I've been trying to mess with sunbird's invocation but it is really clunky and it is a win-more card. But I took a cue from Saito's Big Burning lists and made a Temur list that I dub Unexpected Genius. It is a bit linear and has some really bad draws but if left unchecked it works 100% of the time 20% of the time!
This seems to be the most consistent iteration I could come up with for a multiplayer game. Casting a combustible gearhulk to reveal 11, 6, and 4 is really brutal. I believe you can also cast a blast of genius with pyromancer's goggles pitch metalwork colossus to the copy, activate its GY ability to return to your hand before the original Blast of Genius resolves for 22 dmg.
Just trying to put together a list on pet cards/interactions. Looking for a midrange toolbox with Niv Combo. Yes it is outclassed by Kiki but I'm not looking to win solely on the combo. Problem is that I have no way to draw when it comes online, which I think may be ok to give the table a way to counter in an attempt to be fair, but I'm thinking either alchemist apprentice or elvish visionary. We don't play a lot of combo.
[deck]Nightshade Peddler
Izzet staticaster
Huntmaster of the fells
I remember there was a deck I was brewing with Volatile Rig, Rakdos Keyrune and Haunted Platemail back in standard and barter in blood and other control cards. Manlands such as inkmoth nexus seem fun as well, and if your going to run one creature Sire of Insanity.
There are much better creatures than a lot of the 1/1s check out the mono green stopmy thread as it has a hardened scales list. I would just splash for constrictor and maybe dismember. Undying works well and so does evolve.
I run a GU deck that uses ordeal if thassa but you could run ordeal of erebos
I actually liked using artifact ramp from the Charge counter decks in modern. Everflowing + astral cornucopia + Hedron Archive + Tezzeret's gambit is very very consistent. Might try mind stone because the draw is very useful on archive in my goldfishing.
I think I'm going with the burning wish plan. Might throw in some electomamcers and/or goggles or an increasing vengeance to test. I think EpEx is just casual enough to make the deck not broken cause of RNG.
As far as vengeful rebirth I think that could be a really fun deck with a self mill and Splendid reclaimation. 4c no blue with unburial rites and or morgue burst seems absurdly fun. Or maybe temur solash of black for forbidden alchemy Loam red discard draw and cycling with
Yeah I was thinking about artifact ramp as well but that doesn't thin the deck nor does it help if EpEx whiffs on a kill...Noxious Revival also works pretty well if you hit the Infinite in your EpEx. I was also thinking Turnabout or Rude Awakening.
4x Breeding Pool
4x Forest
1x Island
3x Mountain
4x Rootbound Crag
4x Stomping Ground
4x Wooded Foothills
4x Blast of Genius
4x Farseek
4x Unexpected Results
4x Think Twice
4x Sakura-Tribe Elder
4x Sylvan Primordial
4x Worldspine Wurm
Gift of Genius
4x Desperate Ritual
4x Gifts Ungiven
4x Manamorphose
1x Noxious Revival
4x Opt
4x Pyretic Ritual
4x Thought Scour
1x Enter the Infinite
3x Epic Experiment
1x Insult / Injury
3x Past in Flames
4x Goblin Electromancer
Calling it Metalwork Genius
4x Island
5x Mountain
4x Spirebluff Canal
4x Steam Vents
4x Sulfur Falls
4x Hedron Archive
4x Mind Stone
3x Pyromancer's Goggles
4x Volt Charge
4x Blast of Genius
4x Tezzeret's Gambit
4x Combustible Gearhulk
4x Metalwork Colossus
[deck]Nightshade Peddler
Izzet staticaster
Huntmaster of the fells
Tandem Lookout
Niv-Mizzet
Birthing Pod
Chord of Calling[deck]
I run a GU deck that uses ordeal if thassa but you could run ordeal of erebos
As far as vengeful rebirth I think that could be a really fun deck with a self mill and Splendid reclaimation. 4c no blue with unburial rites and or morgue burst seems absurdly fun. Or maybe temur solash of black for forbidden alchemy Loam red discard draw and cycling with
The real problem is how to get at least 8 mana without dying.
Not opposed to adding green for Dictate of Karametra and other ramp since Insult // Injury was printed I no longer need Dictate of the Twin Gods to combo off.
I feel like TRON or Cloudpost is too clunky and Ramp Spells with green is smoother but is too all in.