Melek sling spells like a mother trucker.
Melek storms like a son of a bee.
Melek is the main man.
Why play Melek?
1. You like the control of blue.
2. You like the brute force of red.
3. You like winning big.
4. You like winning all at once.
5. You're a weird wizard.
Why not play Melek?
1. You're a dumb dumb.
2. You're not a weird wizard.
If you try accessing to a lot of cards (ie fetch lands) and go full tempo (not even sure it's the right deck type xD)... You might want to ask Jester (Animar pioneer). It's fun to watch going infinite once it goes online (and making your brain hurt like it did to me... Same as Animar combo).
Even though he used a different rules, the concept is still the same.
If you try accessing to a lot of cards (ie fetch lands) and go full tempo (not even sure it's the right deck type xD)... You might want to ask Jester (Animar pioneer). It's fun to watch going infinite once it goes online (and making your brain hurt like it did to me... Same as Animar combo).
Even though he used a different rules, the concept is still the same.
You should consider reiterate, unless you're against infinite combos. FOrk effects are generally good, especially in a deck with as much eot options as an izzet spellslinger will have. Aside from copying potential ramp, card draw, or simply being value, it still holds use in a counter/permission war, even getting passed uncounterable counters by forking your own spell again.
Reiterate itself gives you an instant win in mystical tutor, if you care of such things.
You should consider reiterate, unless you're against infinite combos. FOrk effects are generally good, especially in a deck with as much eot options as an izzet spellslinger will have. Aside from copying potential ramp, card draw, or simply being value, it still holds use in a counter/permission war, even getting passed uncounterable counters by forking your own spell again.
Reiterate itself gives you an instant win in mystical tutor, if you care of such things.
Would you mind doing a quick explanation? I'm not the best with the inner workings of Magic.
Would you mind doing a quick explanation? I'm not the best with the inner workings of Magic.
When you cast the Mystical Tutor from the top of your library, you get a copy. Most people disregard it since typically the second one resolving will just shuffle the result of the first one back in, since it is placed on top of the library.
However, you can respond to each spell, and if you get an instant, Melek lets you cast it from the top, allowing you to respond to your own tutor.
The gist of it is:
1) cast tutor, get copy.
2) copy puts reiterate on top. Cast with buyback, get copy. Target tutor with both.
3) Copy resolves, makes tutor copy, get whatever. Reiterate resolves, makes tutor copy, reiterate returns to hand.
4) Use tutor copy to get reset (if opponents turn and lower mana) or turnabout. Cast it, get copy. Copy resolves, utapping your lands, reiterate with buyback on original reset/turnabout to make copies, let copies resolve, make lots of manas with the original on the stack. Also, since Turnabout is not a modal spell (Choose one - ), the choice as to effect happens on resolution. You can also tap down all of your opponents stuff, should you feel like it.
4b) You now have infinite mana, and still have a mystical tutor on the stack. You can reiterate it to get every single instant in your deck on top of your library and cast them all.
5) get any spell that deals damage, reiterate the **** out of it for infinite damage. If you let the original Mystical Tutor resolve, you can even get a sorcery off the last one, cast that with the stack clear and reiterate the crud out of that.
You can even do this without the mystical tutor on the top of your library:
1) You tutor for mystic retrieval, get back the tutor (+ something with copy),
2) Tutor for brainstorm
3) flash back retrieval to get back the tutor again
4) then brainstorm (+copy) it on top and go to value town.
You might even not need the brainstorm...
Lets see..
tutor mystic retrieval, return tutor + something.
Cast tutor, get reiterate.
Cast retrieval, target tutor
cast tutor, respond, reiterate with buyback, let extra reiterate copy do nothing,
reiterate returns to hand makes another copy, get turnabout, go bonkers,
still have a tutor on the stack to reiterate like crazy, get damage spell, win.
Not sure which takes more mana, doing it from the hand with retrieval takes more set up and mana obviously, but you can split it over turns too.
In addition, with High Tide, it should give you high amount of mana for you to use... Like Time Spiral and previous mentioned card Turnabout... I've seen that sob do it all in one turn once the opponent gets bored or figured out the loop...
Oh, Bonfire of the Damned should be in there as well as having Pyroclasm since some aggro tend to be aggressive one turn before Jester started the loop... Plus some cards like Teeg and Aven Mindcensor tend to slow his progress down a bit.
Melek storms like a son of a bee.
Melek is the main man.
Why play Melek?
1. You like the control of blue.
2. You like the brute force of red.
3. You like winning big.
4. You like winning all at once.
5. You're a weird wizard.
Why not play Melek?
