MTG Combo: Roaring Primadox + Sage of Hours + Sandsteppe Mastodon

lithium142 on Simic turns combo

7 years ago

first, you have no good reason to be running 65 cards. you're just hurting yourself; cut that back to 60.

after over a dozen tests, I can say with confidence that the standard version of this combo deck was both more consistent and more resilient than your build. However, you have some good ideas.

the problem seems to be because there is a lot of fluff. for instance, running 4 counterspells is going to do you very little. you will never draw them consistently (so you cant reliably play control), and none of them are Remand, so they dont even get you closer to your combo pieces. another anomaly is Prime Speaker Zegana. she doesnt stall for you, doesn't advance your combo, and doesn't act as a reliable win condition on her own.

if you arent familiar with it, the standard deck was a ramp deck that established a high devotion board state and then exploded in mana with Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, and Karametra's Acolyte. add a Kiora's Follower to the mix, and you have the mana to go off. it was resilient because that mana allowed you to cast Genesis Hydras for excessive numbers (and they also helped find your combo pieces along with Chord of Calling), acting as a second win condition if your opponent didnt keep up removal.

the combo was Roaring Primadox + Sage of Hours + Sandsteppe Mastodon

in modern you have some interesting options to make you more consistent. you could throw this style combo into and elves shell for the ramp, or use the wonderful Arbor Elf + Utopia Sprawl combo for 4 mana turn 2. you could could even use the urzatron lands and make an infinite turns tron deck. alternatively you could try to use Increasing Savagery and Blessings of Nature to advance an aggro strategy with a non-infinite version of the combo (maybe add things like Rancor to really stack up the pressure) I also like the possibilities with Kalonian Hydra.

anyway, i cant really break this apart with you until i know what direction you want to go with it. but right now this deck is trying to be 4 different things at once, and that will just never work the way you want it to.