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i think marrow shards might be a step too far... how about archive trap? If your playing in modern then it should not be too hard to get it to go off for 0 mana.

This deck doesn't even die that hard to the cutthroat combo, as you have enough exile to be able to go though the triggers. Nice!

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Though this would work on decks that focus on clearing the board, I feel that six mana is top much for this deck to spend over 4 turns.

This deck is quirky and fun and so so close to being awesome. Why does they have to print surging eather at four, not three....

No That's what struck me as out of place as well. I've never really thought about reinforcements though, it seems like a great card for agro matchups, I mean its basically a "I stabilise" card. So I guess I would replace souls with WoG and betrayal with needle?

Playtest with the most common decks in your meta and see how it goes, I also hope you have fun dude!

Your deck defiantly gave me some ideas. :D

You know this might be worth testing, it fixes your problem vs the faster matchups, it could be a sb option vs the sb decks were you wont need the delve from ganagler to make tasigar's ability better.

I'm sure you have been given the standard advice for your matchups but ill post it again just in case.

For tron you want pithing needle, it stops the big dumb guys like steel hellkite from activating and stops planswalkers, if they run breach instead of walkers then id run hallowed moonlight, allowed moonlight also hoses tokens. If they are running emrakul, id think about running Lilliana of the veil or innocent blood.

For all the non-dredge aggro, including burn you just need 3 more wraths in your sb, to ensure you can wipe the board on t4 every game, even if they are just a 1-1 on a edlion of the revel

If you post reasoning on your SB choices I can give you a hand on what to take out? Any advice I give you before this might not suit your play style.

Would that be instead of the spy network then? It just seems having rouge, network and mom and dad seems like it would be allot of pressure on the four drop slot.

I'm nowhere near as good at the game as you dedwards, so I could easily be wrong...

OH LAYERS! Though I'm pretty sure that that static effects are the first to be applied in the layers. That's why they printed chathars crusade in this set, so that you could trigger mentor and still get your guy bigger, all be it for a much lager cost. You could also consider Machous the lunarch for this kid of effect if you also want to trigger mentor.

The alterative if you play casually and don't want to change the deck is lie. If a judge isn't on hand how will your friends know that you are? I mean if your that kind of player.

also artofcod, ojutai's command words really really well with thing in the ice, did you have it as a 4 of in your build?

Also, control allows you to play more wrath of god effects, such as damnation, languish or kozlek's return. Those synergise rather well with the deck id say.

Ah ok. I guess with a lack of a gods willing type effect you have to run hard control? So wrath effects with ojutai's command, sorin, jace, ruinous path, dispel, Negate, scatter, anticipate, wandering fumearol?

Never count out a card, if people need trades you have and you get good pulls from boosters you can sometimes get them. I'd personally drop tutors, put in one more warhammer, one more wrath and two hero of bladehold and go full knights? Proxy or borrow the hero's for events. Using your prizes trade into vials? Hope this helps... I mean the cradle subtheme would really be nuts if you ever triggered bladehold as you would be able to spread out the tokens so much more.

Don't understate jace, if he gets him at any point, thing will be flipped in no time.

How much of the deck are you willing to change to make the feladar sovereign win viable?

There are lists that gain life more effetivly, but Vial knights is also a deck that exists in modern that you also have allot of pieces for.

I can only relaly give suggestions for going hard in ether direction, I don't really know what to do for the middle ground.

The concept if cool, using split cards with cascade seems like it would be really funny! Especially when you use outburst and hit something like flesh and blood! might need a little too much setup though, captured sunlight should help with that though. Seems really removal resilient but weak to counter magic.

I would suggest, cutting pure and simple and running shreakmaw, it kills a guy when it dies making it great to hit with casgate but if you don't want that effect it conts 4 mana to cast so you wont hit it with most of your smaller spells. Its other advantage is that it can be for 2 mana and it dies when it enters allowing you to use it as a sourcarey speed removel spell that's more constant than pure//simple.

My suggestion is just a suggestion and may not be for you!

Good job!

The concept if cool, using split cards with cascade seems like it would be really funny! Especially when you use outburst and hit something like flesh and blood! might need a little too much setup though, captured sunlight should help with that though. Seems really removal resilient but weak to counter magic.

Good job!

I think the serum visions price drop is due to the FNP promo repirtings of it.

So, the Grixis control ultimatum lists I have seen run thoughtseize, damnation , dismember, spell snare, mana leak, bolt, remand and cryptic the control and reach, also things visions for draw and I could say snapcaster but with him being so good with visions, bolt and cryptic that's a given . These are the natural upgrades for this deck but they would remove it from budget range.

I feel the point of this deck is to get people sort of used to the play style of that deck, (with the interesting and unexpected lore combo in the deck) so that they can take our stuff like army of the dammed, temper ect for the natural upgrades mentioned above if they want to progress to a more competitive meta.

I don't mean this comment to sound combative it just feels from the tone of your post you don't really seem that posting this kind of deck is viable...

EDIT:- In summery faithless looting, compulsive research, living lore and cruel ultimatum are the core of this deck, upgrade everything else. I feel that's what this deck in intended for.

I like the deck, as its a casual deck though I feel like it will have to face allot of varied threats, sometimes in multiplayer, and therefore you probably going to want some less conditional counter spells to protect your servant, something like negate over the controlled instructs maybe?

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