1. You're a dumb dumb.
2. You're not a weird wizard.
6 Melek, Izzet Paragon
Creatures:
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Goblin Electromancer
3 Guttersnipe
3 Wee Dragonauts
4 Sakashima the Impostor
4 Talrand, Sky Summoner
4 Archaeomancer
4 Solemn Simulacrum
5 Galvanoth
5 Magus of the Future
6 Charmbreaker Devils
Artifacts:
1 Sol Ring
1 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Lightning Greaves
2 Grim Monolith
2 Scroll Rack
3 Chromatic Lantern
4 Thran Dynamo
5 Mind's Eye
6 Mycosynth Lattice
Sorceries:
1 Ponder
1 Banefire
1 Preordain
1 Faithless Looting
2 Grapeshot
3 Epic Experiment
3 Fabricate
3 Inner Fire
4 Past in Flames
4 Chain Reaction
4 Foresee
4 Selective Memory
4 Empty the Warrens
5 Time Warp
5 Ignite Memories
6 Mindblaze
10 Time Stretch
12 Enter the Infinite
1 Brainstorm
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Izzet Charm
2 Think Twice
2 Telling Time
2 Twincast
2 Reverberate
2 Fork
2 Skullcrack
2 Brain Freeze
2 Desperate Ritual
2 Pyretic Ritual
3 Frantic Search
3 Seething Song
3 Spell Crumple
3 Electrolyze
3 Hinder
4 Turnabout
9 Searing Wind
Enchantments:
1 Soothsaying
2 Braid of Fire
2 Power Artifact
3 Rhystic Study
3 Eyes of the Watcher
5 Arcane Melee
10 Omniscience
0 Halimar Depths
0 Izzet Boilerworks
0 Steam Vents
0 Sulfur Falls
0 Cascade Bluffs
0 Desolate Lighthouse
0 Shivan Reef
0 Volcanic Island
0 Command Tower
0 Riptide Laboratory
0 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
12 Island
11 Mountain
Strategies:
1. Play Guttersnipe, Play Selective Memory, Play Epic Experiment.
2. Optionally play Guttersnipe, Storm
3. Play Omniscience, Play Enter the Infinite, Win.
4. Power Artifact on Grim Monolith, Storm off or Epic Experiment or etc etc etc.
Ideas? Criticism? Anything?
Even though he used a different rules, the concept is still the same.
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StaffYou should consider reiterate, unless you're against infinite combos. FOrk effects are generally good, especially in a deck with as much eot options as an izzet spellslinger will have. Aside from copying potential ramp, card draw, or simply being value, it still holds use in a counter/permission war, even getting passed uncounterable counters by forking your own spell again.
Reiterate itself gives you an instant win in mystical tutor, if you care of such things.
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Would you mind doing a quick explanation? I'm not the best with the inner workings of Magic.
Ral Zarek
Tezzeret
Ramps
Time Spiral
Lots and lots of Time Walks
A Counterspell here and there
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StaffWhen you cast the Mystical Tutor from the top of your library, you get a copy. Most people disregard it since typically the second one resolving will just shuffle the result of the first one back in, since it is placed on top of the library.
However, you can respond to each spell, and if you get an instant, Melek lets you cast it from the top, allowing you to respond to your own tutor.
The gist of it is:
1) cast tutor, get copy.
2) copy puts reiterate on top. Cast with buyback, get copy. Target tutor with both.
3) Copy resolves, makes tutor copy, get whatever. Reiterate resolves, makes tutor copy, reiterate returns to hand.
4) Use tutor copy to get reset (if opponents turn and lower mana) or turnabout. Cast it, get copy. Copy resolves, utapping your lands, reiterate with buyback on original reset/turnabout to make copies, let copies resolve, make lots of manas with the original on the stack. Also, since Turnabout is not a modal spell (Choose one - ), the choice as to effect happens on resolution. You can also tap down all of your opponents stuff, should you feel like it.
4b) You now have infinite mana, and still have a mystical tutor on the stack. You can reiterate it to get every single instant in your deck on top of your library and cast them all.
5) get any spell that deals damage, reiterate the **** out of it for infinite damage. If you let the original Mystical Tutor resolve, you can even get a sorcery off the last one, cast that with the stack clear and reiterate the crud out of that.
You can even do this without the mystical tutor on the top of your library:
1) You tutor for mystic retrieval, get back the tutor (+ something with copy),
2) Tutor for brainstorm
3) flash back retrieval to get back the tutor again
4) then brainstorm (+copy) it on top and go to value town.
You might even not need the brainstorm...
Lets see..
tutor mystic retrieval, return tutor + something.
Cast tutor, get reiterate.
Cast retrieval, target tutor
cast tutor, respond, reiterate with buyback, let extra reiterate copy do nothing,
reiterate returns to hand makes another copy, get turnabout, go bonkers,
still have a tutor on the stack to reiterate like crazy, get damage spell, win.
Not sure which takes more mana, doing it from the hand with retrieval takes more set up and mana obviously, but you can split it over turns too.
Retired EDH - Tibor and Lumia | [PR]Nemata |Ramirez dePietro | [C]Edric | Riku | Jenara | Lazav | Heliod | Daxos | Roon | Kozilek
Oh, Bonfire of the Damned should be in there as well as having Pyroclasm since some aggro tend to be aggressive one turn before Jester started the loop... Plus some cards like Teeg and Aven Mindcensor tend to slow his progress down a bit.
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StaffRetired EDH - Tibor and Lumia | [PR]Nemata |Ramirez dePietro | [C]Edric | Riku | Jenara | Lazav | Heliod | Daxos | Roon | Kozilek