Hello all. I've been playing this deck in many forms ever since Throne of Geth was printed. I finally feel like making a deck thread about it since I think it's been doing pretty well in the current meta game. It may look wacky, but it really does work out most of the time. It always needs tinkering though and I would love to hear what changes you guys would make. Thanks!
I dont think you actually need opal here, while you have plenty of artifacts I don't see it going online fast enough for it to have just been better off as another land. Maybe its fine though I guess.
Along the same lines, is dispatch all that great for you? by the time you could really get metal craft going it seems you could of just safely played o ring instead.
I don't think you actually need orgin spellbomb it doesn't really do much for you besides chump and then cantrip, Wellspring could actually put you up CA.
Speaking of CA with no alchemy or think twice you really dont have enough CA for a controlling deck. Its great if you can answer their threats but if you dont outpace them cards in hand wise eventually you cant really win. As they will be drawing threats and you will be hoping to find answers. Perhaps slotting in FA or TT would be a good idea.
I think you really should strongly consider Phyrexian Crusader as he is a great creature in the current meta and would also help you advance your gameplan.
While the throne of geth stuff is cute and pretty nifty four seems way overkill and with some changes you could easily have a very solid tezz control build I would check around as there used to be quite a few threads about it around here.
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Opal is basically there so that I can skip turn three. turn 3 play 2 drop, opal, second 2 drop. And so that I can play Swords to Plowshares of course. A control deck being able to play that card in this meta is pretty relevant.
On that note, do you really think Phyrexian Crusader is such a great idea in a control deck? There's **** like vapor snag and incinerate all over the place. I'd pretty much have to run spell pierce or something along those lines.
Opal is basically there so that I can skip turn three. turn 3 play 2 drop, opal, second 2 drop. And so that I can play Swords to Plowshares of course. A control deck being able to play that card in this meta is pretty relevant.
On that note, do you really think Phyrexian Crusader is such a great idea in a control deck? There's **** like vapor snag and incinerate all over the place. I'd pretty much have to run spell pierce or something along those lines.
incinerate does nothing here.
saying anything other than titans is bad to vapor snag is kind of obvious. If it doesn't have an ETB effect, snag eats it alive.
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Standard: UW HumansWU
Record - 49-19-3 - Retired, for now. WUDelverUW
Record - 29-10-1
I slotted 4 phyrexian crusaders into the deck and results are very interesting. The deck seems to function much more soundly against aggressive type decks, RDW is now a match I can win. The problem is, they are pretty bad against Delver, a match-up I was favored in before I put them in... If I want to keep going down this road I think I'd want to start maindecking Mental Misstep... but I'm still unsure as to whether that's the right thing to do.
4 Throne of Geth
2 Mycosynth Wellspring
2 Ichor Wellspring
3 Mox Opal
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Origin Spellbomb
3 Ratchet bomb
3 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
2 Gideon Jura
Creatures (6)
4 Necropede
2 Sun Titan
Sorcery (3)
3 Terminus
Instant (4)
4 Dispatch
Enchantment (2)
2 Oblivion Ring
4 Seachrome Coast
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Inkmoth nexus
3 Isolated Chapel
1 Island
4 Plains
2 Swamp
So yeah, I have no idea what should be in the sideboard. Should be running some amount of spell pierce, negate, virulent wound, etc.?
Along the same lines, is dispatch all that great for you? by the time you could really get metal craft going it seems you could of just safely played o ring instead.
I don't think you actually need orgin spellbomb it doesn't really do much for you besides chump and then cantrip, Wellspring could actually put you up CA.
Speaking of CA with no alchemy or think twice you really dont have enough CA for a controlling deck. Its great if you can answer their threats but if you dont outpace them cards in hand wise eventually you cant really win. As they will be drawing threats and you will be hoping to find answers. Perhaps slotting in FA or TT would be a good idea.
I think you really should strongly consider Phyrexian Crusader as he is a great creature in the current meta and would also help you advance your gameplan.
While the throne of geth stuff is cute and pretty nifty four seems way overkill and with some changes you could easily have a very solid tezz control build I would check around as there used to be quite a few threads about it around here.
Magic players have made it abundantly clear that their time is worth $0/hour in their opinion, so no sympathy there. -DR jeebus or something
On that note, do you really think Phyrexian Crusader is such a great idea in a control deck? There's **** like vapor snag and incinerate all over the place. I'd pretty much have to run spell pierce or something along those lines.
incinerate does nothing here.
saying anything other than titans is bad to vapor snag is kind of obvious. If it doesn't have an ETB effect, snag eats it alive.
Standard:
UW HumansWU
Record - 49-19-3 - Retired, for now.
WUDelverUW
Record - 29-10-1
new deck list:
4 Throne of Geth
2 Mycosynth Wellspring
2 Ichor Wellspring
2 Mox Opal
2 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Ratchet bomb
Planeswalker (3)
3 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
Creatures (10)
4 Necropede
4 Phyrexian Crusader
2 Sun Titan
3 Terminus
Instant (4)
4 Dispatch
Enchantment (2)
2 Oblivion Ring
Land (23)
4 Seachrome Coast
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Inkmoth nexus
4 Isolated Chapel
1 Island
2 Plains
4 Swamp
4 virulent wound
4 negate
2 gideon
1 ratchet bomb
2 nihil spellbomb
2 mental misstep