(Help Please) Illusions Standa..

Swiftfoot Boots are really the only option to protect Lord of the Unreal, and if you're looking for another boost-up card Grand Architect is another option. With his you can use other things like Platimum Emperion. Thats how mine is built.
Another thing is that I think there should be a cheaper counterspell, Summoner's Bane is fine but another option I think is necessary.
Also, you should have something to move creatures out of the way of your creatures, cards like Vapor Snag are great. Unsummon works too but I like the lose 1 life personally.
Levitation is cool but not really necessary in this deck, if you have things like Vapor Snag you don't really need the flying evasion.
Mind Unbound is cool as well, but with the illusion deck you really don't want the game to last that long to get to 6 mana. Its really kind of an aggro deck.
If you're woried about your creatures not all being illusions because of subbing in Grand Architect and Platinum Emperion, Xenograft will help with that. It will also help protect the Lord of the Unreal.
These are all just things to consider. I think the deck looks solid now, theres just a few things I would consider revising personally. But overall, nice deck. I hope I helped!

I'll have to disagree about the boots, Phantasmal Image is better LotU protection imo. Faster and cheaper and gives an additional, self hexproofing, body. Grand Architect is always awesome but Platinum Emperion kinda sucks. Wurmcoil Engine and Batterskull are both faster and better effects. Metamorph gains a lot of ground with either of those in the deck.

But yeah, definitely ditch Jace, he makes no sense in this deck. Summoner's Bane is kinda slow but it gives you a 3/3 or larger(if at least one lord is out, which it should be at that point) and counters a creature. Use at your discretion but I personally prefer Mana Leak.

Adaptive Automaton seems like an obvious choice for any tribal deck but honestly it just takes up valuable space in an illusion deck. Levitation sucks, your big hitters already have evasion. Replace with Vapor Snag asap. Mind Unbound is terribad here as well, go with Jace's Ingenuity. Hold out the mana like you're going to counter whatever they may cast and spook em by tapping/untapping your land a few times when they are casting, then at the eot draw three to refill your depleted hand. 1 or 2 is all you want.

This type of deck is awesome but vulnerable to board wipes so you probably will want to end up replacing Summoner's Bane with Mana Leak for when you sense one coming.

To be honest with you, i built the deck with the jaces because i already have one and I am 17 with no job so it is hard for me to get the really good cards like wurmcoil. I don't have a single adaptive automaton but i do have most of the rest so it won't be that hard to remove them.

Please give me comments on my ammended deck. Also, swiftfoot boots or spellskite.

I'd go with Spellskite if you have them. Boots are nice but the skite is another body they gotta burn before they can turn on your real threats.

Thanks. Please review the deck in it's current state. Also, what three cards should i put in the rest of the sideboard.

The Image is the obvious combo with LotU, gives himself and all others hexproof as well as boost. Also the emperion was just an idea, any other big artifact creature works just as well.

i just flat out don't run sideboards

Thank you for the comment. I was really only focusing my sideboard against big green aggro decks. I've noticed that once an opponent gets an 8/8 or two, I don't realy have many options. I aggree with your opinions and will change my sideboard accordinly.

If you have any comments on my ammended sideboard, please feel free to say anything. Thanks again.

Thanks. I think I'll skip on the flashfreeze but the others seem like a great idea. Now, is sleep better than frost breath, you know, while it's still legal.

Also, I'm going to practice a version of this deck at FNM today, with 1 or 2 mind unbounds in it and see how it performs. If it just screws me over, I'll definately replace it with jace's ingenuity.

You, TheElSalvador, said something about you scare your opponent with 5 untapped mana and then when they end their turn, instant in 3 cards.

Frost Breath is nice because it's cheaper and it's instant, the obvious down side is that it doesn't affect all their creatures. I like Frost Breath better but I suppose it depends on if your local meta has swarm/weenie decks.

And the fake out thing, well that's just something goofy you can do whenever but I was using an example where you trick them into thinking you were going to counter a spell so they keep it in hand and you end up casting Jace's Ingenuity at the end of their turn. It won't fool everyone and you'll probably only get away with it once or twice. You can tap/untap a land as long as you don't declare you're tapping it for mana. Some players use it as a way to think out plays before committing to playing the spells.

that is false, as soon as you target an illusion, the spellskite ability acts as an instant and uses the ability on the stack, and as the stack resolves... the end result is that the illusion was never targeted, the spellskite is the new target... if abilities didn't act as instants, then your statement would be true... but spellskites are excellent in an illusion deck. Xenograft is a great addition to an illusion deck to turn ur LotU into an illusion, but it's not necessary if you get out Phantasmal Image to copy a LotU. also cryptoplasm is great if you're going against a stompy deck to copy their big nasty and as long as you have Xenograft out, it's still an illusion so gets its +1/+1 from LotU and hexproof!

