U/B/g The Mind Harvester

[Hanni]

It's the Mind Harvester!

This is a deck inspired by various Intuition/Loam decks from the past. Back in 2006, I put a little bit of development into a deck called Aggro DAT (Dredge-a-Tog). Later, I helped Goaswerfraiejen and Solpugid develop a similar deck that took many names (first TarmoTog, then Intuition-Thresh, and most recently River Rock). I also contributed a little bit to a deck called "It's the Fear!"

Fast forward to Fall 2011.

This deck is a control deck built around the Intuition/Loam engine. I've tried experimenting with Intuition/Loam in several blue-based aggro/control shells lately, but the deck has turned into a pure control deck everytime I'm done tuning it. The slow nature of Intuition/Loam has proven (to me) to be more effective in a control shell.

I think the name itself should be pretty obvious as you examine the decklist.

Current Decklist (as of 8/27/2020)

UGbw Yorion Intuition

Lands (28)
3 Prismatic Vista
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
2 Tropical Island
1 Underground Sea
1 Tundra
3 Snow-covered Island
1 Snow-covered Forest
1 Snow-covered Swamp
1 Snow-covered Plains
1 Cabal Pit
1 Karakas
1 Blast Zone
4 Wasteland
1 Thespian's Stage
1 Field of the Dead
1 Dark Depths

Creatures (10)
4 Ice-Fang Coatl
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Spells (42)
2 Oko, Thief of Crowns
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Arcum's Astrolabe
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Intuition
2 Life from the Loam
4 Exploration
4 Force of Will
2 Force of Negation
4 Thoughtseize
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Abrupt Decay

Sideboard (15)
1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
1 Ashiok, Dream Render
2 Force of Negation
3 Veil of Summer
2 Force of Vigor
1 Assassin's Trophy
2 Dead of Winter
2 Surgical Extraction


Old Decklist (as of 8/6/2011)

U/B/g The Mind Harvester

// Lands (23)
4 [ON] Polluted Delta
4 [ZEN] Misty Rainforest
4 [R] Underground Sea
2 [R] Tropical Island
1 [R] Bayou
2 [UNH] Island
1 [UNH] Swamp
1 [UNH] Forest
2 [ON] Lonely Sandbar
1 [OD] Cabal Pit
1 [TE] Wasteland

// Spells (37)
1 [EVE] Worm Harvest
4 [WWK] Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 [IA] Brainstorm
4 [TE] Intuition
1 [RAV] Life from the Loam
4 [IA] Counterspell
4 [AL] Force of Will
2 [LRW] Thoughtseize
1 [US] Duress
1 [EVE] Raven's Crime
2 [OD] Ghastly Demise
2 [OD] Innocent Blood
1 [TE] Diabolic Edict
2 [MBS] Go for the Throat
4 [AP] Pernicious Deed

// Sideboard (15)
SB: 4 [ZEN] Spell Pierce
SB: 2 [PLC] Damnation
SB: 2 [FD] Engineered Explosives
SB: 2 [M10] Pithing Needle
SB: 1 [ON] Gigapede
SB: 1 [IA] Zuran Orb
SB: 1 [SOM] Nihil Spellbomb
SB: 1 [WWK] Bojuka Bog
SB: 1 [TSP] Academy Ruins

Original Decklist:

U/B/g The Mind Harvester

// Lands (23)
4 [ON] Polluted Delta
4 [ZEN] Misty Rainforest
4 [R] Underground Sea
2 [R] Tropical Island
1 [R] Bayou
2 [UNH] Island
1 [UNH] Swamp
2 [ON] Lonely Sandbar
1 [TSP] Academy Ruins
1 [SH] Volrath's Stronghold
1 [TE] Wasteland

// Creatures (3)
3 [LRW] Shriekmaw

// Spells (34)
1 [EVE] Worm Harvest
4 [WWK] Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 [IA] Brainstorm
4 [TE] Intuition
1 [RAV] Life from the Loam
1 [EVE] Raven's Crime
4 [IA] Counterspell
4 [AL] Force of Will
2 [OD] Innocent Blood
2 [ON] Smother
3 [FD] Engineered Explosives
4 [SH] Mox Diamond

// Sideboard (15)
SB: 4 [ZEN] Spell Pierce
SB: 2 [AP] Pernicious Deed
SB: 2 [PLC] Damnation
SB: 2 [M10] Pithing Needle
SB: 1 [ALA] Fleshbag Marauder
SB: 1 [TO] Llawan, Cephalid Empress
SB: 1 [IA] Zuran Orb
SB: 1 [SOM] Nihil Spellbomb
SB: 1 [WWK] Bojuka Bog

Fundamentally, the deck does what your average blue-based control deck does: destroy some creatures, draw some cards, counter some spells, and then drop a Jace TMS. It is the way that this deck goes about doing those things that seperates it from other similar control decks.

