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utilizing the X in all cards with cloudpost. The one thing im worried about is getting the right kind of mana. Im considering removing white all together... Any ideas on good X mana cards or whether or not i should remove white from this deck are welcome!
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With the new rules you can use Braid of Fire without mana burn and gain a lot of mana to fuel your X costs.
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Cloudpost's best friend is Expedition Map. You can make crazy mana with Artifacts that make mana such as Glided Lotus (5 mana to make 3 mana of any color. You should include something at least that make crazy mana, such as Llanowar Elves, Birds of Paradise, or Noble Hierach. Great 1 drops for a great amount of mana. If I had the choice of any of these, I would probably choose Birds of Paradise. You don't really need Oblivion Ring, a better way to stall is to use Moment's Peace. It's basically a Fog effect that cost 1G to pay, and flashback for 2G. Giving you 2 fogs for 1 card! Well your choice, you wanna pay 3 mana to get rid of one thing, or pay 5 mana for double fog to stall for 2 turns. You also really don't need so many cost X spells. I mean 10 is enough seriously lol. You can take out Feral Hydra in place of Protean Hydra because Protean Hydra just seems a lot more deadlier and is a great blocker too. Yea, you could also do without Winter Blast, Since you already have Illuminate, I wouldn't think you really need Banefire. I would probably up the count on Illuminate. You could probably get away without any Platinum Angel or Darksteel Colossus because they aren't really pay X get huge or something. Using mana acceleration should be much better. It's ok, but just not that extremely good. You could also probably remove some of those Hydras for more mana acceleration. Changes I recommend. -2 Platinum Angel -2 Darksteel Colossus -4 Feral Hydra -3 Banefire (Sideboard the other 3 against counter decks) -2 Oblivion Ring -2 Upwelling -2 Winter Blast -1 Wurmcalling -1 Vesuva -1 Dawnglow Infusion -20 cards total (down to 41 cards) Additions +4 Birds of Paradise +3 Glided Lotus +4 Expedition Map +3 Moment's Peace +3 Mind Spring +2 Lands (I also tried to reorganize your lands to meet your needs. And I added blue for Mine Spring and Illuminate's extra Pay 2B effect. I also assume your not going for expensive lands.) +19 cards total (Land count bumped to 23, back to 60 cards) Final Deck List 2 - Orochi Hatchery 3 - Glided Lotus 4 - Expedition Map 4 - Birds of Paradise 2 - Oracle of Nectars 3 - Apocalpyse Hydra 4 - Protean Hydra 4 - Cloudpost 3 - Vesuva 2 - Rupture Spire 6 - Forest 2 - Island 2 - Plains 1 - Mountain 3 - Seaside Citadel 1 - Banefire 2 - Dawnglow Infusion 3 - Decree of Justice 2 - Illuminate 2 - Wurm Calling 3 - Mind Spring 3 - Moment's Peace
hey Chilly thanks for all the comments. I like many of you ideas while disagreeing with a few. i see your point in too many X mana cost cards and so have taken some out (i went a little crazy in the making of this deck :P). I really like the addition of the birds, the lotus, the map and the moment's peace. I really dont want to add in another color and so im going to have to keep blue out even though mind spring is an amazing card. The only other thing is i really like the platinum angel in this deck because i could get it out turn three or four and at least stall the game for a long period of time. Thanks for the comments man!