MTG Salvation

So I've been growing a bit tired of my other decks and wanted to change things up by building a deck around saproling tokens and death triggers of said tokens. Here's my list so far:


I'm not exactly sure what the problem is here, but I feel this list is somehow..off?
E.g. I don't really think the white splash is justified just for Aura Shards & Ghave, although they're strong cards (especially the shards).
Also unsure about the Utopia Mycons and maybe the lack of sacrifice effects?

Does anyone have any feedback on this?

The list is solid but it does need a bit of tweaking. It feels "off" because it has too much token payoff but not enough token producers. So if you open with a hand that consists of something like 3 lands, Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Ashnod's Altar and some other payoff card (pick literally anything) then it doesn't actually do anything. What you need to do is cut back on payoff cards/effects and add more token producers because the former doesn't do anything without the latter.

I like the White splash if you add 4x Exotic Orchard which is a card that I run as a 4-of in every 3+ color multiplayer deck. I agree that it's odd to splash for 2 cards but Aura Shards is busted so I like it. Ghave is solid since he goes infinite with Altar + Parallel Lives which is always handy in grindy games

For cuts I would remove 4x Utopia Mycon, 4x Blood Artist, 2x Ashnod's Altar, 1x Overrun and 2x Verdant Force. The TL;DR is that Mycon is too weak, Blood Artist is overkill (4x Cutthroat is enough of that effect), Altar is too narrow and you don't need all of the expensive cards.

For "adds" would slam the 4th copy of Tendershoot Dryad, 4 ramp spells, 4 token producers and some draw.

Examples:

Wild Growth, Utopia Sprawl, Burgeoning, Carpet of Flowers, Cryptolith Rite
Saproling Migration, Sprout Swarm, Catacomb Sifter, Ophiomancer
Idol of Oblivion, Compost, Voice of Many Harmonize, Syphon Mind, Shamanic Revelation, Ohran Frostfang

Otherwise consider adding some interaction like Swords to Plowshares, Beast Within and Windgrace's Judgment. Only a small number of copies though.

Sample deck:

If you’d like to, you could run some Teysa’s.
Just the new one, or supported by her two older variants.
Doubling death triggers and aiding tokens seems on theme.

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If you’d like to, you could run some Teysa’s. Doubling death triggers and aiding tokens seems on theme.

Teysa Karlov would definitely be a sweet singleton in this type of shell. I like that suggestion a lot if you do keep the White.