There's no fancy way of saying it; this deck abuses the graveyard. This opens the deck up to graveyard hate postboard, but it gives the deck a tremendous amount of power that is worth the Achilles Heel.

Intuition/Loam is a monster of a card advantage engine. It's slower than the more commonly played Standstill and Ancestral Visions, but it is far more powerful.

On it's own, casting Life from the Loam grants the same card advantage as Standstill. While it only draws lands instead of business, the deck has numerous means to convert the lands into business, and honestly... how often does a Standstill draw a grip of lands anyway?

Some people think Intuition is overpowered in a deck like Hive Mind, where it is essentially a Demonic Tutor for 3. What many people fail to realize, is that Intuition in a Loam shell, is essentially 3 Demonic Tutors for 3.

Intuition for Life from the Loam and Worm Harvest is extremely underrated, and incredibly powerful. Loam itself ramps into the necessary mana for Harvest, quickly and easily. Spamming 1/1 tokens on the board helps to stabilize the ground against aggro, and gives the deck a near impossible to deal with win condition against control. By midgame, it's not out of the question to go into Empty the Warrens-mode and spam out 10 1/1 tokens a turn.

Intuition also sets up alot of other powerful engines.

Raven's Crime turns every land into a discard spell. While Raven's Crime may be lackluster against aggro decks that drop their entire hand in the first few turns, it absolutely destroys opposing control and combo decks, which do in fact make up a big portion of the metagame. Some people think the best way to resolve a Jace TMS is to cast a Vendilion Clique first to clear the way; I happen to think casting Mind Twist is better.

Academy Ruins and Volrath's Stronghold set up the ability to recur removal. Between 3 Shriekmaw and 3 Engineered Explosives, one of them is bound to end up in the graveyard prior to casting an Intuition. The 3rd card in the Intuition pile (since you're likely grabbing Loam and Harvest) is usually going to be the missing piece to whatever removal combo is available. If both Shriekmaw and Engineered Eplosives are in the graveyard, then the choice becomes dependant on the particular matchup and situation.

Shriekmaw itself is extremely underrated. While Shriemkaw may be a little more conditional than the other normally conditional black removal spells, there are many benefits associated with the elemental. As a creature, he is able to destroy Emrakul, the Aeons Torn and Bridge from Below. Additionally, hardcasting Shriekmaw is really good; they lose a guy, and you get a 3/2 body with Fear. The body itself can block/trade with an attacker, or can itself become an evasive attacker/win condition. In this deck, with Volrath's Stronghold, the Maw is amawzing.

The removal package is rounded out with a diverse package. Some sacrifice effects, some targeted effects, and EE's can deal with a wide variety of permanents. With Mox Diamond, EE can easily deal with 4cc stuff, and even hit 5cc stuff sometimes.

Force of Will and Counterspell are bread and butter, respectively. They are the glue which holds the deck together, answering most of the randomness you might find in the format. The deck does not run Spell Snare and Mental Misstep because the deck does not need narrow countermagic; it has a various array of removal to deal with early resolved stuff instead. Nothing is worse than holding a grip of Mental Misstep and Spell Snare, only to watch the opponent cast a Show and Tell, Natural Order, Jace TMS, or whatever the case may be.

Jace TMS is Jace TMS. 4 copies has been great in testing.

The singleton Wasteland gives the deck answers to problematic lands like manlands, is tutorable, and can be recurred.

Lonely Sandbar and Life from the Loam go hand in hand. Sandbar pitches to Mox Diamond's early, cantrips during a land flood, and converts lands into business once Loam is online. Postboard, it can used to effectively prevent most forms of graveyard hate from hitting Loam.

Mox Diamond and Life from the Loam go hand in. The acceleration into turn 2 Intuition and/or turn 3 Jace TMS should not be overlooked. Against a deck where the difference between 1cc removal and 2cc removal is relevant (like Goblins and Zoo), a turn 1 Mox Diamond fixes my "heavy with 2cc removal" problem.

