So Hope of Ghirapur just got spoiled out of Aether Revolt. I'm not sure how you guys feel about him but I think he's awesome. While some people are jumping to thopter tribal there are a ton of different ways you could take the deck. a few that jump out to me being: Isamaru, Hound of Konda style voltron, stax, aetherflux reservoir eggs, or even etb effects with stuff like nim deathmantle. Anyways, I'm super excited to start brewing with this thopter and would love to hear what direction y'all would take the deck in.
I'm slightly tempted to try brewing something around the thopter. It'd probably end up being a typical colourless.dec with a splash of voltron, along with some copy artifact shenanigans with Mirror Gallery.
I have a lot of stax pieces lying around from a deck that I tried to build a little while ago so I might go that route. In 1v1 I think it could be a pretty effective general for stax because if you have something like Mimic Vat or Nim Deathmantle and you can hit your opponent every turn then that shuts off a lot of their deck.
While we lose out on a lot of good stax cards because we aren't running any colors I think you could make it work.
I'm going to build mine Voltron, with a ton of equipment Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of Man like an angry Thopter wielding 2 swords for wings.
I would probably build it with Stax elements, and focusing on finishing the game through Voltron elements. Probably including things like Lodestone Golem, Thorn of Amethyst, and Umezawa's Jitte.
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Stax is the way I am going... COLORLESS decks tend to be less dependent on their landbase so things like Winter Orb have a much less pronounced effect on you. Keep a Karn and mycosynth lattice tucked away in your deck to lock people out for good.
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I've been working on a stax list. I can't tell if it's just worse than the same deck with Karn at the lead though. I'm pretty sure it is, but I've never felt better than a T1 sol ring into my general and a skullclamp. NEVER.
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I've been working on a stax list. I can't tell if it's just worse than the same deck with Karn at the lead though. I'm pretty sure it is, but I've never felt better than a T1 sol ring into my general and a skullclamp. NEVER.
Well the benefit of Hope vs Karn Karen is the hope itself can buy you time to get your stay engine going... and being cheap as he'll, you can spam it quite a bit.
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I would probably build it with Stax elements, and focusing on finishing the game through Voltron elements. Probably including things like Lodestone Golem, Thorn of Amethyst, and Umezawa's Jitte.
Yeah that's about where I'm at. But I also kinda wanna go full durdle-knot with stuff like Nim Deathmantle and Trading Post
While we lose out on a lot of good stax cards because we aren't running any colors I think you could make it work.
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Turn 1 sol ring this guy and Bone Splitter
Turn 2 Play and equip Jitte
Turn 3 Fireshreaker
Turn 4 General someone out?
Just a thought. Ram it full of strip mines and Lodestone golemns for fun.
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Well the benefit of Hope vs Karn Karen is the hope itself can buy you time to get your stay engine going... and being cheap as he'll, you can spam it quite a bit.
This aint your girlfriends meta! This is a man's meta! TURBO META.
Yeah that's about where I'm at. But I also kinda wanna go full durdle-knot with stuff like Nim Deathmantle and Trading Post
1 Hope of Ghirapur
Creatures:
2 Epochrasite
2 Myr Retriever
3 Etched Champion
3 Junk Diver
3 Palladum Myr
3 Shimmer Myr
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Solemn Simulacrum
6 Soul of New Phyrexia
6 Wurmcoil Engine
7 Myr Battlesphere
9 Artisan of Kozilek
10 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
10 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
12 Blightsteel Colossus
Artifacts:
0 Tormod's Crypt
2 Contagion Clasp
3 Cloud Key
3 Rings of Brighthearth
3 Sculpting Steel
4 Nevinyrral's Disk
4 Trading post
5 Mind's Eye
5 Predator, Flagship
6 Loreseeker's Stone
7 Spine of Ish Sah
8 Eldrazi Conscription
9 Darksteel Forge
0 Everflowing Chalice
1 Sol Ring
2 Fellwar Stone
2 Mind Stsone
3 Basalt Monolith
3 Darksteel Ingot
3 Worn Powerstone
4 Thran Dynamo
6 Dreamstone Hedron
Equipment:
1 Ghostfire Blade
1 Masterwork of Ingenuity
1 Skullclamp
2 Blade of Selves
2 Empyrial Plate
2 Hero's Blade
2 Lightning Greaves
2 Livewire Lash
2 Mask of Memory
2 Swiftfoot Boots
3 Champion's Helm
3 Loxodon Warhammer
3 Quietus Spike
3 Strata Scythe
3 Sword of Feast and Famine
3 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Sword of Light and Shadow
3 Sword of Vengeance
3 Whispersilk Cloak
4 Bonehoard
4 Moonsilver Spear
4 Sword of Kaldra
4 Sword of the Paruns
1 Arcane Lighthouse
1 Ash Barrens
1 Buried Ruin
1 Cathedral of War
1 Crystal Vein
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Desert
1 Eye of Ugin
1 Eldrazi Temple
1 Cargoyle Castle
1 Haunted Fengraf
1 Homeward Path
1 Phyrexia's Core
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Temple of the False God
1 Zoetic Cavern
23 Wastes
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