Thank you!! Glad you got those Chalices 😉

Been playing a variant. Endless One is a 3 of for me right now, because he does wonders for curving out hands more consistently. I cut 2 conduits and an Oblivion sower for them because you really don’t need to go any bigger than Reshaper into Thought Knot into Smasher. I also ended up cutting the second Ulamog for a Dread Defiler because you can cast him and activate his ability once on turn 4 with the right setup, and he provides a non-combat oriented way to deal damage. He’s also much less of a dead draw cf the Ulamog, who has often been a dead draw. Getting to 10 on turn 4 largely isn’t worthwhile.

There’s just no reason not to play a few black cards. Since we’re in Urborg anyway, we might as well run insane cards like Liliana of the Veil and Dismember.

Why would you do that? What good is it? If you want to for the sake of budget or whatever, try it out and see how it goes.

The idea of cutting black altogether does not seems to have few merits related to winning games though.

Fair enough. Keep us posted of any updates!

So this got me thinking, do you think a mono colorless version could be good? You still keep urborgs (for eye) but go mono colorless lands with maybe 2-3 wastes and just value lands. You could swap lili for something else, like endless ones and warping wail.

Doable?

Thanks for a great article! List looks awesome. What are your results against linear stuff like Infect and Zoo?

Also, what are your thoughts on including a few simian spirit guides to play t1 chalice?

Agree that IOK is sweet, but I’m not willing to make that compromise. We can keep seven-land hands and dominate opponents. Odds of that happening decrease dramatically with “dead” draws in the deck.

Caverns + Temple

I still like her. She’s a house in the mirror and against most aggro decks. I’m running a Crucible for extra points vs. big mana decks instead of the second Cranial Extraction now that Twin is gone.

Good point. Right now it’s kind of a placeholder for matter reshaper and will go away in a week. 🙂

Hasn’t been annoying for me. Thought-Knot costs two mana in this deck; Remand is supposed to net the caster mana. Doesn’t matter nobody will play Remand anymore because Splinter Twin is banned LOL

I see that, but I don’t see why it isn’t a Cavern of Souls, especially given that getting a Thought-Knot Seer caught by a Remand or something can be annoying.

Conduits can be clunky. Moving forward, I’m cutting one for the 25th land: Sea-Gate Wreckage. Went over Wastes in the article.

Heartless makes your Thought-Knots die to Bolt, so I don’t think it’s worth playing. Like Map, it’s another “ramping tool” that slows us down. Powder lets us make real plays every turn of the game.