Aezuriel I have been looking at making a UR Nexus deck as well. Instead of Karns ive been using Chandra, Torch of Defiance. I do like the idea of Manalith however with the amount of Abrades that people are making those less viable. I do feel like you are on to something. However i feel like Sunbird's invocation is more a Win more card. And I feel those should probably just be Banefires.
Thanks for the addition, Im not sold on the Sarkhan personally i think o would rather it be something else like a banefire, i also feel the same about doublecast. But it if it works for you awesome.
I have been meaning to try out antcipate just havnt pulled the trigger because i dont own foils of it yet. I Will agree that you want card selection over card advantage for sure.
I cant get behind not having dissallows though. Even though i do like the syncopates.
So i feel like this deck does have potential, but you may want to lower the curve some. There are two other 1 drop Cats of which i only like the Leonin Vanguard. I also see the potential of the Ajani's Pridemate but i dont feel you have enough lifegain to make him worth it. If you wanted to play the Soul Sister enchanment that would change my mind on it. I also dont know how quickly you can get the city's blessing in this deck.
I have yet to try out a artifact heavy build of the deck yet so i havnt tried Karn,Metallurgic summoning has been okay for me but not great.
While you say Jaya is bad walker, you havnt played with her. She seems worse on the surface then what she is actually doing for you. Filtwring your draws is huge. Or when i have been able to play her make mana and then play sweltering suns the same turn has been great.
Saheeli is out of the board for my current list and she does a lot of work for me.
As for the Locust God, I did play him originally over the Baral in my deck. But with the vast amounts of Chainwhirler i was seeing i took him out of the deck. When you play against the green decks and the non-chainwhirler decks he is great though.
While Dynavolt tower is great and a pet card of mine, With Red being such a huge part of the meta Abrade is everywhere which makes it harder to play in this meta.
I saw the set up, I just personally am not a fan of it. It is too many pieces for me honestly. But if it works for you that is awesome. If we are all able to work on the deck to make it more viable then i am happy about that.
I personally stay away from Chandra in any deck that plays counterspells. I do agree that Search can replace mirari in almost every instance. Gearhulks have been very good everytime i play it and like d90 said you want to maximize the instants that you can. Temporal sundering was in my list for a short while but i quickly cut it because it was underwhelming most of the time.
I will disagree that Jaya is not a good planeswalker as my experiences with her have been good. Very rarely does she not help do what i want.
I have a feeling we will want Magma spray even more so with zombies coming back. With the rise of that deck we will want it a lot.
Though your deck does show a lot of promise. If i owned Karns i would probably play them in my list as well.
Thanks for your interest I havn't had a chance lately to update but here is my most recent list. This Was what I played at GP Pitt and went 5-3 on day 1 My losses were UB Midrange and 2 RB decks. The only one that 2-0'd me was UB. The 2 RB decks basically came down to me mullinging to 5 in game 3
So I took some of your tech for my sideboard plan in my UR control deck i played at GP Pitt, Changing into the midrange after playing game one worked quite well. I only played the Saheelis and seige gangs, but i also had combustible gearhulks which were great. In all matches that i didnt get 0-2ed in (2 all weekend) it felt great.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/18/18412105/magic-the-gathering-war-of-the-spark-planeswalker-death?utm_campaign=polygon&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&fbclid=IwAR2Zk94V12Qaf6lWi_e2-YVkaQW1pychjL2k4CGmoe6TuaTxne_gqlt8AAU
It appears that the Saheeli deck is the one with the most value. But i could be wrong.
I have been meaning to try out antcipate just havnt pulled the trigger because i dont own foils of it yet. I Will agree that you want card selection over card advantage for sure.
I cant get behind not having dissallows though. Even though i do like the syncopates.
While you say Jaya is bad walker, you havnt played with her. She seems worse on the surface then what she is actually doing for you. Filtwring your draws is huge. Or when i have been able to play her make mana and then play sweltering suns the same turn has been great.
Saheeli is out of the board for my current list and she does a lot of work for me.
As for the Locust God, I did play him originally over the Baral in my deck. But with the vast amounts of Chainwhirler i was seeing i took him out of the deck. When you play against the green decks and the non-chainwhirler decks he is great though.
I will disagree that Jaya is not a good planeswalker as my experiences with her have been good. Very rarely does she not help do what i want.
I have a feeling we will want Magma spray even more so with zombies coming back. With the rise of that deck we will want it a lot.
Though your deck does show a lot of promise. If i owned Karns i would probably play them in my list as well.
2 Baral, Chief of Compliance
3 Torrential Gearhulk
Planeswalkers (1)
1 Jaya Ballard
Spells (26)
3 Magma Spray
3 Abrade
2 Essence Scatter
4 Harnessed Lightning
1 Negate
4 Disallow
1 Fight with Fire
2 Sweltering Suns
4 Glimmer of Genius
2 Hour of Devastation
2 Search for Azcanta
Lands (26)
4 Aether Hub
1 Arch of Orazca
2 Field of Ruin
1 Ipnu Rivulet
6 Mountain
4 Spirebluff Canal
4 Sulfur Falls
2 Chandra's Defeat
2 Negate
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
1 Dynavolt Tower
2 Saheeli Rai
1 Metallurgic Summonings
2 Siege-Gang Commander
2 Combustible Gearhulk
1 Commit // Memory