MTG Salvation

looking for some tips, tricks, and obscure cards that might help make this deck better. it's tuned for mid-power tables, lacking tutors entirely and having just one infinite combo that i discovered on accident (Temur Sabertooth + Dockside Extortionist).

here's the list:

the general strategy with this list is to abuse artifact tokens - mostly treasures - to ramp hard and fast into bigger spells. the deck wins by burning players out via archaeologist triggers, enabled mostly by cascade and an abundance of impulse draw spells, though it also triggers off of Etali, Primal Storm, foretelling a Delayed Blast Fireball, hideaway lands, and Containment Construct.

the win condition is any of the three damage doublers in the deck, getting lucky with Apex Devastator by casting it from exile and/or cascading into high-cmc spells, or by keeping Possibility Storm on the battlefield for more than a turn cycle or two.

if you're interested in a more detailed breakdown, the description @ the archidekt link in my signature has one.

Chandra, Pyromaster
Arcane Bombardment
Apex of Power
Act on Impulse

There are some Chandra planeswalkers that let you cast spells from exile.

thanks for the suggestions. Apex of Power looks hilarious, i might give that a shot.

the chandras are indeed good in this type of deck - however, aside from wiping the board every so often, the deck has very few ways to protect them. i was originally running Chandra, Torch of Defiance instead of Jaya, Fiery Negotiator, but i settled on jaya since she can protect herself and the tokens provide additional value with Jaheira.

Arcane Bombardment seems good at first glance, but i cut it from the list early on since copies of spells aren't cast, so they don't trigger Passionate Archaeologist (see rule 707.10).

Act on Impulse has been sitting in the maybeboard since i threw the first version of the list together. unfortunately, for less mana, i could run You Find Some Prisoners instead, or something like Laelia, the Blade Reforged for the same amount of mana that provides consistent value as opposed to a one-time thing. Act being an "until end of turn" effect instead of "until the end of your next turn" really kills the card, imo.

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