Well...on thorn I went 2-1 against the decks that care about thorn (2x Canadian thresh/grixis control). But in our ridiculous proxy event meta I ran into slivers/nic fit/breakfast which dont care about thorn and went 0-3 vs them. Also the whole point of the deck is to reveal chancellor and then jam a turn one lock piece .
Living wish and chrome mox over pact and mox diamond definitely.
Hm, I take your point regarding jamming a disruptive card on turn 1, although I guess my point is that I'm not sure Thorn is really a lock piece as such. But if it *is* doing the job you want it to I suppose that's semantics.
Another point I would make is that it's not like Chancellor does nothing if you don't cast your lock piece on turn 1; it's still disruptive. Otherwise the whole idea would be scuppered just by being on the draw.
Humility! But it's excellent vs me too.... Depths is bad vs dnt which is the most popular deck that doesn't care about thorn. I think vs other thorn (thalia)/chalice decks we just need to race. Plague in the board is the best I've come up with.
@jasper: how is thorn not a lock piece?? Yeah chancellor is good tempo.
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This deck actually has some pretty sweet (powerful) things going on. I 4-1'd my first league with a pretty suboptimal list, and now I'm 2-0. Played against elves and miracles in this league.
List:
Seeing the deck in action on Julian's stream was exciting. How has the red splash been so far?
That said, I wonder if not playing Lightning Greaves is the right call. There seems to be alot of downtime before an actual fatty comes down to swing.
@bahra
I had most of the stuff for your list, so I gave it a spin on MTGO. I don't have either City of Traitors or Cavern of Souls, so I replaced them with 4x Wasteland, 2x Geier Reach Sanitarium, and 1x Forest. Sanitarium and Wasteland have both been so great I don't know that I'd want to change them back.
The deck is really dependent on the opening hand, it's kind of like Belcher in that way. Tons of fun though. Feels strong. Prison + Clock with some tutorable answers via Wish is alright. I do wonder about pulling the Choke's for Ramunap Excavators, or possibly running some number of Green Suns Zeniths instead of so many copies of Piper/Priestess/Champion.
Definitely the foundation for a very strong deck though.
I think this deck is a blast. I don't think I would go for the green plan, but you've identified a very nice synergy that I think has great potential.
This would be my core:
4 City of Traitors
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Chancellor of the Annex
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Serum Powder
4 Chrome Mox
And 4 Spheres, depending on the direction (Creatureless, creatures)
The four existing decks that this could go in to are:
Dragon Stompy - Backbreaking turn 1 openers of blood moon and chalice
Angel Stompy - Lets you utilize the white mana from Chancellor-imprinted Chrome Mox and capitalizes on the tempo/disruption with pressure
MUD - Quickly resolve a Metalworker or Grim Monolith to power out game ending threats. Notoriously mulligan sensitive deck
Perhaps there are other routes, such as Modern's Equipment Storm. A white artifact deck with Sram, Senior Edificer, Puresteel Paladin and 0 mana equipments spells, but I don't think that is necessary per se. Affinity also seems like a worthwhile direction because it can translate the tempo swing into a quick finish.
Artifacts are pretty much hated on between Abrade, Trashmaster and that new Ravnica Goblin.
Well, not really. But I'd try to maximize game ending turn one plays. Perhaps something like this
4 Plateau
4 Arid Mesa
3 Windswept Heath
4 City of Traitors
4 Ancient Tomb
3 Plains
4 Serum Powder
4 Chrome Mox
4 Chancellor of the Annex
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Blood Moon
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Thalia, Guardian Of Thraben
4 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
4 Thought-Knot Seer
4 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Palace Jailer
Optimized to cast turn 1 Thalia, Thorn, Moon or Chalice. Disclaimer: Not saying at all this is remotely the best direction to take it.
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