Conjuror's bauble also lets you turn extra reshapes into lotus blooms if drew them all (so there are no blooms left in your deck). After you crack a bloom, you can put it on the bottom, then use reshape to grab it.
Eggs was a blast. Whenever you have the time or inclination, I recommend testing the following cards (not necessarily all at once):
My intuition says yes, because Ephara doesn't trigger when a creature comes in, but rather checks to see if a creature came in. What's the difference between these triggers?
Puddle Jumper -- It almost always is in block constructed. If the aggro deck doesn't work, it's because of bad fixing. That was a big reason why UW heroic was only Tier 2 last season.
I wouldn't add 4 scheming, maybe two though? They're really good if you draw one early on, and still decent later; but if you ever draw two or three in the early game you'll get rolled by card disadvantage. (Well, that's what I found playing my esper deck, anyway.) Maybe scheming is better than sultai ascendancy?
It wasn't me! I've only crashed two dailies 2-2 with this deck. It's hard to play. If you play this deck for a while, then you switch to abzan, it's very obvious that abzan is a lot easier to win with (against mardu, jeskai, and temur, anyway), and probably just the better deck.
With abzan at 35% of the meta though... this deck might be worth a second look. (On second thought, abzan would just board 4 bloodsoaked champion if this deck ever caught on, so maybe not.)
The deck is better without creatures or non-land permanents. You can blank all the removal in opponents decks, and you can't get blown out by a removal spell when you're planning to block. I found myself trying to add creatures to make sorin and wingmate roc good, and that deck was just a worse version of abzan. Here's my last iteration of the deck
This deck is very good against Abzan and mardu control, but struggles against BW and mardu aggro. (Raksasha's secret is very good against abzan! Try it in the mirror!) Jeskai is an OK matchup as long as you remember that you want to counter their draw spells and the crater's claws for 12 they'll try to play on turn 24.
There are two reasons this deck doesn't work. Bloodsoaked Champion is especially difficult to beat - you need to use utter end to really get rid of it, but by then it's hit you for 6-8 damage. Also, This deck can have a hard time against decks with a lot of burn. There's no good way to gain a bunch of life to put yourself out of burn range besides the life lands. Sorin is the only good option, but he requires a lot of creatures, and like I said before, you might as well play abzan at that point.
My assessment: Don't play this deck until the meta is full of abzan or the next set gives us some new tools to beat bloodsoaked champion and burn spells.
I went 2-2 in the daily with one bye. So, not a stellar performance for the deck. I couldn't get the recording to work this time, but I'll try again next time. I made some changes to the deck before I registered.
My first match was against Temur Aggro. I lost in two games - I was on the play and mulliganed to 6 in both. The first game was close. He led with heir of the wilds into rattleclaw mystic into Knuckleblade. I answered heir with debilitating injury. The turn he played knuckleblade, I took 6. During his next turn cast utter end on the savage. Post combat he dropped a sagu mauler. I answered with a wrath. He pressed on with another knuckleblade and hit for another 4. I answered it, maybe with another wrath. He played a third knuckleblade and swung in for another 4. At this point I'm at 7 life and out of good answers. I play a ruthless ripper and pass. He fights it with temur charm, pumps and kills me.
Game two I get rolled pretty well. It was like he never ran out of gas. I was able to 1-1 him for a while, but his early heir of the wilds that I didn't answer kept getting in for 2 or 3. Eventually I ran out of answers and he played two ashcloud phoenixes (I had countered one earlier). My deck couldn't really answer them.
I didn't mention it, but I'm playing a lot of draw, digs, and other cards as well as the removal spells. Debilitating injury was not very useful in this matchup, and it was basically impossible to land a sorin. In both games Surrak Dragonclaw allowed him to waste my mana by playing around cancel. I think that Despise needs to be maindeck if this deck is popular. I'm not sure if this is a bad matchup, or if he just had good draws and I had bad ones.
The third round I played against Mardu control with sorin and sarkhan. The games went long, but I eventually I came out on top. I took some damage while I answered all of his threats and cast draw spells. This deck should beat mardu control everytime.
Surprisingly, in the fourth round I lost against mardu control. In the first game, I drew too many Taigam's Scheming and the singleton Quiet contemplation I wanted to test. I wasn't able to make up the card disadvantage and he killed me with a sarkhan while I was digging for an utter end. I cast two digs in this game - the first put two utter ends on the bottom (I had to grab plains and end hostilities) - so once sarkhan resolved I had no real answers. This game makes me want despise main deck as well. The second game felt like round 3. The third game I mulliganed to a weak six, and he curved out with Seeker of the way, hordeling outburst, mardu charm (take your wrath), sarkhan. My debilitating injury and weave fate couldn't handle it.
The deck can compete, but I think it needs some changes. More testing!
I'm pretty sure this is a real deck, and I think I'm the only one who's actually tried it. I'm going to run it through a daily event tomorrow and (computer willing) record some matches. Here's the list:
Chancellor style.
