MTG Salvation

Hi Guys,

I want to build an equipment deck, so I landed on Geist of Saint Traft but I'm way over 99 cards in the deck. I kind of wanted to include some blink for utility, but I'm not certain if that would be too much. Maybe you guys could help me figure out what to cut?

Here's the core of the deck, organized by CMC:




Total: 114

Cards I'm also considering:




I guess I need to figure out which direction I want to take this deck, but I'm not sure that'll help me cut out everything I need to.

Did you build this with 1 vs 1 commander in mind, or duel commander (french ban-list)? The mana rocks, heavy creature theme, and high converted mana-cost spell distribution seems to fit more into multi-player, than duels.

I can see that this is also a budget deck given the choice of lands in your mana base, and the Jace from RTR being there rather than JTMS. Tell us what format you are planning to play this deck on, so we can give you the right comments Dae657.

Quote from Dae657

Hi Guys,

I want to build an equipment deck, so I landed on Geist of Saint Traft but I'm way over 99 cards in the deck. I kind of wanted to include some blink for utility, but I'm not certain if that would be too much. Maybe you guys could help me figure out what to cut?

Here's the core of the deck, organized by CMC:

Ikaoru's DeckMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
Commander: (1) 3 Geist of Saint Traft Planeswalkers: (1) 4 Jace, Architect of Thought Creatures: (26) 1 Kor Duelist 2 Auriok Steelshaper 2 Etherium Sculptor 2 Puresteel Paladin 2 Snapcaster Mage 2 Spellskite 2 Stoneforge Mystic 2 Vedalken Engineer 3 Brass Squire 3 Mirran Crusader 3 Cephalid Constable 3 Fiend Hunter 3 Silverblade Paladin 4 Taj-Nar Swordsmith 4 Leonin Abunas 4 Restoration Angel 4 Galepowder Mage 4 Glen Elendra Archmage 4 Phyrexian Metamorph 4 Venser, Shaper Savant 4 Voidmage Husher 4 Ephara, God of the Polis 5 Mulldrifter 5 Stonehewer Giant 6 Sun Titan 7 Sphinx of Uthuun Artifacts: (11) 1 Dispeller’s Capsule 1 Sol Ring 2 Sky Diamond 2 Fellwar Stone 2 Armillary Sphere 2 Talisman of Progress 3 Worn Powerstone 3 Chromatic Lantern 3 Darksteel Ingot 3 Sculpting Steel 4 Ur-Golem’s Eye 4 Thran Dynamo	Equipment: (10) 2 Runechanter’s Pike 2 Neurok Stealthsuit 3 Sword of Light and Shadow 3 Sword of War and Peace 3 Quietus Spike 3 Darksteel Plate 3 Helm of Kaldra 4 Shield of Kaldra 4 Sword of Kaldra 4 Grafted Exoskeleton Enchantments: (6) 1 Mystic Remora 3 Detention Sphere 3 Aura of Silence 3 Ghostly Prison 3 Rhystic Study 4 Control Magic Instants/Sorceries: (25) 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Steelshaper’s Gift 1 Brainstorm 1 Swan Song 1 Rapid Hybridization 2 Remand 2 Merchant Scroll 2 Into the Roil 2 Azorius Charm 2 Memory Lapse 2 Counterspell 2 Curse of the Swine 2 Cyclonic Rift 3 Psionic Blast 3 Hinder 3 Spell Crumple 3 Fabricate 3 Dissolve 3 Stoic Rebuttal 4 Rewind 4 Discombobulate 4 Supreme Verdict 5 Thoughtcast 6 Terminus 7 Temporal Mastery	Lands: (35) 7 Plains 6 Island 1 Seat of the Synod 1 Ancient Den 1 Darksteel Citadel 1 Halimar Depths 1 Soaring Seacliff 1 Mistveil Plains 1 New Benalia 1 Cephalid Coliseum 1 Boreal Shelf 1 Coastal Tower 1 Adarkar Wastes 1 Flood Plain 1 Hallowed Fountain 1 Celestial Colonnade 1 Command Tower 1 Evolving Wilds 1 Terramorphic Expanse 1 Prahv, Spires of Order 1 Kor Haven 1 Buried Ruin 1 Rogue’s Passage 1 Temple of the False God

Total: 114

Correction: You have 115 cards PLUS Geist.

