Been doing a lot of deskwarming these past few months. Leaves me a lot of time for theorycrafting decks I haven't played for formats I've barely played. Also should probably mention that this is mostly cannibalized from FTW's dimir lantern list (the manabase ratios in particular) and thnkr's lists on mtgsalvation forums. That being said,
//Artifacts: 22
4x Lantern of Insight
4x Codex Shredder
2x Pyxis of Pandemonium
4x Arcum's Astrolabe
4x Mishra's Bauble
3x Ensnaring Bridge
1x Pithing Needle
//Instants: 6
3x Assassin's Trophy
3x Surgical Extraction
//Sorceries: 14
4x Ancient Stirrings
3x Scheming Symmetry
3x Thoughtseize
3x Inquisition of Kozilek
1x Collective Brutality
//Lands: 18
4x Prismatic Vista
4x Verdant Catacombs
2x Snow-Covered Forest
2x Snow-Covered Swamp
1x Blooming Marsh
3x Ghost Quarter
1x Inventor's Fair
1x Academy Ruins
//Sideboard:
1x Assassin's Trophy
1x Nature's Claim
1x Surgical Extraction
3x Collective Brutality
3x Pithing Needle
2x Welding Jar
1x Grafdigger's Cage
3x Leyline of Sanctity
Went with GB for Trophy and Stirrings. Whir is great but 3U is tough.
Went with fetches and snow lands and Astrolabe and whatnot. Might be wrong for a 1-color build, maybe no Astrolabe and 4x Glimmervoid is correct (it's definitely more correct for my wallet). Especially since Astrolabe is my only blue source for A. Ruins, which is probably bad. On the other hand its an artifact that mana ramps and cantrips, idk.
3x GQ and 3x Surgical 3x Trophy main could go out for other stuff for sure. I just like GQ for the tron matchup and being able to mill a wincon and then surgical it has been a big draw of this deck for me. Total timmy reasoning I know.
The discard spell ratios can also be whatever as long as theres 6-8.
Ignore the sb, will probably be tailored to my local meta anyways. Whatever my local meta is. Haven't really had the chance to go to fnm due to covid and whatnot.
Funny, I've been thinking of doing something like this in legacy because I got some Mox Opals (right before the ban, lol.) Astrolabe seems like a logical place to start for replacing the Opals.
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
Opal being expensive was the reason I didn't build the deck in modern but I'm still sort of sad to see it gone. I feel like the deck could still be fun to play in Modern though, maybe not top table worthy but definitely would be fun to bring to an FNM.
It'd be pretty fun to try in Legacy although I could see Brainstorm being an annoying card. Then again it might be worth going Dimir for those exact blue cards. There's definitely a lot more flexibility for color splashes with the legacy cardpool
Upping the land count to 20 and playing some number of Smallpox seems devastating, working to keep hands size low for Ensnaring Bridge and have them sacrifice a creature that they somehow managed to stick. Crucible of Worlds also seems to be pretty good in that kind of setup. One or two Life from the Loam wouldn't be bad either, along with some of the cycle lands. You could opt to use the Nurturing Peatland or just the classic Tranquil Thicket/Barren Moor technology.
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
That's true, Smallpox and Crucible would both work pretty well, plus ghost quarters could upgrade to Wastelands. It also helps that Legacy has a bigger artifact pool to draw from and a lot more mana acceleration, plenty of possible t1 lantern + shredder hands. I might try to throw together some sort of tentative list to post in new/developing.
Although now that I think about it I'm not super sure about Smallpox. Deck space is pretty tight and whatever creature they stick ideally won't matter thanks to bridge (although I do see the synergy with keeping hand size low). Blue decks can sneak at least a few pieces through our mill rocks with cantrips so they could pretty feasibly land whatever Planeswalker and run away with the game which necessitates running at least one needle and some assassin's trophies. Making room for that + smallpox + crucibles (although I'd probably run it as a 1-of at least regardless) + loams while also going up to 20 lands means we'd have to cut consistency pieces.
EDIT: Actually playing around with the ratios a bit it does slot in pretty decently, maybe something like this?
4x Lantern of Insight
4x Codex Shredder
2x Pyxis of Pandemonium
4x Arcum's Astrolabe (assuming it doesn't get banned. wizards did let czech pile exist for a while so maybe snowko is going to get a bit more time)
4x Mox Diamond/whatever mana rock
3x Ensnaring Bridge
1x Crucible of Worlds
1x Pithing Needle
4x Ancient Stirrings
3x Scheming Symmetry
1x Life from the Loam
4x Thoughtseize
2x Smallpox
3x Assassin's Trophy
4x Verdant Catacombs
4x Prismatic Vista
2x Snow-Covered Forest
2x Snow-Covered Swamp
1x Bayou
3x Wasteland
2x Nurturing Peatland
1x Inventor's Fair
1x Academy Ruins
Seems like a fun list for legacy and maybe even pretty budget if you run petal or something instead of diamond and throw in a fastland or shockland over the bayou. I would love to fit some surgicals in the main. Also this is admittedly getting off the topic of modern so if you think this is a decent starting point I'll format it correctly and throw it up in the legacy section lol.
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