MTG Salvation

Hey all! Long time reader, first time poster. I'd love some help with a deck I threw together recently. It's super fun to play and I'd like to improve on it. Just a heads up, this deck is jank city, and it's thematically all over the place. The idea is to run every card that has or grants the ability of Prodigal Sorcerer and use them to control the board in various ways. You could ping your Fungusaur and watch it grow, or drop Rite of Passage and get the same effect with all of your creatures. Some of these "pingables" grant tokens, like Hornet Nest or any creature enchanted with Druid's Call. Using Acorn Catapult can even double up your tokens.

There's also a bit of a +1/+1 Counters theme. I mentioned Fungusaur up above, and we also have Animation Module and Durable Handicraft to make more and heftier tokens. This is also where our commander comes into play. Since a ton of our creatures and all of our tokens have power 2 or less, Ezuri, Claw of Progress charges up rapidly and plays heavily into the +1/+1 counters theme.

The decklist is below. I'm looking to improve the general play of the deck without limiting it. I think it's easy for a deck like this to do one thing, and I like that it has a lot of utility. For instance, I don't want to just load up on effects that untap my board repeatedly and go infinite, that's just not in the spirit of how I play Magic. I'd much rather take an unexpected approach and still pose a moderate threat.

So here is the current decklist. Again I'm brand new here, so if there are formatting mistakes please let me know. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Also I have tried and tried and tried to get the headers to show up in the decklist, but nothing I've tried has worked. The creatures are the first column, and they are sorted by ones that ping, ones that get pinged, and general utility. Also, just a quick edit here to write that Walking Ballista is totally something that's going to go in here, but it's not there yet for budget reasons. Thanks again!

Hi! And welcome! Good job for your first time trying to post a deck.

In terms of your decklist, and trying to add headings for card type, you just need to add a space before noncard headings. See below. If you need to see what I typed, use the "Quote" button and you can see what I typed.



As to your deck, looks fun! Have you considered Vigor? Seems like he'd be great.

This is fantastic. Thank you! Hivestone, some slivers, and Vigor. Unexpected and beautiful

Sunscorched Desert
Endbringer
Living Plane
Stuffy Doll
Ballista Charger
Triskelion
Caltrops
Walking Ballista
Copper Tablet

seedborn muse and murkfiend liege are both excellent choices to continue pinging. Stuffy doll is another perfect example and combos off of acorn catapult very well.

Are you dead set on Ezuri? If you'd be willing to go Temur you could use Riku of Two Reflections and open the door to all the Tims red has to offer. Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh, Prodigal Pyromancer, Gelectrode, and my all-time favorite Goblin Sharpshooter to name a few.

Actually, in addition to these two, I would think that quest for renewal deserves mention as well. It certainly doesn't take long to get the quest counters in this type of deck. Green has keen sense, which is just like curiosity and there is also ophidian's eye . In addition, there is charisma.

Really loving the concept of growing stronger from self-flagellation! I have a monoU deck devoted to hijinxes regarding pingers in my sig, if you want some ideas. It's the Reveka deck.

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Unexpected, eh? Hivestone + Psionic Sliver/Fungus Sliver/Dormant Sliver.

I've always been a fan of "suddenly this is Slivers". Hivestone with any one of those cards plays so perfectly with what you already want to do. And on their own, they still have some function.

How would the timing on that have to be for them to survive? If the creature has a toughness of 3 or less wouldn't it die as a state-based action before it gets the +1/+1 counter?