What do you think would make a good signature spell for Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God? I'm going for a discard strategy similar to the Davriel-Torment of Hailfire deck I posted. Preferably no Tutors, that's boring.
Deliver Unto Evil, hands down. Why just one tutor when you can grab some removal and a counter to go with it?
Someone was talking to me last night about this and I just keep imagining all these annoying control decks. If I were to get in on this I would probably build Tibalt, Rakish Instigator with Lightning Bolt as my spell. I would maybe also consider Koth of the Hammer as another option for the commander but I think Tibalt maybe.
If everyone is playing durdle walkers then burn their faces off.
Signature spells have a commander tax, too, which means Bolt is probably terrible as a signature spell. Would you really be willing to pay 4R for a simple Bolt effect?
Seeing the busted mana banned is a huge draw at least.
The banlist has some serious flaws but they get this right. When you combine the removal of the most egregious fast mana with having lower life totals it seems like the format won't be as defined by ramp -> bomb or combo strategies. Magic at its core is defined by 20 life, and as EDH demonstrates, strange things happen when you twist and warp that rule. I like that the philosophy of the format takes that into consideration.
To anyone who actually plays, how aggressive is the format? With lower life totals and lots of juicy planeswalkers to attack, it seems like there will be lots and lots of creatures entering the red zone. I prefer to play creature-light control decks (as evidenced by my earlier quickie decklist) and was worried that I would just get run over by other decks packing lots of creatures.
[Primer] Erebos, God of the Dead
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To anyone who actually plays, how aggressive is the format? With lower life totals and lots of juicy planeswalkers to attack, it seems like there will be lots and lots of creatures entering the red zone. I prefer to play creature-light control decks (as evidenced by my earlier quickie decklist) and was worried that I would just get run over by other decks packing lots of creatures.
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1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
1 Deliver Unto Evil
Lands: 25
1 Ash Barrens
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Cascade Bluffs
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Graven Cairns
4 Island
1 Mana Confluence
2 Mountain
1 Steam Vents
1 Strip Mine
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Sunken Ruins
4 Swamp
1 Watery Grave
1 Dimir Signet
1 Izzet Signet
1 Rakdos Signet
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Talisman of Indulgence
Sorceries: 12
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Crux of Fate
1 Damnation
1 Dark Petition
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Hour of Devastation
1 Languish
1 Painful Truths
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Read the Bones
1 The Elderspell
1 Bedevil
1 Brainstorm
1 Counterflux
1 Counterspell
1 Crosis's Charm
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Disallow
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Forbid
1 Hero's Downfall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Negate
1 Pull from Tomorrow
1 Supreme Will
1 Terminate
1 Vampiric Tutor
30(!) mana sources is probably excessive, maybe cut the Talismans and a land for another counter, wipe, and card draw spell.
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EDIT: Sol Ring is banned. I like this format.
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