nope the illusion was still targeted. you declare targets when you cast and it targets it on the stack

Like the guys above me said my statement is true and the only way spellskite is useful is in protecting the lord, and the images in the deck can become a lord of the unreal completely taking out the need for spellskites in my opinion

True and true i thought the same when they first came out but a judge at a local PTQ quickly told me otherwise LoL :)
my deck is verry simalar but i find it hellps having that 2 cost 0/4 blocker is alwas usefull, it protects my wormcoils and grand architect. In this build i might cut down or remove Spellskite hard choice depending on the local meta..
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1. Standard. STANDARD. It's not that hard a concept. Tenth edition cards need not apply.
2. Enchanting any of the illusions is a super-easy way to get them to kill themselves.

Lol, equip your Phantasmal Dragon with Swiftfoot Boots so it gains hexproof, and promptly sacrifice it from the faux pas. XD

Aether Figment is pretty awesome. The multikicker run of creatures are typically inefficient, but when you make them unblockable... now add 4x or 8x lords that give them an inherent +1/+1 bonus.. The little guy suddenly becomes a powerhouse during all phases of the game.

But he doesn't have multikicker, just a regular kicker.

Also, since this deck is casual, I want to point out a card that'd work well with your other cards. Mimic Vat.

Having creatures with such a glaring vulnerability, the ability to reproduce them with tokens would add another layer to your deck. Does your Big Green opponent use that Giant Growth to kill one of your illusions? Is it really worth it, you can just make a copy... or should he save it for one of his beaters, as the MtG God intended?

You also have two creatures that share amazingly fun synergy with Mimic Vat. Phyrexian Metamorph and Phantasmal Image. Both of them may enter the battlefield as 0/0's, which would immediately allow you to imprint them to Mimic Vat. It's not exactly the most powerful combo ever, but it is a LOT of fun being able to create a creature token copy of anything on the board, whenever you like. :)

Just food for thought.

It won't save them. The "sacrifice this creature" effect goes on the stack as soon as they're targeted. It doesn't matter if the spell is countered.

You are crazy, first Spellskite's ability goes on the stack so yes it will keep his illusions alive and second Ponder is waaaaaay better than Preordain. You won't find a better 1 cost scry, except maybe Index.

mcflyguy, I'm afraid you are incorrect, as soon as the spell is cast the triggered ability from the illusion, to sacrifice it, is put onto the stack. In other words, before you can use Spellskite to redirect the spell the triggered ability has already been put on the stack and the illusion will have to be sacrificed regardless of whether or not it remains the resolved spells target. My opinion is that Spellskite should have a place in the sideboard against Exarch Twin and RDW [to protect your lords) but to having it in main is just taking up slots.

The Ponder/Preordain argument is a matter of personal preference. From what I have read the general consensus is that if you are running fetchlands Ponder has a slight edge over Preordain but if not Preordain is better. Personally, I prefer Preordain because scry has the ability of getting rid of unwanted cards like unnecessary lands when you want a creature. For example, today I was playing a game where I played Preordain and the 2 cards I looked at were both islands so I put them to the bottom of my library and removing the cards I didn’t want cleared up the rest of my draws. Had that been Ponder I would have been stuck after rejiggering the card I wanted on top and drawing I would have then only drawn land for two turns essentially putting me back two turns.

You forget, Ponder gives you the option to shuffle which is better than losing cards to the bottom of the deck. So if things look bleak, shuffle then draw. I suppose we could agree to disagree on this one.

I will concede the point on Spellskite until they come out with a ruling on the card and it's ability.

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dude you can think what ever you want but once a target always a target. Spell skite can change the target but only after the spell or ablilty targets the card. So if your changing the target the spell or ability, the card would have needed to be targeted in the first place! or somthing like that... just saying

Dude you can repeat what was said already all you want, but it doesn't change the fact it was already said...just saying.

If it dosent target the illusions then it won't kill them. So no the illusions will be fine

sory and i liked your deck befor you swiched over it seemed like more fun. it wasnt chocked up with mythics, but aslong as you enjoy playing it still its all good :)

I was able to cast 4 wurmcoils in a single round with this type of deck. Though my opponent was able to get the empires combo in play so it didn't matter much.

Wurmcoil is rarely a dead draw, though. It can come out as early as turn three, latest turn 6.

for me theye only sucesfully hit the table 10-15 times in the 40+ games i have played over the last 2 fridays. its a major counter magnet... that said it won every one of those games for me.

wait, someone actually plays the empires combo.. cool, i need to find that deck :)

btw great idea with the wurmcoil. This is definitely the best illusion deck i have seen so far. You are the only illusion deck i would say that deserves a front page showing.

now thats some statement... the one running suntitan deserves just as much credit since its original and cool...

also this landbase could be more competetive by running fetches and tectonic edge vile they are still standard...