The 9 mana acceleration cards seem a little questionable, but if you need speed, I guess that's the best route. I'm never a fan of pentad prism. This deck can't really play the control role like twin could either, so I don't know if that's a great comparison. I sound critical, but the deck actually looks pretty sweet.
As built, polymorph folds to a ghostquarter. Through the breach is a good backup plan.
I just realized that warping wail provides a body, or acceleration, or utility. It seems pretty good for this archetype.
Bring to light is a possibility too, especially with pentad prism and utopia sprawl as in the list above. It gets polymorph and breach. Maybe a BTL deck could exist as a controlling deck that has the potential to just fetch arbor and go off. The combo would only take up 3-4 slots in that deck (polymorph, through the breach, emrakul, arbor). I doubt it's better than just jamming the 8 combo pieces though. Lots of interesting directions for this deck with BFZ.
Skyspawner has been interesting for me in delver in pauper. It's good against the popular edict effects in the format and devoid has some marginal benefits against kiln fiend (apostle's blessing) and decks with pyroblast. It's also fine as a flier and a blocker against stompy or gurmag angler. Against bogles the scion can block and sac to stop the lifelink from armadillo cloak. That's not to mention the obvious utility of the scion's mana ability or that bouncing it with ninja generates a little value.
It's a solid card all around and I wouldn't be surprised if it started seeing play in pauper sideboards.
When do I have to announce my landfall triggers? Frequently I'll play a land, fetch, and then say "swing for x," where x includes the power gained from landfall.
What If I just say "attack with these guys" and not a number? What if that misleads them into bad blocks (if they thought I missed the triggers)?
If that creature is a snapping gnarlid, and they try to shock it during the combat step (after my unannounced triggers), what happens? I say it's a 4/4 and it lives?
If I'm the one trying to shock the gnarlid, is there anything I can say to see if they missed the triggers without reminding them?
There's been a little discussion about replacing hangarback. Toward the end of this article, Pascal Maynard recommended perhaps replacing them with Snapping Gnarlid. I've been running abzan with landfall creatures for a few weeks and I think they should be a very real consideration. There aren't many decks that can beat a curve of scythe leopard into snapping gnarlid into anafenza. They give you a good tempo advantage in the mirror as well. Has anyone else given them a shot?
We could turn it into rolling 3 card blind. The rules are pretty simple.
0) Someone posts a starting deck.
1) Each deck has to beat every deck before it.
2) If a deck (or set of decks) stands undefeated for 24 hours, the game starts over with that deck as the new starting deck.
3) Whomever posts an undefeated deck gets a point.
No forth deck after 24 hours, fnord scores a point. (actually that last deck doesn't work, so benbuzz790 would get the point. It's surprisingly difficult to beat those first two decks.)
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Edit2: Ah, wait, it hasn't been updated in years.
Hitting the right colors always felt easy in the deck, would it still be so if the deck occasionally needed a 4th color for BTL?
As built, polymorph folds to a ghostquarter. Through the breach is a good backup plan.
I just realized that warping wail provides a body, or acceleration, or utility. It seems pretty good for this archetype.
Bring to light is a possibility too, especially with pentad prism and utopia sprawl as in the list above. It gets polymorph and breach. Maybe a BTL deck could exist as a controlling deck that has the potential to just fetch arbor and go off. The combo would only take up 3-4 slots in that deck (polymorph, through the breach, emrakul, arbor). I doubt it's better than just jamming the 8 combo pieces though. Lots of interesting directions for this deck with BFZ.
It's a solid card all around and I wouldn't be surprised if it started seeing play in pauper sideboards.
What If I just say "attack with these guys" and not a number? What if that misleads them into bad blocks (if they thought I missed the triggers)?
If that creature is a snapping gnarlid, and they try to shock it during the combat step (after my unannounced triggers), what happens? I say it's a 4/4 and it lives?
If I'm the one trying to shock the gnarlid, is there anything I can say to see if they missed the triggers without reminding them?
0) Someone posts a starting deck.
1) Each deck has to beat every deck before it.
2) If a deck (or set of decks) stands undefeated for 24 hours, the game starts over with that deck as the new starting deck.
3) Whomever posts an undefeated deck gets a point.
Example:
Deck 1, posted by pokerbob1: black lotus, black lotus, wurmcoil engine
Deck 2, posted by benbuzz790: Memnite, Memnite, Chancellor of the Annex
Deck 3, posted by fnord: karakas, Black Lotus, Mangara of Corondor
No forth deck after 24 hours, fnord scores a point. (actually that last deck doesn't work, so benbuzz790 would get the point. It's surprisingly difficult to beat those first two decks.)
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