And how can I forget Wall of Omens and maybe kiki-jiki

Saheeli can be decently strong. She has powerful -2 targets like snapcaster mage, and possibly reflector mage. I would be interested in a Jeskai blink shell.
4 saheeli Rai
4 Felidar Gaurdian
3 reflector mage
3 kitchen finks
4 snapcaster mage
2 goblin dark dwellers

as a creature base, some combination of these.

Saheeli sun titan has been seeing some success in testing circles. They play like a sun titan deck in jeskai with an infinite win con, and felidar slots very nicely into a flicker deck like that. It might push it up to competitive

Re: the Saheeli/Felidar combo – I tested vs this deck on Cockatrice the other day (a Reddit user was looking to put it through a gauntlet) playing Affinity, and frankly I wouldn’t worry about it too much. The problem is not so much that the cards are bad (although they’re definitely not as good as Exarch was), the real problem is that without a flash piece, you see the combo coming from a mile away. Twin was one of Affinity’s worst match-ups, and a big part of that was having to hold up interaction mana, thus hindering my board development, every turn after turn 3. Not so here, I just flooded the board with my threats, and when one piece came down, simply untapped, Galvanic Blast’ed it and kept going about my business. We only play 4 matches but in those I dropped 2 games total. Some people will play the deck for sure, but it won’t be skyrocketing to Tier 1 anytime soon.

People using Mishra’s Bauble for its peek effect. What a format!

I agree. I don’t think this combo will make a dent.

Honestly I’m pretty skeptical. The new combo lacks the end-of-turn surprise potential of Twin, and neither half is as good in the “fair” role as Exarch/Pestermite were. If you can make Saheeli a good card with the rest of your deck, then you might be onto something.

Thank you for pointing out the error. It has been corrected.

This is crexalbo from the mtgsalvation forums.

I got this wrong the first time i looked at it, too. Zac Elsik popularized the deck with his GP win, but it was zerodown who came up with the original idea. It’s been worked on by multiple individuals ever since.

Also, i’d argue that Inventors’ Fair was the real catch from Kaladesh, not Blooming Marsh. Fair gave us maindeck life gain for aggressive decks, coupled with a tutoring effect for when the game goes long. It’s now a stock 2-of in virtually every list for the resilience and consistency it provides.

Also, new tech was recently discovered by kanister in the form of Mishra’s Bauble. They have been popularizing a low-to-the-ground Golgari build that focuses on consistency in the early game by using Baubles combined with mill rocks to use the card to look deeper than possible with other decks.

I’d personally say that the deck’s success is due in large part to the printings of Collective Brutality and Inventors’ Fair, and the adoption of Mishra’s Bauble. Marsh did provide a painless source of the deck’s primary colors, but that wasn’t as much of a boon as the other cards.

I will have to go back and read that article, which was published before I came to Nexus. Assuming I can replicate the experiment, that is something we’ll look to do in future.

As for the bans… they’re clearly geared at making the format a bit slower, and I think they mostly succeed on that front. Unfortunately, the loss of Probe may be a deathblow to the likes of UR Prowess and Death’s Shadow Zoo. At the very least, the core will have to be significantly reworked. Such is life when you dip into Infect’s toolbox, I guess.

One of you is a moderator in the forum where the deck was created, and have an article about the creation of the deck, and still got this wrong?

The next update will be extremely valuable in informing us on what the bans and fatal push mean to the format, so very much looking forward to that and seeing where dredge and infect land and whether modern will be a tron and valakut world now.

Thank you for the transparency about the delay. I know a lot of us were champing at the bit for a new update (me definitely included!) but knowing that you guys are listening is a great relief.

Real bad luck that the timing of Wizards announcement steals the limelight of the metagame update, but the adjustments after the bannings will make the next update more important than ever.