (Kamahl will do).

I'm going to go ahead and add a weapon and vote to remove 1 Jitte and 1 Day of Destiny. With Sisay to tutor the need for redundancy of these cards is much lower. I'd also like to point out that adding some earlier ramp might be a good idea. (Nature's Lore?)

adding nature"s lore because ramp allows us to cast more legendary spells.
voting out the leyline because it does not fit with our main card, it makes peranents legendary not spells

well, we are running white, so we should really take advantage of that!
adding 4 Isamaru, Hound of Konda.

I know 4 seems excessive, but if we want to draw cheap cards, and have cheap attackers that we don't mind blocking with. this is our card. we can block with it, KNOWING we'll have another cheap one to play at another point in time. 1 for a 2/2 and we draw a card (most likely).

i also like the idea of adding a rhys, the redeemed, as it creates protectors for our legendary creatures, so that we dont have to block with them and have them die. I'll add this tomorrow if someone else doesn't (10:11am - self note)

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Question- would "World Enchantments" count as being pseudo-legendary? that way, we can swap Leyline of Singularity for Eye of Singularity, without dipping into a third color.
though, yes it inhibits our Honor-Worn Shaku, but it would shut down their non-basic mana base.

I'd recommend Eight-and-a-Half-Tails since he is a legend that could protect other legends. Good o' Reki is fragile enough.

For now, adding 4 Krosan Verge to facilitate in landfetch, as there are so many legends to be considered and I'd rather others have a say before I try to add more.