MTG Salvation

My original idea was to make a deck that was only clone effects and reanimation. Which obviously wouldn't work by itself, so I added some support for this idea. What I ended up with was a whole lot of sorceries and instances, after looking over some good generals for the deck, I felt like having flashback with Dralnu was probably the best route. This also opens up some cards that would normally have flashback, that you can greatly reduce the mana cost on by having out Mr. Lich Lord. Here is the deck, it is no where near completed, but I just wanted some input and card suggestion.

I will definitely look into River Kelpie and Secrets of the Dead. I am still trying to figure out how I want to shape this deck, but I think they might be interesting card draw.

Forbidden Alchemy is a fantastic card that I apparently completely forgot to add to my list!

Quiet Speculation might be a little aggressive for the deck I am putting together, but I do like to build aggressive decks, so we will see how that goes.

Runic Repetition seems like it would be a great addition, can call back my flashbacked cards and use them another 2 times

If you think of anything else, please don't hesitate to add them!

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Do keep in mind that it will only bring back cards that have flashback printed on them. Cards that you give flashback with your general become a new object when they change zones, so will no longer be granted flashback in exile.

It's still pretty darn cool.

Oh yea, absolutely, I am going to add cards like Army of the Damned to this, and those would be fun to return back after flashing it back.

I think you can go bigger.

Delver of Secrets needs to go. I understand you have a lot of instants of sorceries, but a 3/2 flier is not going to win the game or provide any utility.

Ponder and Sign in Blood should be Recurring Insight and some other bomb draw spell (or Ancient Craving if we can't remember any other bomb draw spells).

Mana Leak and Cancel should be something like Spell Jack and Overwhelming Intellect (or Draining Whelk and Counterlash).

Where's Lightning Greaves (cut Smother for it? Or cut Smother for Black Sun's Zenith)? Protecting the Lich Lord is of the utmost importance. It's like you never played Warcraft 3 with us

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I think you can go bigger.

Delver of Secrets needs to go. I understand you have a lot of instants of sorceries, but a 3/2 flier is not going to win the game or provide any utility.

Ponder and Sign in Blood should be Recurring Insight and some other bomb draw spell (or Ancient Craving if we can't remember any other bomb draw spells).

Mana Leak and Cancel should be something like Spell Jack and Overwhelming Intellect (or Draining Whelk and Counterlash).

Where's Lightning Greaves (cut Smother for it? Or cut Smother for Black Sun's Zenith)? Protecting the Lich Lord is of the utmost importance. It's like you never played Warcraft 3 with us

Yea, even though Delver of Secrets fit well with the all sorc/instances I have going on, I knew it would have to go eventually. Smother and Delver of Secrets for Black Sun's Zenith and Lightning Greaves. I would say seems good.

I have to obtain the other random counters that you suggested, I am sort of surprised about the suggestion to remove Ponder though. Don't think it's good enough? I guess maybe not when you can use Brainstorm instead?

I also want to run Counterlash, but I feel like I won't be able to utilize the cast ability enough with only being mostly limited to Sorc/Instants. Might come in handy sometimes though.

Countering a spell and getting a free Damnation / Jace, the Mindsculpter / Fact or Fiction seems real good. It doesn't say it has to be a creature.

And why Ponder when you can Partial Paris? Brainstorm is good because you can hide bad cards, abuse fetches, and it's an instant. Ponder is just so underwhelming in this format.

edit: Why don't you run Seat of the Synod, Vault of Whispers, or Evolving Wilds? The artifacts are Trinket Mage friendly in a pinch, and the Wilds are another fetch to play with Brainstorm and Top.

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Countering a spell and getting a free Damnation / Jace, the Mindsculpter / Fact or Fiction seems real good. It doesn't say it has to be a creature.

And why Ponder when you can Partial Paris? Brainstorm is good because you can hide bad cards, abuse fetches, and it's an instant. Ponder is just so underwhelming in this format.

edit: Why don't you run Seat of the Synod, Vault of Whispers, or Evolving Wilds? The artifacts are Trinket Mage friendly in a pinch, and the Wilds are another fetch to play with Brainstorm and Top.

Yea that's what I meant by handy, ha. And yea, I suppose Partial Paris is just better than Ponder in this format.

So, I only have 2 creatures aside from Dralnu, am I missing any?

The lands I haven't really gotten to as much, I will definitely look into adding those as well. The Evolving Wilds was always going in, I just didn't have one to add.

If I don't have anymore creatures that I should put in the deck, then I can cut Victimize as it would be relatively useless unless I wanted to sac my general to get back Snapcaster and trinket mage. Although I suppose sac trinket mage for a couple clones is still fantastic, but that is still only 7 creatures

I'm trying to see how you plan on killing your opponents but having a hard time seeing it. It seems to me like you are relying on your opponent's creatures quite a bit Which isn't always the best idea. Maybe it's just me which wouldn't be surprising considering I'm not that good at magic. If you could tell me it would be helpful because I want to make a dralnu deck as well

Why Victimize? You only have two creatures in the entire deck... Meaning only two ever in the graveyard, total. Did you misread it?

This deck does rely on other people having creatures for sure. It really just depends on the play group. If you have a creature heavy playgroup, like I did at the time I made this, then it's no problem. Obviously this decklist could be updated a ton from the new sets, but I took him apart.


There's actually 7 creatures total(clones), 8 if you include the general. It may not have been optimal, but it was fine at the time.