What you can try with the Rector is to include Dismiss into Dream.
Gives you nice Removal Options with Derevis ability and also lets Jitte shine.
Also, you can give Voidmage Prodigy a try instead of Mystic Snake for synergy and sacrifice purposes.
In my Derevi Build i also like playing Opposition, but im not sure if this fits your style here.
Very nice deck.I am working on a similar build which works without the fat token producers and makes more use of cmc2 creatures.
The only suggestions i would have is to add Harvester of Souls,Field of Souls and Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
I am not a huge fan of Kozilek and Ulamog here, but thats just my opinion.
I would replace the Terminus with an Austere Command for more Options.
For replacing Kozilek and Ulamog i would rather go with Palinchron (even if it is stupid) and Draining Whelk
Krovikan Horor does the following with Tortured Existence:
Take Sakura Tribe Elder for example.
Bring the Horror in your graveyard and sac the Elder so the horror can be returned at any EOT to your hand.You can then discard him with tortured existence to get back elder,play elder, sack him.Elder lies over Horror, so Horror goes back to your hand.
Rinse and repeat(Only once per turn).Same goes for all creatures with evoke. or if you just sack creature.Its simply good for getting effects repeadetly with same ressources over and over again, which gives you more Options.
With Survival of the fittest and Tortured Existence, you can put creatures at instant speed from your deck to your grave and put them back if needed.
Its a flexible and cheap Engine.And lets you reuse ETb triggers many times without wasteing single cards for reanimation.
ETB or LP Triggers preferred^^
Asy ou play green, there is no need for Land Tax. Weathered Wayfarer on the other side is a specific Land Tutor which should be much more useful for you.
Leave the Ramping to green, no Land Tax needed here
The Card is too powerful for EDH, as it cleanes every board state, creates massive advantage, and relies on no conditions like powerful blue spells like Rite of Replication do.
And it is simply splashable.
The fact it is an instant makes it even more versatile.
Blue could not have asked for a better card than this.
White or red may have needed spells in this power category, but blue?
You have the possibility to get more creatures targeted from your deck into your graveyard (Sotf and Te synergy)and back to your hand if you need.TE has also a good synergy with Birthing Pod
With Krovikan Horror you can abuse Tortured Existence with creatures who are sacced or creatures who sac themselves.(e.g. Sakura-Tribe Elder or a evoked Mulldrifter.)
This may change your overall setup of creatures a little bit (Yavimaya Elder instead of Yavimay Dryad for example.
I playtested the set with my own Mimeoplasm Deck and i was very pleased with the result as it gave me more possibilities to reuse etb effects.
Maybe you want to give t a shot.
If you are not able to break the fact she turns target creature into an artifact, she is just crap.
Even with Necrotic Ooze i see no reason to play this card.
Too slow.
Too expensive.
The big pro on this card is that her effects fit many stages of the game.
You can recur your creatures,remove others for beating,disrupt enemy graveyards.
She has a leave trigger and not a die trigger, what makes her effective in every color combination.
Great reanimator target itself.
Simply a swiss knife on a stick.
What more could you ask for.
She is nearly never a dead draw if you can pay the mana.
Tortured Existence is an excellent synergy card.
With Survival of the Fittest you can just:
Pay GB, search your library for a creature card and put it into your graveyard at instant speed, which is really helpful in reanimator and dredge mechanics.
You can abuse it with Krovikan Horror and all kinds of self sacking creatures for repeatable effects (Sakura-Tribe Elder , Shriekmaw with Evoke , Mulldrifter with Evoke.
Great Card if you want to build a creature dump and recur engine.
Populate itself may be interesting, if you build a deck around it, but none of the cards who have populate available are good enough to support this.
Trostani is weak, to costly, slow activated ability.
All other cards are situational and do not allow to play for populate.
This could only be viable imo in Bant, as you then have access to creating tokens better and multiplying tokens better(A good choice would be Mirror-Sigil Sergeant with Growing Ranks and maybe Paradox Haze).
The other Blue cards are mentioned above
Azusa is pain in the ... for everyone but not a big deal if you have proper answers available.
When you let the green player do whatever he wants in his first 5 or 6 Turns, you have a problem, even when Azusa gets tucked then.
So its often wise to deny things you usually wont early game.(Countering Ramp Spells, disrupt lands etc.)
Dredge is a very fun mechanic but whatever you build with it, if you rely only ont that you will lose most times.
Thats the reason why i would not choose Jarad as a commander but include it in my dredge engine as a regular creature.
This will lead to take your opponents by suprise with him.Otherwise everyone can simply follow your game plan and disrupt it with grave hate or removal when you want to fling with him.
