Ephraim
Adepts
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The Casual Adept
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« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2004, 12:55:36 am » |
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Before I start offering constructive criticism, I'll say first that I think this deck is very neat. Once you've got some testing results with it, I'd be very interested to know how fast it can go off.
Unless I'm just being stupid and missing something big, why bother with the Talismans at all? Not a single one of them produces both of the colours you need. Is it so important that you have that mana from the Talisman available to you on turn 2 that those slots wouldn't be filled adequately by more mana-myr or a 4th Darksteel Ingot?
I'd recommend that you drop Journey of Discovery in favour of more Sylvan Scrying or Reap and Sow, both of which are useful for finding more than the single Mountain (Journey of Discovery finds only basic lands.) I'm also not crazy about Serum Powder and would replace it, again, with more Sylvan Scrying or Reap and Sow. If you feel that it is important that your search card puts the land into play at a reasonable cost (so you can readily use it to combo out), one or two Rampant Growth would serve you better than Journey of Discovery.
Finally, you've posted this in casual, so your combo can go of somewhat more slowly with fewer problems, but even at that, I'm seeing a fairly slow combo, even with optimal acceleration.
1st turn: Land, go.
2nd turn: Land, Vedalken Engineer, go.
3rd turn: Land, Charbelcher, go.
4th turn: Land, Incubator, go.
5th turn: Land, Vedalken Engineer, Tel-Jilad Stylus, Rampant Growth/Sylvan Scrying, go.
6th turn: Land, activate Incubator, activate Stylus, activate Charbelcher (assume nothing but land in hand): 66 damage with Charbelcher.
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You could go off fifth turn with that draw without worrying about the Stylus or the Mountain and still deal 33 damage, but that's a hard draw to come by. You might consider replacing the Talismans (or 2 of the Talismans and the 2 Copper Myr) with Vine Trellis to provide yourself with some blockers, while you work at getting the combo on the table.
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