I will agree with you that Voyaging Satyr are probably better than the Kiora's Followers. UG casing cost can be hard on occasion and one more power is not worth being harder to cast on turn two.
Trackers are really good mtg cards. They are card advantage and a lot of it. Often they get big enough quick enough to be answers or removal and they command removal from opponents. I like them somewhere in the 75.
There is not a lot of difference between the lists. I like the inclusion of Nissa, Worldwaker as a one of, but I would run 3 of both of the other planewalkers and I might play test myself into four of each of them.
Hornet Queen is probably a sideboard card, definitely not maindeck.
I am leery of Anger of the Gods in your deck. Its powerful but getting RR1 is hard and it will often kill your own untappers, which are creatures. Maybe we are really racing those matchups and the better answers might be Wurmcoil Engine, Hornet Queen and Cyclonic Rift. Even if Rift needs more mana than Anger to Work, we can often get more mana and at least we aren't destroying our own engine to slow down our opponent. So, I do like your choice of Cyclonic Rift for removal, since we'll often have mana to upcast it. But if you are sold on a Red sweeper, I would look for something more like Pyroclasm that only has one red in the casting cost. You want something you won't have to use an untapper to generate the second red mana, so you can hold back in your deployment of your big mana engine.
I would suggest some number of Semblance Anvil, start with 3. They act as additional copies of Heartless Summoning and you can probably absorb the card disadvantage as your creatures are so difficult to interact with. But this should add some consistency to the deck.
Just as a thought Steelshaper's Gift can find a single or couple Cranial Platings, so that you can run 5-8 of them. I often own one of a lot of cards for my EDH decks, so a cheap tutor like Steelshaper's Gift can be some help. It may also provide toolbox effects out of the sideboard.
Please don't think that I am down on the deck. This is a deck that can work. The win condition is strong and doesn't require a lot of space... I do believe this can and will eventually have a home.
I don't believe that Blood Moon is the answer. I do think Jeff is correct about that... It doesn't get you enough free wins to justify it.
But I haven't seen the list yet that moves this into a solid list... Jeff also plays player submitted lists, and one of the things that usually happens is the player submitted lists don't have enough land... Totally, this deck cannot afford to miss land drops...
Jeff Hoogland played this deck the other day and is down on it in the current metagame. He is down in general on Blood Moon because he feels like most of the decks in the format can play around it and it doesn't generate enough free wins to justify playing it. Jeff sees Blood Moon as even a bad sideboard card at this point. A day or two ago he played the Uw version and thought that Serum Visions was not a big help and felt awkward.
I have experimented with versions that run Weathered Wayfarer to find Nythos, Shrine to Nyx. I like that in a Wu shell, but it can splash any color and I think I was only running Detention Sphere in Blue and maybe a couple sideboard cards.
Jeff is high on this deck. The planeswalkers serve double duty as making tokens and buffing tokens. The planeswalkers are also pretty hard to interact with especially with all the tokens getting in the way. Its avoiding cards like Intangible Virtue purposely and substituting the buffs from the Planeswalkers and Township in their stead. The clock can be incredibly fast and the ramp mana producers often become very powerful attackers in this deck. Here is the link to his most current decklist: https://www.jeffhoogland.com/decklists/abzan-tokens/
I can see being mostly green is helpful because of Chord of Calling. Green creatures help to pay the convoke cost. But a small splash of one or another color do make a lot of sense.
I can imagine there is some really powerful targets if we splash other colors. We have most of the infinite mana combo cards for Devoted Vizier combo, plus we would be running chord.
I like the list and feel like it would be fun to play. It maybe a budget list so there maybe ways to improve it by splashing a color, but I like the Epochrosite and Dungrove Elder as very hard to deal with creatures. This list maybe should have a white splash for a single copy of Vizier of Remedies, chording into that seems powerful.
I think its better positioned than you might think. White being good means more Path to Exile is bothersome, but often we can turn 2 a 5/5 that can check a Hollow One by itself and if we play a bunch of Wrath effects then we can be in a great position. Being in a spot to cast Wrath and not lose our creatures is one of the biggest benefits to this deck. The deck can interact with non-interactive decks well out of the sideboard.
This deck maybe too slow by a turn, but in general it has pretty good tools.
I see Skilled Animator as a possible sideboard card. Most decks don't have good removal for us and will side out a lot of removal. In game one the Animator is a possible target for the otherwise dead removal in their decks. In decks where you want to be aggressive and ensure you get two 5/5s on the table as fast as possible. Skilled Animator may play a big role.
