I guess the title of the thread says it all. This card has so much vintage potential in spite of it's casting cost that I just have to give it a go. What I want to do is use a psuedo-slaver shell essentially using the hand instead of the grave which seems to be less prone to hate and allows me to cut red from the deck if I want. I like the cerebral assassin creature suite minus worldgorger dragon because they all beg to be transmuted in, but the deck runs so much acceleration that it's not entirely unreasonable to cast any of it. Lastly this brings me to thoughtcast, a card I believe is also very underplayed. I figure with the full artifact mana accel, plus a tormod's and top, plus the whole win strategy of the deck being artifacts, these seem to fill the 'thirst' slot in my 'slaver' shell quite nicely. Here's a super-rough draft.
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Weldering a Titan is a good way to bring it in and out. My team recently spent a long time with Sharuum and Master Transmuter amongst other cards and we found they are okay cards, but staxx doesn't have a lot of extra room for acceleration and MUD or Workshop Aggro doesn't really run any colors at all. When we did use Master Transmuter, we found that it wasn't as reliable, and when we did get it out, it was simply a win-more type card.
Weldering a Titan is a good way to bring it in and out. My team recently spent a long time with Sharuum and Master Transmuter amongst other cards and we found they are okay cards, but staxx doesn't have a lot of extra room for acceleration and MUD or Workshop Aggro doesn't really run any colors at all. When we did use Master Transmuter, we found that it wasn't as reliable, and when we did get it out, it was simply a win-more type card.
Right, but with the loss of thirst, getting titan in the grave becomes much more of a chore. Plus, as you can see, I'm not trying to make this work in a MUD or Staxx shell, it's a slaver shell. This is a deck that can sit back and build incremental card advantage, generate tons of mana and eventually go crazy with transmuter through a number of different paths. It plays much like slaver in this way, with the bounce card costing more to cast and maintain, but with less reliance on the grave.
Quick Edit, updated the list and I'm probably going to run something similar to this in blacksburg, va in september.
5 island
2 underground sea
1 tundra
1 tolarian academy
1 strip mine
1 wasteland
4 mana drain
4 force of will
4 thoughtcast
1 ancestral recall
1 time walk
1 brainstorm
1 fact or fiction
1 mystical tutor
1 merchant scroll
1 demonic tutor
1 vampiric tutor
1 yawgmoth's will
1 repeal
1 hurkyl's recall
1 tinker
1 sundering titan
1 inkwell leviathan
1 magister sphinx
1 sharuum, the hedgemon
1 sen triplets
1 sphinx summoner
1 black lotus
1 mox sapphire
1 mox jet
1 mox ruby
1 mox pearl
1 mox emerald
1 mana vault
1 mana crypt
1 sol ring
1 lotus petal
1 sensei's divining top
1 tormod's crypt
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Vintage:
:symu::symb::symr::symw: sphinx slaver
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Something about bouncing a Sundering Titan in and out seems interesting.
Don't forget Sphinx of the Steel Wind.
If you're using Sharuum, then Mindslaver sounds... not nice as well.
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Right, but with the loss of thirst, getting titan in the grave becomes much more of a chore. Plus, as you can see, I'm not trying to make this work in a MUD or Staxx shell, it's a slaver shell. This is a deck that can sit back and build incremental card advantage, generate tons of mana and eventually go crazy with transmuter through a number of different paths. It plays much like slaver in this way, with the bounce card costing more to cast and maintain, but with less reliance on the grave.
Quick Edit, updated the list and I'm probably going to run something similar to this in blacksburg, va in september.
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Sundering Titan
1 Magister Sphinx
1 Sharuum, the Hedgemon
4 Thoughtcast
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Fire/Ice
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Echoing Truth
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Fabricate
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
3 Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
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Vintage:
:symu::symb::symr::symw: sphinx slaver