Sorrow's Path Wayta - We're Back! (this is a pun on that dinosaur animated movie from the 90s)

[DirkGently]

Golos, my beloved. Taken from us too soon. Just because you were really powerful and annoying to play against.

But the dream of the Sorrow's Path deck has remained. The biggest limitation is that, without a commander that can tutor SP into play, we have to run a lot of land tutors in order to reliably get access to it, and the whole deck build around it.

(I should maybe explain quickly that Sorrow's Path is sometimes considered the worst magic card ever printed, so I love the idea of building a whole deck around exploiting it)

Wayta offers a different spin on the archetype - while she can't find SP on her own, she does provide her own ability to activate enrage, while also making all your enragers twice as effective once you find SP. This does take some of the emphasis off Sorrow's Path unfortunately, but I think Wayta is still the best Golos replacement we've seen for the deck. She's also in the three primary colors for the archetype (though we do lose out on some of the draw, plus of course Golos' insane card advantage ability - though she does provide repeatable removal as a soft mana sink).

Here's where I'm at so far:

Wayta's Sorrow

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

Commander (1)

1 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

Enragers (30)

1 Apex Altisaur

1 Screaming Nemesis

1 Brash Taunter

1 Silverclad Ferocidons

1 Hungering Hydra

1 Wall of Hope

1 Hornet Nest

1 Needletooth Raptor

1 Sporeweb Weaver

1 Rite of Passage

1 Ranging Raptors

1 Polyraptor

1 Spitemare

1 Boros Reckoner

1 Vigor

1 Trapjaw Tyrant

1 Tamanoa

1 Bellowing Aegisaur

1 Ripjaw Raptor

1 Cacophodon

1 Flumph

1 Feldon, Ronom Excavator

1 Ill-tempered Loner

1 Wrathful Raptors

1 Blazing Sunsteel

1 Siegehorn Ceratops

1 Fiendlash

1 Metropolis Reformer

1 Stormwild Capridor

1 Wrathful Red Dragon

Control (10)

1 Swords to Plowshares

1 Path to Exile

1 Generous Gift

1 Beast Within

1 Unexpectedly Absent

1 Blasphemous Act

1 Fiery Confluence

1 Chaos Warp

1 Stroke of Midnight

1 Farewell

Land Tutors (12)

1 Sylvan Scrying

1 Hour of Promise

1 Tempt with Discovery

1 Expedition Map

1 Pir's Whim

1 Archdruid's Charm

1 Crop Rotation

1 Elvish Reclaimer

1 Nylea's Intervention

1 Titania's Command

1 Weathered Wayfarer

1 Scapeshift

Synergy (5)

1 Splendor Mare

1 Urban Burgeoning

1 Seedborn Muse

1 Chromatic Lantern

1 Abundant Growth

Ramp (3)

1 Sol Ring

1 Wild Growth

1 Utopia Sprawl

Land (39)

