Folkvar's Grand Pala Reshape Toolbox Combo

Folkvar's

Grand Pala Reshape Toolbox Combo

Type:

Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍) modModern

Approx. Value:

$94.97

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5 Comments

Avg. CMC 2.38

Card Color Breakdown

Card Type Breakdown

Main Deck - 60 cards, 19 distinct

Columns

	Name	Edition	$	Type	Cost
	Name	Rarity	$	Type	Color
Creature (14)
3	Drift of Phantasms		$0.23	Creature - Spirit
3	Grand Architect		$0.64	Creature - Vedalken Artificer
3	Pili-Pala		$2.65	Artifact Creature - Scarecrow
1	Spellskite		$5.15	Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Horror
4	Steel Wall		$0.22	Artifact Creature - Wall
Instant (12)
1	Blue Sun's Zenith		$1.28	Instant
4	Muddle the Mixture		$1.20	Instant
4	Remand		$0.46	Instant
3	Thirst for Knowledge		$0.05	Instant
Sorcery (4)
4	Reshape		$3.63	Sorcery
Artifact (6)
1	Lightning Greaves		$5.22	Artifact - Equipment
1	Pithing Needle		$0.50	Artifact
1	Serum Powder		$1.50	Artifact
1	Thousand-Year Elixir		$10.90	Artifact
1	Torpor Orb		$2.27	Artifact
1	Whetwheel		$0.48	Artifact
Land (24)
20	Island		$0.12	Basic Land - Island
1	Oboro, Palace in the Clouds		$27.72	Legendary Land
3	Tectonic Edge		$0.37	Land

Sideboard - 4 cards, 2 distinct

	Name	Edition	$	Type	Cost
	Name	Rarity	$	Type	Color
Creature (1)
1	Ornithopter		$0.27	Artifact Creature - Thopter
Instant (3)
3	Hurkyl's Recall		$1.14	Instant

Comments

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.

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