1 Reply by Jinnosuke

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Do you think that running more land and the white equipment tutor Steelshaper's Gift would be better than Idyllic Tutor? Since you wouldn't need the mass of creatures to get a sword into play.

What do you think that the best back up plan is? That's what I'm trying to figure out. Run more cheap cantrip draw spells like Serum Visions or run beaters like Skaab Ruinator.
Are anthem effects like Tempered Steel and Signal Pest or Favorable Winds / Spear of Heliod just a better plan?

Thanks for the input.

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2 Topic by Jinnosuke

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The deck revolves around using Quest for the Holy Relic to cheat powerful equipment into play by turn 3 or lock the opponent out of the game with a flipped Erayo, Soratami Ascendant and Ethersworn Canonist

Land (18)
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Island
6 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast

Creatures (27)
4 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Faerie Impostor
2 Faith's Shield
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Glint Hawk
4 Quest for the Holy Relic
3 Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
4 Ethersworn Canonist
4 Kor Skyfisher

Equipment (3)
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Batterskull
1 Argentum Armor

2 Slots Open Still
Potential Additions
Dream Stalker
Deputy of Acquittals

Draw Engines
Coiling Oracle
Wall of Omens
Ephara, God of the Polis
Sky Hussar

Thoughts? Ideas? Other cards?
I do not like the all in versions with signal pest, springleaf drum and mox opal.

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3 Topic by Jinnosuke

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~Here is what I need~

-Foil-
4x Kor Skyfisher
3x Faerie Imposter
4x M11/M10 Ornithopter
4x Memnite
2x Dream Stalker
4x Glint Hawk
4x Unified Will

-Non-Foil-
3x Erayo, Soratami Ascendant

~Have~
Tradelist: http://deckbox.org/sets/276041?s=j&o=d

~Notable~
1x Geist of Saint Traft
1x Phyrexian Tower
3x Birthing Pod    
1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
1x Phantasmal Image
6x Promo Scavenging Ooze

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4 Reply by Jinnosuke

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Counterspells seem just worse than running Thoughtseize because if you plan to cast Brain Maggot on curve, then you need to clear the way with discard first. Imagine it like running Tidehollow Sculler in Dead Guy Ale. You should not worry about your opponent resolving spells and just rely on removal and Thoughtseize to get rid of potential threats. Your suite of planeswalkers will take over the game with value if you just give them a path early game and use them to win the game.

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5 Reply by Jinnosuke

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Some thoughts:
-I would add Spike Feeder for an infinite combo with Archangel of Thune.
-Removing counterspells would be a good idea since Birthing Pod requires a mass of creatures to be consistent.
-Good value creatures like Kitchen Finks let you pod the same creatures multiple times and you can pod the finks into Restoration Angel which can blink the Kitchen Finks.
-If the plan is to go big mana with something like Prophet of Kruphixand Kruphix, God of Horizons then Sphinx's Revelation is the best bet to draw a good portion of the deck and just get an inifinite combo off.
-Creatures with cmc of greater than 5 are probably not necessary and cards like Geist of Saint Traft don't fit into Birthing Pod lists because those creatures aren't something you would want to pod away. You could put Blade Splicer in its location and pod away the 1/1 while keeping the 3/3 token.

GL on the deck.

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6 Reply by Jinnosuke

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Which shocklands are you interested in trading for?

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7 Reply by Jinnosuke

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-4 Devour Flesh
-2 Ultimate Price
-1 Vraska
-1 Doom Blade
-2 Desecration Demon

+3 Scavenging Ooze
+4 Thoughtseize
+2 Archangel of Thune
+1 Underworld Connection

Standard is a format where you need to disrupt whatever your opponent is doing. Junk should play out like old Modern Jund did. You should destroy their hand with thoughtseize, trade removal 1 for 1, and then kill them by doing something better than they can do. Cheap threats like Scavenging Ooze should prove more potent than DD in your already clogged 4 drop slot. Devour Flesh, Ultimate Price, and Doom Blade are not consistent enough to play right now especially since thoughtseize will "kill" those cards anyway.

Running Archangel just makes sense in a deck where you are already running 4 Coursers and Elspeth.

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8 Reply by Jinnosuke

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Might be worth bringing in an Ajani Sunstriker for the Lifelink. Also oblivion rings would be nice. A better two drop would be knight of glory for exalted and pro black.

For my exalted deck I did white/black with knight of infamy, duty-bound skeleton, tormented soul (unblockable is relevant) and some cheap removal ~doom blade/ ultimate price.
Just a thought.

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