Being himself an outlet for infinite mana instead of requiring you to get a chain veil out is a pretty big differentiating element from Teferi. Teferi plays a lot of the junk you would for various infinite mana combos but then doesn't really do anything with them without veil (other than untap them, of course, which is surely powerful). So it's no surprise to me that the build is quite a bit more efficient.
Urza does point a finger at how stupid paradox engine is. Anything that can get that stupid thing banned is OK with me Hopefully Urza goes nuts with PE's everywhere and we can finally see the end of that piece of crap card.
Has PE finally surpassed Ashnod's Altar of the "combos with air" title?
Absolutely.
PE reminds me of my buddy's Ghave deck that consisted almost entirely of "cards that combo with Ghave, or combo with cards that combo with Ghave." I pointed out combos he had on board but hadn't recognized at least 3 times. I should have named it the 2 degrees of Ghaven Bacon, but never thought of it until now
Urza does point a finger at how stupid paradox engine is. Anything that can get that stupid thing banned is OK with me Hopefully Urza goes nuts with PE's everywhere and we can finally see the end of that piece of crap card.
I don't think he will be banned, he's weaker than Sharuum and Breya both.
I expect he will be annoying. But only in the literally exact same way as all the other mono blue artifact based decks. it's not like there is a shortage of people wanting to slam mana rocks, sometimes stax pieces, and combo out with them.
My guess is the people doing degenerate things with him would already be doing that stuff.
And he's quite a bit better at enabling orb stax.
UW Ephara Hatebears [Primer], GB Gitrog Lands, BRU Inalla Combo-Control, URG Maelstrom Wanderer Landfall
Absolutely.
PE reminds me of my buddy's Ghave deck that consisted almost entirely of "cards that combo with Ghave, or combo with cards that combo with Ghave." I pointed out combos he had on board but hadn't recognized at least 3 times. I should have named it the 2 degrees of Ghaven Bacon, but never thought of it until now
UW Ephara Hatebears [Primer], GB Gitrog Lands, BRU Inalla Combo-Control, URG Maelstrom Wanderer Landfall
He's closer to the mana doubling RG guy than anything (Nikya of the old ways) in terms of mana explosiveness.
UW Ephara Hatebears [Primer], GB Gitrog Lands, BRU Inalla Combo-Control, URG Maelstrom Wanderer Landfall
UW Ephara Hatebears [Primer], GB Gitrog Lands, BRU Inalla Combo-Control, URG Maelstrom Wanderer Landfall
I expect he will be annoying. But only in the literally exact same way as all the other mono blue artifact based decks. it's not like there is a shortage of people wanting to slam mana rocks, sometimes stax pieces, and combo out with them.
My guess is the people doing degenerate things with him would already be doing that stuff.
UW Ephara Hatebears [Primer], GB Gitrog Lands, BRU Inalla Combo-Control, URG Maelstrom Wanderer Landfall