UWR Jeskai Ascendancy Monastery Mentor Combo

[screallix]

4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Young Pyromancer
4 Monastery Mentor
4 Anger

3 Jeskai Ascendancy

4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Brainstorm
3 Ponder
3 Faithless Looting


4 Force of Will
2 Spell Pierce
3 Lightning Bolt

3 Arid Mesa
4 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island

Based on the idea: (http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/legacy-type-1-5/582744-fate-reforged-and-legacy?comment=49)
0: Mentor 2/2
1: Mentor 3/3, Token 1/1 (4)
2: Mentor 4/4, Token 2/2, Token 1/1 (7)
3: Mentor 5/5, Token 3/3, Token 2/2, Token 1/1 (11)
4: Mentor 6/6, Token 4/4, Token 3/3, Token 2/2, Token 1/1 (16)
5: Mentor 7/7, Token 5/5, Token 4/4, Token 3/3, Token 2/2, Token 1/1 (22)

So I've been testing the Mentor since it was spoilered and I attempted some sort of aggro/combo uwr shell.
This is a rough list, but it is definitly worth a look. Ofc, the deck would be alot better with Treasure Cruise still viable but both Mentor and Pyromancer generate
enought value.

http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150201/i2vlpmgd.png

Strategies:
-Discard Anger via Faithless Looting or Jeskai Ascendancy for Hastiness
-Cast Young Pyromancer/Monastery Mentor attack for the win
-Monastery Swiftspear is still a good turn 1 play combined with Lightning Bolt, Gitaxian Probe. It could also be
a Delver of Secrets in that slot.

Let me know what you think.

[Barook]

4x Anger seems excessive.

[Darkenslight]

Play Mass Hysteria and Fatestitcher in the Anger slots. Probably a 1-3 split. The reason being that the Mass Hysteria means that most people will just explode. Yes, the Mass Hysteria can backfire, but it's a lot more interesting being a 1-cost non-creature for the Ascendancy.

[Daize]

With Jeskai Ascendancy in play it would be more like this:
0: Mentor 2/2
1: Mentor 4/4, Token 1/1 (5)
2: Mentor 6/6, Token 3/3, Token 1/1 (10)
3: Mentor 8/8, Token 5/5, Token 3/3, Token 1/1 (17)
4: Mentor 10/10, Token 7/7, Token 5/5, Token 3/3, Token 1/1 (26)

[rufus]

Play Mass Hysteria and Fatestitcher in the Anger slots...

Burst of Speed might be better with Young Pyromancer though it obviously also has it's own mix of advantages and drawbacks. Switching from Faithless Looting to Ponder is also a significant upgrade.

Does Manamorphose make sense in a deck like this?

[Darkenslight]

Burst of Speed might be better with Young Pyromancer though it obviously also has it's own mix of advantages and drawbacks. Switching from Faithless Looting to Ponder is also a significant upgrade.

Does Manamorphose make sense in a deck like this?

Possibly. It's a fixer pre-combo and a draw-spell post-combo.

[screallix]

Any ideas of the amount of Mass Hysteria or Burst of Speed?

I dislike Fatestitcher. I'd rather make 4 token and attack, than to
fully combo off without Treasure Cruise in the format.

[rufus]

Any ideas of the amount of Mass Hysteria or Burst of Speed?

I think the haste effects are 'danger off cool things'. They're bad unless you've - pretty much - already won. That said my inclination would be to include something like Dig Through Time and then, at most, 2 haste effects.

Without ascendancy, if you fire off 4 spells (including the haste effect) you get 16 damage, and 5 spells is 22. I'm not sure you can get a sufficient number of bodies without playing alternative cost spells or having mana problems.

For n=4 you have
8+6+2=16
For n=5, you have
12.5+7.5+2 = 22

[Quizzlemanizzle]

Swiftspear seems utterly pointless in this deck. It is only thematically a fit since Mentor produces Swiftspears..

Why would you want to run a 1 mana aggro creature when you are really a combo/control deck..