Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍) modModern
Approx. Value:
$106.85

0 Likes 5 Comments
Avg. CMC 2.38
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Main Deck - 60 cards, 19 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (14)
3 Drift of Phantasms
$1.14 Creature - Spirit
3 Grand Architect
$0.83 Creature - Vedalken Artificer
3 Pili-Pala
$1.50 Artifact Creature - Scarecrow
1 Spellskite
$4.38 Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Horror
4 Steel Wall
$0.30 Artifact Creature - Wall
Instant (12)
1 Blue Sun's Zenith
$1.72 Instant
4 Muddle the Mixture
$2.75 Instant
4 Remand
$1.21 Instant
3 Thirst for Knowledge
$0.07 Instant
Sorcery (4)
4 Reshape
$2.68 Sorcery
Artifact (6)
1 Lightning Greaves
$5.31 Artifact - Equipment
1 Pithing Needle
$0.67 Artifact
1 Serum Powder
$1.21 Artifact
1 Thousand-Year Elixir
$10.02 Artifact
1 Torpor Orb
$6.93 Artifact
1 Whetwheel
$0.41 Artifact
Land (24)
20 Island
$0.10 Basic Land - Island
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
$30.68 Legendary Land
3 Tectonic Edge
$0.42 Land
Sideboard - 4 cards, 2 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (1)
1 Ornithopter
$0.22 Artifact Creature - Thopter
Instant (3)
3 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.22 Instant

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  • Ray Johns (Edited 07-Jan-2014 18:39)

    So it looks like your plan is to block and run out hate lone enough to assemble archetect+pili+(Whetwheel or Blue Sun's).  I see that BSZ and Archetect are Transmute targets for Drift, and Pili can be gotten with either a muddle transmute or a reshape, so you're pretty good on redundancy, but I'm not sure where Whetwheel fits in.  It's not a tutor target, so other than being an artifact for thirst I dont see how it fits in.  It feels like you would be more consistent with a fourth drift or a second BSZ.  Either way, it looks fun!

    Edit:  I do have to say, the budget builder in me loves that this is like a $50 build without the hurks in the side board and with mana leak in for remand.  I own a single remand and I want to get rid of it before it shows up as a 2 of uncommon in some duel deck (even though I aggree that Remand is far and away the correct counter for this or any other combo deck).

     
    • Folkvar (Edited 12-Jan-2014 02:39)

      I'm theorycrafting 3 different approaches to making grand architect+pili-pala a thing, this is one of them. Whetwheel fits in by being a tutor wincon for reshape, a sac for reshape, a blocker, or a pitch to thirst. I like that if I hit infinite a muddle (into reshape into whetwheel), a reshape (into whetwheel) or a drift (into BSZ) is a win. If it's two BSZ both reshape and muddle don't fetch a win with infinite online, only drift.


      Also I'm unsure on final numbers, I use 3 as a "test this number".

       
      • Ray Johns (13-Jan-2014 20:23)

        Ahh, misread reshape-Thought the saced artifact had to cost X as well, which would exclude watchtower from being a target based on your other stuff.  My fault.

         
        • Folkvar (13-Jan-2014 20:49)

          It's basically GSZ for artifacts, which has to be breakable in modern and I'm surprised it hasn't been yet. First came across it trying out ideas for mono-u tron.

           
          • Ray Johns (13-Jan-2014 20:52)

            Yeah, I thik it was a component of eggs to get the lotus until they banned second sunrise.