[Deck] Storm deck utilizing Simian Spirit Guide.

[memnarch]

So, now that we have Elvish Spirit Guide in red storm decks have more acces to Wheel of Fortune and Empty the Warrens. I would like to include Empty the Warrens as an alternative storm win due to Wizards introducing a meta game changing Extirpate. Unforntinitly alot of the utility cards had to be pushed to one-ofs due to the 4-of inclusion of Simian Spirit Guide.

mana 35
4 polluted delta
3 underground sea
1 Badlands
1 swamp
1 island
1 tolarian academy
5 moxes
1 black lotus
1 chrome mox
1 mox diamond
1 lotus petal
1 mana vault
1 mana crypt
1 sol ring
4 dark ritual
4 cabal ritual
4 Simian Spirit Guide

tutor 6
1 demonic tutor
1 imperial seal
1 vampiric tutor
1 personal tutor
1 mystical tutor
1 demonic consultation

draw 10
1 ancestral recall
1 timetwister
1 wheel of fortune
1 windfall
1 tinker
1 memory jar
1 time spiral
1 yawgmoths bargain
1 yawgmoths will
1 necropotence

utility 6
1 repeal
3 duress
1 timewalk
1 hurkyl's recall

win 3
2 tendrils of agony
1 empty the warrens

[wethepeople]

4 Tendrils AND Empty the Warrens? I am no Combo player of any sort, but just by the looks that seems like a lot. Shouldn't you be running just 1-2 and a little more protection, such as Duress, or Xantid Swarm?

[memnarch]

Sure how about -2 tendrils +2 duress? *FIXED. I was also considering Lighting Bolt now that im splashing red because fish is one of the toghest match ups and if not killing medeling mages It could be used to push that little bit of damage through if your storm count was to low. Well mabie for sideboard.

[herbig]

What advantage does Spirit Guide have over something like Rite of Flame?  No Mind's Desire?  Also, I'm a huge fan of Brainstorm in basically anything with blue mana.  Its pretty good.

Why Lightning Bolt?  Spirit Guide blocks Meddling Mage all day...

[wethepeople]

Sure how about -2 tendrils +2 duress? *FIXED. I was also considering Lighting Bolt now that im splashing red because fish is one of the toghest match ups and if not killing medeling mages It could be used to push that little bit of damage through if your storm count was to low. Well mabie for sideboard.

Nah, just use Massacre in your sideboard to handle Mages and all their other pesky fishies.

Have you tried using ETW as your primary kill rather than Tendrils, because ETW allows you to win off a mini-storm, making the kill more consistent. With Repeal, 8 Rituals, and all that other accel, creating a storm count of as little as six seems easy, and that is usually all you need to win, however, it will take another turn or so to finish them.

[memnarch]

Ya your probably right Massacre is better.

[+t]

Thirty five mana?  Am I reading this correctly? 58.3% of your deck is mana?  Are Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox and the full complements of both SSG and Cabal Ritual actually necessary?

Why are you including SSG?  Generally, storm combo added ESG (in addition to basics, of which there are very few in this build) to have mana sources that didn't get pooped on by stax, among other things (but the stax thing was probably the biggest reason for its inclusion).  Tell me, is Stax such a problem for you that you need to include this in your deck?

[memnarch]

Yes of course Stax and Fish are big problems for this deck. When drawing 7 cards with the power draw cards (Wheel of fortune, Tinker-> Memory Jar etc.) I have no problem with discarding half my hand for mana. Mana is needed to go off quickly, wich is the best bet with this deck.