If you want to copy
Reclamation Sages then I guess Dollhouse graduates from terrible to middling. You've historically expressed interest in this sort of stuff, as evidenced by your mention of
Storm of Souls. Meanwhile my deck's main interest remains copying beef that ends the game quickly once multiplied. I've started streamlining stuff around it, and this is why Avacyn and Gisela are in danger. They're impactful when they hit, but they cost a lot and don't actually help me get a copied beatstick online beyond helping Ghired not die in combat.
Notice I've got a small toolbox of various utility creatures which are the most efficient at what they do. However, I don't regret reworking my ramp the way I did, as it works better at all stages of the game. I don't think I'll take this to an extreme where I take out
Eternal Witness for a
Regrowth, but at the same time there's not really much in the way of utility creatures I wish I was running. It's actually kind of funny, I just went to look at
Cavalier of Dawn's
cut update and there I am considering offing the
Beast Withins. Think I should re-read the entirety of the thread before I make any sweeping decisions, but some thinning is likely. I can envision a reality where the only cards at 5 mana or more are beef and copiers... plus
Ohran Frostfang.
A semi-recent game is a good illustration of the power of the current beef. I drew a clunker hand -
Angel of Destiny and
Splinter Twin. Yuck! I begrudgingly Twinned the Angel up, went through the motions, and realised I killed the biggest threat turn five and finished the rest of the table turn six. That was peak attack trigger clumsiness, yet it still worked out to that extent. As such, things are already rather operational. But what if they could be even better?
The attack trigger beef is just too good. The best non-attack-trigger options not in the list already are
Archangel of Thune and
Terror of the Peaks, and they're both inferior to existing includes (in the case of the Archangel, that's even backed up on
a cool graph; Terror only gets properly stupid if Rionya is around and gets her synergies going). So what if we go the other way and try to support attack triggers as much as possible? The printing of
Jaxis provides another option for an attack trigger friendly copier, and there are actually a few options I'm not running already, which I ignored due to their tribal nature.
Molten Echoes is telegraphed and a terrible topdeck, but
Kindred Charge works just fine and it's perfectly okay to spend six mana on a copy. Plus, if things go really south, it could even be used to help sauce up a Rhino plan game
A counter-argument to this comes from a game which I played outside my group, and I Twinned up Ewit and kept bombing opposing creatures with
Path to Exile. Thing is, a lot of cards can have game states where they do things. Early on in the life of Daxos, I had a very memorable game that was won off the back of
Debtors' Knell and
Attrition. Neither of those cards is in the list now, and the deck is stronger and more consistent.
I might be wrong here. Let me know if I missed any obvious badass beef or utility creatures.
In unrelated matters, I've been playing a bit with the spoilers and damn is that blitz commander stupid, that mechanic is crazy in a graveyard deck that's looking to sac its stuff anyway. Also I've been really liking having a triome in
Perry, can't wait to slot it in here.