I think that about covers everything concerning the maindeck. The sideboard is still in its testing phases, and so for now, I will leave that area up for discussion. However, I have been pleased with it so far. There are way too many available options though, so there is no way this deck will ever have a perfect sideboard.

EDIT: WOAH. Post 1,666... for a thread I title'd The Mind Harvester. Interesting...

[woremak]

I'd consider an E. Witness, largely just so you can get more value out of Volrath's Stronghold. Plus, it's kind of cute with Innocent Blood.

[Hanni]

I'd consider an E. Witness, largely just so you can get more value out of Volrath's Stronghold. Plus, it's kind of cute with Innocent Blood.

I had considered him for the immediate +1 CA, but I have no idea how to fit him in. The maindeck is extremely tight, and there is no spell in the deck that I think Eternal Witness would be better than.

Aside from that, the Stronghold -> Witness plan is rediculously slow. Unless he's grabbing something cheap like Innocent Blood or Brainstorm, I should be in a dominating game state if I can recur him with Stronghold, cast him, and then cast the spell I got back.

I know ITF used to run him, but man was that deck slow as balls.

[woremak]

I hear that, but if you're looking for space I could see cutting a Shriekmaw. That said, a deck playing 4x Jace probably has more than enough CA to worry about anything like that.

[Dsch]

Awesome deck mate, seriously.
A question from someone thinking about sleeving it up: how do you play around the games 2 and 3 grave hate?

[Hanni]

After playtesting, I'm thinking 4 Lonely Sandbar's is way too many. Too many inconsistent openers, and this deck doesn't need cycling the same way Aggro Loam does.

-2 Lonely Sandbar
+1 Tropical Island
+1 Bayou

[Greenpoe]

Have you tried Maelstrom Pulse over EE? EE recurs with ruins, but Pulse can kill Tombstalker, 4 CMC stuff, and it's cheaper if you're going for anything other than a zero/one-drop.

Only 1 Wasteland? I see that you've already got Ruins and Stronghold tapping for colorless, but still you can pitch extra Wastes to Diamond or retrace or Brainstorm/Jace it away.

Why not Smallpox? You've got Loam+friends, so losing a land isn't a big deal.

[JackaBo]

I'm considering something like this.

UBgr Jace Loam value

Creatures:4
4 Snapcaster Mage

Spells:33
2 Engineered Explosives
4 Brainstorm
3 Fatal Push
1 Ponder
1 Raven's Crime
1 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Snare
2 Counterspell
2 Life from the Loam
3 Punishing Fire
2 Intuition
1 Kolaghan's Command
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will
1 Nissa, Vital Force
1 Worm Harvest

Lands:23
1 Academy Ruins
3 Grove of the Burnwillows
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland

Sideboard not done but general ideas:
Artifacts for intuition piles
Cheap interactions for the fast decks.
No grind cards, the CA engine is unparallelled.
For wasteland decks: only black removals/sweepers to ensure resilience to colourscrew.

[Poron]

play a Volrath's Stronghold and some high value creature.

No Pernicious Deed? Ok, EE + Ruins is good

No Abrupt Decay and 4 Snapcaster? What's the sense?

[mgrinshpon]

I just saw stryfro play Entomb+Vengeful Pharaoh+4x Predict on his twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/153023035). List looked sweet af and it looked a lot better than Intuition+cards.

[Hanni]

With DRS gone, this deck looks like it has some serious potential.

I know this deck was originally supposed to be a hard control deck, but now I think it makes more sense to be more of a combo deck. I'd still pack some removal of course, but I think going deeper into the combo and lighter on removal is a much better plan, at least maindeck.

What I mean by deeper is to include cards like Exploration and Merchant Scroll. The plan is to Intuition for Loam/Stage/Depths and be able to make a 20/20 every turn until one sticks, and then you kill the opponent. Exploration isn't necessary, but it speeds the deck up dramatically. Merchant Scroll tutors for Intuition, Force of Will, or Chain of Vapor postboard, which makes it such a perfect fit.

The ability to also include a copy of Worm Harvest in the sideboard gives the deck added resiliency to effects like Surgical and Pithing Needle, postboard.

