MTG Salvation

Hey all, I am not really an active poster on these forums (usually I lurk) but I wanted to bring up a collection of cards that I am interested in brewing with, because I haven't seen them put together in this way yet. Please keep in mind, I am not a strong deck builder, so this may not lead to anything of value. These are the cards I'm interested in:

• Ichor Wellspring
  
• Mycosynth Wellspring
  
• Perilous Research
  
• Metallic Rebuke
  

The wellsprings + perilous research would allow for a strong card advantage engine, while Mycosynth Wellspring would help you play multiple colors. With the printing of Metallic Rebuke (and Improvise in general), the wellsprings could be used to generate mana. Use of other artifacts / affinity creatures / removal in other colors could lead to an interesting control deck. Anyone think this could be a good idea? I'm looking for input. Thanks!

I like the idea, although I don't know if Mycosynth Wellspring is good enough. It's still card advantage + color fixing and deck thinning though, so it might work. We'll have to test Metallic Rebuke to see if at the very worst it's basically a Mana Leak, as being a 3CMC soft counter it's not the best worst case scenario. Blue also opens up Gearseeker Serpent and Bastion Inventor as finishers.

Red offers the Lightning Bolt + Galvanic Blast combo which deals with anything up to Gurmag Angler, on top of Kuldotha Rebirth which destroys a Wellspring in the process while generating three bodies, which is a lot of card advantage for such a cheap cost. Plus you can never go really wrong with a counterburn deck, do you?

Finally, a third color could be considered thanks to Mycosynth, but it shouldn't be a main color. Something like Black for Bleak Coven Vampires and some Flashback cost + sideboard options should suffice.

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I like the idea, although I don't know if Mycosynth Wellspring is good enough. It's still card advantage + color fixing and deck thinning though, so it might work. We'll have to test Metallic Rebuke to see if at the very worst it's basically a Mana Leak, as being a 3CMC soft counter it's not the best worst case scenario. Blue also opens up Gearseeker Serpent and Bastion Inventor as finishers.

Red offers the Lightning Bolt + Galvanic Blast combo which deals with anything up to Gurmag Angler, on top of Kuldotha Rebirth which destroys a Wellspring in the process while generating three bodies, which is a lot of card advantage for such a cheap cost. Plus you can never go really wrong with a counterburn deck, do you?

Finally, a third color could be considered thanks to Mycosynth, but it shouldn't be a main color. Something like Black for Bleak Coven Vampires and some Flashback cost + sideboard options should suffice.

Thanks for the ideas, Zephyr! I guess you're right about Metallic Rebuke, we have to make sure the critical mass of artifacts is enough to make it worth it. Luckily, I think with the artifact lands it can work. I also planned on red for Galvanic Blast.

The main reason Mycosynth was in the deck is because I wanted to get some value out of sacrificing permanents to Perilous Research. Are there any better options for that? Also, if we start sacrificing artifacts for both Perilous Research and Kuldotha Rebirth, is that enough to get green in it for Fangren Marauder?

I think Marauder is too high of a cost, and at that point we're basically a worse Tron decks.

Also don't count Artifact Lands towards Rebuke as tapping them is the same as paying regular mana. A few copies of Pentad Prism to help with the fixing and the double U and double B of Serpent and Vampires and tap for Improvise could help, and you can latter feed it to Rebirth or Research when it exhausts its use.

Right, the artifact lands would be purely for enabling metalcraft. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I said that in my last post. Good call on Pentad Prism though, it sounds like a strong addition. Since I'm not a very good deck builder, would you have any ideas for a brew that we could try putting together? Anything I came up with wouldn't be very good but I'm definitely willing to try a version of it!

This is a very rough draft, and definitely needs some tweaking: