MTG Salvation

After taxes came in and with some website credit I have around $250 to spend on a new edh deck and wanted to here some ideas of what you might build

I currently have landfall Karametra, Slot Machine Grenzo and jank Sasaya.

Looking forward to hearing


**Quick update: I think I want to build Riku, specifically a spellslinger version, any suggestions there?

Did you mean riku of two reflections?

I had one ages ago when the prerecon first came out, so bear with my old-tech knowledge on the deck.

But before we even get to any of that, I would try to find a motto, strategy, grand aim of the deck/build/archetype, and what's the wincon. I'm not sure if i described it right, but for example, my blind seer deck goes like:
motto - colours and types are my thing!
strategy - counter-control game.
aim - using colour-changing, type-changing gimmicks to control the board. king crab and douse comes to mind.
wincon - stormtide leviathan beatdown.

That way, when I'm looking at cards that can go into the deck, i can specifically compare it to my deck specification, then judge whether or not it should be in or not.

My old riku deck was:
motto - value! what's better than 1 coiling oracle? TWO coiling oracles!
strategy - tempo/out-valuing the table
aim - land riku, copy all the stuff i throw onto the table till i win or lose.
wincon - whatever i have on the table, beating down.

It wasn't a very good deck, but there we have it. So what's your vision for the deck? we should probably start there.

With spellslinging with Riku you want to look at a lot of the put lands into play and draw card effects. Explore and Growth Spiral seem like fantastic things to be doing. The Rampant Growth / Cultivate / Skyshroud Claim effects are also probably still fantastic.

There is the option of if you want to delve into destroying and disrupting lands as well. Plow Under is a huge punch if you target a player with it especially if copying it. There are other similar versions such as Mwonvuli Acid-Moss / Reap and Sow as well if you want to run that sort of thing.

An example list for Riku Spellslinger could look something like this:



I'm not sure what the price point is for this deck in total, but I would guess that it's around $250ish. If it isn't, the first cuts I would make are in the mana base.

Otherwise, I think this is a decent starting point. It's got a lot of fun spells to cast and some really strong synergies. There's an infinite mana combo with Dramatic Reversal and [/CARD]Isochron Scepter[/CARD] so that you can use some of the X spells to kill players outright. The dream, of course, is to get Thousand-Year Elixir running and then start chaining a bunch of spells for value so that you can eventually Lightning Bolt with 30 or 40 copies of it to kill the table. Or Explode the table to death.

EDIT: Clearly I just need to build a Thousand-Year Storm deck and move on with my life. This is maybe the 5th or 6th post I've made about that enchantment...