Sample list:

BUG The Mind Harvester

Lands (21)
4 Polluted Delta
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Wasteland
1 Thespian's Stage
1 Dark Depths

Creatures (3)
3 Snapcaster Mage

Spells (36)
2 Jace, the Mindsculptor
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Merchant Scroll
4 Intuition
1 Life from the Loam
4 Exploration
4 Thoughtseize
4 Force of Will
3 Fatal Push
2 Abrupt Decay

Sideboard (15)
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Raven's Crime
1 Worm Harvest
1 Karakas


Options include doing more fancy things with the manabase, such as...

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Lonely Sandbar
Ghost Quarter
Glacial Chasm
Creeping Tar Pit
Treetop Village
The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Maze of Ith
Academy Ruins

...among others.

There's also options like Baleful Strix, Engineered Explosives, Counterspell, Liliana of the Veil, and many more.

Not really sure what I want to do with the sideboard just yet, but some number of Flusterstorm makes sense, as does Diabolic Edict and Toxic Deluge. More blue instants also sound good because of Merchant Scroll, like Hydroblast.

[Hanni]

Tweaked the list a bit more, based on the new direction it's taken.

BUG Intuition Depths

Lands (21)
4 Polluted Delta
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Wasteland
1 Thespian's Stage
1 Dark Depths

Creatures (4)
4 Snapcaster Mage

Spells (35)
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Merchant Scroll
4 Intuition
1 Life from the Loam
4 Exploration
4 Force of Will
4 Thoughtseize
4 Fatal Push
2 Abrupt Decay

Sideboard (15)
3 Flusterstorm
1 Hydroblast
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Echoing Truth
1 Raven's Crime
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Toxic Deluge
2 Krosan Grip
1 Worm Harvest

I'm kind of considering starting a new thread, since the deck can no longer be called The Mind Harvester... since I cut Jace.

The original list and lists throughout this thread were control decks with a combo-esque finish. This new approach is combo/control.

At any rate, Jace simply does not make sense in a combo deck with very little removal. Snapcaster Mage is simply much better at doing what this deck wants. The deck still needs an adequate amount of removal since it is on the slower side compared to other combo decks. The deck can afford to spend slots on removal due to how concise and precise the combo is.

I may be wrong about how I feel about Jace and add it back in later, so for now, I'll keep posting in this thread.

The sideboard is currently designed to fight postboard hate and opposing combo decks, with a couple of Deluge's to assist against aggro.

I absolutely believe this deck has the power to be a serious contender in the Legacy format now.

[JackaBo]

While i can dig the depths approach the draw this deck is loam plus jace and the incredible card advantage that does give!? It's also a combo that break the symetry of loam making it work in a non-land based shell. Put some jace in there, hanni!

[Hanni]

I realize that the deck is all in game one on a single gameplan, and I am mostly fine with that. Also, in postboard games, my plan is to fight through the hate like Surgical with the additional Flusterstorm's, along with the maindeck Thoughtseize and SCM. The plan was to bring in Worm Harvest every time.

However, I was thinking about this last night before I even saw your post, and I do want to be maindecking the Worm Harvest, in addition to the Raven's Crime.

My reasoning for that is varied, but I will break it up into two major points:

1) Games where I don't have Exploration in play. The Stage/Depths plan without Exploration is slow and doesn't impact the board for several turns. There will be games where I need to impact the board immediately, and a Raven's Crime + Worm Harvest pile does that.

2) Karakas. If my opponent has Karakas, my plan right now is to go for Wasteland. However, with only 1 copy, I'm most likely forced to spend my first Intuition grabbing it, which means I'm not grabbing the Stage/Depths combo. Worm Harvest is a pretty solid plan against D&T in game one if they have Karakas.

I'm going to cut 1 SCM and 1 Fatal Push to fit in 1 Raven's Crime and 1 Worm Harvest.

For now, I'm going to replace the two free sideboard slots with Jace, although I'm not sure if that's correct.

I'm also considering cutting 1 Verdant Catacombs for 1 Ghost Quarter, to increase my chances of naturally drawing into an answer to Karakas while also giving me the angle to dismantle manabases if I need to (would mostly be used against Miracles, but maybe Stoneblade, Big Eldrazi, and Food Chain too).

Bojuka Bog in the sideboard is way too slow, and without Crop Rotation, it's sorcery speed. It would probably be fine against Lands and Dredge, but it's ineffective against Reanimator.

On the other hand, I would like to fit a Karakas in somehow.

