MTG Salvation

• Enigmatic Incarnation
  
• Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
  
• Nightmare Shepherd
  
• Medomai's Prophecy

There's a lot of cool stuff but none of it has that "OMG I need it" quality. Nightmare Shepherd seems to have the most potential, but I still don't have any specific ideas what to do with it.

Quote from Prid3 »

Do you have any Oko, Thief of Crowns?

How does Oko fit into this? (Other than being a generically good card.)

Ever wanted to produce hasty creatures until you got tired of counting? Possibly as soon as turn 2, without those boring infinite combos?

How to play:

• Never mulligan, and always choose to draw. Then discard a dredger to hand size.
• You can discard a Phantasmagorian instead of a dredger, and then use it to discard 3 to 6 cards (you discard 6 by responding to its activation with a second activation.) Don't discard baubles.
• Dredge like your life depends on it. Cast and sac baubles to hurry things along. (Gitaxian Probe would be so much better but unfortunately it's banned.)
• Amass a total of three creatures by having Chancellor of the Forge in your opening hand, dredging Narcomoeba, and/or returning Nether Shadow/Ichorid.
• Flashback Dread Return targeting Balustrade Spy to mill your entire deck.
• Using your creatures to convoke (particularly the zombies you get from the four Bridge from Belows in your graveyard), cast Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis from your graveyard as often as you can. There are two of them and they're legendary, so tap one to convoke the other and keep the untapped one. You'll still need to delve 2+ cards from your graveyard for this. Keep all the finishers but delve away the rest. You should amass a stupid amount of zombies this way.
• Flashback the second Dread Return on a Chancellor of the Forge, saccing nontoken creatures when possible. You get more zombies and a stupid amount of goblins.
• Repeat the Hogaak cycle, tapping goblins, the other Hogaak, and zombies until you run out.
• Repeat the Dread Return a Chancellor cycle twice more.
• Attack for ALL THE DAMAGE.

Half the cost of the deck is the Mishra's Baubles. You can replace those with Nether Spirit/Memnite/Ornithopter.

My favorite "strategy". My favorites are Vedalken Shackles, Callous Oppressor, Chaos Wand, Old Man of the Sea, Puca's Mischief (requires building around), Bribery, Treachery, Mind's Dilation (requires building around), Expropriate, and Commandeer.

But also Rite of Replication, Phyrexian Metamorph, and Phantasmal Image. Because copying is almost as good as stealing.

You could build a mono-blue Cloudpost deck to power out some of the more mana-heavy cards on these lists.

Oko, Thief of Crowns
Gilded Goose
Fires of Invention
Fabled Passage
The castles, particularly Garenbrig
The common lands, particularly the blue one.
Gadwick, the Wizened
Emry, Lurker of the Loch

Endless Whispers + Phage, the Untouchable/Bronze Bombshell/Bone Shredder

Cool to see this deck updated!

Here are some cards I actually used that didn't get mentioned:

• Kor Sanctifiers
  
• Recruiter of the Guard
  
• Stonecloaker
  
• Dusk // Dawn
  
• Legion's Landing
  
• Spear of Heliod
  
• Westvale Abbey
  
• Windbrisk Height

Kor Sanctifiers is not Knight of Autumn but it does solve problems.

Spellskite is also pretty nice.

It's not "competitive tryhard the best" but I like the slow value-based Living Death decks that don't rely on self-mill. I'll just durdle with Baleful Strix, Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Kalitas, Traitor of Geth, Faerie Artisans, and Recurring Nightmare, and then at some point cast Living Death. If there happens to be a Consecrated Sphinx or Sheoldred, the Whispering One in my graveyard, great.

If you want the best Living Death deck, you should probably build the Vintage version of Modern's Living End decks. Combo style.

Quote from Umaro »

when you have 1 and only one, it's not a when you drop i turn 2. That isn't realistic and you know it lol.

I've heard a very similar argument from people playing with cards that are heavily frowned upon. (In my meta, Armageddon would be an example.) "I'm only running one, so it's OK." Well... sure, it's OK as long as you don't draw it.

Just like turn 2 Hermit Druid, it either happens or it doesn't. The average scenario does not actually exist. It's like saying the average person has one breast and one testicle.

But does that mean it gets an F? I wouldn't run Cs, but that doesn't mean they're Fs.

Great review!

A bit harsh on Sphinx of Foresight. I'm sure we all had games that we wouldn't have lost if we had a 4/4 flyer for 4 that scried on upkeep.

Steely Resolve helps, as does Farseek. I'd rather spend my third turn casting Cultivate than Dragon Egg.

If you need to be sold on Mirror March, check out this video of 12 consecutive coin flip wins.

Pestilent Spirit + Electrickery/Pyrokinesis
Judith, the Scourge Diva
Teysa Karlov (BFFs with Judith)
Verity Circle
Alternate art Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
Biogenic Ooze for the mono-green ooze deck.
Rakdos, the Showstopper, either in a Krark's Thumb deck or in a demon/devil deck.

Obviously, Vannifar and Electrodominance are crazy good, but they're too goldfishy for my tastes. And Hydroid Krasis is good but currently overhyped because of Standard.

Mmm... Electrodominance for RR -> Wheel of Fate -> second Electrodominance for lethal. At instant speed.