What do you mean by afford standard? Are you playing aggro/control/midrange? if you get an aggro deck it will be way cheaper or stick to mono-colored. A midrange or control will cost you serious cash if you aren't careful. 3-color decks will cost way more just because of the manabase. Also do want a Tier 1 build or Tier 2? Those should help figure out where the costs should be.
If I'm not misunderstanding your steps, how are you playing 2 lands on T3? I get to 6 Mana on 3 - T1 land and Elf, T2 Land and Blood Sun (lave the turn with 3 mana) T3 Lotus Field, so land, land, elf, Lotus Field - 6 mana, which is still great on T3. Play Kiora, minus her, drop a giant monster and draw a card. then you've got 10 mana on 4. I feel like that might get us something.
Edit: I feel like the new Dragon Legend is exactly what you want to ramp into here, so T3 (christmas land perhaps) Kiora, Samut, Tyrant Smasher, t4 Hasty 7/7 flying dragon with buit-in 1 sided Wrath. Seems like fun. Sure, it's a little glass-cannon ish but no risk - no reward right?
Your right, I made a mistake there. So this is what it should be.
T3 Alternative: Lotus Field so should have 6 mana. Play Nissa, Who Shakes the World but I wonder if this is a dangerous play since Land should no longer have hexproof.
well there is a chance of wizard tribal in standard.
Wizard tribal can already be built without this. It's just not as consistent as we would like it to be, granted deck can be really dangerous with Dreadhorde Arcanist
Curve should be fairly low - 12 1 drop creatures, hopefully should be more than enough, granted I rarely think we hit the ideal Play Sephara on T3 play.
But wouldn't you agree that Spectral Sailor is better than Rustwing Falcon?
Flash ist still a pretty good upside when you play instants especially when you have some lords out it can become a pretty good surpise blocker and the mana sink is still a nice bonus even though we might not use it that often.
I agree that the Pirate is better than the bird. With the amount of Flying buffs in the deck, you can flash in this guy as a 3/3 fairly often, which is a decent blocker, as well as get a surprise Sephara due to the flash.
Doubt it, I really doubt it comes in as a 3/3 as often. Overall, I think it's irrelevant since rotation is in on the way. I also think it's way too gimmicky and is not going to beat MonoR or esper or superfriends. We've seen other discounted effects on cards before and sometimes they are great Ghalta, Primal Hunger and sometimes they aren't so great Toorgar, Famine Incarnate
Playing a lot more 1 mana flyers into this fattie isnt the worst idea in a deck that might protect this with counterspells.
It easily wins the game, when its not killed immediatly (and your small flyers are indestructible too).
So this might very well be a thing for a deck thats mainly blue and splashes white (bunch of cards in White/blue that produce flying tokens, which also goes well with this).
----
Giant lifelink flyers tend to win the game pretty easily if they are not bombarded by removal.
The ultimate troll move is to play this turn 1 with 4 Ornithopter
well that play would work in modern if you had all 4 in hand you would still need 3 more mana and hope the board isn't swept.
In standard there isn't that many 1 mana flyers in blue and the one that is rotates in October. The ones in white aren't super great either. Radiant Destiny is rotating as well....
There is also Rally of Wings but we need a lot of mana for this, roughly 5 mana + 4 flyers to pull off a victory in the same turn?
But wouldn't you agree that Spectral Sailor is better than Rustwing Falcon?
Flash ist still a pretty good upside when you play instants especially when you have some lords out it can become a pretty good surpise blocker and the mana sink is still a nice bonus even though we might not use it that often.
If your a Curious Obsession deck, then yea. Granted your better off just being MonoU or merfolk if you want to go down that road.
Spectral Sailor sounds great on paper but it just seems to come off as mystic archaeologist I don't think we need mana sinks at all in this deck, but it looks like you have gone down the Curious Obsession road. I'm out on stuff like Spark Double and you don't need all 4 copies of Sephara. Syncopate I'm not sure about, sounds more like a waste of mana than an actual tempo solution as there are way better counter-spells we can use.
I'm a bit skeptical of blood sun Opponent would just remove enchantment
You can't respond to a land play. It's not a spell. They'd have to pre-emptively remove your Blood Sun when they had priority, because if you have priority on your turn with an empty stack and blood sun on board, and try to play Lotus Field ... you'll get Lotus Field to battlefield, no sacs and untapped, without your opponent getting any opportunity to stop it.
Assuming we actually have Lotus Field in hand at that time...
Your right, I made a mistake there. So this is what it should be.
T1 Stomping Ground + Llanowar Elf
T2 Land + Blood Sun
T3 Lotus Field so should have 6 mana. Play Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner, then untap Lotus Field have 6 mana
T3 Alternative: Lotus Field so should have 6 mana. Play Nissa, Who Shakes the World but I wonder if this is a dangerous play since Land should no longer have hexproof.
