MTG Salvation

A series of changes has led me to make this ANT list today. Seth Zulinski made 3rd place with ANT not too awful long ago. I loved his write up, I've always loved blazing fast combo, and now I think the deck is due for a revamp.

1) Burning Wish unrestricted: Seth's list came before this, and I think it's pretty important. Being allowed to not only side your Tendrils and mitigate lifeloss, but also run a Wishboard, is huge.

2) Mox Opal: I don't recall if Opal was printed before or after thos particular ANT placing, but it was not in the list. Seth avoided the off-color Moxen,so even if the card existed, he probably didn't have critical mass for it. However, it's become too good to pass up because of

3) The new Legend rule. Now, Opal is almost superior to the real Moxen, an you can run 4 of them. Seem good?

Enough dilly-dallying, the list:



The sideboard needs three more cards, and possibly some tweaking.

Average lifeloss: .82 life per card, lower than older lists (sorry if I'm behind the times) by about .5 life.

So much mana. Possibly too much mana, and at the same time, 9 lands might be too greedy. It may have to be bumped to 10 or 12 while dropping the off-color Moxen.

Mox Diamond: Everybody will want to rag on it. It is strictly for when you go off, acting as a spare Mox while finding a use for any extra lands you build up. It may be the first cut to up land count.

More disruption (probably Thoughtseize) might be added over some mana if it turns out there's too much mana.

Any thoughts are appreciated. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Wouldn't you want to cut cabal ritual before moxen to make sure mox opal is active? Cabal Ritual is also worse with ad nauseam, the main engine of the deck while moxen being zero life is great. Agree with cutting mox diamond for a land. Mox diamond seems very unnecessary alongside 4 opal's and 4 chrome's as well as mox jet, mox ruby, lotus petal, and black lotus for IMS's for necessary colors of mana post nauseam and that assumes you don't already have mana floating. (red for wish black for rituals petal for either lotus for broken.)

Cabal Rits are probably a better cut for land, yeah. Currently thinking -2 Cabal, +2 land. Maybe I can squeeze up to 12 or 13 somehow.

Diamond is an extra Mox, plain and simple. I'd run 4 if I had the lands to support it, because more Moxen=more better in an ANT list. Faster to 5 mana, free cards when flipping.

Also thinking (despite the words immediately above this) that one off-color Mox could become a Mana Vault. Better accel, will do basically the same thing (provide colorless).

Could easily have mana vault over mox emerald actually didn't notice that. Opens up the avenue of dark rit off land/jet, mana vault, ad nauseam as a 5th dark ritual that makes colorless instead of black. I'm going to goldfish the above list -2 CRit +2 Land -1 Mox Emerald +1 Mana vault today to see how good the mox diamond is in the above list and whether it's needed.