MTG Salvation

So, this is the deck I don't get to play often because I've had friends scoop in the first few turns of the game. I present thee, Damia Stax. Game plan is simple: Prevent things from happening, then either lay a few planeswalkers, a Lux Cannon and untap effects, or a Smokestack variant or Crazy sac effect and watch your opponents cry.

Notes: Considering Cutting the Mystical Teachings, Crystal Ball, and something else (or not) for some combination of Damping Matrix, Archmage Ascension, Bitterblossomand/or Overburden. Any Suggestions?

Mystical Teachings -> Archmage Ascension

I didn't see Land Equilibrium in your deck and was curious if you have considered it or not before?

At first I was unsure of how best to play the card, but it will work wonders if dropped early on or post some form of stax/land wipe effect. In your deck, if you dropped it beside any of your Orb/Stasis effects, you could potentially lock your opponents out of any future plays depending on how their decks curve is, and how many lands they may have at the time.

I see you are considering adding Overburden? I have had some success with it in the past, but it is largely meta-dependent. I see far too many tokens for it to be really useful now, but if your meta still uses a lot of traditional creatures, it can wreck aggro strategies. It also lowers your curve some.

Just a few thoughts, overall I like the look of the deck.

Quote from StyxOfTolaria

I didn't see Land Equilibrium in your deck and was curious if you have considered it or not before?

At first I was unsure of how best to play the card, but it will work wonders if dropped early on or post some form of stax/land wipe effect. In your deck, if you dropped it beside any of your Orb/Stasis effects, you could potentially lock your opponents out of any future plays depending on how their decks curve is, and how many lands they may have at the time.

I see you are considering adding Overburden? I have had some success with it in the past, but it is largely meta-dependent. I see far too many tokens for it to be really useful now, but if your meta still uses a lot of traditional creatures, it can wreck aggro strategies. It also lowers your curve some.

Just a few thoughts, overall I like the look of the deck.

I haven't put land equilibrium in just because my meta REALLLY hates that card, to a disproportionate degree. If I were to run it, I'd get hated out of every game so quickly that I wouldn't be able to run the deck again even if I cut the card.
Im still going to see regarding the overburden - we've got a bit of a shift going on with a decent influx of new players, so once that settles I may stick it in.

Archmage Ascension -> Mishra's Helix
Ascension wasn't playing too well - either dies instantly OR draws all the hate till I die "he can tutor for four cards a turn when its active, kill him!". In this format, sitting through six turns of drawing multiple cards is either impossible or means you won the game. Replacing it with more punishing prison effects is the right way to go.
Helix was an easy choice. Either time walk one player each round, or each player each turn with your untap effects.

Crystal Ball -> Damping Matrix
Damping matrix, though it shuts off a few of my favorite artifacts (Lux cannon, trading post) is just too good not to include. Dropping it and torpor orb (which happens plenty often) is so dumb it can often win games right then and there, since the only way to clear my board at that point would be to play an instant/sorcery that wipes artifacts and outside of vandalblast I rarely see that effect en masse. We'll see how it goes.

Magosi -> Myojin of Night's Reach

I've had exactly 0 mana problems, and Magosi has been useless outside of being a pretty foil. Forgot that I had a stack of foil Myojins so I added one for fun

Genesis -> Prophet of Kruphix
Jarad's Orders -> Curse of Swine

The Jarad/Genesis package wasn't doing much for - I always tutored for seedborn, and the recusion was rarely relevant. Prophet does the same thing (most of the time), and curse gives me an amazing, targeted sweeper that doesn't touch my crap.

Forcefield -> Herald of Leshrac

Honestly, the field was kinda Meh in the few times I played it. I ALWAYS had better stuff to tutor for, and I never had problems drawing into board wipes or some way to get rid of a troublesome critter. However, stealing everyones lands for a few turns in multiplayer just seems so tasty. I think the herald will like his new home

Problem is, now I REALLLY wanna run stifle