Stella Lee, Wild Card: Shoot to Thrill!
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Table of Contents
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Deck Overview
There are links to cEDH decks that I've been looking at with a view to improving my own. So far, I've mostly used them to validate my own thinking.
But in time, I will apply some of their tech. There's a section on discussion of card choices which is under construction.Forthcoming are sections on game play, win conditions, budget and hopefully, other levels of play, from pre-con mods on up.
By the way, this is a modified pre-con; a heavily modified pre-con. If you're attentive, you'll notice some signs of this fact.
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Deck List
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Some Other Lists
Some Other Lists
I'll Give You To 3
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Third Time's a Charm
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Wicked Witch of the West
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Brewing Stella Lee, Wild Card in cEDH
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Card Choice Discussion
Following is a list of cards which were common to at least three of the cEDH lists I've referenced when I referenced them. These cards could be considered a starting point for a competitive list. These lists can obviously change, so some of this listing may not be up to date.
Cards Common to three or more cEDH Lists
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Notable Omissions
These are cards from the common list that are not currently in my list.
Out of Budget
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Some of these are just past the threshold of pain and could be added, others are just about out of the question.
- City of Traitors - The ability to power out two-MV rocks is nice.
- Flusterstorm
- Force of Negation
- Force of Will
- Lion's Eye Diamond
- Minamo, School at Water's Edge
- Mox Diamond - One of the best of the mana rocks, the ability to make any color is awesome.
- Otawara, Soaring City
- Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
- The One Ring
- Timetwister
- Volcanic Island
- Wheel of Fortune - Wheel of Misfortune is a poor substitute, but the deck arguably wants both!
Cards I have, but haven't decided to add - yet, I'm using these elsewhere.
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Others
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These are cards I haven't rounded up yet:
- Brain Freeze - This isn't playable without Lion's Eye Diamond.
- Chain of Vapor - Very cheap to cast and very versatile.
- Jeweled Amulet - This has the perfect casting cost and can accelerate our plan if played early.
- Mental Misstep - This can be cast without mana and has a good number of viable targets in cEDH.
- Mountain - I'm on Snow-Covered Mountains.
- Personal Tutor - This card can get Twisted Fealty and is therefore good enough here.
- Thundering Falls - I can't say I dig this but I'm probably wrong. It's fetch-able so perhaps I need it worse than these guys who have Volcanic Island.
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Notable Includes
Notable Includes
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These are the cards I play in place of the notable omissions along with my feeble justifications.
Cards common to one or two of the cEDH lists mentioned above Some are pre-con leftovers.
Cards common to one or two of the cEDH lists mentioned above
- An Offer You Can't Refuse - Cheap counter magic.
- Brainstorm - One of the premier cantrips.
- Dispel - Budget counter magic. Cheap to cast.
- Red Elemental Blast - This is less susceptible to redirection than Pyroblast, but Pyroblast can be cast without a target if we just need to add one to the spell count for the turn.
- Frantic Search - This spell can filter our hand and increase the spell count essentially for free, provided we can cast it using only lands.
- Cephalid Coliseum - This is a little anti-Thassa's Oracle tech.
- Exotic Orchard - Will there be and in a cEDH pod? I think it's worth the risk.
- Forbidden Orchard - this is a solid rainbow land. We aren't really in the combat business, so the downside isn't hugely significant.
- Ral, Storm Conduit - His magecraft ability is a win-condition.
- Dragon's Rage Channeler - She's here for the Surveil, but beats can be useful.
- Claim the Firstborn - This can provide haste for Stella but it can also steal a Drannith Magistrate or a Orcish Bowmasters for a moment to allow us to play. It also just wins if Stella can copy it with Ral, Storm Conduit on board.
Some are pre-con leftovers.
- Pongify - Leftovers. But cheap removal isn't the worst thing in the world.
- Counterspell - A budget counter spell.
- Negate - Another budget counter spell.
