Emeria = Return a critter from GY to field. Not draw.
Ranger = Search your lib for critters. Not draw.
Hawk = Search your lib for more Hawks. Not draw.
i disagree. You may not put card from top library into your hand. But you still "draw" 2-3 cards. That virtual card advantage.
Tomorrow i will play a similar decklist in my local pauper league.
Try to put some gush in that deck.
And 2-3 ninjas. And maybe 4 more faes. Pestermite or something like that.
i miss some other counters CounterspellRune Snag Maybe. Daze!
Played 4 rounds.
1st round. There is a new player, and a team lend him a deck. Was a saproling deck. Put a lot of token. permanent that grant +0/+1. and global pumps spells.
I started discarding card with rats. Then, when he have some tokens in play, I transmuted for Echoing Truth and that was GG. i recover control of the board.
This was a easy match, to my deck seems easy to handle token decks, even combo with empty the warrens. Always have a echoing truth in hand or even a echoing decay.
2-0
2nd Round. Was a UB controlish deck. Use Delver of Secrets as a beater, some card draw, heavy discard, and sac effect.
he think a lot but decide not to mulligan in first game. Keep a island an a delver. he in second turn got his 3/2 but, he didnt draw more lands.
I started beating from there.
3rd game, again delver of secrets in the board, like 3 in a row, my steamcores handled them. Then i started chaining muddle into dimir ninja, into dimir ninja, and eventualy got a lot of creatures on graveyard and bring them back with Dead denied.
2-1
3rd round. Agains an Esperfinity. Was a very well tuned artifact deck. I didnt get the chance to stabililze and got beaten with 15 damage with cranial plating in like 3rd turn.
2nd game i bring my echoing Ruin, but didnt draw any. Also a quick game. my first lost of the night.
0-2
4th round. vs Eldrazi Ramp. First game. he win cause get the chance to play a lot of creatures, i didnt have the time to deal with all of them.
2nd game. He played a little more slow. This was a fun game. he played also Aurochs Herd. I terminated each one of them. By transmuting or using chronarch to recycle. i pulled a victory in this game, but using like all the card in my deck.
3rd was also a tight game. i control the game, he play a Herd. have one in play and the fetched one in hand. I bounced it, and then play rat-rat. leaving without hand xd...and the judge declared time out. But. like my deck doent have so much damage output, after 5 turn, could not pull the kill off. So we ended in a draw.
so win-win-lost-draw. 4th place this week.
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I'm thinking in change Chronarch for Mnemonic Wall, and add a couple of Agony Warp and take out those last gasp.
i disagree. You may not put card from top library into your hand. But you still "draw" 2-3 cards. That virtual card advantage.
try to get 4x Path to exile , 3-4 Spell Snare
Take out 2x Storage Matrix and 2x Bonehoard
The swords are better equipment finisher. Specially Sword of feast and famine
I see the sinergy between Twilight Shepherd and Magus of the Tabernacle. but is just too slow. In commander may work, but modern is a speed devil format.
Instead of leyline, just use card with flash already on them. Vendilion clique Snapcaster mage , etc
Kitchen finks Also a good creature against aggro. Wall of omens
Just need to select more quality cards. Cards that will help you, against the hord of creatures from a Zoo deck...
Try to put some gush in that deck.
And 2-3 ninjas. And maybe 4 more faes. Pestermite or something like that.
i miss some other counters Counterspell Rune Snag Maybe. Daze!
Now, on the deck, some advice?
In your opinion, wich is better?
Mnemonic Wall or Izzet Chronarch ?
The league was created like a month ago, so, we are still discusing some rules. One of them the banned cards.
My current decklist. added the prims, and there a eldrazi deck with huge creatures, so i put another terminate.
// Lands
1 Bojuka Bog
5 Mountain
5 Swamp
2 Terramorphic Expanse
5 Island
3 Izzet Boilerworks
3 Dimir Aqueduct
// Creatures
3 Izzet Chronarch
2 Dimir Infiltrator
4 Ravenous Rats
3 Mulldrifter
2 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Steamcore Weird
// Spells
1 Train of Thought
1 Shred Memory
2 Peel from Reality
1 Death Denied
1 Echoing Decay
1 Muddle the Mixture
2 Blightning
1 Echoing Truth
1 Izzet Signet
1 Dimir Signet
3 Terminate
1 Last Gasp
2 Prophetic Prims
Played 4 rounds.
1st round. There is a new player, and a team lend him a deck. Was a saproling deck. Put a lot of token. permanent that grant +0/+1. and global pumps spells.
I started discarding card with rats. Then, when he have some tokens in play, I transmuted for Echoing Truth and that was GG. i recover control of the board.
This was a easy match, to my deck seems easy to handle token decks, even combo with empty the warrens. Always have a echoing truth in hand or even a echoing decay.
2-0
2nd Round. Was a UB controlish deck. Use Delver of Secrets as a beater, some card draw, heavy discard, and sac effect.
he think a lot but decide not to mulligan in first game. Keep a island an a delver. he in second turn got his 3/2 but, he didnt draw more lands.
I started beating from there.
3rd game, again delver of secrets in the board, like 3 in a row, my steamcores handled them. Then i started chaining muddle into dimir ninja, into dimir ninja, and eventualy got a lot of creatures on graveyard and bring them back with Dead denied.
2-1
3rd round. Agains an Esperfinity. Was a very well tuned artifact deck. I didnt get the chance to stabililze and got beaten with 15 damage with cranial plating in like 3rd turn.
2nd game i bring my echoing Ruin, but didnt draw any. Also a quick game. my first lost of the night.
0-2
4th round. vs Eldrazi Ramp. First game. he win cause get the chance to play a lot of creatures, i didnt have the time to deal with all of them.
2nd game. He played a little more slow. This was a fun game. he played also Aurochs Herd. I terminated each one of them. By transmuting or using chronarch to recycle. i pulled a victory in this game, but using like all the card in my deck.
3rd was also a tight game. i control the game, he play a Herd. have one in play and the fetched one in hand. I bounced it, and then play rat-rat. leaving without hand xd...and the judge declared time out. But. like my deck doent have so much damage output, after 5 turn, could not pull the kill off. So we ended in a draw.
so win-win-lost-draw. 4th place this week.
***********
I'm thinking in change Chronarch for Mnemonic Wall, and add a couple of Agony Warp and take out those last gasp.
Advice please!
From the top of my head. i would make a deck with these cards.
Silhana Ledgewalker
Favor of the Overbeing
Slippery Bogle
Gladecover Scout
Sacred Wolf
you could play less auras and more equipment.
instead of spirit mantle. Armadillo's cloak For lifelink.