What do you think of Pia Nalaar for the deck? She looks underwhelming but privides a sac fodder for Daretti and can boost/make unblockable the big artifact creatures.
Cool deck. I plan to build a very similar deck with Ayli. Did you consider Thornbite Staff instead of Viridian Longbow? I will probably run both actually.
When I started playing Oloro, the deck was black and white heavy. It was built around Oloro's lifegain ability, with classic combos like Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond, or Test of Endurance. There was also a fair amount of big creatures like Serra Avatar, Kokusho, the Evening Star, Wurmcoil Engine and other lifelink creatures. The deck was very slow was regularly crushed by the much quicker decks of my competitive meta.
So I decided to drop the combos and a lot of fatties. This version is still built around lifelink creatures, but is much more agressive than before. As proposed by bigbearlyke in his Time Deck, I integrated cantrips, draw sorceries and instants and extra turns. The result is a mostly blue, versatile and fast deck, which draws a lot and kills in various ways. Given that I don t commit to a particular strategy, it s far from optimal, but its a lot of fun. Here s what it looks like.
I tend to shy away from Delve effects because I play with Snapcaster Mage, Archaeomancer and Volrath's Stronghold. But you're right, these are really good cards. I'll try them and see what happens.
Thanks a lot for the insight and sorry for your loss.
I like to play with lifelink flyers in my Oloro deck, but I also like your Time deck a lot. So I adapted my old, mostly black and white and much slower build, by adding elements of yours. The result is a versatile, fast deck (3.65 CMC), which draws a lot and kills in various ways. Given that I don’t commit to a particular strategy, it’s far from optimal, but It’s a lot of fun. Here's what it looks like:
I know it's not for a Karn deck, but I wanted to point out a use of Lattice outside of MLD.
I also nominate Thalia, Heretic Cathar.
I also support Kozilek, the Great Distortion.
So I decided to drop the combos and a lot of fatties. This version is still built around lifelink creatures, but is much more agressive than before. As proposed by bigbearlyke in his Time Deck, I integrated cantrips, draw sorceries and instants and extra turns. The result is a mostly blue, versatile and fast deck, which draws a lot and kills in various ways. Given that I don t commit to a particular strategy, it s far from optimal, but its a lot of fun. Here s what it looks like.
6 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
Lifelink Flyer (6)
1 Serra Ascendant
5 Archangel of Thune
5 Baneslayer Angel
5 Divinity of Pride
7 Drogskol Reaver
8 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
Recursion (3)
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Archaeomancer
6 Sun Titan
Copy (3)
4 Clever Impersonator
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Rite of Replication
Extra Turn (3)
5 Time Warp
7 Temporal Mastery
10 Time Stretch
Spot Removal (6)
1 Path to Exile
1 Swords to Plowshares
3 Detention Sphere
3 Oblivion Ring
4 Return to Dust
4 Utter End
Board Wipe (4)
2 Cyclonic Rift
3 Toxic Deluge
4 Supreme Verdict
4 Wrath of God
Counterspell (10)
0 Pact of Negation
1 Swan Song
2 Arcane Denial
2 Counterspell
2 Muddle the Mixture
2 Negate
2 Trickbind
3 Forbid
4 Glen Elendra Archmage
4 Venser, Shaper Savant
4x Debt to the Deathless
5 Hatred
7 Magister Sphinx
10 Storm Herd
Draw (10)
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Necropotence
3 Phyrexian Arena
4 Fact or Fiction
4 Well of Lost Dreams
6 Consecrated Sphinx
6 Recurring Insight
Tutor (6)
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Demonic Tutor
3 Trinket Mage
5 Tezzeret the Seeker
Ramp (6)
1 Sol Ring
3 Chromatic Lantern
3 Darksteel Ingot
4 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Thran Dynamo
5 Gilded Lotus
Land (38)
0 Adarkar Wastes
0 Ancient Tomb
0 Arcane Sanctum
0 Bloodstained Mire
0 Bojuka Bog
0 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
0 Caves of Koilos
0 Command Tower
0 Drowned Catacomb
0 Fetid Heath
0 Flooded Strand
0 Glacial Fortress
0 Godless Shrine
0 Hallowed Fountain
0 Island (x4)
0 Isolated Chapel
0 Marsh Flats
0 Mystic Gate
0 Plains (x2)
0 Polluted Delta
0 Reflecting Pool
0 Reliquary Tower
0 Riptide Laboratory
0 Scrubland
0 Sunken Ruins
0 Swamp
0 Temple of the False God
0 Tolaria West
0 Tundra
0 Underground River
0 Underground Sea
0 Volrath's Stronghold
0 Watery Grave
0 Windswept Heath
Thanks a lot for the insight and sorry for your loss.
6 Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
Lifelink Flyer (7)
1 Serra Ascendant
5 Archangel of Thune
5 Baneslayer Angel
5 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
5 Divinity of Pride
7 Drogskol Reaver
8 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
Wizard (6)
2 Azorius Guildmage
2 Snapcaster Mage
3 Trinket Mage
4 Archaeomancer
4 Glen Elendra Archmage
4 Venser, Shaper Savant
Draw (9)
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Necropotence
3 Sphinx's Revelation
4 Fact or Fiction
6 Consecrated Sphinx
6 Recurring Insight
Tutor (4)
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Demonic Tutor
Spot Removal (6)
1 Path to Exile
1 Swords to Plowshares
3 Oblation
3 Vindicate
4 Return to Dust
4 Utter End
Board Wipe (4)
2 Cyclonic Rift
3 Toxic Deluge
4 Supreme Verdict
4 Wrath of God
Counterspell (6)
0 Pact of Negation
1 Swan Song
2 Counterspell
3 Forbid
3 Hinder
3 Spell Crumple
Ramp (5)
1 Sol Ring
3 Chromatic Lantern
3 Darksteel Ingot
4 Thran Dynamo
5 Gilded Lotus
4 Debt to the Deathless
5 Hatred
7 Magister Sphinx
10 Storm Herd
Good Stuff (10)
1 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Clever Impersonator
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Rite of Replication
4 Solemn Simulacrum
5 Bribery
5 Tezzeret the Seeker
5 Time Warp
7 Temporal Mastery
10 Time Stretch
Land (38)
1 Adarkar Wastes
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Caves of Koilos
1 Command Tower
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Fetid Heath
1 Flooded Strand
1 Glacial Fortress
1 Godless Shrine
1 Hallowed Fountain
4 Island
1 Isolated Chapel
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mystic Gate
2 Plains
1 Polluted Delta
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Scrubland
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Swamp
1 Temple of the False God
1 Tolaria West
1 Tundra
1 Underground River
1 Underground Sea
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Watery Grave
1 Windswept Heath
1 Expedition Map
2 Arcane Denial
2 Reality Shift
2 Trickbind
3 Rhystic Study
4 Leyline of Anticipation
4 Well of Lost Dreams
5 Future Sight
6 Merciless Eviction
7 Commandeer
I'm looking forward to your primer!