MTG Salvation

I am building a Yennet deck, this is my first try so I am avoiding some usual suspects for this deck like extra turns or infinite combos or MLD

Basically, What I want to do at first is building a better Kaalia of the vast deck.

My idea here is cheating some bombs and win with those, because Yennet is blue I have access to counterspells so I may be able to protect the strategy way better than Kaalia


My meta has a lot of creature based decks, so I am thinking adding Propaganda and a couple pillowfort cards to survive long enough

I am having troubles deciding wich cards to cut to make room for 3-4 pillowfort cards, my possible inclusions are

Aurification
Ghostly prision
Windborn muse
No mercy
War tax

Wichs cards will you swap for one or more of the ones I want in?


The deck

I'd suggest cutting Approach of the Second Sun as it doesn't synergise with your commander's top-deck ability. To win with it you'd have to cast from hand and can't use his topdeck ability, and you're just as likely to reveal it with your commander's ability and telegraph to your opponents your strategy.

Nevermore is a great card, but with such a large counter package, your counterspells are filling this spot for you. Counters will get rid of any spell just the same as this, and against commanders this will only hit one player, while you can hold a counter or removal to use against any player's commander at any time, with the added benefit of increasing his tax for the next go around. Nevermore is not as versatile.

I have cutted out approach, I use nevermore as a second copy of darksteel mutation because I have certain commanders I just dont want to see on the table (Lavinia, azorius renegade or gadock teeg for example)

I have a Yennet deck, but I typically do not have problems with creature-based decks since my creatures usually have bigger butts and vigilance. Are you having problem with token decks?

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I have a Yennet deck, but I typically do not have problems with creature-based decks since my creatures usually have bigger butts and vigilance. Are you having problem with token decks?

No, but I am having problems tring to keep myself alive while develop my plan, so I am adding some pillowfort and diferent wincos such as Exganguinate

Do you have a deck list I can check for ideas?

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Do you have a deck list I can check for ideas?

Sure, you can pop on over to my decks in my profile. Link here.

I think your colors are some of the best for quality removal. In looking at your list, it looks like you do indeed run a lot of removal and I’m surprised you’re still having trouble getting hit early. Perhaps even cheaper removal like Toxic Deluge and Cyclonic Rift would help you out?

This might be my least and most favorite part of this format...
- Jeweled Amulet: Really...?
- Esper Charm: I'm all for versatility, but there are more effective ways to do all three of these things in your colors.
- Thoughtcast: You aren't a dedicated artifact deck, so this is probably going to average out to Divination, which is not playable in this format. Frankly, I would question this card even if you could guarantee that it only cost 1 mana. You only get two cards for the price of one, and that's not a big enough advantage when you could have something more continuous like Rhystic Study or a larger payout like Jace's Ingenuity.
- Mulldrifter: I love this card 99% of the time, but in this case you don't really have many ways to take advantage of the body, so it becomes another Thoughtcast. I'd rather reanimate a Consecrated Sphinx or a Nezahal, Primal Tide.

Hope this helps...

Thanks everyone for the tips, this is my current decklist (untested)


This is my current decklist, I have a couple pillowfort cards because my playgroup normally plays creature based decks, and If I do not have blockers I will always be the target of every single attack, So I need to boardwipe by turn 4-5 every single time

I have modified my list and play-tested it.

1st a note about my playgroup, we are not cEDH players, we don't like fast combo decks but we allow combos or instant wincons.

We play powerful decks, powerful cards and and synergies, we play Narset, Breya, Atraxa, Oloro, Alesha and a long etcetera

The deck as I have it now is very fun to play

PROS.

1. Card selection is a powerful effect
2. We can play draw go most of the time and have some answers
3. We can cheat powerful stuff and have the mana open to protect them

CONS.

1. While top manipulation is awesome and allows us to set up our next turns, this makes the deck as versatile as difficult to play we need to think several turns in advance and take our time to think.

2. Yennet is weak early game, we rely heavily on our mass removal, 6 of wich are 5cmc or less

3. We need time to build our game than other people, cheating an Ulamog, the infinite gyre is absolute worthless unless we can protect him at least a turn cycle.

All this said now lets talk about some cards

1. Ghostly prison : early game is nuts, late is worthless, so maybe I will swap it for another counterspell or a better replacement such as No mercy or Aurification that can actually prevent attacks

2. Future sight: is nuts, just NUTS in this deck, until you try it you wont realize its full value

3. Time warp and Temporal mastery: while I don't play too many extra turn effects, I think these two are just enough, time warp cost only 5 so we can resolve it after cheating a huge bomb to have an extra turn, and we have many ways to set up the miracle of TM

Conclusions,

The deck as is now, is fun to play, it is difficult for me to make more evaluations about cards to cut, replace, etc because I yet need to play more games, but so far it is really fun and challenging

OK, this is my list right now, I dont know if 12 are not too many rocks