MTG Salvation

Untaidake may only apply to 2-3 cards, but one of those cards has to be cast every game. I have stopped casting zada at any time other than the turn I'm trying to combo on, so its a great help. (If I cast her before then, she gets targeted). As for rocks, I need a minimum of 6 mana to combo. Its awfully difficult to hit that without them.

I can't stress enough how good Sandstone Needle and Dwarven Ruins are. I really feel that they both should be in every zada combo deck. Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper is also not bad. Fire Diamond, Fellwar Stone, and fractured powerstone are all cheap mana rocks, and unstable obelisk has won me games. Protecting Zada should be unnecessary. Just cast him the turn you want to win. Finally, any 2 mana creature that can tap for mana is amazing with twinflame.

Updates! I need to cut three cards though. Still needs mox diamond, fetches, scroll rack, and mana crypt. I'm planning on adding great furnace and mox opal for testing too.

Notable additions:

• Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper
  
• Goblin Ringleader
  
• Goblin Recruiter
  
• Goblin Matron
  
• Iron Myr
  
• Plague Myr
  
• Seer's Lantern
  
• Brute Strength
  
• Expedite
  
• Fractured Powerstone
  
• Grinning Ignus
  

What do you guys think about Stone Calendar?

Just got back from playing two games against a Sliver Queen combo deck and a Hana prison deck. The first of the two games I won on turn 4 which is honestly faster than I thought this deck could go. The line of play was,
Opening hand after mulligans was Mountain, Accelerate, Rite of Flame, Chrome Mox, Lotus Bloom, Krenko, Beetleback Chief. I drew three lands in the first four turns. I don't remember what the other draw was.
t1: mountain, suspend lotus bloom
t2: mountain, rite of flame, chrome mox imprinting Beetleback Chief, Krenko, Mob Boss
t3: mountain, Zada, Tap krenko for two tokens.
t4: mountain, Goblin Rally, Crack bloom, Tap Krenko, Accelerate drawing into skirk prospector, Unnatural speed splicing desperate ritual, heat shimmer, titan's strength, swing.

My friends have this habit of hitting zada with swords after I'm already going off. I figure this will get harder after they get more used to the deck.

Both moxen will probably be mulligained away from opening hands and be dead draws on anything other than the combo turn. You need a 10+ card hand before they really become decent.

When I cast zada is usually determined by having a 3 mana ramp (lotus bloom, gilded lotus, grim monolith or mana vault) or not. If I don't I'll ramp to 6 (without using rituals), generate 4-6 tokens minimum,and then on the pre-combo turn cast zada and a cantrip, comboing off the following turn. If I have a 3 mana ramp I'll often go up to 8 mana at which point I can cast zada and the ramp and hopefully draw into mana, comboing that turn if I do. I'm going to add mox diamond and chrome mox to my build. They should improve the combo turn. Obviously the numbers of tokens/mana rage widly, but those are the two major lines of play.

I didn't understand how you were getting high numbers with path. I guess you're splicing a targeting effect onto it, but even so I'd rather not have to draw into a two card combo to have it not be a bad Rouse the Mob. I've cut virtually all of the pump spells that don't give trample or haste with exceptions for ones that are free, or fulfill other things the deck needs. Haze of Rage is still in as a way to repeatedly trigger slide/pyromancer in a pinch, and it can easily hit +8/+0 or higher. I'm still trying to work in better ramp, or mana that can be played mid combo. I'd like to get to a point where I can fairly safely keep two land hands.

Added skullclamp as a way to smooth out some of the draws, but its pretty bad in the deck. Haze of Rage is performing well as is Fatal Frenzy which I'm running over some of the other +power effects because it gives trample. I cut some land for some more mana rocks and rituals including pyretic ritual, rite of flame and lotus petal. Also added thought vessel, Dwarven stronghold, and the red depletion counter land. I also put lotus bloom in, but I think it telegraphs the combo turn too much so I'm probably going to cut it.

Mana gyser is a great idea even if the mana is a tad high. Can you explain why path of anger's flame is better than any of the effects that target zada? I'm cutting back on arcane heavily as I was getting sick of dead draws on those cards when I don't have desparate ritual in hand.

First time in the edh forums here. I proxied up the list in the OP, and am having a blast. My main complaint is land count and lack of fast mana. I'm flooding out on land most games, but still don't have enough mana to combo. I dropped fiery gambit, mogg fanatic, Temur Battle Rage, emrakul's hatcher and Path of Anger's Flame for mana vault, grim monolith, seething song, and siege-gang commander. I dropped mountains for city of traitors, ancient tomb, unstable obelisk and cavern of souls.

I haven't tested mizzix's mastery, but I'm considering including a graveyard shuffle effect instead and then just replaying everything normally.