Alright, I'm revisiting this decklist more specifically over the next couple of months. I've got my Yawgmoth deck tweaked to exactly where I want it. I've got Kalamax tweaked to exactly where I want it. I've got Kenrith tweaked to exactly where I want it. Najeela flows well and Kaalia is in a good spot too. I updated my Osgir list to a Tevesh Szat + Akiri partner Reanimator list and it's pretty awesome too. Time to come back to my OG decklist and revitalize it!
First things first, it appears I haven't updated my list for the
Hullbreacher ban. Can't say that I'm too sad to see it go, but it was a great mana generator for the deck while it was legal. What follows will be a massive brain dump.
I think it's time to consider
Leveler +
Thassa's Oracle/
Jace, Wielder of Mysteries as another combo line that has a ton of flavor built-in. As a reminder, Memnarch was EXTREMELY fond of sending out Levelers every 100 years or so and were his primary method of enforcing or eliminating enemies in the Mirrodin storyline. Being able to include it would be WAY cool, but the cost of Leveler's ETB ability is quite steep for consideration and it does create a clean win-con that doesn't require activated abilities.
Mystic Remora is a great card, just not good for the playgroup that I most often play with, which is very creature and dork heavy. So I'll need to trim the cards out from the list that aren't pulling their weight relative to my playgroup. This includes cards like
Counterbalance as well.
I do want to try and get a version of Karn in here, but I'm not sure which version would be most effective. My playgroup plays at a high-power level, so not quite cEDH, but the lists are pretty tuned all things considered. Has anyone had experience with
Karn, Scion of Urza in EDH? I have a copy, but it seems pretty weak to me. Otherwise, I think
Karn, the Great Creator is going to slide into the list for the flavor win and as a way to recur exiled pieces.
This means I also want to include some Vedalken in the deck that could be powerful. The most obvious is
Vedalken Archmage with its natural synergies is the best inclusion as is
Vedalken Engineer, but I want to expand my vision beyond these two obvious includes.
Filigree Sages combos with
Chromatic Orrery, which is interesting to consider as a bomb, so that's worth mentioning as well.
Grand Architect is already in the list as a mana source for Memnarch and a combo piece with
Pili-Pala. Maybe I can include
Vedalken Mastermind +
Stasis? I feel like that just wouldn't be super reliable as a combo piece and it doesn't directly win the game for me, so the griefer status would be increased for the deck.
So, semi-back to the drawing board which is actually kinda of exciting to consider again.