I doubt it would be a good deck. . . but hypothetically how is this line of play"
Turn 1 -
Drop 4 Leylines
Land
(if land is not Serra's Sanctum) --> Crop Rotation for Serra's Sanctum
If you have Opalescence cast it, if not end the turn
Turn 2
Land
Starfield of Nix
Doing the math . . . you need 4/7 of your cards to be leylines for that line of play. So around 34 leylines. Outside leyline of singularity we have 8 leylines, so you can play 38 total if you want.
So:
34 Leylines
10 Lands that can produce G
4 Serra's Sanctum
8 "combo" cards
4 Crop Rotation
That's 60 cards.
is it good. Hell no - but it seems like it can beat down with 20 power by turn 2/3 surprisingly frequently.
As neato as these tricks are, it seems like a lot more of a pain in the ass than just casting Time Spiral.
Dark Petition reminds me of miracle timewalk more than anything; being 5cc is quite the opportunity cost and effectively locks it into storm chain and fetching bombs. At which point one wonders why you wouldn't just run more bombs to begin with. Day's Undoing looks cool but I struggle to come up with a situation where you'd want to play it - combo decks can't use it to refuel midcombo and anyone else doesn't want to risk drawing their opponent into answers.
Day's Undoing would be incredibly good as a red card, a fixed wheel of fortune for actual aggro/midrange decks more than combo ones since it fit in the "dump ur hand , wheel to gain card advantage".
Imagine dragon stompy prison deck with those. Suddendly ur opponents new cards don't matter as much cause you have chalices and shits. Faerie stompy could probably try it.
The new tutor looks insane tbh. It's a slightly more conditional Demonic... the only thing i dislike is that it's a purely combo card. Midrange and grindy decks never want this because the returned mana cost is nowhere as good in those decks. I eagerly await the day of a GB sorcery speed permanent demonic tutor.
The opalescence looks good and better than actual opalescence tbh, but i don't think it goes in enchantress and i don't see other decks wanting it.
The red clone enchantment sucks hard.
You know what's good with that new Timetwister? Notion Thief. Also Liliana's Caress if you just want to kill them.
Hrm, might just try it in Modern...
Notion Thief sounds like my kind of x-mas land, I will likely troll with that in modern.
need it!
PTT (Formerly of MTT) - We make Champion
Although it's French vanilla, as Jellydonut stated, I like this card. He's much better than something like Wake thrasher because the counters are permanent. He's better than Taurean Mauler or Quirion Dryad because it's both players' spells that grow him.
In terms of Legacy I think you're almost always going to rather have TNN in the 3cc slot, simply because of evasion. I might just be a sucker because I enjoyed playing with Forgotten Ancient back in my Auratog + Rancor deck. Do they have use for critters like this in Modern?
Still, if you don't have removal for this Hydra he's going to become a big trampler really quickly. Barook, do you have a link to the picture?
Fools dig for water, corpses or gold
The ice in my teeth keep the Cristal cold
I be shoot'n lava around like an uzi
Watch me turn this glacier into a jacuzzi
I'm so hot people standing around me, just to stay warm
Castin' so many spells looks like I'm playin' Storm
I fuck all your creatures without any lotion
Skeet in yo face, Erratic Explosion
Every time you look I'm doing 2 to your dome!
So scoop up your cards and take your broke ass home
-G.L.M.
Day's Undoing is pretty interesting. I could see it in a blue prison build like Tezzerator, but to me it feels like there's almost no downside to it for UR Delver. It's not going to be a 4-of like Cruise, but we've seen how good a "burn, swing, pass, counter" deck can be when it can stay on the gas past turn 4.
I'd like to see it in combo too, but it feels like you want to be sculpting a board state rather than a hand, and I don't know what combo deck does that besides Elves.
I think the biggest thing is the deep seeded emotional understanding that the right play is the right play regardless of outcomes. The ability to make a decision 5 straight times, lose 5 times because of it, and still make it the 6th time if it's the right play. - Jon Finkel
"Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings."
How often do you really need to fully reload with Delver, though? And against which decks? I really wouldn't want to give a control deck a fresh seven with this thing just because it's very unlikely I'll have enough interaction to get through all the punishment I just gave them...
maybe even old fashioned mono-blue control (and a little splash for black for Notion Thief)?
4 Day's Undoing
4 Force of Will
2 Delve Through Time
2 Notion Thief
4 Brainstorm
4 Counter Spell
4 Spell Pierce
4 Snap Caster
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Vendilion Clique
12 Fetch
8 Islands
4 Underground Sea
Bear in mind that Taurean Mauler was legal at a time when creature types were of great importance and still sucked. And bear in mind that Quirion Dryad is cheaper and is therefore by no means "worse". She's just different. And useless in the year 2015.
As awesome as it would be to have our token hydra do some work, he's too overcosted to be effective beats and his being vanilla means that it will never illicit an immediate response. Hell, if Monastery Mentor isn't good enough to see play, how do you honestly believe this lizard could stand a chance?
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