Anyone thought of the modern implications? Pretty sure you can dredge your entire deck with this in play. Dredging a grave troll probably draws 2-3 and its legendary so you use Goryo's vengeance to put it into play on the cheap.
Ummmm... So a lot of these builds are kinda Ramp-midrange and with combo and are UGx soooo... Where's Bring to Light? Finds both combo pieces with three colors, can be cast turn 3 in lotus cobra builds and let's you run one-of hosers in the main to protect your combo or a legit plan B, C, or D
Wargate is legal but it can only get permanents and has a much higher cost. A five mana wargate only gets a two mana permanent. Bring to Light getting spells is huge and you get much better cost efficiency the more colors you dump into bring to light.
Basically you have to cast Wargate for +9 mana to be anywhere as potent as Bring to Light
Bring to Light has to spawn a deck of some sort. At the very least, you can cast Living End or Restore Balance for 3UG and it doesn't have all the deck building constraints to use those cards with cascade. Those cards are still really good at that cost. Pentad Prism jumps out to me as well since it gives you the potential to cast Bring to Light on turn 3 for the full five colors, meaning you can grab any one-of super hoser to the opposing deck or a combo piece for you:
Those are just some of the cards off the top of my head. A lot of those cards aren't what you want in your deck, but sometimes, just as a one-of that's cast at that right moment will just win the game
Ok, as a creature it really tries but fails for one simple thing: Haste
At 3CMC with RR it should had haste. Was this true, then she would easily be included even in modern.
This card with the new Lilliana and a 3 CMC exploit creature. Instant speed get lilliana and an exploit creature, that creature exploits itself, triggers lilliana giving you a 2/2, whatever the exploit effect is, and a flipped lilliana. At instand speed and 4 mana, seems nuts.
Please give me all of your Narsets. Because the moment your opponent taps out to cast this, -2 Narset, then casts treasure cruise or dig through time, you'll be spending an arm and a leg to buy them up again.
Also, i consider a planeswalker who enters the battlefield on turn 4 with possibly 7 loyalty to be fairly well protected to start with.
They've been quite good in my current list. It's built with a lot more dredge than a lot of these lists, using those cards on turn 2 to dredge immediately and following up with Angler(which for my list is miles above mandrils or tasigur). Turn 3 often leaves me with a grave crawler, a vine or 2, and a 5/5. Just need fate reforged to come out on MODO to ramp up testing.
So no sideboard yet since I'm just goldfishing online until the ban takes effect but i have done a few things. I'm using Wild Guess and Tormenting Voice as the 2 mana looter cards because I think they are actually more powerful with dredge. Because of the discard as an additional cost, you get to pitch the dredge card and immediately dredge which gives you quite a bit more speed than using Ideas Unbound.
I'm using Scholar of Athreos as the mana sink for the kill engine. This allows the deck to get around Leyline of Sanctity, and it blocks well enough if you need it.
Misers Griselbrand because mise.
The last thing is Noxious Revival. I think this might be the real key for this deck to stopping some of the hate. Against Surgical Extraction, you can cast this in response and fizzle the extraction, protecting the combo piece. Against Grafdigger's Cage shutting down Unburial Rites, just cast this during your upkeep to put a Necrotic Ooze on top of your deck and cast it to combo off. Against Leyline of the Void, well it's leyline so it sucks. But I'd just have 4 copies of Wear/Tear or Nature's Claim in the board and use the draw spells to find a way to kill leyline. That's the other advantage of the card draw I have because they are mostly card neutral, so you can just use them to dig to beat had when needed. Pithing Needle can shut down Scavaging Ooze or Relic of Progenitus.
So proposed sideboard is probably
2 Noxious Revival
4 Wear/Tear
3 Pithing Needle
4 Thoughtseize
4 Something not sure what else is needed yet.
Ah yep. A case of RTFC. Unfortunate but I guess there still could be things to do with this. The effect is very unique
Basically you have to cast Wargate for +9 mana to be anywhere as potent as Bring to Light
Fracturing Gust
Sigarda, Host of Herons
Kiki Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Through the Breach
Boom // Bust
Catch // Release
Breaking // Entering
Bribery
Sowing Salt
Head Games
Haunting Echoes
Monomania
Time Warp
Those are just some of the cards off the top of my head. A lot of those cards aren't what you want in your deck, but sometimes, just as a one-of that's cast at that right moment will just win the game
Ummmm... Read Chandra again, then read all those cards again, then read Chandra again, then facepalm
This card with the new Lilliana and a 3 CMC exploit creature. Instant speed get lilliana and an exploit creature, that creature exploits itself, triggers lilliana giving you a 2/2, whatever the exploit effect is, and a flipped lilliana. At instand speed and 4 mana, seems nuts.
Please give me all of your Narsets. Because the moment your opponent taps out to cast this, -2 Narset, then casts treasure cruise or dig through time, you'll be spending an arm and a leg to buy them up again.
Also, i consider a planeswalker who enters the battlefield on turn 4 with possibly 7 loyalty to be fairly well protected to start with.
They've been quite good in my current list. It's built with a lot more dredge than a lot of these lists, using those cards on turn 2 to dredge immediately and following up with Angler(which for my list is miles above mandrils or tasigur). Turn 3 often leaves me with a grave crawler, a vine or 2, and a 5/5. Just need fate reforged to come out on MODO to ramp up testing.
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Necrotic Ooze
4 Devoted Druid
3 Morselhoarder
1 Griselbrand
2 Scholar of Athreos
4 Faithless Looting
3 Wild Guess
4 Tormenting Voice
2 Noxious Revival
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
3 Blood Crypt
2 Graven Cairns
1 Overgrown Tomb
2 Stomping Ground
2 Swamp
1 Godless Shrine
3 Mana Confluence
1 Sacred Foundry
So no sideboard yet since I'm just goldfishing online until the ban takes effect but i have done a few things. I'm using Wild Guess and Tormenting Voice as the 2 mana looter cards because I think they are actually more powerful with dredge. Because of the discard as an additional cost, you get to pitch the dredge card and immediately dredge which gives you quite a bit more speed than using Ideas Unbound.
I'm using Scholar of Athreos as the mana sink for the kill engine. This allows the deck to get around Leyline of Sanctity, and it blocks well enough if you need it.
Misers Griselbrand because mise.
The last thing is Noxious Revival. I think this might be the real key for this deck to stopping some of the hate. Against Surgical Extraction, you can cast this in response and fizzle the extraction, protecting the combo piece. Against Grafdigger's Cage shutting down Unburial Rites, just cast this during your upkeep to put a Necrotic Ooze on top of your deck and cast it to combo off. Against Leyline of the Void, well it's leyline so it sucks. But I'd just have 4 copies of Wear/Tear or Nature's Claim in the board and use the draw spells to find a way to kill leyline. That's the other advantage of the card draw I have because they are mostly card neutral, so you can just use them to dig to beat had when needed. Pithing Needle can shut down Scavaging Ooze or Relic of Progenitus.
So proposed sideboard is probably
2 Noxious Revival
4 Wear/Tear
3 Pithing Needle
4 Thoughtseize
4 Something not sure what else is needed yet.
Manabase also not right yet but i'm still tuning