MTG Salvation

Has anybody tried Veil of Summer yet? I want to give 1 or 2 a try but I’m not sure if I’m supposed to cut Spell Pierce or what.

You could bring in the extra spellskite for more protection. The shaper’s sanctuaries are pretty much made for this match up and you could bring in the some number of kitchen finks as well. Probably side out might of old krosa and some scale ups.

I’m surprised nobody is talking about Shatter Assumption. Seems like a great card again Tron and eldrazi.

So does Scale Up take the place of become immense?

I like saheeli’s passive and I think mardu has all the tools to make her good with all of our cheap spells. Plus, she is still castable under a blood moon. Her minus 2 doing nothing for us is a bummer since we don’t play very many or any artifacts. I think she is worth testing out.

Ashiok seems slow but I could be wrong. I would highly recommend tryin Liliana of the Veil. I’ve been very impressed by the work that she does in almost every matchup. I don’t think liliana’s triumph is necessary or angraths rampage for that matter. We have both of those in our removal package already. Saheeli might be pretty good. Not sure about sorin.

This weekend I decided to try a one of surgical extraction in the main. Didn’t play against any Phoenix decks but I did get to thoughtseize a karn and extract it. Might be something worth considering since it can easily be pitched to looting or used and make a token. Also, Liliana of the veil was surprisingly good every time I played her. Not sure why I doubted her in this archetype.

Has anybody tried Kaya yet? She seems like she could put in some work right now. I’m going to try a 1 of and see how it goes.

Is Theater of Horrors worth trying out? Wish you could play the instants during any turn you’ve triggered spectacle.

Shriekmaw comes to mind off the top of my head. Maybe trygon predator for repeatable artifact/enchantment destruction.

About the pterodactyl, it can come down early at least. We do play quite a bit of spells to go along with pumping it quickly.

Anybody tried the new one drop pterodactyl yet? Could be a good threat.

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Personally i feel like lightning helix is one of the top cards in the deck, performing as bolts 5-6 (for me 4-5) and gaining life as well, it would take a lot of convincing for me to cut one of my 2

Are you playing helix over the brutalities?
Edit: how many fatal pushes do you play?

After having success early with this list, my deck just hasn’t been performing well. It could be that I play with a bunch of guys that are good with their respective decks and at magic in general or the deck is just lacking something.

So this has been my sideboard for a while now:
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Kambal
1 Liliana, the last hope
3 Molten Rain
1 Rakdos Charm
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Wear/Tear
So I’ve been thinking about dropping one Wear/Tear since KCI got banned. I’m considering Alpine Moon, Collective Brutality, Fulminator Mage, Pithing Needle or Painful truths.

I’d say Tier 1.5 or 2. Really wish we had gotten something from the new set but it doesn’t look like we did.