If your build isn't suited towards it anymore I can see Elspeth coming out. It's supposed to be there to end games, and if it doesn't do that it's a bit of a clunky card. Hopefully the Elspeth that (probably) comes out in the new Theros set will be more interesting for us, and not an alternate versi...

Mesa is way too good to pass up. I view Stonecloaker as a much more likely candidate to go out - it's pretty much a 3 mana Cremate that comes back to hand at best. If you mentioned the board presence drain of mana going into creatures that don't live, Stonecloaker isn't really a creature until you s...

Nice games. I guess Brainstorm locking happens sometimes but there are tons of ways to prevent that, so hopefully that doesn't happen often. I disagree with DTT. It's a broken card, but if you want to be unfair with it you need to exile cards from the yard. You have Snap to care about as well as the...

I've played with it and man can Terminus save your hide sometimes. Even if there's a single creature on the board it can act as a STP. However Terminus is another card that benefits much more from Brainstorm than it does from Ponder. I would also strongly recommend Scroll Rack with this setup - havi...

Mox Diamond is gold. I don't think you want to swap it out at all. However it again benefits from tutoring lands to hand or from a high land count. Ultimately I believe both moxen should be in, the question is merely the balance. Chrome Mox even combos nicely with Tyrant. Brainstorm is the #1 cantri...

First of all, if you were to consider a cantrip, the first one would absolutely have to be Brainstorm. Very few cards are called format-defining, and Brainstorm has earned that title well. It gets ridiculously better with any sort of fetch, so I'd add even Terramorphic and Evolving Wilds with no reg...

One more thing that I forgot to mention is that there's an all-star in getting Ephara down early, and that's Jeweled Amulet. It's great in the early turns where we're trying to save our creatures for after Ephara enters, and since most of our gameplay is draw-go it's very easy to find turns to charg...

To me, all of these cards feel much more Brago material than Ephara, especially Agent. Brago likes more mana rocks into big dudes with bigger ETBs, Ephara likes small creatures with flash. Both of Agent's abilities are phenomenal for Brago, while for Ephara the second one is win more. Its definitel...

I almost revisited my idea of flicker Ephara when considering Agent of Treachery and Cavalier of Dawn . I know it doesn't really pertain to your list but man..... Cloudshift ing those guys sounds fantastic. To me, all of these cards feel much more Brago material than Ephara, especially Agent. Brago...

Nice second game. I like the work that Hour put in. I'm surprised that Stonecloaker was as effective as it was - in my games it was usually a 3cmc Whitemane that felt pretty bad to play. However, it seems that while Stonecloaker was a good versatile card, the real MVP that enabled shenanigans was So...

As someone who plays cube, Pack Rat is an absolute monster that will take over a game if left unchecked. This card costs more, limits us to one creature per turn, and prevents the "rats" from entering combat. However it doesn't cost us cards, which is great. I would not underestimate this ...

Sudden Exchange - essentially a more easily playable plus uncounterable Commandeer . There are some absolutely mad noncreatures to gain control of in EDH, i.e. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon , Exsanguinate , and most amusing of all are any overload spells . Does this actually work with spells not on the s...

So two amazing cards have just been spoiled: Sudden Exchange - essentially a more easily playable plus uncounterable Commandeer . There are some absolutely mad noncreatures to gain control of in EDH, i.e. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon , Exsanguinate , and most amusing of all are any overload spells . Givi...

Sevinne's Reclamation seems really cool. We have plenty of important permanents to bring back, and the flashback is awesome value which means I never feel bad about discarding it. I also tested the deck in a purposely more competitive iteration, and I have some findings: 1. Early game is this deck's...

Smothering Tithe is similar to Linvala, Azorius Renegade in that they're both as good as your playgroup is. If your playgroup is a bunch of durdling battlecruisers, neither card is particularly good against them. As soon as your playgroup gets stuff like fast mana, big card draw, cheating spells in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_TZjis3J7s A channel that I really like watching uploaded a video debating Brought Back . TL;DR is that it's great on its own as protection from removal, and it also combos with cards that can sac themselves. The classical examples are self saccing creatures: Glen E...

Earthcraft + Pili-Pala = infinite tap and untap triggers. Earthcraft + Patrol Signaler = infinite tapped tokens They seem pretty good for shenanigans and for ending the game. I would consider cards like Springleaf Drum , Loam Dryad , Saruli Caretaker . They're probably worse than mana elves, but th...

Terastodon or Bane of Progress ? No evasion, but gets rid of troublesome noncreatures which can be a pain. As a Karador player I can definitely recommend Razaketh as a card that just does it all. She's not popular but Izoni, Thousand-Eyed is great in my opinion. It beefs up when you have creatures ...

Honestly I would give some thought to playing all three. Trophy fetches Static Orb, Vedalken Shackles, Trinisphere, Rings of Brighthearth, Basalt Monolith. If that's the entire list I can see why it's not great here, but these are still great cards to fetch so it'd still be on my mind.

Have you given any thought to Tribute Mage? You run Trinket and Trophy, and you seem to have a ton of important 2CMC stuff like Winter Orb, Isochron Scepter, Painter's Servant, as a few of the key ones.

This deck has seen quite a lot of changes since I first saw its inception in MTGS. I will always treasure the possibility of playing an instant speed Memnarch , but I guess I recognize that this is way too much of a win-more play. However, there are a ton of cards that I have no idea why you cut: al...

Decks that are reliant on their commanders are pretty easy for us to disrupt, since there's silver bullets we can run against them: Meddling Mage , Deputy of Detention are great and get a lot better with Soulherder . We can use them to hate out that specific card while also blinking them for extra v...

Riptide Lab is great. It's definitely not amazing when we're already rolling, but it's a rare effect to have when we're low on cards. It's a good effect to save important creatures we already have: Snapcaster Mage , Spellseeker , Glen Elendra Archmage , Archaeomancer , Venser, Shaper Savant , Teferi...

Riptide Lab is great. It's definitely not amazing when we're already rolling, but it's a rare effect to have when we're low on cards. It's a good effect to save important creatures we already have: Snapcaster Mage , Spellseeker , Glen Elendra Archmage , Archaeomancer , Venser, Shaper Savant , Teferi...