MTG Salvation

Since I created the competitive multiplayer tier list discussion thread it seems about time I throw out my personal decklist for discussion.

Zur the Enchanter is much hated on yet rarely discussed general in EDH. This decklist was my attempt to get the most out of him.

Strategy:
With a fast start the goal is usually to throw out your fast mana and then Timetwister on either turns one or two. This is incredibly disruptive and can win games by itself.
The general plan is to play control until you draw your entire deck using either Angel's Grace into Ad Nauseam or Power Artifact enchanting a Monolith into Stroke of Genius. Once you have all the cards you can combine Power Artifact and Monolith if you haven't already for infinite mana and then Exsanguinate for the win.
The major difference with my list that I don't see in most other lists is my all-in usage of Necropotence. If I get it early I'll usually Necro for 20-25 and rarely lose after doing so.
Am currently tuned for fighting Derevi. Most recent major change is the addition of Monastery Mentor as a secondary win condition. Allows the deck to establish a board presence that it was missing previously.


I've been considering making a primer for the general but there is so much variety in the lists that I've seen that I'll just throw out my list for peer review for now.

Thoughts?

Notion Thief is incredible here, wins on the spot with Windfall and Timetwister, I don't know your meta but Bribery seems a little goodstuff-ish. I'd also play 1 of each other basic land to fight Blood Moon effects. Also, 26 lands is really low, does it work consistently?

The list looks really powerful and not too overly relying on Zur - which is really the best way to play him.

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Notion Thief is incredible here, wins on the spot with Windfall and Timetwister, I don't know your meta but Bribery seems a little goodstuff-ish. I'd also play 1 of each other basic land to fight Blood Moon effects. Also, 26 lands is really low, does it work consistently?

Notion Thief feels like a win more card to me. By the time I have 7 mana available I should be winning outright not just crippling people's hands. Also one person in my playgroup loves this combo so we're all prepared for it. Notion Thief? Enjoy your 3/3 frog token.

Bribery a meta choice. It is an additional win condition that has a lot of utility in my group. Shutting down Derevi with their own Elesh Norn, getting Consecrated Sphinx after your big Necropotence whiffed or similar plays are nice to have. It's also nice to have a second way to rummage through new decklists.

The land count is actually 25. If I ever use Tolaria West for anything but a tutor something has gone terribly wrong. The low land count works out because the deck has such a low CMC, has numerous ways to filter cards and includes all of the efficient mana acceleration available in the colors. It's not like you will be playing more than one land per turn anyways.

7 Mana?! The dude has flash, and you run tower and spellbook. The card is stone cold nuts and its good in response to other people wheels and you run free counters. Its pure gold in my experience.

At 4 mana the card is only responsive not proactive. Does it do amazing things when it works? Yes. But do I expect it to be relevant in the first 4 or so turns that I see as the key turns of this deck? No.

It might be a little goofy but do you think Rule of Law or Eidolon of Rhetoric belong in the list?

I was playing my Ephara deck (Which is way too 75% for the meta) against a couple cutt-throat guys (let's call them Zurcropotence and Sharuumbo) and I Desertion'd a Zur then swung out an Eidolon of Rhetoric and it totally shut Sharuum down (he forgot to remove it and then scooped, but he woulda eaten Forbid if he'd tried to remove it).

Given what Rule of Law does to almost every combo in the format, I suspect it would be a very, very strong thing for Zur to tutor out if he wants to force a long game for some reason.

** Given all your combos require tons of spells this might not be the right way. If you're zurring Empyrial Armor+Steel of the Godhead ands winging for a billion it's probably more of a reasonable approach.

I hated that card from zur though the build was much differnt i don't think he wants that card in play his curve is fast. The only card I see as odd is the spellbook But with necro as your general I guess it's going to be able to do it's thing I just prefer a control card or gas slot to this trying to gaurntee you get to that necro or get thier a turn quicker. spellbook I feel because necro alredy gives a crazy high win % playing this in a card slot to change those alredy high win% to near 100% when you could try to improve your chance of getting to the winning line in the first place with a differnt card I dunno. I like something simple like impulse in that slot you have enough counters to make it feel like the cmc 2 equivalt of sitting on FoF to grab a card early. Also at 2 can easily function as a land drop on land light hands.