MTG Salvation

Quote from Arwen_Spence »

I've been messing with a version of this deck inspired partially by yours. I'm considering Blade of Selves since my deck has an infect subtheme. Also, if equipped to a clone could allow for some interesting shenanigans. What are your thoughts on that as an option. I'm worried it might be a bit too slow.

• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

• Mist-Syndicate Naga: Talk about a card tailor made for Tetsuko, currently I'm not too sure on what I'm cutting, but it's most likely either Nezahal, Primal Tide or Sakashima's Student, as mentioned in my prior post. I need to mull over this some more, but it's definitely going in here, but it's just a matter of where.
• Archmage's Charm: This is another I want to fit in. My initial impressions were for a replacement for Cryptic Command as a way to lower the cmc of my deck, since I want things to be more active whilst requiring less mana on board. This one needs some extensive testing, but I'm curious on how it plays overall.
• Force of Negation: Another interesting counter for the Mono-U deck, who would of thunk it? When I can finally get my hands on it, I'm going to try and dropping Pact of Negation for it. Both are solid cards, and while Pact has some solid upsides, like being able to be tutored by Tolaria West, I think its negative is far worse than the negatives of Force. This not a card I'm going to actively seek out because I think it's really not that much better in the deck, but if I do see it for a good price I won't hesitate on picking it up.
• Watcher of Tomorrow: The final card I'm really interested in from the set. With more ways to bounce or flicker, I think this would be more then a worthy inclusion here, but as is currently I don't think I can fit it in. Much to my chagrin, I will have to pass on it for now.

• 12x Island -> 12x Snow-Covered Island: This is more a meta call, but with the recent release of Horizons I know multiple people have already gone on Extraplanar Lens, but this is compounded by the fact that a local player has also found out about the joys of Wake of Destruction. Since we are mono-colored I'm switching to 50/50 split of basic and snow for the time being.
• Search for Azcanta -> Intuition: Search has never been a card that's impressed me too heavily here, and with the recent deconstruction of my Narset deck, this seems like a good home for the Intuition that was in the prior mentioned deck. From the games that I've seen it, it's been really nice. Oft times, I've been able to eke out a victory from this devious card.
• Riptide Entrancer -> Gateway Sneak: This card's been out for awhile, but a formal update has never been made for the deck. Entrancer tended from my experience to be much too slow for my liking, and more on hit draw effects that synergise with the deck is never a bad option, especially since if we don't see one of these effects early this deck can really flounder.

107.4h The snow mana symbol S represents one generic mana in a cost. This generic mana can be paid with one mana of any type produced by a snow permanent (see rule 205.4g). Effects that reduce the amount of generic mana you pay don’t affect S costs. (There is no such thing as “snow mana”; “snow” is not a type of mana.)

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Quote from ChaosNomad »

Pashalik Mons+Mana Echoes+Skirk Prospector=GG

That combo only gets "R: Pashalik Mons deals 1 damage to any target, then 1 damage to any target." You net two mana off of Mana Echoes and one off of sacrificing a goblin to Skirk Prospector, but then you need to sacrifice the other one to Mons himself, leaving you one short.