TropQuest, vol. III - Silly Simic Pile (Eligeth/Gilanra)
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 11:54 pm
Once upon a time, I had a Kumena deck. Once Tatyova got spoiled in the next set, I upgraded my land base to fetches and a Tropical Island to make good use of her. This Trop proceeded to be the bane of my deckbuilding existence, as I wanted to make use of it, yet couldn't seem to hold onto a x deck due to the casualness of my group. After Kumena's demise, I tried Eutropia, but the explosive engine building aspect of the deck didn't gel well with the group either. Yet a lot of other guys seem to be running x decks and getting away with it. What are they doing right that I'm getting wrong?
Turns out that the group-acceptable x builds are goodstuffy, ramp and draw heavy. No crazy high end haymakers like praetors or Expropriate, but more like Avenger of Zendikar tier stuff. I can work with that! I cobbled together a pile of Simic crap around two of the CMR partners - Gilanra is the main commander in the early/mid game, making the first 6+ CMC spell of the turn cantrip. Eligeth is a 6 drop that can be accessed from the command zone, and happens to turn Preordains into Ancestral Recalls. This is quite good for digging in the mid/late game.
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The deck is quite stipulated, a lot of the obvious high end Simic stuff is missing, and the tutors/interactions are minimal and inefficient. There's obviously quite a bit of ramp, as there has to be with a 4+ average CMC, and a nontrivial helping of recursion. The deck's quite spell oriented, with some cast payoffs.
If you've made it this far, dear reader, care to help me out? I'm on the lookout for fun stuff to include, in case anything shakes out to be too strong or too weak to run. What you got in terms of cool beans?
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