I'd been looking for a good Big Mana Maga deck, glad to see I'm not the only one who sees her potential as a game-ender. A few questions and ideas:
1. Are you able to consistently get large amounts of mana, after cutting Revenant, Ghast, and Magus, or are you relying on drawing/tutoring for Bubbling Muck before going off?
2. Have you got room for Toshiro Umezawa? You play a lot of instants/sorceries, he seems like he'd be valuable.
3. You're missing a couple black staples. Necropotence, for one, but also Vampiric Tutor in your tutor category and Grave Pact/Dictate of Erebos for decks more dependent on creatures than yourself.
4. Your deck is currently half categorized by type, half by function. Might I suggest two lists, one that is purely by type, the other with the functions? As well, indicate which cards are for early ramp (Thought Vessel, for example) and which are to power out a big fat Maga or other mana dump kill spell.
5. Some suggested cuts:
- Worn Powerstone is straight up awful. Get it outta here. Mana Crypt or Vault (and preferably both) belong here instead.
- Staff of Domination only works with infinite mana. Even if you generate 50 mana, you do what? Draw 5 cards? Gain 15 life? And then nothing else that turn. Nah, you can do better than that.
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1 Expedition Map (1(3))
1 Demonic Tutor (2)
1 Dimir House Guard (3)
1 Beseech the Queen (3-6)
1 Diabolic Tutor (4)
1 Increasing Ambition (5)
1 Liliana Vess (5)
1 Ring of Three Wishes (5 (10))
1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier (5)
1 Diabolic Revelation (6+)
Board Wipes (5):
1 Black Sun's Zenith (3+)
1 Damnation (4)
1 Mutilate (4)
1 Oblivion Stone (3 (8))
1 Decree of Pain (5 or 8)
Spot Removal (10):
1 Slaughter Pact (0)
1 Shriekmaw (5 (2))
1 Chainer's Edict (2 or 7)
1 Dismember (3)
1 Fleshbag Marauder (3)
1 Hero's Downfall (3)
1 Sever the Bloodline (4)
1 Silence the Believers (4)
1 Karn Liberated (7)
1 Scour from Existence (7)
Mana Dumps & Kill Cons (9):
1 Consume Spirit (3+)
1 Damnable Pact (3+)
1 Exsanguinate (3+)
1 Profane Command (3+)
1 Maga, Traitor to Mortals (4+)
1 Corrupt (6)
1 Geth, Lord of the Vault (6 (8+))
1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight (4 (10))
1 Spawnsire of Ulamog (10 (30))
Draw (4):
1 Blasted Landscape (0 (2))
1 Phyrexian Arena (3)
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited (5)
1 Erebos, God of the Dead (4 (6+))
Land Fetch (7):
1 Bloodstained Mire (0)
1 Marsh Flats (0)
1 Polluted Delta (0)
1 Verdant Catacombs (0)
1 Ash Barrens (0 (1))
1 Twisted Abomination (6 (2))
1 Liliana of the Dark Realms (4)
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All (0)
1 Reliquary Tower (0)
1 Vampire Hexmage (2)
1 Staff of Domination (3)
1 Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed (4)
1 Exquisite Blood (5)
1 Orbs of Warding (5)
1 Sorin Markov (6)
Land Ramp/Increased Mana Production (11):
1 Cabal Coffers (0 (2))
1 Deserted Temple (0 (1))
1 Mage-Ring Network (0)
1 Myriad Landscape (0 (2))
1 Temple of the False God (0)
1 Thespian's Stage (0 (2))
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (0)
1 Vesuva (0)
1 Bubbling Muck (1)
1 Burnished Hart (3)
1 Gemstone Array (4)
Recursion (5):
1 Buried Ruin (0 (2))
1 Petrified Field (0)
1 Volrath's Stronghold (0 (2))
1 Phyrexian Reclamation (1 (3+))
1 Crucible of Worlds (3)
Grave Hate (2):
1 Bojuka Bog (0)
1 Faerie Macabre (3 (0))
Land Destruction (1):
1 Strip Mine (0)
Mana Rocks (12):
1 Sol Ring (1)
1 Mind Stone (2)
1 Thought Vessel (2)
1 Charcoal Diamond (2)
1 Doubling Cube (3)
1 Unstable Obelisk (3)
1 Commander's Sphere (3)
1 Worn Powerstone (3)
1 Hedron Archive (4)
1 Thran Dynamo (4)
1 Gilded Lotus (5)
1 Dreamstone Hedron (6)
Basic Lands (16):
16 Swamp (0)
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
1 It That Betrays
1 Desolation Twin
1 Oblivion Sower
1 Void Winnower
1 Artisan of Kozilek
1 Distended Mindbender
1 All is Dust
March, 2015: Replaced Skeletal Scrying with Damnable Pact.
August, 2015: Replaced Witchbane Orb with Orbs of Warding.
September, 2015: Replaced Swamp with Petrified Field.
September, 2015: Replaced Bond of Agony with Profane Command.
