Alright ladies and gents. Ive been tossing this ideal around for a while. The ideal is to flip storm the vault as soon as possible to create big ballistas and smack people in the face. This is obviously accomplished by flipping storm the vault as well as using the treasure tokens vault produces before flipping. This deck struggles a bit with agro in my play testing. It just doesn't have the ability to out-trade in blocks or damage. The sideboard is almost completely up in the air.
Theorist and Module make very little sense in this kind of build. Theorist can easily be any of the two drop flying creatures for evasion to trigger Vault. When Vault flips, you're looking to want more artifacts, but you're not playing the best ones like Pia Nalaar, Renegade Map, Treasure Map, etc.
Pia only puts out 1 extra artifact while aether theorist and bauble put fourth more energy for whirler virtuoso to put out even more. Plus the scry on bauble is helpful. Renegade map would definitely be more helpful in a 3 color setup as its only real job is to get sacked anyway. Module also helps with the virtuoso plan. Drop a thopter, reap some reward. Every 4th thopter is essentially free with 1 module out.
I've been thinking about this as a whole and im really coming to the conclusion that maybe storm the vault is not going to be efficient in doing what i want.
Do you think going control with Azor's Gateway would work?
Any ideals are appreciated.
2x Aether Theorist
3x Bomat Courier
2x Golden Guardian
4x Maverick Thopterist
4x Storm Fleet Sprinter
4x Walking Ballista
4x Whirler Virtuoso
4x Lightning Strike
Artifacts (8)
4x Decoction Module
4x Glassblower's Puzzleknot
Enchantments (3)
3x Storm the Vault
Land (22)
9x Island
9x Mountain
4x Spirebluff Canal
2x Azor's Gateway
3x Negate
3x Glorybringer
Also not playing any numbers of Abrade or Magma Spray is a mistake.
Have you seen the UR Thopter lists that have been popping up once in a while? I think those are the best spots to start.
Standard: BG Golgari Midrange
Modern: U Merfolk GWUBR 5 Color Humans UBW Esper Gifts GW Bogles
I've been thinking about this as a whole and im really coming to the conclusion that maybe storm the vault is not going to be efficient in doing what i want.
Do you think going control with Azor's Gateway would work?