- Mishra's Bauble - It's free and it cantrips, unfortunately not immediately. It's good for the storm count.
- Arcum's Astrolabe - A whim.
- Cascade Bluffs - A pre-con artifact, but not a terrible card by any means.
- Gemstone Mine - This is another rainbow land. My list has extra lands compared to the cool kids' list, plus I'm missing Volcanic Island.
- Spire of Industry - Ditto
- Sleight of Hand - A budget cantrip.
- Vandalblast - A pre-con leftover.
- Expressive Iteration - A pre-con leftover.
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Credits & Thanks
Many thanks to Comedlan (I'll Give You to 3), Cardboard Content (Third Time's a Charm) and ElderDrunkenHighlander (Wicked Witch of the West)!
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Change Log
Change log
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- Lightning Bolt - Electrostatic Field. Bolt is just solid. In particular, it removes Drannith Magistrate. That's worth the price of admission.
- Shore Up - Third Path Iconoclast Shore Up goes off with Stella for magecraft triggers, but mostly it gives her hexproof.
- Slick Sequence - Young Pyromancer I like Slick Sequence; Stella is featured in the art.
- Twitch - Guttersnipe - Twitch is another spell that just draws the whole deck with Stella's second ability.
- Baral, Chief of Compliance - Haughty Djinn. One less pip for the relevant (?) abillity. The Djinn would probably be better in a more casual deck.
- Fellwar Stone - Overmaster - Overmaster is really just another cantrip. Fellwar is a staple.
- Spellseeker - Veyran, Voice of Duality. Spellseeker is more impactful.
- Dramatic Reversal - Galvanic Iteration. Dramatic Reversal can go infinite with Stella, creating infinite mana if rocks are in place. Even a single cast of Dramatic Reversal can fuel a big turn.
- Cephalid Coliseum -
- Snow-Covered Mountain. This is mostly anti-Thassa's Oracle tech.
- Talisman of Creativity - Jori En, Ruin Diver. I finally found the talisman. Jori is a fine casual card, but he isn't up to speed with what we're trying to do.
- Merchant Scroll - Lock and Load. Lock and Load is cool sounding, but Merchant Scroll actually locks and loads our go-to pieces; Cerulean Wisps, Refocus or Twitch in order of desirability.
- Brainstorm - Radical Idea. Brainstorm is a quality cantrip.
- Borne Upon a Wind - Think Twice. Borne Upon a Wind allows us to win at instant speed. This allows us to pick a spot on an opponents turn or to win on top of interation.
- Tidal Bore - Curse of the Swine. Tidal Bore can untap Stella for no mana. This can allows us to reload and restart a combo on top of interaction.
- Strike It Rich - Cunning Sparkmage. Strike it Rich enables a turn-two Commander or it can be just a free spell to add to the count for Stella.
- Snap - Triton Tactics. Snap is an essentially free spell with some utility.
- Gemstone Mine - Urza's Saga. I've yet to have a game go past turn five. Colored mana is better than the utility here.
- Muddle the Mixture - Chaos Warp. Muddle the Mixture can transmute for key cards including Underworld Breach.
- Spire of Industry - Portent. Until I can add the MDFCs, I'm going to run 26 lands.
- Simian Spirit Guide - Goblin Electromancer - Mana monkey is gas!
- Rite of Flame - Sensei's Divining Top - Rite of Flame is gas, Top is a little slow for what we're trying to do.
- Final Fortune - Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty - Final Fortune is more relevant to our plan.
- Island - Snow-Covered Island - I needed the second snow land elsewhere.
- Defense Grid - Twinflame - Defense Grid is useful protection against interaction. Twinflame had more purpose with the initial list.
- Mindbreak Trap - Baral, Chief of Compliance - More counter magic.
- Miscast - Thunderclap Drake - Still more counter magic.
- Dispel - Slick Sequence - Budget counter magic.
- Daze - Serum Visions - Daze is a popular "free" counter spell.
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