I don't think Glacial Chasm is worth it for me. It requires 2 Thespian's Stage to assemble a lock, which I don't have, and tutoring for it to by me time doesn't accomplish anything.

I don't think Living Wish is worth it, at all. If I was built like Turbo Depths, with multiple copies of Stage/Depths, and my plan was to assemble A+B, it would be good. However, it's just not going to do enough for me here.

I don't really want to be on Jace game one. My plan is not to grind out card advantage, it's to combo off. It's too hard to support Jace in here without adding more removal, and there are a number of matchups where it's going to be bad, such as RUG Delver and Infect. I'd be happy seeing it against Miracles and Stoneblade though, which makes it much better in the sideboard than in the maindeck, IMO.

[apple713]

I don't think Living Wish is worth it, at all. If I was built like Turbo Depths, with multiple copies of Stage/Depths, and my plan was to assemble A+B, it would be good. However, it's just not going to do enough for me here.

The main purpose for living / cunning wish is to let you fight through the hate easier. It was never intended for you to piece together the combo. It also lets you play a better more effective side board. This strategy doesnt work in turbo depths because the goal is to win faster. Your strategy is very slow and it could work here much better.

[Hanni]

I already have a two mana tutor that can grab ways to fight through hate with Merchant Scroll, which also happens to grab my combo card. It also has awesome (pitches to Force of Will). Living Wish doesn't do as much for this deck as Merchant Scroll does.

Cunning Wish is nice because it is instant speed and grabs more possible cards, and is an option instead of Merchant Scroll, but the difference between 2cc and 3cc is also a big deal. I think having 4 Intuition's maindeck is pretty important, but I wouldn't rule out Cunning Wish, and it is something I would like to test with as well.

[Hanni]

It's been a while since I posted, and I still never got around to doing any serious testing yet, but I think Assassin's Trophy shores up a lot of holes in this deck. It deals with Karakas, Maze of Ith, Marit Lage (by destroying Stage in response to the sac), Gurmag Angler, planeswalkers (JTMS), and postboard Leyline of the Void, in addition to the stuff Decay was already dealing with like Ensnaring Bridge. Giving some opponents a basic land seems perfectly acceptable, all things considered.

I also think having a singleton Gifts Ungiven could be extremely good, which can be grabbed with Merchant Scroll, particularly in situations where the opponent has Karakas, since I can grab Loam/Stage/Depths/Wasteland. I'm not entirely sure yet though. Of course, if I were to swap to Cunning Wish, I would certainly run a copy in the sideboard.

I'm also thinking a singleton Crucible would be fantastic in the sideboard.

I need to tweak a few more things still, and get some playtesting in at some point, but I think that switching Abrupt Decay into Assassin's Trophy is a significant improvement that makes this deck even more resilient. I'll post an updated list at a later time.

EDIT: I'm also curious how the deck would perform with Preordain instead of Merchant Scroll. The deck would certainly be better at finding Exploration, which is an important component of the deck, but relying on finding 4 Intuition with 0 tutors seems highly suspect. Another idea could be to run a split of Preordain and Gifts, but I'm not sure about that either...

There are definitely some different configurations that I'd like to try out, at any rate.

[JackaBo]

What’s your current list, Hanni? Blue loam is ever intriguing

[Hanni]

So I was working on this deck for a long time, and I was going to post about it a while ago, but then I stopped messing around with magic for a while. When I was still working on it, the companion rule hadn't changed, although the deck still needs to run 80 cards, and Yorion is still good despite the rules change.

Anyway, the deck basically builds around the Snowko shell and becomes a sort of cross between Lands and Snowko. Astrolabe helps stitch the mana together by converting the colorless lands into color-producing sources, and enables the 4th color nicely. The shell still has all of the the grindy 2-for-1's, chocked full with spell interaction, removal, and some Planeswalker's, but it has acceleration with Exploration, additional grind with Life from the Loam, and the one card combo engine of Intuition. Intuition can either make a fast 20/20 that you can potentially remake every turn, make a nearly unstoppable swarm of 2/2's zombies every turn, or go for Uro when you need another utility card and/or you lack an Exploration in play to go for one of the other more busted options.