Island
Balduvian Shaman
Unsummon
Eggs was a blast. Whenever you have the time or inclination, I recommend testing the following cards (not necessarily all at once):
4x Edge of Autumn
1x Explore (so you can play additional ghost quarters while combo-ing)
2x Wargate (to get lotus bloom or ghost quarter)
?x Wild Cantor
?? Monastery Mentor (in the sideboard?!)
My intuition says yes, because Ephara doesn't trigger when a creature comes in, but rather checks to see if a creature came in. What's the difference between these triggers?
Thanks in advance!
http://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/block#online
With abzan at 35% of the meta though... this deck might be worth a second look. (On second thought, abzan would just board 4 bloodsoaked champion if this deck ever caught on, so maybe not.)
http://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame/block#online
The deck is better without creatures or non-land permanents. You can blank all the removal in opponents decks, and you can't get blown out by a removal spell when you're planning to block. I found myself trying to add creatures to make sorin and wingmate roc good, and that deck was just a worse version of abzan. Here's my last iteration of the deck
1 Cranial Archive
4 Debilitating injury
2 Disdainful stroke
2 Cancel
4 Rakshasa's Secret
3 Murderous Cut
4 Utter End
4 End Hostilities
1 Empty the pits
3 Dig through time
4 Flooded strand
3 Polluted Delta
3 Swamp
2 Island
3 Plains
3 Scoured Barrens
3 Dismal Backwater
4 Tranquil Cove
This deck is very good against Abzan and mardu control, but struggles against BW and mardu aggro. (Raksasha's secret is very good against abzan! Try it in the mirror!) Jeskai is an OK matchup as long as you remember that you want to counter their draw spells and the crater's claws for 12 they'll try to play on turn 24.
There are two reasons this deck doesn't work. Bloodsoaked Champion is especially difficult to beat - you need to use utter end to really get rid of it, but by then it's hit you for 6-8 damage. Also, This deck can have a hard time against decks with a lot of burn. There's no good way to gain a bunch of life to put yourself out of burn range besides the life lands. Sorin is the only good option, but he requires a lot of creatures, and like I said before, you might as well play abzan at that point.
My assessment: Don't play this deck until the meta is full of abzan or the next set gives us some new tools to beat bloodsoaked champion and burn spells.
My first match was against Temur Aggro. I lost in two games - I was on the play and mulliganed to 6 in both. The first game was close. He led with heir of the wilds into rattleclaw mystic into Knuckleblade. I answered heir with debilitating injury. The turn he played knuckleblade, I took 6. During his next turn cast utter end on the savage. Post combat he dropped a sagu mauler. I answered with a wrath. He pressed on with another knuckleblade and hit for another 4. I answered it, maybe with another wrath. He played a third knuckleblade and swung in for another 4. At this point I'm at 7 life and out of good answers. I play a ruthless ripper and pass. He fights it with temur charm, pumps and kills me.
Game two I get rolled pretty well. It was like he never ran out of gas. I was able to 1-1 him for a while, but his early heir of the wilds that I didn't answer kept getting in for 2 or 3. Eventually I ran out of answers and he played two ashcloud phoenixes (I had countered one earlier). My deck couldn't really answer them.
I didn't mention it, but I'm playing a lot of draw, digs, and other cards as well as the removal spells. Debilitating injury was not very useful in this matchup, and it was basically impossible to land a sorin. In both games Surrak Dragonclaw allowed him to waste my mana by playing around cancel. I think that Despise needs to be maindeck if this deck is popular. I'm not sure if this is a bad matchup, or if he just had good draws and I had bad ones.
The third round I played against Mardu control with sorin and sarkhan. The games went long, but I eventually I came out on top. I took some damage while I answered all of his threats and cast draw spells. This deck should beat mardu control everytime.
Surprisingly, in the fourth round I lost against mardu control. In the first game, I drew too many Taigam's Scheming and the singleton Quiet contemplation I wanted to test. I wasn't able to make up the card disadvantage and he killed me with a sarkhan while I was digging for an utter end. I cast two digs in this game - the first put two utter ends on the bottom (I had to grab plains and end hostilities) - so once sarkhan resolved I had no real answers. This game makes me want despise main deck as well. The second game felt like round 3. The third game I mulliganed to a weak six, and he curved out with Seeker of the way, hordeling outburst, mardu charm (take your wrath), sarkhan. My debilitating injury and weave fate couldn't handle it.
The deck can compete, but I think it needs some changes. More testing!
I'm pretty sure this is a real deck, and I think I'm the only one who's actually tried it. I'm going to run it through a daily event tomorrow and (computer willing) record some matches. Here's the list:
4 Ruthless Ripper
3 Taigam's Scheming
4 Debilitating Injury
4 Cancel
4 Utter End
4 Sorin, Solemn Visitor
3 Weave Fate
4 End Hostilities
3 Dig Through Time
4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
3 Plains
2 Island
3 Swamp
4 Tranquil Cove
3 Dismal Backwater
2 Scoured Barrens
4 Despise
4 Singing Bell Strike
4 Disdainful Stroke
1 Sorin, Solemn Visitor
1 Pearl Lake Ancient