The first thing that jumps out to me is your mana base, you have 6 lands that only tap for colorless mana, and a total of 14 for basically anything that isn't a Changeling if you count the lands like Ally Encampment, Cavern of Souls, and Unclaimed Territory which is 17%/40% of your lands respectively. I don't even consider cards for my deck that have triple pips of a single color like Azami or Kogla and I can't even imagine trying to cast them here. Sure the mana slivers, Harabaz Druid, and rocks help in this regard, but if you don't draw into them or they get blown up I feel like you just end up dead in the water a lot of the time. Maybe I'm wrong but that's at least the impression that I get from a first glance.materpillar wrote: ↑3 years agoOn an unrelated note. Here's my current decklist. I'm curious to know what you think of it. It diverges in a few interesting ways. Couple of deckbuilding notes. I try very hard to limit every tribe to a maximum of 3 cards unless they're ramp spells. I don't play any card in my deck unless it is a changeling, requires me to say a creature type, is a land, or is Chromatic Lantern (because my mana base reaaaaally needs it).
The cards that are currently in my consideration bucket are The Scarab God, Najeela, the Blade-Blossom, Kogla, the Titan Ape, Molten Echoes, Dire Tactics and General Kudro of Drannith. I haven't had time to test any of them with the pandemic rolling around.
I admire your dedication to the theme. My initial decklist was actually quite similar to this one (minus a lot of the newer cards obviously since I started about a year ago), but I eventually had to decide whether it was more important to fully commit to the theme of the deck or to add in some more generic cards like Birthing Pod and Skyshroud Claim so it could actually win games in my meta. Granted that's an entirely subjective point because our metas are most likely completely different from one another and you might not be forced to make that choice by bulls**t decks like Narset and Chulane like I am.
That being said, I feel like a lot of the stuff in here ranges wildly from "great" to "cute". In particular Altar of the Pantheon and Thunderherd Migration just stand out as really underwhelming versions of existing cards that are in here for the sake of theme. Tolsimir should probably just be Ayula frankly, outside of the initial token Tolsimir gives you and the lifegain, Ayula is basically the same thing but more flexible and 3 mana cheaper. Also I don't really see the advantage of Realm-Cloaked Giant // Cast Off over just running Crux of Fate which also handily avoids blowing up your Dragons, on that note I'm kind of surprised to not see Dragon Tempest in here, it's one of the most devastating cards in my deck. Also I feel like Walker of Secret Ways is relatively underwhelming when you're already running Hibernation Sliver. Lastly I'm surprised not to see Valiant Changeling in your list over chaff like Skeletal Changeling, with literally any other Changeling hitting the board before it, it's a 3/3 with double strike for , which is ridiculous.
But anyways I digress, it's not my intention to sit here and pick apart your deck, and I hope you didn't take it that way, because like I said before, our metas are probably completely different, and what works for one doesn't necessarily work for another. All in all, I love seeing another successful interpretation of this archetype, and it helps to further illustrate the point I make in the primer that you can take the principals I discuss in terms of card selection and strategy and end up with something that looks completely different from my own list, and that's part of what's so interesting about Changeling tribal as a concept.
As far as the cards you're thinking of adding in, I can't recommend Najeela or The Scarab God enough, the former is an allstar in my deck, and the latter while eventually cut for Yuriko, absolutely wrecks in this list. I wouldn't personally run Kogla for the same reason I don't run Azami, but it seems like a pretty solid beater that's on theme. I can't really speak about the last 3 because I haven't had the opportunity to playtest anything from Ikoria due to my LGS being shutdown still. That being said, I firmly think that General Kudro is going to be a sideboard card at most for me, I probably wouldn't run Dire Tactics because it's kind of just a more conditional Crib Swap, and I'm eager to test out Molten Echoes myself once I can finally get my hands on a copy.
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