Why are we running Dimir House Guard? Were their more 4 drops at some point. I don't think this card is strong enough to warrant a spot so I'm voting down all 4.
I took a break from MTGS and yet we are still on this deck. Crazy. Anyways I'm going to vote down Claws of Gix because in my experience the mana payment always ends up being more of a toll than you initially think. I'm also going to vote to cut all 4 Cabal Therapy and combine the votes. I just don't think it's any good in a deck with so few creatures even if we do want to put a lot of them in the graveyard.
Cornucopia can keep getting big with Vorel so you can set up sweet Hangarback Walkers though. Astral Cornucopia is one of my favorite cards in Vorel EDH.
Boros Guildgate is #231 and Crumbling Necropolis is #233 and they didn't spoil anything else that could be #232, I'm pretty sure I can guess which card is going to be in the set between those two.
Gonna vote to cut all 4 "Lead by Example". It just seems like a week card imo. Also going to vote to cut the 3 Sphere of Suns. I would much rather have Astral Cornucopia in this spot. Actually I'm going to add 2 Astral Cornucopia. I think we've got some good synergies here and we're already so close to the cutting phase that prolonging it will just make us take longer to find what we want to cut.
Adding 4 Aetherhub. Mana fixing is always good and we can proliferate our energy counters to get more uses out of it. We may also want to consider some amount of Vivid lands and possibly an off color storage land ala Calciform Pools
I'll second the votes against Firecat Blitz and Myriad Landscape. I'm also going to vote to reduce our land count by 2 more. We originally had 23 lands and I feel like that is 1 to many. With Mox Ruby and Sol Ring being near functional lands I think 20 is the right number.
I'm going to vote to cut all 4 Lightning Axe. It is a good card but I think Lightning Bolt, Seal of Fire, and Flame Burst make up a fine enough burn suite.
I'll vote to cut a land as well. The recent mana rocks should more than make up for us being one land. I still think Blood Moon is a better card that the few nonbasics we have here but it appears I am outnumbered. I'm also going to vote out the 3 Vessel of Volatility. I think there are much better options for acceleration than a card that makes us wait a turn to use it effectively.
Looking back we got off track a couple times. Weirdly they just happened to cancel each other out once. Four cards weren't added to the total once and four cards weren't removed twice so the first time it happened they just cancelled each other out but the second time we actually just went off track.
There are no budget restrictions so I'm adding 1x Black Lotus. This let's us accelerate pretty hard and puts an artifact in the grave for delirium. We might also want to look into running some lotus petals.
4 Exquisite archangel
4 Academy Rector
1 Ghost Council of Orzhova (2 @ -1)
4 Dimir House Guard (1 @ -1) (1 @ -4)
3 Children of Korlis
Artifact 4
2 Phyrexian Processor
2 Lightning Greaves
Enchantments 7
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Necropotence
2 Ghostly Prison
2 Defense of the Heart
1 Cadaverous Bloom
4 Dark Ritual
Sorcery 10
1 Channel
1 Balance
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Night's Whisper (1 @ -4)
2 Death Grasp
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Lands 24
4 Reliquary Tower
4 Scrubland
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Ancient Tomb
3 Savannah
3 Bayou
2 Phyrexian Tower
1 Grim Backwoods (1 @ - 1)
2 High Market (1 @ +1)
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4 Exquisite archangel
4 Academy Rector
2 Ghost Council of Orzhova (1 @ -1)
4 Dimir House Guard (1 @ -1)
3 Children of Korlis
Artifact 5
2 Phyrexian Processor
3 Lightning Greaves (1 @ -1)
Enchantments 8
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Necropotence
3 Ghostly Prison (2 @ -1)
2 Defense of the Heart
1 Cadaverous Bloom
4 Dark Ritual
Sorcery 12
1 Channel
1 Balance
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Cabal Therapy (2 @ -2)
4 Night's Whisper (1 @ -4)
2 Death Grasp
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Lands 24
4 Reliquary Tower
4 Scrubland
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Ancient Tomb
3 Savannah
3 Bayou
2 Phyrexian Tower
1 Grim Backwoods
2 High Market
4 Exquisite archangel
4 Academy Rector
Artifact 2
2 Phyrexian Processor
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Necropotence
Instants 6
4 Dark Ritual
2 Whitesun's Passage
4 Scrubland
20 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Plaguemaw Beast
4 Musician
4 Hangarback Walker
4 Scrounging Bandar (1 @ -2)
2 Vorel of the Hull Clade
3 Forgotten Ancient (1 @ -1)
2 Fuel for the Cause
2 Inspiring Call
Artifacts (8)
2 Astral Cornucopia (2 @ -2)
4 Contagion Clasp
2 Animation Module
Enchantments (3)
1 Inexorable Tide (1 @ +1)
2 Iceberg
2 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
Lands (24):
8 Forest
2 Island
2 Saprazzan Skerry
4 Aether Hub
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Llanowar Reborn
Boseiju, who shelters all here we come baby.
