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The thing about going straight artifacts is that most of the support, IE Tezzeret the Seeker and Darksteel Colossus is that they aren't standard and the store that I play at is exclusively standard I know that standard is restrictive and In my opinion, not meant to offend anyone, less fun, but I'd rather be able to play than not

You're right about the snapcaster, I might include them but if so then it would be because it interacts well with the flicker mechanic, it can be flickered the same as anything else, but I'm not going to cut any Flickering elements in favor of them, the deck is a flicker deck and that's alot more fun to play than the same deck as everyone else. I'm glad that you kept me from selling out I can maintain my thought that my decks are fairly original for the most part (probably an illusion but I can pretend lol)

You do make a good point about the sundial pulling counters away from the shape anews while it can still have a major impact on the game, however it would present a problem if I don't have a Venser out, because then I'm stuck with a dial and nothing to do with it.

Wow i'm dumb, I was thinking about using the Emperion to block their creatures, lol, it does sound a lot more appealing now, I will for sure test it out especially since people don't fear an Emperion the same way they fear a Blightsteel. I like the idea of using the Emperion especially with Tamiyo because the pairing could really slow down the game and allow me to overrun them with Golems. Also I could usually swing with the Emperion because I would usually have a Blade Splicer out and I don't know many things that have > 8 toughness to survive the first strike.

Again I love Elspeth, she's literally my favorite Planeswalker, my biggest issue is actually that she's in my favorite deck and I don't plan to prioritize standard decks over that one, however I could just swap her out on gamedays. I agree about the sweeping, my only issue is of course the large uselessness of her +2 since she will gain me very little but some life is better than none so I'll probably try her out, she seems like the best other option, but is she better than Tamiyo? I'm actually thinking so since Tamiyo doesn't really fit the theme at all.

My current issue with the Smugglers is that I don't think there's room, I would have to choose if I prefer those to wingcrafters and I don't think I like them better, unless you have a different suggestion on what to cut?

You're right about the flickering being fun, in one game I got out a Blightsteel which got Vapor Snagged but then I proceeded to smash face with like 10 Flying Golems, it was very nice that I had another win condition, I don't really
like using the Blightsteel combo, since it's kinda not along with the idea of flickering, the people I play with at the store are too competitive for a really fun flicker deck.

I do really encourage you to go for full out flicker, I'm very anxious to hear about several of your decks, flicker, squirrel, merfolk mill, pretty much all of them

As far as the shieldmate, I have found soulbond to be quite restrictive, if you swing with whatever you've enchanted then your opponent swings back you don't want to block with the shieldmate since it would probably die or the other creature would, breaking the bond, however if it's working for you then ignore that it's just based on me having alot of issues with the soulbond mechanic. I like that you have turn aside to protect the enchantments but I feel like after you play once with this deck your opponents will learn to sideboard Demystify or Cursebreak or something and that could really just destroy your combo, I like that the enchantments can't be countered so they're always a permanent so turn aside is perfect, but I always try to have 2 different possible win conditions, hypothetically your opponent could force you to discard one, since it seems likely that one of four would be in your hand before you get the Sovereigns out, then a simple (if expensive) Surgical Extraction breaks your deck, This is of course worst case scenario, and I'm anxious to hear how well the deck does, I hadn't seen the Sovereigns before, another card to consider if you really like this deck is Bruna, Light of Alabaster, it fills in the issues with not wanting to hard-cast the conscription after it's in your hand and can re-use the ones in your graveyard, but is it really worth the price tag? Probably not.

The more I think about it the less the maniac makes sense, it's the kind of thing where it's very situational, you're going to want to discard it but will you risk it? It's just more clutter in the deck which pulls away from the main theme, I just saw milled yourself and thought of my deck but that's completely different, in that deck at end game I usually have 50 cards in hand, lol

The only thing I  could think of weakening the land hate would be counterspells but you have enough destruction and with the charmbreaker devils you laugh at counter, plus if it works then they won't be able to do anything else if they're casting even one counter per turn. The only possible issues I could see are Terra Eternal, or Privileged Position, but no one uses terra eternal and people who use Privileged Position probably spent alot of money on their deck and aren't playing casually, lol. I'm very interested to hear how this one preforms.

My advice: copy and paste his name next time

I now understand both combos and agree the the infinite mana/tokens works along with the O-ring, I wasn't thinking of Venser.

