Adam Haggerty's Reverse Lutri
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (invalid) modModern
Approx. Value:
$536.48

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Avg. CMC 3.45
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Main Deck - 43 cards, 43 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (19)
1 Bounding Krasis
$0.13 Creature - Fish Lizard
1 Deceiver Exarch
$0.30 Creature - Phyrexian Cleric
1 Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration
$0.47 Creature - Human Wizard // Creature - Human Insect
1 Dreadhorde Arcanist
$1.22 Creature - Zombie Wizard
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
$22.72 Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
1 Grim Lavamancer
$0.30 Creature - Human Wizard
1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
$3.16 Legendary Creature - Boar God
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
$8.99 Legendary Creature - Goblin Shaman
1 Monastery Swiftspear
$0.41 Creature - Human Monk
1 Narset, Enlightened Master
$0.43 Legendary Creature - Human Monk
1 Pestermite
$0.38 Creature - Faerie Rogue
1 Pteramander
$0.12 Creature - Salamander Drake
1 Satyr Wayfinder
$0.13 Creature - Satyr
1 Snapcaster Mage
$15.53 Creature - Human Wizard
1 Stormchaser Mage
$0.18 Creature - Human Wizard
1 Tarmogoyf
$28.90 Creature - Lhurgoyf
1 Tireless Tracker
$1.41 Creature - Human Scout
1 Torrential Gearhulk
$0.73 Artifact Creature - Construct
1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$10.77 Legendary Creature - Elder Giant
Instant (8)
1 Grapple with the Past
$0.17 Instant
1 Growth Spiral
$0.29 Instant
1 Lightning Bolt
$1.12 Instant
1 Riddle of Lightning
$0.08 Instant
1 Shrapnel Blast
$0.27 Instant
1 Thrill of Possibility
$0.07 Instant
1 Through the Breach
$2.41 Instant - Arcane
1 Thunderous Wrath
$0.16 Instant
Sorcery (11)
1 Cathartic Reunion
$0.08 Sorcery
1 Explore
$3.46 Sorcery
1 Polymorph
$1.52 Sorcery
1 Reason // Believe
$0.19 Sorcery // Sorcery //
1 See the Unwritten
$0.62 Sorcery
1 Serum Visions
$0.66 Sorcery
1 Temporal Mastery
$6.05 Sorcery
1 Tooth and Nail
$3.98 Sorcery
1 Tormenting Voice
$0.05 Sorcery
1 Traverse the Ulvenwald
$0.88 Sorcery
1 Unburial Rites
$0.15 Sorcery
Enchantment (2)
1 Impromptu Raid
$0.34 Enchantment
1 Vessel of Nascency
$0.13 Enchantment
Planeswalker (2)
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$19.60 Legendary Planeswalker - Jace
1 Nissa, Steward of Elements
$0.88 Legendary Planeswalker - Nissa
Land (1)
1 Mystic Sanctuary
$0.95 Land - Island
Sideboard - 55 cards, 55 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (25)
1 Arcbound Ravager
$19.09 Artifact Creature - Beast
1 Artisan of Kozilek
$0.47 Creature - Eldrazi
1 Dream Eater
$0.49 Creature - Nightmare Sphinx
1 Elder Deep-Fiend
$0.31 Creature - Eldrazi Octopus
1 Eldrazi Mimic
$1.82 Creature - Eldrazi
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
$40.19 Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
1 Generator Servant
$0.11 Creature - Elemental
1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
$3.49 Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur
1 Goblin Engineer
$6.90 Creature - Goblin Artificer
1 Greater Sandwurm
$0.04 Creature - Wurm
1 Griselbrand
$7.78 Legendary Creature - Demon
1 Insolent Neonate
$0.12 Creature - Vampire
1 It That Betrays
$5.99 Creature - Eldrazi
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
$46.03 Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
$2.38 Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
1 Magus of the Moon
$12.39 Creature - Human Wizard
1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
$1.03 Creature - Eldrazi
1 Simian Spirit Guide
$1.23 Creature - Ape Spirit
1 Surrak Dragonclaw
$2.53 Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
1 Surrak, the Hunt Caller
$0.33 Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
1 Thunderkin Awakener
$0.28 Creature - Elemental Shaman
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
$24.29 Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
$33.87 Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
1 Ulamog's Crusher
$0.33 Creature - Eldrazi
1 Urabrask the Hidden
$1.29 Legendary Creature - Phyrexian Praetor
Instant (10)
1 Atarka's Command
$0.89 Instant
1 Become Immense
$0.18 Instant
1 Cryptic Command
$7.66 Instant
1 Desperate Ritual
$1.38 Instant - Arcane
1 Drown in the Loch
$0.81 Instant
1 Goryo's Vengeance
$16.85 Instant - Arcane
1 Into the Story
$0.19 Instant
1 Kolaghan's Command
$1.25 Instant
1 Pyretic Ritual
$2.36 Instant
1 Violent Outburst
$6.44 Instant
Sorcery (7)
1 Eldritch Evolution
$3.92 Sorcery
1 Infernal Plunge
$0.32 Sorcery
1 Lava Spike
$1.86 Sorcery - Arcane
1 Living End
$9.50 Sorcery
1 Mass Polymorph
$0.38 Sorcery
1 Neoform
$0.69 Sorcery
1 Unearth
$0.22 Sorcery
Artifact (9)
1 Chalice of the Void
$47.50 Artifact
1 Chromatic Sphere
$0.75 Artifact
1 Chromatic Star
$0.53 Artifact
1 Lotus Bloom
$2.93 Artifact
1 Mox Amber
$30.51 Legendary Artifact
1 Mox Tantalite
$7.67 Artifact
1 Pentad Prism
$0.28 Artifact
1 Terrarion
$0.05 Artifact
1 Wishclaw Talisman
$5.31 Artifact
Enchantment (2)
1 Blood Moon
$5.72 Enchantment
1 Mass Hysteria
$7.17 Enchantment
Planeswalker (1)
1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
$18.93 Legendary Planeswalker - Teferi
Land (1)
1 Eldrazi Temple
$1.06 Land

