Hello all! While updating a few forums I'm going to go ahead and shoot this deck out here. This is a farily casual 5-color Cromat deck, built to ramp up & wheel it's way to a huge Villainous Wealth.
The core of this deck came from my Karona, False God thematic deck (last decklist), which had mass basic lands + fetches, so it could use some random hate cards like ruination/back to basics/blood moon. While I loved that deck and will always retain the 12(ish) cards it took to make the thematic decree/phage win-cons work, the major weakness was that all of those win-cons took insane amounts of mana and were pretty bad.
So I took an idea from one of my other decks - a Crosis, the Purger deck that's primary win-con is Mnemonic Betrayal (decklist here). The deck just focuses on making land-falls and twister-looping away until it has enough mana and an opponent has a thicccccc gravey-yard for a fun mnemonic betrayal. The biggest issue with that deck although is that it's pretty abysmal to play against and tends to end games with gear-hulk-beat-downs long before mnemonic betrayal becomes relevant.
So here we are - no gear-hulk-beat-downs, more twister effects, more ramp, and another singular card win-condition in Villainous Wealth;
The main benefit of using mass basics is a second turnabout in early harvest, which helps make for the gratuitous amounts of mana the deck wants. I had considered a high tide+bubbling muck+prismatic omen approach, but I'm pretty sure going down that road I would end up with just another storm deck.
Yes, I am running snow-covered lands just for into the north, but I refuse to run three visits since I'm very narcissistic and can't handle a single white-boarder card in the deck.
Since I do play this at a semi-casual table, I'm choosing to not include notion thief or narset. I also tend to replace the sol ring in this deck with a chromatic lantern at one specific table that house-bans fast mana.
As a somewhat glass-cannon win-condition being that the deck has villainous wealth or cromat/sun titan beat-downs to actually win, there are multiple ways of shuffling the graveyard back in, but nothing to return a card from exile. Something like that may need to be considered.
Anyways - any ideas comments or feedback are welcome!
The core of this deck came from my Karona, False God thematic deck (last decklist), which had mass basic lands + fetches, so it could use some random hate cards like ruination/back to basics/blood moon. While I loved that deck and will always retain the 12(ish) cards it took to make the thematic decree/phage win-cons work, the major weakness was that all of those win-cons took insane amounts of mana and were pretty bad.
So I took an idea from one of my other decks - a Crosis, the Purger deck that's primary win-con is Mnemonic Betrayal (decklist here). The deck just focuses on making land-falls and twister-looping away until it has enough mana and an opponent has a thicccccc gravey-yard for a fun mnemonic betrayal. The biggest issue with that deck although is that it's pretty abysmal to play against and tends to end games with gear-hulk-beat-downs long before mnemonic betrayal becomes relevant.
So here we are - no gear-hulk-beat-downs, more twister effects, more ramp, and another singular card win-condition in Villainous Wealth;
1x Cromat
Creature (9)
1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
1x Birds of Paradise
1x Eternal Witness
1x Faeburrow Elder
1x Gilded Drake
1x Qasali Pridemage
1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
1x Snapcaster Mage
1x Sun Titan
Instant (11)
1x Cyclonic Rift
1x Early Harvest
1x Emergency Powers
1x Enlightened Tutor
1x Entomb
1x Fire Covenant
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Sphinx's Revelation
1x Stroke of Genius
1x Turnabout
1x Vampiric Tutor
Sorcery (27)
1x Boundless Realms
1x Cultivate
1x Damnation
1x Day of Judgment
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Devastation Tide
1x Echo of Eons
1x Explosive Vegetation
1x Farseek
1x Finale of Revelation
1x Hull Breach
1x Into the North
1x Kodama's Reach
1x Nature's Lore
1x Rampant Growth
1x Reanimate
1x Reforge the Soul
1x Regrowth
1x Ruination
1x Supreme Verdict
1x Time Spiral
1x Toxic Deluge
1x Villainous Wealth
1x Wheel of Fortune
1x Windfall
1x Wrath of God
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Crucible of Worlds
1x Sol Ring
Enchantment (10)
1x Back to Basics
1x Blood Moon
1x Burgeoning
1x Exploration
1x Mirari's Wake
1x Mystic Remora
1x Rhystic Study
1x Smothering Tithe
1x Telepathy
1x Treachery
Land (40)
1x Arid Mesa
1x Bloodstained Mire
1x Evolving Wilds
1x Fabled Passage
1x Flooded Strand
1x Marsh Flats
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Polluted Delta
1x Prismatic Vista
1x Scalding Tarn
8x Snow-Covered Forest
6x Snow-Covered Island
4x Snow-Covered Mountain
4x Snow-Covered Plains
4x Snow-Covered Swamp
1x Terramorphic Expanse
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Windswept Heath
1x Wooded Foothills
If you would like to playtest this, click here!
A few notes and thoughts;
The main benefit of using mass basics is a second turnabout in early harvest, which helps make for the gratuitous amounts of mana the deck wants. I had considered a high tide+bubbling muck+prismatic omen approach, but I'm pretty sure going down that road I would end up with just another storm deck.
Yes, I am running snow-covered lands just for into the north, but I refuse to run three visits since I'm very narcissistic and can't handle a single white-boarder card in the deck.
Since I do play this at a semi-casual table, I'm choosing to not include notion thief or narset. I also tend to replace the sol ring in this deck with a chromatic lantern at one specific table that house-bans fast mana.
As a somewhat glass-cannon win-condition being that the deck has villainous wealth or cromat/sun titan beat-downs to actually win, there are multiple ways of shuffling the graveyard back in, but nothing to return a card from exile. Something like that may need to be considered.
Anyways - any ideas comments or feedback are welcome!
Links to my most current deck lists;
Primary EDH; Rakka Mar Token Perfection, Crosis Mnemonic Betrayal, Cromat Villainous, Judith Gravestorm, Rakdos Empty Storm, Exava Artifacts, Bant Trash, & Fumiko Voltron!
EDH kept at home; Ruzzian Isset & Rakdos LoR!
EDH (nostalgic/pimp/retired) in storage;
Latulla Burns, Akroma Smash, Jeska Voltron, Rakdos Storm, Bladewing Darghans, Lyzolda Worldgorger, Xantcha Steals your Heart, Jori Storm, Wydwen Permission, Gwendlyn Paradox, Jeleva Warps, & Sigarda Brick!
Legacy Showanimator and High Tide!