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If you can get him out before the Summoning, Arcbound Ravager would fit right in. Greater Gargadon is also a thing. Non-infinite cards might also help you get going, like Altar's Reap and Reshape.

Looks interesting, but I feel like you're not letting Fecundity do enough work on its own; sac outlets would let you use it to dig into a Heartless Summoning rather than having to assemble the whole...

While remaining agnostic on the question of including blue, it really seems like this should be running Time of Need. It's more Thruns, more Thalias, more Geists, more Brimaz and you could justify...

The major barrier this has to being good is that what this combo does, ultimately, is find stuff that will let you win. In order to find that "winning stuff", you have to find your original combo...

Leyline of course has the advantage of being conditionally free, but I feel like Worship is the way to go; you have enough draw to find it rather than mulligan for it, and it bails you out against...

I've been looking for a place to run Abyssal Gatekeeper. That thing is rude as hell in multiplayer.

At the risk of sounding overly cynical, I feel like this rule might still be in play. Cruise was common, so it wasn't moving product.

Ghastly Conscription would be a lot more fun to think about if it had Delve, maybe (definitely) with a higher cost. As is, I can only assume it's mythic to keep it out of drafts? Am I missing...

Best I can do is Root Maze. I doubt they'll reprint Elephant Grass any time soon.

On the same line of thinking, Burn is darn near a hate deck already. Dork removal and Eidolon of the Great Revel and (frequently) Moon effects and Molten Rain coming out of the board? Yes please. And...

Well,there's Tron, and there are plenty of creatures scarier than a vanilla 3/3.

At three you have K-Grip as mentioned. Also:

Consign to Dust, Beast Within, or Sundering Vitae, as well as a bunch of stuff that doesn't add much. Sundering Vitae's Convoke is going to be used...

A recent-ish top 8 result from a PTQ in Italy:

http://www.mtgtop8.com/event?e=8056&d=246443&f=MO

Goes by MRC rather than Skred Red. Not sure how much in there should be considered great tech as...

I figure people have seen it, but just in case...M15 brought Return to the Ranks, which seems like it could be a bomb in this strategy, but also gives you an option to play it small if you really...

I don't either, and since I posted the above lists, I feel compelled to clarify that they were all from paper events; one large (114 player) Spanish event, and two Khans of Tarkir PTQ's in France and...

Looks like a good time. And your comment about the lack of convergence is apt. I found three entries from biggish events on mtgtop8:

List 1
List 2
List 3

It looks like there's some tendency...

I don't know who came up with this first, but I like the theory that they do this on purpose, so that they can "shake the jar" if they feel like the format is stale.

Already kind of discussed, but what about pulling the 4 Predatory Sliver for some split of Disrupting Shoal and Mirror Entity? Entity is "lord-adjacent", which makes him a better replacement for...

It's just semantics, but I'd really consider this more of a combo deck as you've constructed it. Some of these ideas are going to take you closer to aggro.

More than anything, I feel like you're...

Eldrazi. Since there doesn't seem to be true consensus on Emrakul being bad, does it make any sense to use one of the lesser Eldrazi? With Rites in play, Kozilek, Butcher of Truth can come down on...

Krosan Grip solves the enchantment and artifact problem, and there's no activation in response. Revoker still seems like a good idea in a Modern version.

For getting damage through in Modern...

If you're going to go down to the "one creature combo", Proteus Staff also exists. It's probably not better, but it can be Polymorph 5-8 if you need that. It also opens up other possible shenanigans...

Well, there's Sky Hussar. There are four relevant Conspire cards: Disturbing Plot, Ghastly Discovery, Memory Sluice and Aethertow. Ghastly Discovery might be money? You would need more creatures to...

If the splash is in black, what about running Needlebite Trap out of the board? It doesn't really fix decks that really use life gain as a major strategy (Martyr variants), but it will rectify...

I was looking at something else and realized that the original list is a Wu hatebears list with no Meddling Mage. It seems like an obvious call to replace Nevermore in the board at the very least,...