MTG Salvation

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The combo base is Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind + Curiosity or Ophidian Eye to draw the whole deck and deal your opponent 1 damage per draw! Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind can be hard casted, but the deck is much faster with Goryo's Vengeance or Footsteps of the Goryo by using cards like Ideas Unbound, Faithless Looting, and Wild Guess to plow through our deck while shaping our hand and graveyard.

Goryo's Vengeance lets you bring back Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind, put Curiosity on it, and swing with haste to ignite the combo.

Footsteps of the Goryo is a second Goryo's Vengeance minus haste. attach Curiosity and cast a draw spell like Gitaxian Probe to ignite.



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How do you beat a leyline of sanctity? What does your sideboard look like?

Footsteps of the Goryo doesn't give a creature haste btw, so you need a draw spell + Curiosity to kill.

The bad thing about this combo is that many other combos have lower overall casting costs or better curves. E.g.:
Twin: 3 -> 4 or 5
Hive Mind: 6 -> 0
Reanimator: 1 -> 2 and the reanimated creature wins by itself, instead of requiring Curiosity
Niv is 6 -> 1 or 3.

[CARD]
Swans of Bryn Argoll[/CARD] can be casted prior to Niv, and has a secondary combo with Seismic Assault

Quote from rickster_

How do you beat a leyline of sanctity? What does your sideboard look like?

The cool thing about this deck is that it uses the reanimator shell. I haven't come up with a sb yet but i guess I'd just take out the Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and Ethereal Usher and replace them with more standard reanimator cards like Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Griselbrand, thoughtsieze and Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, ect. Or maybe Griselbrand and Fury of the Horde and follow more of a glass cannon griselbrand build since I have a lot of red cards.

Roughly something like this

Quote from izzetmage

Footsteps of the Goryo doesn't give a creature haste btw, so you need a draw spell + Curiosity to kill.

The bad thing about this combo is that many other combos have lower overall casting costs or better curves. E.g.:
Twin: 3 -> 4 or 5
Hive Mind: 6 -> 0
Reanimator: 1 -> 2 and the reanimated creature wins by itself, instead of requiring Curiosity
Niv is 6 -> 1 or 3.

[CARD]
Swans of Bryn Argoll[/CARD] can be casted prior to Niv, and has a secondary combo with Seismic Assault

Yeah I know, that's why I have Gitaxian Probe to ideally do that the same turn. The positive difference between this deck and the standard reanimator deck is that with reanimator you have to hold Emrakul, the Aeons Torn and a discard spell until you draw a Goryo's Vengeance to do it all together. With this deck, you just toss Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind asap with a draw/discard spell and reanimate him whenever you draw Goryo and Curiosity. The two combos basically require the same amount of cards at the end of the day, just different ways of doing it. The Footsteps of the Goryo is also cheaper to cast than the Makeshift Mannequin that most reanimator decks run because you don't necessarily need to attack with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind to win.

Idk about the swans combo, I feel like it would make the deck too cluttered.

You can bin Griselbrand and reanimate him any time, he has no shuffle-into-library clause.