MTG Salvation

I originally posted an Abzan list here but I've since found that a 5-color Bring to Light version is much, much better.

Like many people who saw Urza's Ruinous Blast I thought of creating a deck chock full of legends using Dominarias new historic payoffs with the Blast as the finishing blow. I work on a budget, so I didn't include some stellar but pricey options such as Mox Amber, Reki, History of Kamigawa, and Captain Sisay. This is what I came up with.



The curve is somewhat top-heavy and it's hard to find ramp that works in a 5-color shell and doesn't comprise of permanents that you'll kill with your own Urza's Ruinous Blast. Otherwise the deck has been a ton of fun, and playing with virtually 8 Blasts via Bring to Light has been outstanding. The current creature base offers a potent beatdown plan while providing a good dose of card draw, ramp, and utility.

The biggest flaw here is definitely wanting more effective ramp and/or 2-drops. Suggestions on that front very welcome! The mana base is tricky, but this is what I've come up with without breaking the bank. It can be a bit painful and 12/25 lands enter tapped but it has largely succeeded in casting the many color-intensive spells. Obviously the lands could be much better on an unlimited budget.

I guess the deck would benefit immensely with mana rocks replacing the Farseeks.

Paradox Engine is the most obvious inclusion here, i guess, but is not budget friendly, unfortunately, though. It gets pretty ridiculous when combined with Fellwar Stone, Gilded Lotus, Selvala, Explorer Returned and/or Selvala, Heart of the Wilds. You draw your deck, cast any legends you want, and nuke everything with Urza's Ruinous Blast at the end of the chain.

Besides that, Thalia's Lancers could be useful to get your silver bullets.

Maybe Thran Temporal Gateway. But it has little synergy with Bring to Light, it can be played with that though.

Here is my Bring to Light deck, to give you ideas. It is still a work in process though.

I had the same idea with the release of Dominaria. But I ended up with a UW control(ish) deck that also abuses Raff Capashen, Ship's Mage. He allows you to play your entire deck at instant speed.



Not really happy yet about the deck though. Manacurve is pretty high and the deck lacks some consistency.
Would like to fit in some countermagic to protect Raff (Rewind comes to mind, so you can untap and flash something in afterwards) and perhaps some Impulses.

Doesn't seem like a good Baral deck given that 8 of your spells cost 1 CMC. Comeuppance and Ætherize also seem superfluous. Your goal is already to exile everything with URB so they don't seem especially worthwhile. I'd rather see you field Karn's Temporal Sundering instead.

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV seems vastly superior to Jhoira's Familiar.

Otherwise it's mostly about improving your creature-based. More cheap, defensive threats like Daxos of Meletis, Brimaz, King of Oreskos, Thada Adel, Acquisitor and Thalia, Heretic Cathar. I'd also replace things like Shalai, Voice of Plenty and Radiant, Archangel with cards that have more "bite" such as Dragonlord Ojutai and Nezahal, Primal Tide.

Brimaz might not be considered cheap. Unless you’re counting mana.

Maybe Grenzo, Dungeon Warden is a good addition?

If I think of another I’ll add it to this post.

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Unless you’re counting mana.

Cheap as in "low CMC."

You can run Honden, they won’t get exiled. You just cannot cast the Blast when there’s only those in play.

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You can run Honden, they won’t get exiled. You just cannot cast the Blast when there’s only those in play.

That's what he meant. He knows that they don't get exiled, but the fact that they don't trigger URB makes them cumbersome.