2 Plaguemaw Beast
4 Renegade Krasis (1@-2)
4 Musician
4 Hangarback Walker
4 Scrounging Bandar (1@-2)
2 Vorel of the Hull Clade
3 Forgotten Ancient (1@-1)
4 Lead by Example (1 @ -4)
4 Fuel for the Cause
2 Inspiring Call
Artifacts (11)
2 Astral Cornucopia
4 Contagion Clasp
2 Animation Module
3 Sphere of the Suns (2@-3)
1 Inexorable Tide (1 @ +1)
2 Iceberg
Planeswalker (4)
4 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar (1@-2)
Lands (24):
12 Crystal Quarry
4 Aether Hub
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Llanowar Reborn
2 Plaguemaw Beast
4 Renegade Krasis
4 Musician
4 Hangarback Walker
4 Scrounging Bandar
2 Vorel of the Hull Clade
4 Lead by Example
Artifacts (6)
4 Contagion Clasp
2 Animation Module
Enchantments (3)
1 Inexorable Tide
2 Iceberg
4 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
Lands (24):
16 Crystal Quarry
4 Aether Hub
4 Llanowar Reborn
4 Scourge Wolf
4 Fledgling Dragon (1 @ -4)
2 Pardic Arsonist (1 @ -2)
4 Chandra's Phoenix
4 Pardic Firecat
Sorceries (13)
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Faithless Looting
2 Firecat Blitz (2 @ -1)
2 Magmatic Insight
4 Rift bolt (2 @ -4)
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Lightning Axe (1 @ -2)
4 Flame Burst
Enchantments (5)
2 Seal of Fire
Artifacts (3)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
13 Mountain
4 Forgotten Cave
3 Myriad Landscape (2 @ -3)
2 Barbarian Ring
4 Scourge Wolf
4 Fledgling Dragon (1 @ -4)
2 Pardic Arsonist (1 @ -2)
4 Chandra's Phoenix
4 Pardic Firecat
Sorceries (13)
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Faithless Looting
2 Firecat Blitz
2 Magmatic Insight
4 Rift bolt (2 @ -4)
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Axe (1 @ -2)(1 @ -4)
4 Flame Burst
Enchantments (5)
3 Vessel of Volatility (2 @-3)
2 Seal of Fire
Artifacts (3)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
13 Mountain
4 Forgotten Cave
3 Myriad Landscape
2 Barbarian Ring
4 Scourge Wolf
4 Fledgling Dragon
2 Pardic Arsonist
4 Chandra's Phoenix
4 Pardic Firecat
Sorceries (13)
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Faithless Looting
2 Firecat Blitz
2 Magmatic Insight
4 Rift bolt (1 @ -4)
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Axe
4 Flame Burst
Enchantments (6)
3 Blood Moon (2@-3)
3 Vessel of Volatility (2 @-3)
2 Seal of Fire
Artifacts (3)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
13 Mountain
4 Forgotten Cave
3 Myriad Landscape
2 Barbarian Ring
4 Scourge Wolf
4 Fledgling Dragon
2 Pardic Arsonist
4 Chandra's Phoenix
4 Pardic Firecat
Sorceries (9)
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Faithless Looting
2 Firecat Blitz
2 Magmatic Insight
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Axe
4 Flame Burst
Enchantments (6)
3 Blood Moon (2@-3)
3 Vessel of Volatility (1@-3)
2 Seal of Fire
Artifacts (3)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
13 Mountain
4 Forgotten Cave
3 Myriad Landscape
2 Barbarian Ring
4 Scourge Wolf
4 Fledgling Dragon
2 Pardic Arsonist
4 Chandra's Phoenix
4 Pardic Firecat
Sorceries (9)
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Faithless Looting
2 Firecat Blitz
2 Magmatic Insight
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Axe
4 Flame Burst
Enchantments (6)
3 Blood Moon (1@-3)
3 Vessel of Volatility
Artifacts (1)
1 Black Lotus
14 Mountain
4 Forgotten Cave
3 Myriad Landscape
2 Barbarian Ring