Originally Posted by
leegoo
Interesting.
Alright, a board without cunning wish targets.
First, I think a MD change would need to take place. Some form of tutoring I think is necessary in this sort of deck. The next choice is Intuition. Intuition obviously leads you down the path of wanting to make AK work. At this point, since one is not tutorable, you also want to move the third (and possibly a fourth) Turnabout to the main deck.
4 Reset
4 High Tide
4 Turnabout
3 Brain Freeze (which may indeed also need to be a 4x)
1 Flash of Insight
3 Intuition
4 Accumulated Knowledge
4 Brainstorm
4 Impulse
4 Force of Will
4 Meditate
1 Blue Sun Zenith
6 Fetch
14 Island
SB
4 Snap (Better than Repeal vs. Gaddock Teeg, Repeal raises how mana hungry the build is even more)
4 Flash Flood / Blue E Blast (goblins)
3 Hibernation (You need a way to slow down zoo / bant)
2 Echoing Truth (has to be instead of CoV to dodge Chalice. Better against dredge and empty the warrens)
2 Ravenous Trap ( Dredge, Show & Tell - other Emrakul Decks)
Making a change like this, the thing most people won't immediately pick up on is the land count. By cutting Wish (and changing to an intuition engine... which *could* be wrong... but again, I think you need SOME form of tutoring, and I can't think of anything "better".) and some of the cheap cantrips, the deck becomes much more mana hungry. You also have fewer ways to dig for one. (You could argue AK digs for one, but the first only see's one card, the second see's as many cards as opt, for one more mana)
Second. You are simply cold to the fast aggro decks now. With the exception of Force of Will and Turnabout, you've become a *race combo* deck as opposed to a *tempo combo* deck. At the Game 1 sacrifice of the Aggro matchup (goblins and dredge both look pretty terrible... not that they are wonderful to start with) you strengthen your control match, and possibly your fish match as well when they don't Lord Lord Lord you.
It doesn't do much for me, and the build probably reflects that I'm not a fan of the idea. But... if I had to, it'd look something like this.