MTG Salvation

The idea behind the deck is fairly straightforward, the goal is to use either thraben doomsayer or bloodline keeper in conjunction with intruder alarm to produce billions of tokens, and stop your opponent the following turn, to help this process along multiple cards with transmute have been added. So far in goldfish games this deck can get its combo off consistently by turn six with the occasionally getting a billion tokens on turn four.

what I have so far is this



So folks how can we improve this?

i don't think you need that much transmute action. It's ok to have a few but transmute is slow. I'd add more board control and stall, maybe some counters/removal to gain time and protect your combo.

As for the transmute, i'd only keep the 3cc ones, because it can search for 2 combo pieces, doomslayer and alarm.

You making a combo and NOT putting 4 ofs the combo pieces? Start there. Remove transmute for more combo pieces.

EDIT: What about Blood Artist and the wardens (Soul Warden, Essense Warden, Soul's Attendant)

I actually had 4 ofs in the original draft of this deck, but I was running into a lot of situations where two intruder alarms in a hand was useless and a transmute into a thraben could have meant comboing out. Just the same I will give the 4 sets some more chances, perhaps I was just having weird luck.

I'm thinking of dropping the bloodline keeper and all the 4 cost transmutes entirely in favor of streamlining things a bit and adding some of the suggestions I'm hearing, objections/opinions?

What about going more control and playing Gifts Ungiven to find your combo pieces?

Personally, I would just drop white and go with blue/black. Lord of lineage is a powerful win condition even without intruder alarm. You could easily run:

• remand
  
• mana leak
  
• spell pierce
  
• serum visions (I know you already are)
  
• thirst for knowledge
  
• compulsive research
  
• telling time
  
• smother
  
• go for the throat
  
• duress
  
• inquisition of kozilek
  
• thoughtseize

and have yourself a very consistent and PROTECTED combo deck, something that others can't usually say.

besides telling you to play twin or pod, id say stick to your 3 cmc win con. That way you can cut down on transmute and they hit both sides of the combo. Youll need ways to protect your guy the turn he comes out (so counters or Lightning greaves) since they dont have flash or haste. Go up to 4-ofs on the combo pieces and at most 4-of on your transmute. Then add in removal and a bit of deck selection and should be nice. Also white gives you path and some great tech out of the board. Esper mana bases arent that tricky if you have fetches into shocks, but since you aren't running them id say choose one of them and stick with it.

Might be interesting to make this UR and use Kiki-jiki, mirror breaker. I guess that deck is called splintertwin though.

See. Krenko, Mob Boss