Reanimate is a card to get back our discards, as well as recover from removal. Yea Reanimate , it's often best in class for one-shot reanimator. Shadowgrange Archfiend is a card that I don't recall ever seeing before, and it looks like a powerhouse with Armix to start with. Add in that the high MV ...

I am fine including Karen's Lettuce in decks, but agree with the sentiment that it's not a route that makes sense to me for these group builds. This post mostly brought to you because I wanted to call it Karen's Lettuce.

I like the trinkets+artifact bombs plan as our focus.

I think that most of the concepts put forward in that last day overlap well as subthemes/packages that all work together. I think some number of high MV artifacts, 'eggs' type artifacts, reanimation, self discard synergies, beat down, maybe even voltron, and general value all fit. We don't want 15+ ...

I don't have a clear understanding if we're at the card nominating step yet, so I may be getting ahead schedule. Salvage Titan is on my list of cards to debate for this deck. Specifically for two reasons: Gilanra required us to actually spend mana for the draw and Armix counts artifacts in graveyard...

See, now this is the deck for that darn Arcum's Astrolabe . I am on board this time. On the lands side, I think that everyone so far has thought that we will have an artifact focus. If so, should we consider stuff like Buried Ruin and Inventors' Fair ? We could also probably fit Treasure Vault . The...

If we're look for a plan, I would like to propose stuff like Metalwork Colossus , Myr Enforcer , and Mycosynth Golem for draw off high MV artifacts and/or Salvaging Station and Conjurer's Bauble stuff. The aforementioned Glissa, the Traitor also sounds like an engine with incidental removal from Arm...

Post reroll, my first vote is for Armix, Filigree Thrasher and Gilanra, Caller of Wirewood as a deck that plans to do Salvaging Station and other high MV artifact things. I think that there is a lot of build space there. My secondary ranked vote is Jared Carthalion, True Heir as a damage doubling/re...

I have played against each of these, all by a single member of my local metagame, and they were always interesting decks. It's going to be hard for me to chose, because I like all of them. The Haunt of Hightower can be anything from a discard/board control/mill into voltron deck. Monocolor always ke...

I guess I brushed off a good card as less effective than it really is because I wasn't paying attention to the dungeons enough. I will add it to my testing list, probably over a scrytrip or something similar. The more I actually use dungeons/initiative in other decks, the more I realized that it can...

Zada gets the most value out of the simple number of creatures to copy spells to. It almost doesn't matter whether to tokens made are devil's or Young Pyromancer copies, it's still at least twice as many cards or mana. Whipsaw I finally got time to check that list. The thing that stood out to me the...

As an advocate for synergies, and especially unexpected value pieces, I vote yea on Holdout Settlement and Survivors' Encampment as off-turn enablers for Haunted One .

As a player with a Gideon tribal deck, I think that the more important question is what type of decks you want to play it against. Gideon tribal can work really well at the "upgraded precon" spectrum of decks. Super friends around a specific planeswalker is more dependent on the quality of...

Yea Viscera Seer. Free sacrifice outlets that are creatures have a lot of power in decks like this.

Time got away from me and I neither voted nor explained my reasoning on relic. Yea Toxic Deluge and Unexpectedly Absent . The potential asymmetry of board wipes are interesting. I'm less familiar with absent, but it's rather efficient, if not permanent. I think that we're planning to play a lot of s...

I would nominate Phyrexian Altar for value/combo, but it's right over the edge of our budget limit. I will instead nominate the new option.

I nominate Relic of Legends.

It's been several updates since I updated this post. I don't recall the specific swaps. Out 1 plague belcher 1 darkblast 1 foreboding statue 1 batterbone 1 mystic skull 1 bloodline culling 1 greataxe In 1 delayed blast fireball 1 tenacious underdog 1 young red dragon 1 mukotai soulripper 1 reckoner ...

Yea Mangara of Corondor , that is a fun card to reuse and fits well mechanically. Honestly, Murderous Rider // Swift End is a bit difficult to reuse, even in decks built around Haakon, Stromgald Scourge becuase you can't adventure from zones other than your hand. I see it as Murder + a creature here...

Indulge // Excess is a card that I have been meaning to pick up for testing, but don't own yet. On paper It's Heat Shimmer + Battle Hymn that happens through the combat step, and those cards are good. The only real limitation is that it is extremely telegraphed, and you need a player not to have bl...

I did some brainstorming for Defiler of Instinct , but because most Zada decks are more instant/sorcery centric I think the limitations to permanents limit it's use. Unless the deck includes Cloudstone Curio , I don't think that mana cost and red mana as life allows it to perform as well as Treasono...

Honestly, outside goldfishing I have not been able to cast it. It takes a specific type of game in my group for my to pull out Zada, and I have not seen it in those games. In goldfishing, it feels rather good as long as your creature-generation density keeps it from being a self-wipe. There is a cha...

Despark is interesting to discuss. I feel like it's more metagame dependent than power level dependent. Do you're 75% games include top end finishers, cheating out Omniscience , or Bolas's Citadel ? Then Despark is probably rather good. But not hitting all the value engines that can make those deck...

I like Fell Stinger, there are a couple of my decks that should have considered it on release. I missed it in the firehose of new cards.

Yea Fell Stinger.

I have been convinced. I would like to change my vote on Utter End from yea to nay. I should have realized that it has slowly been cut from all my non-sunforger decks.

Dazzling Sphinx is part of a trend that has powercrept the sphinx tribal options extensively in recent years. No more Goliath Sphinx of old. Dazzling specifically is great. It messes with top of library tutors, has a relatively low MV, and even all-permanent decks are running Primal Surge or some r...

Easy yea on Generous Gift ; it is even on our tribal subtheme of elephants. All joking aside, yea both gift and Utter End , even though the latter is a bit high MV. That's just the premium for flexibility. I do agree that we already have a fair number of on-board instant speed interaction options, s...