A question: Is my advice helpful or am I just talking? I won't be offended however I don't wish to waste your time if it's not helpful

As far as the Oblivion ring and sundial, so you would wait until when to get it back? If you use the sundial I don't think you get an end step do you? I'm way beyond my depth and this is why I'm scared of this combo, I wouldn't be able to explain it

I'm using snapcaster partially because of the ghostly flicker being moved to sideboard, it gives me an extra use on the spells i've cast and I got milled to death along with having people take everything good out of my hand, against most decks I would sub out the snapcasters for 2 ghostly flickers but against the decks that I faced, I'm better off having access to the spells in my graveyard. I was never able to effectively use ghostly flicker, the best use I ever got out of it was to flicker 2 Splicers, but at that point I already had a Blightsteel out on the field, I didn't have the mana to get creatures on the board and play a flicker. It would also make it easier to get both Blightsteels out on the field at the same time since I usually have bad luck when it comes to drawing. And my opponents did counter my shape anews, my deck is fairly slow so everyone watched the end of my first match and so everyone knew exactly what I was doing

I am sad to pull a little bit away from the flicker mechanic, I'm still planning to figure out a way to put the Ghostly flickers back into the main deck because they're really the best chance I have to win without blightsteel since using Venser as a win condition is stupid. Any recommendations on what to cut aside from snapcasters? I was thinking if I keep the snapcasters then I could sub out a negate and a ponder to put in 2 ghostly flicker (I also want to run 4 Glimmerpoints because that thing was amazing with cloudshift, it stopped attackers and was essentially free because I flickered my plains with the stag ) So I guess I'm asking for recommendations about what to cut to put back in 2 Deadeye Navigatiors, since I never got a chance to use them, my opponents always threw everything they could at them, lol

In regards to the Platinum Emperion, I'm still thinking about it but my worry is just that it won't really do anything, in every game that I got out my Blightsteel I won and that was without any counters so I don't want to change what's working you know? Another thing was that the only deck that didn't run counterspells had Vault of the Archangel and the deathtouch was rendered useless to the Blightsteel but it would've screwed over the Emperion, and i needed to block one or I would die

Yes Venser can flicker himself, this is very true and a part of the reason that I wanted to include boardwipes. My issue with Elspeth is that I produce a couple large  tokens not a ton of little ones so her + 2 wouldn't get me much life, I was actually leaning more toward Gideon because he's very flexible, he can be removal or draw the attack or force blocking/removal but I'll probably try swapping each of them out with Tamiyo to see what fits

I'm trying to keep Shape Anew purely for blightsteel since I can't be sure of a Sundial or Emperion winning the game. For permanent removal I'm thinking aboutExclusion Ritual, thoughts? That way I can flicker it to different creatures, I'd run it as a 2 of.

I'm gonna ditch tempered steel, I'm putting in 4 O-rings so that should be enough to deal with any pesky enchantments or creatures (hopefully) and it fits the theme of the deck better in my opinion

The other thing about Turn aside is just that Cloudshift really should do the same thing, they cast a spell at one of my creatures, bye bye creature

Sorry that this is so scattered I'm just not really sure what I want to do, I'm not used to being limited to so few cards and having multiples, lol

Edit: Made some changes, now I'm thinking I should drop ponder entirely, it's nice but doesn't fit the deck and I think I would be better off with Ghostly Flicker

My main issues were that I went up against a lot of mana leak, dissipate, Despise, and Distress, I've re-worked it a bit and come up with this

http://deckbox.org/sets/186880

I'm not sure about theTurn Aside compared to the negate since turn aside is pretty much strictly defensive whereas I can stop up planeswalkers and can prevent people from countering my spells with negate

As far as platinum emperion that's a good idea, but Ill have to test it a bit, i'm not sure if the defense is worth the offensive loss since I kindof want to shape anew into a win. Also I believe Platinum is useless against infect which i'm worried about since it's standard.

I'm also not going to drop a Venser, The Sojourner because I didn't get it often enough tonight, i'd just add a Tamiyo.

The main idea of the tempered steel is just cause then my opponent needs a */3 to block my Blightsteel and not die, not to mention I faced a Curse of Death's Hold and saw someone bring out an Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite so I'm a little worried about the 3/3's

I'm currently thinking about keeping Day of Judgment in my sideboard since there was a no creature deck being played

Also do you think sideboarding x2 demystify and x2 celestial purge is better than x4 dismember?

I also have Gideon Jura, Jace, memory adept, and Elspeth Tirel think any are worth sideboarding/adding? or if it's worth splashing black for Sorin, lord of Innistrad?

I feel terrible for adding Snapcasters but they're really the missing piece, allowing me to get discarded/countered Shape Anews back

Also thinking about at least sideboarding an Angel of Glory's Rise since the only Non-Human creatures I have in my deck are the stags, which I might cut and the Blightsteels

It's happening to me as well, I am unable to propose trades or cancel them

If you go on the cards individual page theres a list of everyone on deckbox willing to trade it and you can toggle it to see ifanyone wants that card instead

Serra Ascendant, it's broken in EDH, my group changed the rules but it's insane if you don't

If you're willing to trade for some pricey stuff I would go for earthcraft add a squirrel's nest and boom, infinite tokens because earthcraft taps the tokens summoning sickness is ignored, that's a combo I use and love, nothing more satisfying than doing thousands of damage with squirrels

Also if you have them sideboard Arbor Elfs rather than Ley Druids, 1/3 the cost and you're running mono-green, I dont think you'll have the issue of untapping swarmyards very often

I would actually recommend trying to make a one colored deck first, especially if you're still learning the rules