1 Sorrow's Path

1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

1 Nesting Grounds

1 Thespian's Stage

1 Vesuva

1 Deserted Temple

1 Gavony Township

1 Command Tower

3 ABU duals

3 Shocks

1 Jetmir's Garden

10 Fetches

3 BBDs

3 Pathways

3 Forest

2 Plains

2 Mountain

1 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy 1 Apex Altisaur 1 Screaming Nemesis 1 Brash Taunter 1 Silverclad Ferocidons 1 Hungering Hydra 1 Wall of Hope 1 Hornet Nest 1 Needletooth Raptor 1 Sporeweb Weaver 1 Rite of Passage 1 Ranging Raptors 1 Polyraptor 1 Spitemare 1 Boros Reckoner 1 Vigor 1 Trapjaw Tyrant 1 Tamanoa 1 Bellowing Aegisaur 1 Ripjaw Raptor 1 Cacophodon 1 Flumph 1 Feldon, Ronom Excavator 1 Ill-tempered Loner 1 Wrathful Raptors 1 Blazing Sunsteel 1 Siegehorn Ceratops 1 Fiendlash 1 Metropolis Reformer 1 Stormwild Capridor 1 Wrathful Red Dragon 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Path to Exile 1 Generous Gift 1 Beast Within 1 Unexpectedly Absent 1 Blasphemous Act 1 Fiery Confluence 1 Chaos Warp 1 Stroke of Midnight 1 Farewell 1 Sylvan Scrying 1 Hour of Promise 1 Tempt with Discovery 1 Expedition Map 1 Pir's Whim 1 Archdruid's Charm 1 Crop Rotation 1 Elvish Reclaimer 1 Nylea's Intervention 1 Titania's Command 1 Weathered Wayfarer 1 Scapeshift 1 Splendor Mare 1 Urban Burgeoning 1 Seedborn Muse 1 Chromatic Lantern 1 Abundant Growth 1 Sol Ring 1 Wild Growth 1 Utopia Sprawl 1 Sorrow's Path 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 1 Nesting Grounds 1 Thespian's Stage 1 Vesuva 1 Deserted Temple 1 Gavony Township 1 Command Tower 3 ABU duals 3 Shocks 1 Jetmir's Garden 10 Fetches 3 BBDs 3 Pathways 3 Forest 2 Plains 2 Mountain //Sideboard

To build this as a perm deck I'd definitely going to tune down the manabase, though I might poach some fetches from Kaervek so I can at least have a decent setup.

[DirkGently]

Currently missing nonlands:

Blazing sunsteel
Wrathful red dragon
Scapeshift

[Chromaticus]

Are you still toning it down by not running Pyrohemia? It takes the deck to the next level.

[DirkGently]

@Chromaticus i don't want to detract from SP as the best enrage enabler. Then it just becomes another enrage deck which isn't particularly interesting.

Granted Wayta does detract herself somewhat, but SP still scales a lot further.

[KNakamura]

@DirkGently
I have a similar deck that I like to play that uses the en_Kor ability (0: The next 1 damage that would be dealt to Nomads en-Kor this turn is dealt to target creature you control instead.) to redirect damage to those types of enrage creatures & then the excess damage is dealt to my commander Tajic, Blade of the Legion or any other creature that's indestructible. I'm going to add the Sorrow's Path land to it and see how it preforms as it's a reliable source of damage.

[DirkGently]

Woo got a Screaming Nemesis for the deck. Maybe the strongest synergy card in the deck? It's pretty gnarly. I guess Cacophodon has to be up there too.

Urban Daggertooth → Screaming Nemesis
Oblation → Stroke of Midnight

current temporary replacements:
Truefire Captain for Wrathful Red Dragon
Urban Daggertooth for Blazing Sunsteel
The lands are completely different because I'm not paying that much for ABU duals for a meme deck

[Dunadain]

Have you ever considered Expedited Inheritance for this list? If it's going to work anywhere, it's here.

[DirkGently]

Have you ever considered Expedited Inheritance for this list? If it's going to work anywhere, it's here.

I'm kinda resistant to the idea just because I think it's so easy for opponents to take advantage of as well. At least it's more beneficial to combat-focused decks? Idk, seems like more of a fun card than a good card probably.

[Dunadain]

Have you ever considered Expedited Inheritance for this list? If it's going to work anywhere, it's here.

I'm kinda resistant to the idea just because I think it's so easy for opponents to take advantage of as well. At least it's more beneficial to combat-focused decks? Idk, seems like more of a fun card than a good card probably.

I only ask because I saw a Reddit post of someone asking where this card would be good and this was my best guess, lol.

It is a kind of insane amount of card draw, so at least the reward is there, even if the risk matches/exceeds it.

[DirkGently]

Honestly I think there's a solid chance of decking ourself too lol. Especially with Wayta in play. Though I guess we'd eventually hit enchantment removal.