October, 2015: Replaced Swamp with Blighted Fen.
October, 2015: Replaced Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath with Ob Nixilis Reignited.
October, 2015: Replaced Nirkana Revenant with Scour from Existence.
October, 2015: Replaced Swamp with Deserted Temple.
November, 2015: Replaced Crypt Ghast with Bubbling Muck.
November, 2015: Replaced Gray Merchant of Asphodel with Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed.
November, 2015: Replaced Everflowing Chalice with Gemstone Array.
November, 2015: Replaced Ravenous Trap with Faerie Macabre.
November, 2015: Replaced Hex Parasite with Hedron Archive.
November, 2015: Replaced Magus of the Coffers with Doubling Cube.
November, 2015: Replaced Subterranean Hangar with Mage-Ring Network.
November, 2015: Put All is Dust in the eldrazi sideboard. Added Thought Vessel.
November, 2015: Replaced Rune-Scarred Demon with Ring of Three Wishes.
February, 2016: Replaced Tendrils of Corruption with Phyrexian Arena.
1 Candelabra of Tawnos
1 Liliana's Shade
1 Walking Atlas
1 Helldozer
1 Crypt Ghast
1 Nirkana Revenant
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
1 Hythonia the Cruel
1 Fate Unraveler
1 Entomber Exarch
1 Muck Drubb
1 Disciple of Griselbrand
1 Hex Parasite
1 Magus of the Coffers
1 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Wild-Field Scarecrow
1 Murder
1 Go for the Throat
1 Imp's Mischief
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Reckless Spite
1 Tendrils of Corruption
1 Suffer the Past
Sorceries:
1 Reign of the Pit
1 Bond of Agony
1 Mind Sludge
1 Sadistic Sacrament
1 Grim Discovery
1 Sign in Blood
1 Appetite for Brains
1 Behold the Beyond
1 Blood Reckoning
1 Heartless Summoning
Artifacts:
1 Witchbane Orb
1 Altar of Shadows
1 Jet Medallion
1 Lashwrithe
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Staff of the Death Magus
1 Ring of Xathrid
1 Chalice of Life
1 Spectral Searchlight
1 Vessel of Endless Rest
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Spine of Ish Sah
Lands:
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Crypt of Agadeem
1 Subterranean Hangar
Phyrexian Reclamation + Shriekmaw = recurring spot-removal
Phyrexian Reclamation + Merciless Executioner = recurring sacrifice for all players
Phyrexian Reclamation + Burnished Hart = recurring land ramp
Phyrexian Reclamation + Twisted Abomination = recurring basic land tutor
Phyrexian Reclamation + Sidisi, Undead Vizier = recurring tutor
Phyrexian Reclamation + Dimir House Guard = recurring tutor for cards of 4 CMC
Phyrexian Reclamation + Vampire Hexmage = recurring planeswalker removal
Phyrexian Reclamation + Faerie Macabre = recurring targeted graveyard removal
Phyrexian Reclamation + Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed = recur any black card
Crucible of Worlds Package:
Crucible of Worlds + Buried Ruin + Mind Stone/Hedron Archive/Dreamstone Hedron = recurring draw
Crucible of Worlds + Buried Ruin + Expedition Map = recurring land tutor
Crucible of Worlds + Myriad Landscape = recurring land ramp
Crucible of Worlds + Polluted Delta/Bloodstained Mire/Marsh Flats/Verdant Catacombs = recurring fetch
Crucible of Worlds + Strip Mine = recurring land removal
Crucible of Worlds + Blighted Fen = recurring creature removal
Making lots of mana:
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Cabal Coffers = Black mana equal to the number of lands we control
Cabal Coffers + Vesuva/Thespian's Stage/Deserted Temple = multiple Cabal Coffers
Theros Block / Anax & Cymede
Return to Ravnica Block / Vorel of the Hull Clade
Khans of Tarkir Block / Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest
Peasant:
Kuldotha Red
Commander:
Maga, Traitor to Mortals
1. Are you able to consistently get large amounts of mana, after cutting Revenant, Ghast, and Magus, or are you relying on drawing/tutoring for Bubbling Muck before going off?
2. Have you got room for Toshiro Umezawa? You play a lot of instants/sorceries, he seems like he'd be valuable.
3. You're missing a couple black staples. Necropotence, for one, but also Vampiric Tutor in your tutor category and Grave Pact/Dictate of Erebos for decks more dependent on creatures than yourself.
4. Your deck is currently half categorized by type, half by function. Might I suggest two lists, one that is purely by type, the other with the functions? As well, indicate which cards are for early ramp (Thought Vessel, for example) and which are to power out a big fat Maga or other mana dump kill spell.
5. Some suggested cuts:
- Worn Powerstone is straight up awful. Get it outta here. Mana Crypt or Vault (and preferably both) belong here instead.
- Staff of Domination only works with infinite mana. Even if you generate 50 mana, you do what? Draw 5 cards? Gain 15 life? And then nothing else that turn. Nah, you can do better than that.