Stream of Thought

Sorcery

Target player puts the top four cards of their library into the graveyard. You shuffle up to four cards from your graveyard into your library.

Replicate {2}{U}{U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (25)

freddiefrick on Say hello to my force field

4 minutes ago

Balaam__ it's hidden, but it's definitely in there! Stream of Thought is the wincon. The card is a (very) slow clock, but the rest of the deck supports it by shutting down any possibility of winning from your opponent. All the cards either provide card advantage or delay an opponent's win through fogs, countermagic, and lifegain. I know it's possible to run only 2x Stream of Thought in the deck (use one to recur the other), but I feel a little vulnerable to graveyard hate after playing the second. Given the philosophy of the deck, I'd rather save my spells for stopping enemy advances rather than protecting a card in my graveyard. Does that help answer your question?

Kurush on Jace's Groundhog Day

8 months ago

jonjonhholt - if you liked this deck, I have several years back created even better one, that utilizes Jace's Phantasm. Here is the link: Illusions mill It isn't top tier deck by any means, but since it's my creation, I'm quite proud of it. Since I created that deck back in 2018, there are certainly cards that I haven't taken into account, since you know, they weren't pauper legal back then or haven't yet existed, like Stream of Thought.

Degaine on Why is Mulldrifter not a fish??

1 year ago

"This style of dimir" is like 3 decks combined together: Alchemy, Angler-delver and UB Control. I can believe that you can mill yourself out with alchemy, AC, preordains and mulldrifters pretty easily.

• If you want to play angler-delver - swap mulldrifters for delvers, add brainstorms for alchemy, change preordains for ponders.
• Alchemy plays only augurs and anglers. Or at least play one Stream of Thought
• UB control would cut alchemy and throw more spells or non-selfmill CA. Black rose could be helpful.

I would cut main justice for Arms of Hadar. Maybe not repeatable but kills all bully creatures and they can't even protect themselves. Imo AC is not that great of a card. In alchemy it is fine, but even only one bog and this card just feels sad. In the same slot you can use Behold the Multiverse, Think Twice and Pop Quiz - this last one is weird, cause it can ramp you&gains you life and provide reasonable threat later. I takes 5-6 slots in SB, but after little testing, I am very surprised how good this CA is.

wallisface on Esper Control

2 years ago

Thoughts/fears:

• 18 lands is super low. The only modern decks going this low are burn - cause they’re happy to live off 1 landdrop for most the game. I think you’re going to really struggle to be in a good land position. And, with such a low lamd count, there’s no chance at all of casting your Obzedat, Ghost Council .

• Control decks do well mainly because they aim to maintain card advantage over their opponent, once they lose that, they tend to lose the game very quickly. So cards like Bone Shards seems super troublesome, cause it will leave you vulnerable to the opponent late game.

• Same goes for Stream of Thought and Folio of Fancies , they cost you a card from hand (i.e themselves), but don’t actually appear to do anything. This deck isn’t geared/built to mill out the opponent, so i’m not sure why they’re here.

Unenlightened on Cheapskate Talrand ver. 1.5 ($100)

2 years ago

Here's another handful. Riddleform allows scrying at will, albeit for 3 mana, but it's also a creature as needed, and probably a lot of the time anyway.

Stream of Thought and Stream of Consciousness are good recursion cards; you probably (hopefully) won't have to recur more than 4 cards at a time and these are cheap to cast.

Don't forget to work in Solve the Equation somewhere!

An interesting card I pulled from a pack is Silundi Vision  ^Flip, which I swapped in for an Island. As a land it's slow mana, but the spell side is perfect for this deck.

Another random pull for me was Mystic Reflection . I would have to classify it as a spot removal which actually erases the identity of the card, kind of like those enchantments I linked before, but you hit the target before it enters the battlefield. You can also can potentially hit more than one target.

Finally, I know it's out of budget range, but I can't help but squeeze Shark Typhoon into the deck because I got one and I want to use it. And it works well with the premise of a mostly-instants-and-sorceries deck.

I'll probably add Boseiju, Who Shelters All because, again, it's burning a hole in my pocket and it's really good in the deck. But it's definitely not a budget card.

BlaineTog on Devious Assembler -- Blue Tron Robots

3 years ago

nathanielhebert Glad you like it! This list is very out of date by this point but I do still like the idea.

The thing is, you really can't afford to spend do-nothing cards shuffling copies back into your deck. Self-Assembler is playable only because it gives a card's worth of value on ETB. If you're getting 5+ copies of Self-Assembler by spending cards, you're fighting a losing battle with your own deck. That means the Devious Cover-Up is one of your only options in Pauper. Clear the Mind is also a consideration since it replaces itself and Tron generates so much mana that spending 3 to cycle something isn't a deal breaker, but I'm still not convinced it's where we want to be. The third option is Stream of Thought , but we're looking to win through combat damage so it doesn't work for this deck.

channelfireball12345 on ETG Graveyard shuffling?

3 years ago

Stream of Consciousness, Stream of Thought

BOXES_O_MOXES on League Guildmage Dramatic Combo

3 years ago

Could also consider Stream of Thought as a mill win con. You can run Dizzy Spell as another way to get Stream. Make infinite Mana using your combo and then replicate the Stream as many times as you need to to mill them out then pass turn.

Also, You run Mnemonic Wall already so why not run a flicker combo? Mnemonic Wall, Sunscorched Desert with Ghostly Flicker after you make infinite Mana.

One more suggestion, Forgotten Cave and Lonely Sandbar are strictly better than the desert cycling lands you are running.

As I noted in my previous post I would seriously consider running Capsize. I would take out Blink of an Eye and replace it with the Capsize.

Lastly for now, You should run Neurok Stealthsuit. It keeps your CMDR from getting roasted and can be attached at instant speed. Making for fun shenanigans when someone tries to blow your League up. Just attach in response and hopefully they don't have a followup spell. I would cut Ur-Golem's Eye and add the Stealth suit.

Oh, one more thing. Get rid of Manalith and put a Bonder's Ornament in there. Drawing cards is good. Way better than Manalith.

I would change the creature base up a bit too. There are way better crits out there that you should look into.