After a long hiatus I've rebuilt my Azami, Lady of Scrolls. The only reason I did so was a friend asking me for a tournament loaner... Lo and behold he won! the game was 1v1 with multiplayer deck rules. Anyways I'm not much for babbling on, here it is:
I can't call it unique in any sort of broad way, but the deck is customized for my play group. I'm happy to answer any questions, or let this beauty go back where it came from.
I have no idea what your budget is like. I'm going to make suggestions assuming you have unlimited budget and assuming you're OK with playing game-winning combos (I see you already have Temple Bell in there).
I think you're missing out on a lot of the combo potential of Azami. The way I've always seen her played (and the way I used to play her before I retired the deck) was similar to High Tide in legacy, where you drop a bunch of mana-doubling effects (Gauntlet of Power, Caged Sun, etc.) as well as a Candelabra of Tawnos and generate stupid amounts of mana to deck people with Stroke of Genius. Power Artifact + Basalt Monolith also generated infinite mana. The other way to win, which you do have in your deck, is Mind Over Matter + Temple Bell + (any eldrazi god in the deck to shuffle yourself).
The reason Azami works best with combos more than anything is because with Mind Over Matter and an eldrazi god in the deck she provides infinite hand filtering, as if every card in your hand were a free Demonic Tutor. I'd always try to dig up and resolve MOM as early as possible, and as soon as I did, I'd have whatever combos I needed to win that very same turn.
Here's my old, retired decklist, if it helps at all. Keep in mind, though, that it uses the multiplayer, not the french, banlist, if that matters, and that it was designed for multiplayer play.
Thanks for the response Nub. I have an aversion to all things Eldrazi, so instead I use the Library of Leng. I skip discard phase, and can discard to the top of my deck with Mind over Matter. That way I never run out of cards to draw. Instead of milling opponents out (although I can do that with Temple Bell) I use Psychosis Crawler. I am considering a Blue Sun's Zenith.
Haha I am not gonna be able to afford a Candelabra, but thanks that is a nice card. I can still go infinite though.
My personal favorite infinite is to get the mana with 'Chron and a mana doubler (caged or Gauntlet) then draw until I have Capsize. Returning every permanent all my opponents control then watching them scoop is in many ways more satisfying
I posted this in 1v1 because I'm about to play a 1v1 tournament with it, but we typically play games of 3 or 4.
Thanks again for the response guys! I'm definitely going to implement some of the stuff from your decks.
I have an aversion to all things Eldrazi, so instead I use the Library of Leng. I skip discard phase, and can discard to the top of my deck with Mind over Matter.
Just so you're aware, this doesn't work. Library of Leng will only put cards to the top of your library in the event you're discarding it due to an effect, not a cost.
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10/4/2004 You can't use the Library of Leng ability to place a discarded card on top of your library when you discard a card as a cost, because costs aren't effects.
27x Island
0 Polluted Delta
0 Flooded Strand
0 Misty Rainforest
0 Scalding Tarn
0 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
0 Cavern of Souls
0 Strip Mine
0 Riptide Laboratory
0 Academy Ruins
0 Ancient Tomb
CREATURES 20
2 Gilded Drake
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Vedalken Aethermage
3 Drift of Phantasms
3 Trinket Mage
3 Sea Gate Oracle
3 Patron Wizard
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Glen Elendra Archmage
4 Archaeomancer
4 Sower of Temptation
4 Venser, Shaper Savant
5 Magus of the Future
5 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
6 Ethereal Usher
6 Draining Whelk
6 Deadeye Navigator
6 Guile
7 Palinchron
0 Mox Diamond
0 Chrome Mox
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Coldsteel Heart
2 Sky Diamond
2 Sapphire Medallion
2 Scroll Rack
3 Temple Bell
3 Vedalken Shackles
3 Oblivion Stone
3 Extraplanar Lens
5 Gauntlet of Power
6 Caged Sun
ENCHANTMENTS 4
3 Back to Basics
5 Treachery
5 Future Sight
6 Mind Over Matter
PLANESWALKERS 2
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
5 Tezzeret, the Seeker
SORCERIES 4
1 Preordain
1 Ponder
2 Merchant Scroll
4 Wash Out
6 Time Spiral
0 Pact of Negation
1 Brainstorm
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Rapid Hybridization
1 High Tide
2 Cyclonic Rift
2 Counterspell
2 Mana Drain
3 Long-Term Plans
3 Hinder
3 Spell Crumple
3 Capsize
3 Forbid
4 Cryptic Command
5 Force of Will
I can't call it unique in any sort of broad way, but the deck is customized for my play group. I'm happy to answer any questions, or let this beauty go back where it came from.
