If you agree with that, what would you do to replace Strip Mine and Merchant Scroll?
And let me suggest you one of my pet cards in my CoA deck - Darksteel Pendant. It's zero card advantage but it's reusable and enhances your draws.
Just wanted to share a result. Table with Sidisi, Undead Vizier, Xenagos, God of Revels and Bosh, Iron Golem. Sidisi became my enemy as soon as it cast Ob Nixilis, Unshackled. He was the first to die - I killed this creature and the Bosh guy helped me. Then I started to sweep the board some times and I managed to softlock Xenagos with Mnemonic Wall/Ghostly Flicker for some time and Bosh didn't try anything because I could kill his board with my Child. Xenagos ended finishing Bosh. Finally I locked Xenagos with a Spore Frog/Disturbed Burial lock and chained tutors to Rolling Thunder (taking it back with Mnemonic Wall) 2-3 times. Bosh player was AMAZED when I showed 99 commons in the deck. Great job guys!
Some considerations:
Trinket Mage + Artifact Lands: this provide even less need for green mana.
Nihil Spellbomb is more easily tutorable than Bojuka Bog (Dizzy Spell and Trinket Mage) and makes you draw a card. YMMV but I think it’s a draw (no pun intended) here. Anyway I have both now, let’s see.
Tilling Treefolk + Cycling lands: proven to be good in mid-game.
Disturbed Burial + Spore Frog is one of the strongest soft locks I’ve seen working, d0su
15 green sources (more than 1/7 of the deck so I’m able to ramp T2).
18 black sources, check
20 blue sources, including 14 that comes into play untapped: I can counter/capsize something fast and awful after 3 draws.
I strongly suggest you take every list here and see which cards appear less. For instance, my Cavern Harpy, some list's Foresee, some packages (Trinket Mage is one), cycling lands, Panoramas... these are very nice and suited mainly for personal taste. There are some cards I'm sure you find in (at least almost) all lists. DO NOT remove these ones. The higher mean CMC, the more ramp you'll need and more lands also. Everything else is fine tuning, meta call, and personal taste IMO. And that's the beauty of Commander, isn't it?
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http://www.mtgsalvation.com/articles/49661-playing-paper-pauper
If you agree with that, what would you do to replace Strip Mine and Merchant Scroll?
And let me suggest you one of my pet cards in my CoA deck - Darksteel Pendant. It's zero card advantage but it's reusable and enhances your draws.
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My update decklist is here (to avoid rework, it's the same link in my sig).
Choices based on urdjur's topics, as well and fast as I can:
Sac outlets: Terminate, Mind Extraction, Devour Flesh, Wrecking Ball, Pyroblast, and Perilous Research.
Recurring instants and sorceries: Ghostly Flicker, Archaeomancer, Izzer Chronarch, Mnemonic Wall, Cavern Harpy, and Reclaim (well this last one recurs anything).
Recurring creatures: Undying Evil, Grim Harvest, Disturbed Burial, Soul Manipulation, Cadaver Imp, Reaping the Graves, Death Denied, and Urborg Uprising.
Recurring lands: Tilling Treefolk.
Tutors: Dizzy Spell, Vedalken Aethermage, Shred Memory, Muddle the Mixture, Merchant Scroll, Perplex, Drift of Phantasms, Mystical Teachings, and Brainspoil.
Dig: Brainstorm, Ponder, Preordain, Impulse, Darksteel Pendant, Sea Gate Oracle, and Forbidden Alchemy.
Ramp: Wayfarer’s Bauble, Darksteel Ingot, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Farhaven Elf, Evolution Charm, Search for Tomorrow, Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, Far Wanderings, and Trinket Mage.
(Pure) Counters: Arcane Denial, Counterspell, and Faerie Trickery.
Support: Freed from the Real, Krosan Restorer, Mulldrifter, Qasali Pridemage, Spore Frog, Rush of Knowledge, and Deep Analysis.
Silver Bullets: Capsize, Rolling Thunder, and Nihil Spellbomb.
Obviously a card can be in more than one category.
Some considerations:
Trinket Mage + Artifact Lands: this provide even less need for green mana.
Nihil Spellbomb is more easily tutorable than Bojuka Bog (Dizzy Spell and Trinket Mage) and makes you draw a card. YMMV but I think it’s a draw (no pun intended) here. Anyway I have both now, let’s see.
Tilling Treefolk + Cycling lands: proven to be good in mid-game.
Disturbed Burial + Spore Frog is one of the strongest soft locks I’ve seen working, d0su
15 green sources (more than 1/7 of the deck so I’m able to ramp T2).
18 black sources, check
20 blue sources, including 14 that comes into play untapped: I can counter/capsize something fast and awful after 3 draws.
Happy 2015 for all you Dreamcrushers!
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