The best combination for dredge is BUG imo, which leads to Mimeoplasm, which is the best dredge commander by far, as blue gives you also access to mill opponents instead of yourself and therefore opens up other ressources(opponents graves) to take instead of your own graveyard.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Gives you nice Removal Options with Derevis ability and also lets Jitte shine.
Also, you can give Voidmage Prodigy a try instead of Mystic Snake for synergy and sacrifice purposes.
In my Derevi Build i also like playing Opposition, but im not sure if this fits your style here.
The only suggestions i would have is to add Harvester of Souls,Field of Souls and Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
I would replace the Terminus with an Austere Command for more Options.
For replacing Kozilek and Ulamog i would rather go with Palinchron (even if it is stupid) and Draining Whelk
It Tutors answers for you, if you take a look at your instant suite
Take Sakura Tribe Elder for example.
Bring the Horror in your graveyard and sac the Elder so the horror can be returned at any EOT to your hand.You can then discard him with tortured existence to get back elder,play elder, sack him.Elder lies over Horror, so Horror goes back to your hand.
Rinse and repeat(Only once per turn).Same goes for all creatures with evoke. or if you just sack creature.Its simply good for getting effects repeadetly with same ressources over and over again, which gives you more Options.
With Survival of the fittest and Tortured Existence, you can put creatures at instant speed from your deck to your grave and put them back if needed.
Its a flexible and cheap Engine.And lets you reuse ETb triggers many times without wasteing single cards for reanimation.
ETB or LP Triggers preferred^^
Weathered Wayfarer on the other side is a specific Land Tutor which should be much more useful for you.
Leave the Ramping to green, no Land Tax needed here
And it is simply splashable.
The fact it is an instant makes it even more versatile.
Blue could not have asked for a better card than this.
White or red may have needed spells in this power category, but blue?
As you do not dredge randomly, which i think is a good choice, i would try to extend the Engine you can set up with Survival of the Fittest , Entomb and Buried Alive.
Try to Add the Following:
Krovikan Horror
Tortured Existence
Jarad's Orders (sets up engine by grabbing Krovikan Horror and Sakura-Tribe Elder for example).
You have the possibility to get more creatures targeted from your deck into your graveyard (Sotf and Te synergy)and back to your hand if you need.TE has also a good synergy with Birthing Pod
With Krovikan Horror you can abuse Tortured Existence with creatures who are sacced or creatures who sac themselves.(e.g. Sakura-Tribe Elder or a evoked Mulldrifter.)
This may change your overall setup of creatures a little bit (Yavimaya Elder instead of Yavimay Dryad for example.
I playtested the set with my own Mimeoplasm Deck and i was very pleased with the result as it gave me more possibilities to reuse etb effects.
Maybe you want to give t a shot.
Even with Necrotic Ooze i see no reason to play this card.
Too slow.
Too expensive.
You can recur your creatures,remove others for beating,disrupt enemy graveyards.
She has a leave trigger and not a die trigger, what makes her effective in every color combination.
Great reanimator target itself.
Simply a swiss knife on a stick.
What more could you ask for.
She is nearly never a dead draw if you can pay the mana.
With Survival of the Fittest you can just:
Pay GB, search your library for a creature card and put it into your graveyard at instant speed, which is really helpful in reanimator and dredge mechanics.
You can abuse it with Krovikan Horror and all kinds of self sacking creatures for repeatable effects (Sakura-Tribe Elder , Shriekmaw with Evoke , Mulldrifter with Evoke.
Great Card if you want to build a creature dump and recur engine.
Trostani is weak, to costly, slow activated ability.
All other cards are situational and do not allow to play for populate.
This could only be viable imo in Bant, as you then have access to creating tokens better and multiplying tokens better(A good choice would be Mirror-Sigil Sergeant with Growing Ranks and maybe Paradox Haze).
The other Blue cards are mentioned above
When you let the green player do whatever he wants in his first 5 or 6 Turns, you have a problem, even when Azusa gets tucked then.
So its often wise to deny things you usually wont early game.(Countering Ramp Spells, disrupt lands etc.)
Thats the reason why i would not choose Jarad as a commander but include it in my dredge engine as a regular creature.
This will lead to take your opponents by suprise with him.Otherwise everyone can simply follow your game plan and disrupt it with grave hate or removal when you want to fling with him.
The best combination for dredge is BUG imo, which leads to Mimeoplasm, which is the best dredge commander by far, as blue gives you also access to mill opponents instead of yourself and therefore opens up other ressources(opponents graves) to take instead of your own graveyard.