MTG Salvation

Hey man, awesome cube.

Nothing terribly interesting to add, but is that a misprint // foil Kytheon, Hero of Akros on cubetutor?

"It's not Doom Blade, so it's a garbage removal spell. 0/10"

I think the Red splash has gone from "good" to "correct" with a sideboard card I just thought of: Deflecting Palm. It does SOOOOOOO much. Stops Infect, Suicide Zoo, Boggles, Emrakul out of Nahiri control, hurts Burn & Bushwhacker Zoo, even gives us a minor way to fight back against Tron.

But that's just what makes it good.

What makes it INSANE is that it not only counters Pyroclasm, it throws any damage it would deal back at the owner's face. So, let's say its G2 against Tron/Nahiri Control/xyz deck with pyroclasms. You have four tokens in play. They cast a pyroclasm effect. You cast deflecting Palm and deal 8 damage to their face.

Considering both how well it lines up with our game plan AND how many decks it's good against, I've been testing online with a full playset in the board. I'm gonna post results next time I bring it to a tourney.

Tagged by Nekra....

I've been testing this deck a TON for GP LA, and honestly, I've found Young Pyromancer to be wildly disappointing. It either eats a kill spell and does nothing, or chumps a lot and then you die anyway when you run out of ways to make tokens.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

Personally I'd drop the 2 Sign in Blood for 2 more Read the Bones, and given that you're going to splash blue I'd say drop both and play 4 Divination. Another good removal spell in Esper's arsenal post rotation is Murderous Cut. And you will NEED counterspells in the blue splash.