16 cards that can be remove... (From competitive POV)

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Cards I'm also considering:

Ikaoru's DeckMagic OnlineOCTGN2ApprenticeBuy These Cards
Creatures: 3 Augury Adept 3 Frontline Medic 3 Skyhunter Skirmisher 3 Kemba, Kha Regent 3 Thada Adel, Acquisitor 4 Ascended Lawmage 4 Kitsune Healer 4 Brigid, hero of Kinsbaile 4 Angel of Jubilation 4 Thistledown Liege 5 Glory 5 Body Double 5 Aeon Chronicler	1 Leonin Arbiter 2 Spellskite 2 Aphetto Alchemist 3 Trinket Mage 3 Emancipation Angel 3 Flickerwisp 3 Stonecloaker 4 Gulf Squid

Trinket Mage can help you.
Spellskite is a really really good card to use.
How's Aphetto Alchemist help?
Emancipation? How does that help?
Leonin Arbiter helps when you faced a fully tuned opponent's deck (aka Fetchlands and tutors).
Thistledown Liege? Eh
Flickerwisp works if you have tons of good etb cards.
Kemba? You could just use something else.
Kitsune Healer? Something else.
Lawmage is decent.
Brigid? Eh
Aeon C? If you have fast mana asap.

Artifacts:

• 1 Wayfarer’s Bauble
  
• 3 Basalt Monolith

Wayfarer's better. UW in a competitive setting don't necessarily need high mana count. If you want Basalt Monolith then you could've used Grim Monolith.

Equipment:

• 2 Swiftfoot Boots
  
• 2 Lightning Greaves
  
• 2 Sword of Body and Mind
  
• 3 Fireshrieker
  
• 3 Loxodon Warhammer
  
• 3 Whispersilk Cloak
  
• 3 Sword of Vengeance

Boots and Greaves and are actually helping Geist.

Sword of V is iffy.

Enchantments:
4 Bident of Thassa

Yes that helps

Instants/sorceries:

• 1 Squelch
  
• 1 Vanish into Memory

Vanish is too mana extensive tbh.

Land:

• 1 Riptide Laboratory
  
• 1 Terrain Generator
  
• 1 Urza’s Power Plant
  
• 1 Urza’s Mine
  
• 1 Urza’s Tower
  

Urza's land are too risky. You don't really need high mana count since 1v1 is mostly "cheap and powerful stuff are better." Plus you don't have anything to drop them from your deck.

Riptide Lab? You only have 5-6 Wizards in there.

Terrain Generator: You want to waste 3 lands for 1 basic land drop yet you have 35 in your deck? It could've work if you ave 38+ lands.

Some more cards to reconsider:

• Azorius Signet
• Sensei's Divining Top
• Skullclamp
• Sword of Fire and Ice
• Umezawa's Jitte
• Gitaxian Probe
• Mana Leak
• Miscalculation
• Angelic Destiny
• Steel of the Godhead

Thanks for the replies! You are right, this is a budget list other than some cards I may already have.

Upon second look of this post I made (late) last night, it seems I was trying to fit a RW peg into a UW hole, mostly so I can make use of Etherium Sculptor, Vedalken Engineer, Phyrexian Metamorph, Fabricate, and just the fact that blue is my least-played color. I will instead be making a WUB artifact multiplayer deck so I can play those cards, and keeping this as a more tempo-based 1v1 deck.

So, per Ikaoru's suggestion, I took out most of the equipment-based stuff, and added a few things here and there. What follows is my new change list, which I'll be adding to the OP.


Also, what do you guys think about Crawlspace and Disenchant? I feel like I need some kind of artifact/enchantment removal, and Crawlspace seems like it'd be good to keep me alive longer.