I never did test the surveil mechanic myself, mission briefing does indeed look so clunky as the pay off requires so much mana, thought scour just seems better if you want to mill 2, its hard to beat charms versatility in the 2 drop slot. Thought erasure could be could, a real shame wotc modern card design limits player options and wont let it target yourself. Speaking of modern card desgin, notice how there is a cycle of 1 mana hybrid card yet the one card this deck needed and could have been printed was at 2cmc making it almost unplayable for modern. I havent picked up the deck in quite some time as the modern meta is very hostile to these types of combos, with a bajillion surgicals being played these days. Eladamris call and the new vesperlark have created some new brewing space, the deck mana base i feel would be a train wreck seeing you now want all 5 colors. But in hind sight i had success with the deck when DRS was legal, so never tell me the odds

They do though.

“Violent Outburst can’t cascade into Boom // Bust.” –

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/amonkhet-split-card-rules-changes-2017-04-04

After amonkhet, split card cmc when not on the stack = total cmc of both halves.

The rules don’t work that way…

It’s also pretty good at feeding Tarmogoyf.

Well there is that, but even if that wasn’t the case, you die at the beginning of the end step and so can’t go onto the next extra turn.

arh no. it is 3 cmc :/ my bad

euh so does chance for glory ?
that (nearly) wins the game on its own once locked down. briefing needs other spells to synergize.

The first question is whether Nightveil solves any problems for Faeries. As I understand it, the main problem with the deck is how anemic it is without a turn 2 Bitterblossom, and I doubt Nightveil fixes that.
The second question is if there’s room. Faeries’ niche is having all the creatures be disruptive answers and Nightveil isn’t, so I don’t think it will work.
I’d love to be wrong, though. Mostly so when Sprite hits you can say “Welcome, to Night Vail.”

Not that Mill is a staple or anything, but as a Mill guy I’m really looking forward to adding it to my deck.

I do think briefing, jtms, and disrupting shoal can be put together somehow to good effect.

Huh, hadn’t that of that. When that works out, yeah that does seem pretty insane.

As an example of said silliness, if you have an active ascension, a manamorphose in the GY, another in hand, and a mission briefing, you get to effectively spend 1R and exile both manamorphoses to: Draw 2, Surveil 2, Surveil 2, Draw 4, Add 8 mana to your mana pool….which just sounds bonkers.