MTG Salvation

Hello all!

I thought I'd spat out the recent Jhoira deck that I've (re)built. I found the parts of my last Jhoira time warp theme'd / combo deck in a box and thought that I'd try to take the deck in a different direction. I'm still wanting to avoid the normal big-creature-land-destruction Jhoira style of playing.

The deck used to be a bit more controllish with a massive stack of counter spells (video of original v1 decklist), but due to the lack of board control for multiplayer games it had a tendency to fall flat on its face against a few aggro decks.

There are no legitimate counterspell variants in the deck, with the only control elements now being just venser, shaper savant, time stop, and glen elendra archmage. Hopefully with a few more creatures and value cards here I won't get swampped by aggro as bad.




The deck wins, in short, by using enter the infinite + beacon of tomorrows for infinite turns (winning with combat via rogue's passage or capsize), or laboratory maniac. Riptide Laboratory enables archaeomancer/izzet chronarch as an alternative infinite turn enabler.

A few cards of relative importance;

~ Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir - Ideal game-play is to cast enter the infinite and play Omniscience or Dream Halls. There may be a vulnaerability here to something like krosan grip, but with Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir in hand after resolving one of the blue-enabling enchantments, we can retain, cast the second one, retain again, and cast Teferi, which will resolve before the second enabler.

~ Azami, Lady of Scrolls - the second most important creature past Teferi. The deck is wizard tribal without a focus on "wizard power," but Azami and a few wizards + time warps can draw us very deep into a deck very quickly, and can easily enable laboratory maniac victories without going infinite turns or with enter the infinite.

~ Mirari + Meletis Charlatan - the way suspend works, if there are multiple spells coming off of suspend on the same turn, they don't both go on the stack at once. Each one comes out of suspend and resolves before the next, so Mirari or the Charlatan could come out of suspend the same turn a time warp does, and we can have them in-play and available to copy said time warp.

~ Mind's Desire is a throw-in and was not intended on being in the deck, but a buddy got the new FTV Lore and didn't want it. I'm not really that fond of the artwork, but a gift is a gift is a gift, and it can do good work here.


I know many people don't like time warp decks. In this deck, these are mostly treated as explore, so I can just draw + landfall + remove suspend counters. That route is just better (IMO) than suspend-specific cards like fury charm, which may be a completely dead card w/o Jhoira. The normal annoyance of time warp decks "taking forever" isn't actually present here since I (personally) can pilot through a turn pretty quick.

Ideas and feedback is always welcome!



change log;

Welp after playing this deck for a few weeks now, it seems to still struggle early game.

While my earlier high-control list tended to wait until I had 5 mana up to cast Jhoira (to hold up a counter or suspend), this time I just lackadaisically push her out on turn-3 and hope she survives so I can suspend two spells on the following turn.

The issue is that I'm seeing less card filtering/consistency using so many big impact spells, and while I don't really care to use the time warps like explore, if I don't actually make a landfall then I'm not really getting myself in a position to take over the game.

I'm going to stuff in a jori en, ruin diver as another wizard I can play early (more Azami fodder), and also a brainstorm/ponder/preordain/telling time to help with pre-jhoira turns.

I also need to pick up a spirebluff canal. I'm seeing the deck stutter a few games early with random land issues, so I may toss in a 3rd mountain and go up to 38x lands total since I have almost zero ramp.