Have no idea about the dragon legend. Could play Carnage Tyrant or maybe go Naya and play Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner.
Still I don't think the consistency is there. Looks great when it hits though.
Wizard tribal can already be built without this. It's just not as consistent as we would like it to be, granted deck can be really dangerous with Dreadhorde Arcanist
4 Siren Stormtamer
4 Healer's Hawk
4 Faerie Miscreant
4 Empyrean Eagle
3 Venerated Loxodon
2 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
3 Sephara, Sky's blade
Planeswalkers (3)
3 Dovin, Grand Arbiter
Land (22)
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Glacial Fortress
7 Plains
7 Island
3 Favorable Winds
2 Winged Words
2 Spell Pierce
2 Quench
1 Rally of Wings
1 Unbreakable Formation
2 Negate
3 Kasmina's Transmutation
3 Dive Down
2 Cerulean Drake
2 Remorseful Cleric
1 Entrancing Melody
2 Dovin, hand of Control
Curve should be fairly low - 12 1 drop creatures, hopefully should be more than enough, granted I rarely think we hit the ideal Play Sephara on T3 play.
Doubt it, I really doubt it comes in as a 3/3 as often. Overall, I think it's irrelevant since rotation is in on the way. I also think it's way too gimmicky and is not going to beat MonoR or esper or superfriends. We've seen other discounted effects on cards before and sometimes they are great Ghalta, Primal Hunger and sometimes they aren't so great Toorgar, Famine Incarnate
T1 Stomping Ground + Llanowar Elf
T2 Land + Blood Sun
T3 Lotus Field so should have 6 mana.
Would Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner or Nissa, Who Shakes the World make sense here?
I was goldfishing the above setup and it didn't feel consistent, Have 3 Lotus Vale for testing, do we also 4 Rootbound Crag for the mana base?
well that play would work in modern if you had all 4 in hand you would still need 3 more mana and hope the board isn't swept.
In standard there isn't that many 1 mana flyers in blue and the one that is rotates in October. The ones in white aren't super great either.
Radiant Destiny is rotating as well....
There is also Rally of Wings but we need a lot of mana for this, roughly 5 mana + 4 flyers to pull off a victory in the same turn?Made some further adjustments, Though I do want to see what happens when we go more midrange or for that matter a Feather, the redeemed + Sheltering Light + Aurelia, Exemplar of Justice deck? Angel of Vitality is a spec call here as well
4 Siren Stormtamer
4 Healer's Hawk
4 Empyrean Eagle
4 Sky Theater Strix
2 Angel of Vitality
3 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
3 Sephara, Sky's blade
Planeswalkers (3)
3 Dovin, Grand Arbiter
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Glacial Fortress
7 Plains
7 Island
Spells (11)
3 Favorable Winds
3 Winged Words
2 Spell Pierce
2 Quench
1 Unbreakable Formation
2 Negate
3 Kasmina's Transmutation
3 Dive Down
2 Dovin's Veto
2 Remorseful Cleric
1 Entrancing Melody
2 Dovin, hand of Control
If your a Curious Obsession deck, then yea. Granted your better off just being MonoU or merfolk if you want to go down that road.
Spectral Sailor sounds great on paper but it just seems to come off as mystic archaeologist I don't think we need mana sinks at all in this deck, but it looks like you have gone down the Curious Obsession road. I'm out on stuff like Spark Double and you don't need all 4 copies of Sephara. Syncopate I'm not sure about, sounds more like a waste of mana than an actual tempo solution as there are way better counter-spells we can use.
I would drop Resplendent Angel / Pteramander / Remorseful Cleric / Lyra Dawnbringer.
MonoU tempo probably not...
I think this is where I want to go
4 Siren Stormtamer
4 Healer's Hawk
4 Empyrean Eagle
4 Rustwing Falcon
3 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
3 Sephara, Sky's blade
Planeswalkers (3)
3 Dovin, Grand Arbiter
Land (22)
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Glacial Fortress
7 Plains
7 Island
4 Favorable Winds
2 Chart a Course
2 Dovin's Veto
2 Quench
4 Opt
2 Negate
3 Kasmina's Transmutation
3 Dive Down
2 Spell Pierce
2 Remorseful Cleric
1 Entrancing Melody
2 Dovin, hand of Control
@darrenhabib - UW control would be cool but even then, with Teferi and Lyra still around not sure. Maybe after rotation hits.
Assuming we actually have Lotus Field in hand at that time...
20$ a pop for this one.
considering that there is Elvish Reclaimer and leyline of abundance. I dunno I'd have test.