I see Skilled Animator as a possible sideboard card. Most decks don't have good removal for us and will side out a lot of removal. In game one the Animator is a possible target for the otherwise dead removal in their decks. In decks where you want to be aggressive and ensure you get two 5/5s on the table as fast as possible. Skilled Animator may play a big role.
Trackers are really good mtg cards. They are card advantage and a lot of it. Often they get big enough quick enough to be answers or removal and they command removal from opponents. I like them somewhere in the 75.
There is not a lot of difference between the lists. I like the inclusion of Nissa, Worldwaker as a one of, but I would run 3 of both of the other planewalkers and I might play test myself into four of each of them.
Hornet Queen is probably a sideboard card, definitely not maindeck.
I am leery of Anger of the Gods in your deck. Its powerful but getting RR1 is hard and it will often kill your own untappers, which are creatures. Maybe we are really racing those matchups and the better answers might be Wurmcoil Engine, Hornet Queen and Cyclonic Rift. Even if Rift needs more mana than Anger to Work, we can often get more mana and at least we aren't destroying our own engine to slow down our opponent. So, I do like your choice of Cyclonic Rift for removal, since we'll often have mana to upcast it. But if you are sold on a Red sweeper, I would look for something more like Pyroclasm that only has one red in the casting cost. You want something you won't have to use an untapper to generate the second red mana, so you can hold back in your deployment of your big mana engine.
Deck List from MTGGoldfish:
1 Walking Ballista
4 Arbor Elf
2 Birds of Paradise
3 Kiora's Follower
2 Eternal Witness
3 Tireless Tracker
1 Xenagos, God of Revels
1 Primeval Titan
1 Hornet Queen
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
2 Kiora, Master of the Depths
1 Nissa, Worldwaker
3 Tooth and Nail
4 Utopia Sprawl
4 Overgrowth
3 Breeding Pool
7 Forest
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
2 Stomping Ground
1 Verdant Catacombs
3 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Nature's Claim
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Negate
2 Scavenging Ooze
1 Chameleon Colossus
1 Creeping Corrosion
1 Crumble to Dust
1 Obstinate Baloth
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Dragonlord Atarka
Please don't think that I am down on the deck. This is a deck that can work. The win condition is strong and doesn't require a lot of space... I do believe this can and will eventually have a home.
I don't believe that Blood Moon is the answer. I do think Jeff is correct about that... It doesn't get you enough free wins to justify it.
But I haven't seen the list yet that moves this into a solid list... Jeff also plays player submitted lists, and one of the things that usually happens is the player submitted lists don't have enough land... Totally, this deck cannot afford to miss land drops...
I have experimented with versions that run Weathered Wayfarer to find Nythos, Shrine to Nyx. I like that in a Wu shell, but it can splash any color and I think I was only running Detention Sphere in Blue and maybe a couple sideboard cards.
4 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
4 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
3 Sorin, Solemn Visitor
2 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Lingering Souls
4 Thoughtseize
4 Path to Exile
2 Bitterblossom
2 Forest
3 Gavony Township
1 Godless Shrine
4 Horizon Canopy
1 Overgrown Tomb
2 Plains
1 Swamp
2 Temple Garden
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Collective Brutality
3 Damping Sphere
2 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Rest in Peace
3 Stony Silence
I can imagine there is some really powerful targets if we splash other colors. We have most of the infinite mana combo cards for Devoted Vizier combo, plus we would be running chord.
I like the list and feel like it would be fun to play. It maybe a budget list so there maybe ways to improve it by splashing a color, but I like the Epochrosite and Dungrove Elder as very hard to deal with creatures. This list maybe should have a white splash for a single copy of Vizier of Remedies, chording into that seems powerful.
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Dungrove Elder
1 Duskwatch Recruiter
1 Eternal Witness
3 Kitchen Finks
4 Leatherback Baloth
1 Loaming Shaman
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Runic Armasaur
1 Steel Leaf Champion
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
3 Wall of Roots
1 Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter
1 Rhonas the Indomitable
1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
4 Relic of Progenitus
4 Chord of Calling
4 Collected Company
1 Hex Parasite
1 Spellskite
1 Atzocan Archer
1 Brindle Boar
4 Caustic Caterpillar
1 Magus of the Moon
3 Tireless Tracker
3 Shapers' Sanctuary
This deck maybe too slow by a turn, but in general it has pretty good tools.