Ah, my mistake, I thought Oath could find enchantments. That does make it seem a little more odd. Bottoming a Retreat when you have Knight in play can’t feel good.

Yeah I would have just positioned that as the 8 cantrips helping the deck assemble a win, but of note oath won’t find retreat. With those and nahiris you can dig fairly well – but it still doesn’t explain why you’d want conscripts as a one of in a non-kiki deck.

I have been testing this exact list and it feels like its been put together at the last moment.

I think there should be 3 retreats in the 75 so you could go up to 3 in MU where you need to race. I felt the conscripts were very bad. Why not just play Sigarda? Sure you can live the dream of stealing Nahiri but most of the time its just a 3.2 haste that costs the same as Sigarda, a 5/5 flier that very few decks can deal with.

The deck felt very strong though, and quite consistant thanks to cantrips. Nahiri is good to mitigate the weakness to GY hate. Both Goyf and Knight take a beating by random scavenging oozes or sb hate

I was basically counting Nahiri herself as a “combo piece.” I suppose it makes more sense to say Oath finds all of the business cards in the deck.

As for that Zealous Conscripts, it’s in the same vein as all the one-ofs in the board. I wonder if this deck is just way better at churning through the library than it looks on paper. Sensei’s Divining Top decks in Legacy have long been able to dig for one- and two-ofs really consistently just using the Top and fetchlands. Maybe Oath + Visions + Retreat is enough to mimic this functionality?

Why one zealous conscript? No Kiki for infinite, no chord to steal an opposing nahiri…