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GOLEMS, boosting the precursors and smashing faces with their fists! Edit: UPDATED Still need help with a good sideboard.
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Please comment! (for not so serious standard)
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Ah, a newbie. I remember back in the days when I was new to this site, and my first deck was.... Forget it. But boy, do you have one fantastic deck here, and I would know, I got rocked by the prototype portal/precursor golem combo once. There is however, one tragic flaw, one little card that is ridiculously comon that could MESS YOU UP. Lightning bolt. perfect solution you ask? yes, do emerge unscathed, and watch the golems rock. The vines of vast wood get the job done as well, but protection allows the golems to be unblockable. But so does the distortion strike, so I guess I can eat my words. Still, awesomeness, and I don't say that often, unless I'm talking about every one of Rudeboy's decks.
thanks :) i've played it proxied only 2 times so far, won one and lost the other (im having trouble with mana at the moment) so im gonna have to make a tweak or 2
this guy is entirely wrong, emerge unscathed/vines of vastwood would only save you from one lightning bolt, your golem still got targeted and that spell is still going to copy for every single other golem you have, only way to end it before precursors golem's effect goes on the stack is a counterspell, or asceticism so it just never happened.
This guy ( ^ ) is entirely wrong. Emerge Unscathed gives protection from the chosn color, to ALL golems, so anything of the chosen color can't target any, since Emerge Unscathed gets copied.
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^ this guy is entirely right, i am an idiot for being unable to think about that.
with six decks on your profile i wouldn't be calling other people "newbie" noob.
lol you guys are hilarious
Better idea than emerge unscathed. You don't have to change colors at all :D ASCETICISM!!! YAY!!! Your golem's can no longer be targeted!! I would however consider dropping everflowing chalice unless, you add stoic rebuttal. ( {U}{U}{1} counter target spell. Metalcraft: Stoic rebuttal costs {1} less to cast. With the number of artifacts you have Stoic rebuttal is probably even better than mana leak.
ah those are good ideas! thanks!
Also, do note that lodestone golem will increase the mana cost of all of your instants as well :/ Also have you considered a Myr sire, in conjunction with your prototype portal?
I would suggest replacing the Mirran Mettle with Stoic Rebutal's. The reason being, with distortion strike and vines of the vastwood you have enough pump for your golems already. I feel a couple more good counters can help control the game until you get you own game plan up and running. I would definitely have all 4 Mirran Mettle in the side board though as your golems will need the extra protection against red burn decks. From looking at your deck though it seems to lack a little bit of consistancy both in initial draw and just progressing through the game. Preordain's could help you in this aspect, by smoothing your draw and allowing you to keep hands you would otherwise need to mulligan off. It will improve your chances of finding the counter spell, distortion strike or vines you need etc. It would also allow you to run less numbers of a few cards such as -1 distortion strike -1 everflowing chalice. You definitely want 4 in this kind of deck so what else you cut is up to you. Good luck in finishing your build. It looks good and should be good fun to play. I always wanted to use precursor golem with my vines of the vastwood myself.. Just never got round to designing a deck.
Yeah thats what i was thinking, i was having quite inconsistent hands. Ill try with pre-ordains and maybe stoic rebuttles instead of mirran mettles
I like the way the deck is shaping up. I see you have taken the advice of a few other people on here. I still think a full set of preordain's would help the consistancy of the deck. But it is difficult to work out what to drop for them. If I was you I would playtest the hell out of it the way it is then with 4 preordains changing about the numbers of the creatures or other spells. Oh and you will need to change the basic land ratio now that you have added more blue spells and removed some green.
Here's some of my suggestions: -2 Mana Leak -4 Stoic Rebutals (Sometimes, you can make a good blue deck without counters) -2 Everflowing Chalices (Don't need colorless mana sources) -2 Forest (Probably only need 22 land) -1 Island -2 Vedalken Certarch (Great card, but probably not needed) +2 Terramorphic Expanse +4 Sphere of the Suns (which will provide color mana which will be more helpful than colorless.) +3 Asceticism +2 Preordain (although I'm thinking it would be better for this deck to have foreordains or crystal balls) +2 Prototype Portal (Any deck with this card needs a full playset) Here's a Blue/Red Metalcraft deck that I made that was built around the Prototype Portal: http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=155181 I tore this deck apart, but when it worked it was fun to play. Your deck is pretty different from it, but maybe you can see something that you like.
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Mimic vat all the way. Not only can you copy your golems (for 1 less mana too), but any creature threat your opponent had you can duplicate!
yeah i debated this, the thing is i'd rather be duplicating loadstones or ratchet bombs or steel overseers and keeping them on the field for good. (although 2 of my 3 precursor golems WOULD stay on the field after I mimic vat them...)
Alright well i was never amazing at control decks so i took out 2 mana leaks/2 stoic rebuttles to put in ratchet bombs/2 more prototype portals (that sounds more fun to me) :)
an echoing courage on the precursor would give the two tokens +6/+6 each.
yes, however then it wouldnt be standard :)
I think that there is enough mana and acceleration that you don not need sphere of the suns. Maybe signal pest
as in 2 more you mean?
I agree, with the deck the way it is now, drop the Spheres and put in 2 more Signal Pests.
why is this not on the front pageeeeeeee
lol you need 50 likes for front page. your close though!
zomgggg didnt know that, SOMEONE LIKE THIS I WANT MORE FEEDBACK ON MY FIRST DECK EVA
you could use a few tweaks here, -1 prototype portal -1either ratchetbomb or vines of vastwood/preordain, +2 myr welders (these will save you when that card you really needed to boost you is now in the graveyard plus your creature count is almost low, but not really) another path you could take is remove sphere of the suns for it, as i dont know just how badly you would need sphere as well as cultivate, at the very least i would replace it with silver myr/copper myr. sorry for the brick of text with almost zero grammar, cheers
lol no problem at all, i really appreciate the advice :)
i just want to remind you that the myr welder isnt going to work for the prototype portal if thats what your main motivation was
i would definitely add voltiac key; you can untap all golems (i think, i'm to lazy to look up exact wording), prototype prortal, myr welder, steel overseer, etc. seems pretty good.
A very good deck. Quick suggestion: Why not use Mirror works so that you can potentially increase the number of artifacts you put into play? Keep up the good work and welcome to the Vault.
Twisted Image is awesome here. Precursor Golem turns it into Ancestral Recall, one of the most powerful cards of all time. Definitely consider running it here, since that's a LOT of potential card draw, especially with more than one Golem on the field. Say you have 2 Precursor Golems and their 4 Golem buddies on the field. Target one with Twisted Image. Then each other golem than the first will get targeted with TWO Twisted Imgaes, since you have two precursor golems saying to make copies. Suddenly, you just drew 11 cards with one blue mana, NUTS.
holy poop that is nuts, ill do some testing irl
Why not use rite of replication? It makes precursor golem stupid awesome
wow how did i miss this?!?!?! most definitely putting it in
yes decient deck but if you really wanna kick some butt. try this. 4 ornithopters. 4 memnites. 4 precursor golems. 4 ascetisms. 4 assult strobes. giant growths. predators strikes. 4 golem foundry with the prototype portal. gaurenteed victory and a huge shrouded golem mess thats too much to deal with i built a deck with these and it hasnt lost yet