Before I delve any deeper, here's my current list:

UGbw Yorion Intuition

Lands (28)
3 Prismatic Vista
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
2 Tropical Island
1 Underground Sea
1 Tundra
3 Snow-covered Island
1 Snow-covered Forest
1 Snow-covered Swamp
1 Snow-covered Plains
1 Cabal Pit
1 Karakas
1 Blast Zone
4 Wasteland
1 Thespian's Stage
1 Field of the Dead
1 Dark Depths

Creatures (10)
4 Ice-Fang Coatl
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Spells (42)
2 Oko, Thief of Crowns
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Arcum's Astrolabe
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Intuition
2 Life from the Loam
4 Exploration
4 Force of Will
2 Force of Negation
4 Thoughtseize
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Abrupt Decay

Sideboard (15)
1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
1 Ashiok, Dream Render
2 Force of Negation
3 Veil of Summer
2 Force of Vigor
1 Assassin's Trophy
2 Dead of Winter
2 Surgical Extraction

The deck is sort of a pile of goodstuff.dec, but it all synergizes pretty well. Most of the cards are standard fare for a Snowko deck.

I prefer Leo over Narset in the maindeck because I feel like it is better against the majority of the format overall. I chose Leo over more copies of Uro because I don't need a powerful threat to close games out the same way as traditional Snowko when I can Intuition into Dark Depths or Field of the Dead; Leo is intended as a disruptive element that effects most of the decks in the format, and I already have Exploration to ramp out lands.

For this reason, I also run Teferi. Being able to shut down most forms of interaction that stop me from going off with Intuition/Depths is pretty busted.

Thoughtseize is chosen over cards like Dovin's Veto or other countermagic because the proactive disruption plays a bit better with the combo-nature of the deck. It's also a fantastic turn 1 play, especially when you lead with a turn 1 Exploration, setting up a turn 2 Intuition pretty nicely.

When going for Field of the Dead, Thespian's Stage can copy it, allowing me to keep the package more concise.

Brainstorm and Ice-Fang Coatl (or even Ponder with Teferi on the board) can protect Life from the Loam from graveyard exile effects, so I no longer need cards like Lonely Sandbar or Waterlogged Grove.

Ice-Fang Coatl and Snapcaster Mage can insulate my 20/20 from Edict effects.

Naturally drawn Loam's can help fuel Exploration, and there are enough juicy land targets that can put in work as well. The card advantage can also be converted into business spells with Brainstorm when extra lands in hand are not needed.

I've cut a lot of the other old stuff that is just no longer needed anymore, like Worm Harvest and Jace the Mind Sculptor. The deck is no longer The Mind Harvester anymore, so maybe at some point I'll start a new thread.

The deck grinds just as well as Snowko, but goes way over the top with more powerful/faster ways to turn the corner and finish games. The deck shores up a critical weakness of typical Lands decks by having strong interaction against combo decks or turn 1 Blood Moon's while being less all-in with its graveyard/Loam dependence. Overall, I feel like this deck is getting the best of both worlds.

Exploration as acceleration helps this deck to get out ahead in most matchups, allowing it to play through Waste/Daze/Pierce from Delver decks, Waste/Port/Thalia vs D&T, and just otherwise start casting its bombs/disruption faster vs everything else.

The sideboard isn't set in stone, but I feel like it gives the deck the remaining tools it needs to deal with everything in the format. There are obviously hundreds of options available here given the four colors we have access to.

I've considered numerous other cards for this deck between maindeck and sideboard, but this is what I have settled on. Cards like Sevinne's Reclamation could still find a way in the deck at some point, but I'm pretty happy with the current configuration. I'm also of the opinion that Dead of Winter is better in here than Plague Engineer, but maybe I'm wrong. I'd be happy to list the tons of other cards I've considered for this deck if anyone would be interested in it.

I wasn't sure if I should have posted this brew before placing with it in some events first, but since I don't plan on actually participating in any tournaments at any point in the near future, I guess it doesn't really matter. Hopefully if someone does, I'm given the credit for my brew, but it's whatever. I never really got any credit for creating the basis for Miracles, so I've conditioned myself to no longer care about my standing in the magic community.

Enjoy folks. This things a mufuckin beast.

[FTW]

I love the addition of the Intuition/Loam engine. 1-card combo/toolbox must do a lot to counteract the drawback of playing 80 cards, and your toolbox doesn't take up much space.

Do you find the maindeck a little light on removal with just 4 StP + 2 Decay? (Blast Zone is slow to set up) Most Yorion decks ran more, with either Terminus or Dead of Winter maindeck.