Alright, follow-up question: if you cut the mana dorks (which I notice aren't on the list of cards you love
), what would you fill those slots with. And if your thought is "no, I like the ramp", have you considered leaning more on land-based ramp? If nothing else, it'd be more resilient against stuff like
Fury.
Any reason why there's no
?
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Looking at Loam (my beloved), I notice a lack of
And yeah, if you're loving Survival and Chord (and don't have a problem with Alchemy cards) you
probably want to look at
Loamfrill might be a bit of a pain logistically, but it seems like a sweet card to discard or mill over.
Riftsweeper seems like an odd suggestion, but it's an interesting tech card to give green if you ever up the number of adventure/flashback/suspend/warp cards in the cube.
Also, I know you poo-poo'd the Hydra in the OP, but I feel like you were undervaluing the fact that it's a removal spell (with interesting counterplay on the stack! Skill expression! Buzzwords!) that can also double as a big dumb idiot if you ever just need a clock on board.
Tutoring up Ambush Viper is also pretty cool because it basically lets you fuck around with combat math by just holding up
.
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ohmygodwhyhasnoonesuggested
It works well with flicker spells! No one wants to spend removal on it! It stabilizes like a dream! It's... probably powercrept out of being a strong top-end these days, isn't it.
