I'm talking about Mana Crypt, of course. I think it is powerful enough to swap out a Land, and most cEDH decks use 33 instead of 34 anyway. I then cut a Plains for a Flooded Strand because why not complete the nonsense?
Enlightened Tutor is a superior Steelshaper's Gift, so that was an easy swap.
Spellseeker allows me to tutor up a line for a win, plus general utility. I'm sure most Brago players saw her and knew she deserved to find room in the deck. Finding a cut was a little difficult. I started my process by looking at the most expensive cards, I skipped over the Planeswalkers and my eyes settled on Oath of Jace, Basalt Monolith and Parallax Tide. I kept the Monolith because it is fast mana, even with its awkward untap requirements. Oath of Jace is still draw, which is decent and the deck needs as much fast card selection as possible. Parallax Tide costs 4, and while it is a nice mana accelerator, I found that I just didn't have time to cast it. I know it can be used with Strionic Resonator for a win, but otherwise its use is fairly narrow for such a high CMC card. Spellseeker has the utility to look for anything but also can aid in getting the wincon; Parallax's Wave of maybe untapping my lands or randomly winning was not worth the 4 CMC.
I didn't play when Path was made and I felt terrible about buying such an expensive, inferior Swords to Plowshares. Well, this is my nastiest deck so I need the most efficient spells. I've sort of run out of cards to buy from my shortlist, only expensive things I would want now, aside from stuff printed in Rav 3. I also prefer Path because I need to play around Seedtime against some opponents.
I don't enjoy playing this deck, it's mostly used to bully out pubstompers with the most unfun way to do so. With the success of my Tana Tymna Blood Pod, I have a powerful deck I enjoy using so why have this torturous turd? Brago gets the axe, his parts will be cannibalized by other decks.
1 Windswept Heath
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Island
1 Plains
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
1 Spellseeker
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Mana Crypt
1 Flooded Strand
1 Parallax Tide
1 Steelshaper's Gift
1 Island
1 Plains
Enlightened Tutor is a superior Steelshaper's Gift, so that was an easy swap.
Spellseeker allows me to tutor up a line for a win, plus general utility. I'm sure most Brago players saw her and knew she deserved to find room in the deck. Finding a cut was a little difficult. I started my process by looking at the most expensive cards, I skipped over the Planeswalkers and my eyes settled on Oath of Jace, Basalt Monolith and Parallax Tide. I kept the Monolith because it is fast mana, even with its awkward untap requirements. Oath of Jace is still draw, which is decent and the deck needs as much fast card selection as possible. Parallax Tide costs 4, and while it is a nice mana accelerator, I found that I just didn't have time to cast it. I know it can be used with Strionic Resonator for a win, but otherwise its use is fairly narrow for such a high CMC card. Spellseeker has the utility to look for anything but also can aid in getting the wincon; Parallax's Wave of maybe untapping my lands or randomly winning was not worth the 4 CMC.
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
1 Path to Exile
1 Reality Shift
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs
Mid-Tier: Marchesa Aggro Rose Asmadi Get Dire Tymna Ikra Woke Women Tiana Aura Angel Ruric Thar SMASH Smasher Kraum Mana Positivity Zur Slides
Filthy Casual: WUBRG Jodah WUBRG WUBRG Fatties WUBRG Gahiji Vigilant Vengeance Ezuri Mysterious Morphs