Ok, thinking about cutting Terastodon for Temur Sabertooth. TDon is not a reliable out card, and Sabertooth has both commander synergy and combo potential
Alright, lads, since the twitch merger thing I haven't been able to log in with my main profile (OP), so just going to update as such for now. Decent number of changes here, as well as cards that have been tested and dropped since last update (ages ago).
A few notes: thanks to judge promo, finally got a Capture of Jingzhou! This has belonged forever, but I never felt ok shelling out for it. Pathbreaker Ibex is stupid good and has got to be a staple. Testing out REB and Pyroblast, idea here is that I noticed just how brutal it was on our opposition whenever I happened to have Mana Drain back up to a spell, and the these two are not dead cascades most of the time. Not sold yet on Nexus of Fate, but worth keeping in for more testing. It's an instant for some reason, although idk how often that will be relevant. The mana base if finally due for a tune up, I had a rough run for the first time in a long time in terms of blue access (in terms of both how draws played out and in forcing mulligans), in one game going so far as to draw 7 basic forests, so the forest count is going to be trimmed for additional non-basics. I think the most likely swap here is going to be -3 forests, +Mana Confluence, City of Brass, and Hinterland Harbor.
Current list:
5 Island
9 Forest
1 Arid Mesa
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Taiga
1 Tropical Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Command Tower
1 Flooded Grove
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Karplusan Forest
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Tolaria West
1 Kessig Wolf Run
Planeswalkers: 4
3 Dack Fayden
4 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
5 Garruk, Primal Hunter
Artifacts: 6
0 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
2 Grim Monolith
4 Thran Dynamo
5 Gilded Lotus
1 Carpet of Flowers
2 Copy Artifact
2 Sylvan Library
3 Food Chain
3 Overgrowth
5 Future Sight
5 Treachery
Creatures: 20
1 Joraga Treespeaker
2 Lotus Cobra
2 Phantasmal Image
3 Eternal Witness
3 Fyndhorn Elder
3 Greenweaver Druid
3 Nantuko Elder
3 Shaman of Forgotten Ways
3 Trinket Mage
4 Glen Elendra Archmage
4 Oracle of Mul Daya
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
6 Arcanis the Omnipotent
6 Consecrated Sphinx
6 Deadeye Navigator
6 Pathbreaker Ibex
7 Sphinx of Uthuun
7 Avenger of Zendikar
7 Palinchron
8 Terastodon
Instants: 8
1 Brainstorm
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Cyclonic Rift
2 Mana Drain
4 Fact or Fiction
5 Mystic Confluence
7 Nexus of Fate
1 Ponder
2 Regrowth
3 Fabricate
4 Harmonize
4 Hunting Wilds
4 Ranger's Path
4 Rite of Replication
4 Skyshroud Claim
5 Bribery
5 Capture of Jingzhou
5 Temporal Manipulation
5 Time Warp
5 Tidings
6 Walk the Aeons
7 Knowledge Exploitation
7 Temporal Mastery
7 Tooth and Nail
10 Time Stretch
A few notes: thanks to judge promo, finally got a Capture of Jingzhou! This has belonged forever, but I never felt ok shelling out for it. Pathbreaker Ibex is stupid good and has got to be a staple. Testing out REB and Pyroblast, idea here is that I noticed just how brutal it was on our opposition whenever I happened to have Mana Drain back up to a spell, and the these two are not dead cascades most of the time. Not sold yet on Nexus of Fate, but worth keeping in for more testing. It's an instant for some reason, although idk how often that will be relevant. The mana base if finally due for a tune up, I had a rough run for the first time in a long time in terms of blue access (in terms of both how draws played out and in forcing mulligans), in one game going so far as to draw 7 basic forests, so the forest count is going to be trimmed for additional non-basics. I think the most likely swap here is going to be -3 forests, +Mana Confluence, City of Brass, and Hinterland Harbor.
Also, identified Rite of Replication, Terastodon, Regrowth as most likely next cards on chopping block