You gain Path which i think is an okay trade for access to white enchantment removal for things like Void and the likes. I have been mulling over a 4 color kind of shell that is jeskai base with 1 or 2 black sources for lingering souls. Removal gets upgraded but at the cost of some consistency of the mana. I also feel as I run the full 8 of Snapcaster Mage and Dreadhorde Arcanist that having more burn is important. So maybe the hand disruption isnt needed. I feel there is alot of flex for the deck.
While I agree that Young Pyromancer is amazing I just haven't found room or a really need for him at this point. I do want to close the game out faster so he is option 1 atm and may be added to the main deck over Narset, Parter of Veils and she will be moved to the sideboard as I feel 1 or 2 of him will help create a bigger board faster allowing the game to be closed sooner. I tried AV for a bit and i found it to not be worth it. The cards are nice but you go through the deck fast enough as it is that I wasn't worried about card draw, and i found that having to suspend an AV felt horrible and having an AV in the yard with no Dreadhorde Arcanist felt just as bad. you could prob swap Serum Visions if you wanted for them I have been happy with the current set up of blue spells.
I actually have been playing a list the past week and theory crafting changes to it with a guy at my local. He is playing the mardu/bg version of the deck to see how well it functions without blue/with better removal.
The deck overall has been amazing. After my Modern event last night tho i did move the two main deck ThoughtSeize to the side as 6 main deck discards felt like alot in the late game. I used those slots to go up to the full 4 Lightning Bolt . Bolt has been really nice for removal and just over all damage with Dreadhorde Acanist and Snapcaster Mage. I will get a chance to test this again sometime this weekend but I am really happy with the main deck so far. I would like to try and fine 1 or 2 threats to close the game out faster but as it stand the only really issue i have had with this deck is dredge. Which i think was due to me have Ravenous Trap in the side over extirpate .
My friends mardu list has some nice legs to it with access to Path to exile which is a nice addition to removal. He is also testing the new Smiting Helix and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician in his list which have been nice.
Been talking with someone at my local who used to play GDS. Are there any big changes we are looking to make with Horizon? Going back to a more midrange build? Maybe K.commands main for all the new karin artifact decks around? Im not sure what direction the deck should go so I figured Id ask others who play.
4 Dreadhorde Arcanist
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Seasoned Pyromancer
Walkers 2
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
Spells 27
4 Fatal Push
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Serum Visions
4 Thought Scour
1 Twisted Image
3 Unearth
1 Dismember
1 Kolaghan's Command
1 Magmatic Sinkhole
1 Blood Crypt
2 Darkslick Shores
2 Fiery Islet
2 Island
1 Mountain
2 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Steam Vents
1 Swamp
1 Watery Grave
1 Faerie Macabre
2 Fulminator Mage
2 Plague Engineer
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
2 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Extirpate
2 Spell Pierce
2 Thoughtseize
1 Engineered Explosives
The deck overall has been amazing. After my Modern event last night tho i did move the two main deck ThoughtSeize to the side as 6 main deck discards felt like alot in the late game. I used those slots to go up to the full 4 Lightning Bolt . Bolt has been really nice for removal and just over all damage with Dreadhorde Acanist and Snapcaster Mage. I will get a chance to test this again sometime this weekend but I am really happy with the main deck so far. I would like to try and fine 1 or 2 threats to close the game out faster but as it stand the only really issue i have had with this deck is dredge. Which i think was due to me have Ravenous Trap in the side over extirpate .
My friends mardu list has some nice legs to it with access to Path to exile which is a nice addition to removal. He is also testing the new Smiting Helix and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician in his list which have been nice.