Notes
 
I'm trying an experiment to try to find out what Lutri is really able to do. The experiment is seeing what are the most broken things you can do with Lutri as an 8th card and optimizing your deck to have these things occur more frequently. The initial shell will be built without the Lutri restriction to see what a completely optimal deck would do, it's angle of play, and whether in it's optimized for the deck is absurd. If so, try to reverse engineer the deck with singletons and have key playsets of the best cards in the side for game 2-3. The other avenue was fairly difficult to conceptualize what we were actually doing. The singletons hopely help create a diversity that enhances the deck, not renders it unfunctional.

At first glance Lutri is essentially a value machine. It's default mode is best in tempo based midrange shell where it can turn 2-1 into 4-1, such as commands or additional cost cards like eldritch evolution. It is not an engine per say, as doubling any given spell is seemingly not broken. The very best cards are contextual, especially the miracle spells. Double time walk is nuts, but only if you can compound the advantage. Similarly, double thunderous wrath with mystic sanctuary backup is powerful, but only if we are clocking their life total effectively. Become immense is potentially 12 damage in 1 card, but only if a creature is getting through unmolested and we have a graveyard.

My first impression leans towards that big cmc deck that controlled miracles and riddle of lightning. Like a clocking deck that can close out of nowhere. There is enough big stupid Eldrazi that I can try to create a loose shell around throwing them in play as well. Maybe somewhat of a blue moon shell?

I've seen it before and it continues to seem powerful to me, maybe this is the shell that makes it worth it: Goblin Engineer and Wishclaw Talisman. Wishclaw talisman seems really excellent for this deck. Perhaps as a package to bring in? When the deck is essentially stringing together a bunch of combo's, finding the other half of any given one is excellent.

Taking a step back at theory gives me a little more insight on what I want to do with the deck. I want to litterally be slippery like an otter. The idea is that my opponents will operate in a specific line towards a fix end. I want this deck to ask really different questions of "what can you do about this?" while having the ability to just flex my game plan. I can play long, short, to any odd ball angle of winning. I think a series of hurdles and a series of angles to win with some glue to hold them together. If deck A folds to angle B, employ C strategy. Drunken fist.
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