MTG Salvation

this is only about version 2.0 of this deck, so it is definitely still in development

Astral Slide:
probably your first question on card choices is actually "Why the heck did you build an EDH deck around a single copy of an enchantment in your deck?"

well, i am glad you asked that! the answer is pretty simple, it's because Astral Slide is awesome of course! ok, it's actually because i keep finding myself cycling cards, and getting a little value out of them, when i could be getting more! and it is (almost) uncounterable! also, i had played slide when it was in type 2 and it was always so much fun (for me, not for my opponents)

Creatures:

• academy rector - i need as many ways to get slide out of my deck as i can, and this is a good one, i kill it myself pretty often, unless my opponent has never seen the deck before
  
• acidic slime - typical slide target goodness
  
• angel of serenity - amazing slide target, slide her with her ETB ability on the stack to permanently remove 3 creatures from the game... sometimes i start targetting my own creatures with her to pull them out of my graveyard
  
• eternal dragon - great cycler, sometimes a fatty dragon... either way i always have a card i can cycle every turn
  
• eternal witness - one of the best slide targets, can slide her out in response to slide being destroyed, and get slide back when she comes back
  
• indrik stomphowler - typical slide target
  
• inferno titan - some beef that doesn't mind sliding
  
• knight of the reliquary - i end up with lots of lands in my graveyard in this deck, and he helps me get mistveil plains sometimes
  
• krosan tusker - great cycler that i play in every green deck, fixes land draws, and draws a card at instant near uncounterable speed... he is greens divination
  
• loaming shaman - in testing, i needed some kind of graveyard hate, and he likes the slide
  
• mangara of corondor - tap ability on the stack, slide, or just a one shot removal
  
• psychosis crawler - when you cycle as much as this deck does, you draw lots of cards, which means everyone loses lots of life
  
• riftsweeper - if you slide out someone's general, then riftsweeper it into their deck, they will always opt to put their general into the command zone from then on
  
• solemn simulacrum - i play this guy in every deck with basic land, and he slides well
  
• sun titan - gets back slide, eternal witness, tilling treefolk, lands, etc... best creature in the deck
  
• thragtusk - good slide target, pure beefy butter when it starts happening
  
• tilling treefolk - amazing slide target, since you mostly cycle lands, he lets you infinitely cycle 2 lands, then get them back at EOT
  
• valley rannet - the deck needs it's lands on turn 3-5, and land cycling fills that roll
  
• vexing shusher - hey, i'm playing red and green, and i want my spells to resolve
  
• woodfall primus - another great slide target and beef
  

Artifacts:

• emerald medallion - most of the spells you cast in this deck are green or white, mostly green, and loaming multiple times in 1 turn typically wins
  
• fluctuator - making cycling 1 mana, or especially free is AMAZING in this deck
  
• library of leng - i like having a full hand, and i thought it let me put cycled cards on top of the deck (checked and it doesn't boo!) it'll probably get replaced
  
• sunforger - always wanted to play with one of these, and this is my first deck that could utilize it... and it is very amazing!
  

Enchantments:

• astral slide - main theme of the deck!
  
• lightning rift - helps you get even more value out of cycling!
  
• oblivion ring - it's o ring, it goes in a deck that contains white
  
• seismic assault - this deck ends up wuth lots of lands in it's hand, and near the end of a game you can blast people for 14+ with this, i might add new gruul guild leader if he is what he is spoiled as
  
• sterling grove - helps find the enchantments you need, or protects them later on, can be brought back with sun titan
  

Instants: (the purpose behind some of these was sunforger)

• akroma's blessing - good utility, cycle away if in your hand most of the time
  
• chaos warp - sunforger's answer to perky permanents
  
• chord of calling - finds eternal witness, then comes back to your hand to find someone else
  
• enlightened tutor - need as many tutors as you can to find astral slide
  
• gilded light - randomly good card to counter combo decks... or cycle
  
• krosan grip - it's krosan grip, it's amazing
  
• naya charm - more regrowth at instant speed that can be sunforged, or tapout opponent's board for the alpha strike
  
• oblation - typically sunforged out of the deck to save something on my side, or deal with something i have no answers for
  
• orim's thunder - great removal and disenchant effect all in one, can pay kicker even off of sunforger
  
• path to exile - yes, i know i need more swords to plowshares
  
• pull from eternity - can slide something out, then put it into graveyard, or bring back something of yours that has been exiled, then regrow it
  
• punishing fire - always loved this + grove of the burnwillows
  
• realms uncharted - amazing, it finds you 4 of your cycling lands! 2 of which you get right away, the other 2 you wait till you get tilling treefolk, or loam
  
• return to dust - very enchantment artifact removal, can also be sunforged
  
• selesnya charm - testing this out, not impressed
  
• wild ricochet - great card that no one expects, and can be sunforged!
  

Sorcery:

• austere command - one of the best wrath effects in EDH
  
• decree of justice - amazing cycler, and gives you a mini army
  
• edge of autumn - accelerates early, or is a "free" cycler later one, also used to get your cycling lands into grave if you had to play one
  
• gamble - tutor? yes please, really good at getting loam!
  
• green sun's zenith - find eternal witness or tilling treefolk normally
  
• idyllic tutor - need more tutors! there are not enough!
  
• life from the loam - one of the best spells in the deck, gets you back 3 cycling lands!
  
• regrowth - it's regrowth
  
• replenish - bring back your broken enchantments all at once, especially if you dredged them away with loam
  
• slice and dice - good for wiping out token armies, or edric decks in an (almost) uncounterable way
  

Lands
do they cycle? yes? play them all!
are you playing punishing fire? yes? play grove of the burnwillows
are you playing white? yes? play mistveil plains

General
as with most of my decks, the general was an after thought, i chose Mayael the anima because she was cheap to cast, and there were enough big creatures in the deck that i felt her ability MIGHT be more relevant than hazezon tamar and his mini army, but i'm not 100% sure on this... i just didn't like paying 7 mana on first casting of a general, especially in this deck, since in the later turns it has a lot of cycling to do!