MTG Salvation

I'm not sure if this has been done before (if so, link please) but while looking at Council of the Absolute, someone mentioned copying it using Cackling Counterpart, then populating.
While interesting, I realized that if we don't restrict ourselves to Standard we have a LOT of options of efficient clones, the best being Phantasmal Image and Phyrexian Metamorph. Also, we have Meddling Mage.

This led me to the idea of a deck that first bans any potential answer cards to our "ban creatures", then proceeds to ban the rest of the deck.

A raw draft:


Is there a modern legal card similar to Extract ? Because even though it might not be competitive, I'd like to keep it modern legal.

Manabase etc. not included since it's only a general idea.

What about Look at Me, I'm the DCI?

But seriously, this isn't the forum for that.

I posted it here because I got the idea from Council of the Absolute. I think having an additional card with an effect like that is helpful (and I don't think decks containing unreleased cards are allowed in any other section?)

However, if a mod feels the same way, move please.

You should go full on with the theme. Add in Meddling Kids as well.

Grand Abolisher and Iona, Shield of Emeria seem like cards that would fit this theme well.

Also Pithing Needle

Surgical Extraction to look at their library. Course it requires something in their yard.

Slaughter Games and similar cards also play this type of game.

No rite of replication love?

Protip: call the deck Jumping on the Banned Wagon. It'll win more games.

You know, maybe add in those card-stealing mobs if going Esper, like Nightveil Specter, Lord of the Void and Fiend of the Shadows, so that you can cast all the cards that they now can't. Travis Woo put something like that together, a BU Heartless Summoning joint that included Chromatic Lanterns so it would then cast all the stuff it stole.

pithing needle may be a bit narrow, but i'm sure it will have a target for most decks. works fine as a 1-drop for the deck i think.

Here is another annoying 1 drop that helps this deck:

Telepathy

- 4 Probe
- 2 Peek
- 4 cackling counterpart
- 1 Path to exile

+ 4 thoughtseize//Inquisition of Kozilek
+ 2 surgical extraction
+ 3 Restoration Angel
+ 2 Tidehollow Skuller

Discard has same effect as probe, but is actually usefull.
12 clone effects with only 8 creatures to clone into is..
Resto angel to reset cardnames / clones
Tidehollow skuller = discard(look into hand) + clones + resto angel = profit.

Surgical maindeck can be very usefull against certain combo decks.

Edit:
I would probably even cut the nevermore and substitute them for either Kitchen finks to not fall over to agro, or more discard for the same reason.
You can always bring nevermore in out of sideboard.

The deck sounds fun, I wonder how realistic it would be.

A turn 2 Liliana of the Veil would scare me quite a bit.

You know, I'm actually on board with this. I'd Seance it out for the token in addition to the Counterparts though. And a bunch of clones.

Seance with a bunch of clone creatures and Vitu Ghazi guildmage! Now you just have to decide if you want red (Loot) or black (Grisly Salvage). Either way, you get Mulch and Forbidden Alchemy.