I think you're missing out on a lot of the combo potential of Azami. The way I've always seen her played (and the way I used to play her before I retired the deck) was similar to High Tide in legacy, where you drop a bunch of mana-doubling effects (Gauntlet of Power, Caged Sun, etc.) as well as a Candelabra of Tawnos and generate stupid amounts of mana to deck people with Stroke of Genius. Power Artifact + Basalt Monolith also generated infinite mana. The other way to win, which you do have in your deck, is Mind Over Matter + Temple Bell + (any eldrazi god in the deck to shuffle yourself).
The reason Azami works best with combos more than anything is because with Mind Over Matter and an eldrazi god in the deck she provides infinite hand filtering, as if every card in your hand were a free Demonic Tutor. I'd always try to dig up and resolve MOM as early as possible, and as soon as I did, I'd have whatever combos I needed to win that very same turn.
Here's my old, retired decklist, if it helps at all. Keep in mind, though, that it uses the multiplayer, not the french, banlist, if that matters, and that it was designed for multiplayer play.
1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
Creatures (23):
1 Magus of the Future
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Stonybrook Banneret
1 Sigil Tracer
1 Palinchron
1 Inspired Sprite
1 Memnarch
1 Shapesharer
1 Voidmage Prodigy
1 Trinket Mage
1 Vedalken Aethermage
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Fallowsage
1 Sage of Fables
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Temporal Adept
1 Ethereal Usher
1 Patron Wizard
1 Etherium Sculptor
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Psychosis Crawler
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
1 Sage of Epityr
1 Long-Term Plans
1 Cryptic Command
1 Hinder
1 Counterspell
1 High Tide
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Ponder
1 Forbid
1 Remand
1 Time Spiral
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Spell Crumple
1 Bribery
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mana Drain
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Braingeyser
1 Fabricate
1 Twincast
Enchantments (4):
1 Future Sight
1 Mind over Matter
1 Treachery
1 Power Artifact
1 Vedalken Shackles
1 Helm of Awakening
1 Grim Monolith
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Sapphire Medallion
1 Candelabra of Tawnos
1 Extraplanar Lens
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Memory Jar
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Gauntlet of Power
1 Diviner's Wand
Lands (37):
30 Snow-Covered Island
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Strip Mine
1 Academy Ruins
1 Mutavault
Legacy: GWR Enchantress <--That's my banner! (lol tinypic removed it)
Casual: WB [[Primer]]Clerics Tribal; BU Affinity
EDH: ...U [[Primer]]Arcum Dagsson; BG Legal Stax; B Illegal Stax
Proxy: .WX TriniStax
Other stuff: [[Official]]Shuffling, Truth + Maths
Haha I am not gonna be able to afford a Candelabra, but thanks that is a nice card. I can still go infinite though.
My personal favorite infinite is to get the mana with 'Chron and a mana doubler (caged or Gauntlet) then draw until I have Capsize. Returning every permanent all my opponents control then watching them scoop is in many ways more satisfying
I posted this in 1v1 because I'm about to play a 1v1 tournament with it, but we typically play games of 3 or 4.
Thanks again for the response guys! I'm definitely going to implement some of the stuff from your decks.
What do you think about Dream Halls?
Just so you're aware, this doesn't work. Library of Leng will only put cards to the top of your library in the event you're discarding it due to an effect, not a cost.