I was looking at your deck and I was like cool a nice cheap deck but then I clicked on Saheeli Rai and she was $23 she rose $20 pretty much over night that's crazy!

You should consider Crackdown Construct as another potential combo win with Wandering Fumarole.

So a few things I felt I should bring up:

• Felidar Guardian isnt standard legal according to tappedout
• Saheeli Rais second ability (the one I assume you use for the combo) says that you create a token rather than put it onto the battlefield, meaning that the token may not have an etb effect (I tried searching for an official ruling but to no avail)
• I doesnt say in your description what the cat-combo actually accomplishes. Assuming that you could bounce the creatures infinitely, what does that accomplish? Does it stall out your opponent until they concede?
• Since youre bouncing stuff, why not add the Decoction Module and do something with that too?

Supahpikmin Guardian isn't legal because Aether Revolt hasn't released yet, once it does the deck will actually be standard legal.

The combo itself is much like the Splinter Twin combo in modern. Saheeli Rai copies Felidar, creating a token with haste (and it does get the ETB effect, Wizards changed the wording for how tokens are done from "put a token onto the battlefield" to "create a token," but it accomplishes the same thing). That token bounces Saheeli and then you get to rinse and repeat to your hearts content.

As for adding Decoction Module, there's no slots for it, and I have no use for the energy that it produces. This deck is a control build that coincidentally plays the combo rather than being a deck based around the combo itself.

Jarzr

I thought about adding it, but when I was building this I wanted it to play more as a control deck that just so happens to have the combo in it, rather than a through-and-through combo deck.

That's fair.

Happy brewing! ;)

Authority of the Consuls shuts your combo down hard, so you should have Fragmentize in the sideboard to deal with it, or at the very least Disperse.

You might also want to consider Reckless Fireweaver. It will help stabilize the board in the early game while you're getting set up and lets you win without even having to swing since the tokens created by Saheeli's -2 are artifact creatures. This will help you get around mass bounce effects, power reducers like Make Obsolete, and fog effects like Commencement of Festivities. Might at least be nice for the sideboard.

BlaineTog Adding Reckless Fireweaver into the mix only complicates the combo in my opinion, and takes away from the counter-magic/card advantage that we get with the deck by taking up slots. Could it work as a sideboard card? Yeah potentially, but there's better cards that we can utilize to deal with Authority/Thalia. This deck is honestly more of a Jeskai control deck that's very good at hunting for the pieces it needs to combo off.

This is literally the deck that I'm worried about right now.

First off... this combo is very cool. I'm a big fan and I wish I could afford some Saheeli Rai right now to get in on that action.

How does the deck usually get interrupted? Grasp of Darkness or Harnessed Lightning with 1 extra? Murder or Unlicensed Disintegration I suppose. Do you think mainboarding a couple Dispel would be advantageous to help prevent that?

All in all. Sweet deck. +1

Shwang I think playtesting is the best way to figure all of that out. There'll definitely be people that run disruption/hate, but it really depends on what kind. If Authority of the Consul ends up being a thing, then Fragmetize is probably my best bet. If it's instant speed hate, then Dispel is much better. I'll definitely be updating and fine tuning the deck as I play it.

Hey still a noob here. I'm a little confused about the mechanics, can you just keep cycling through felidar guardian and saheli? Until you just have an infinite amount of times?

Zezmey300:

Yeah, pretty much. The reason it works is because Magic cards don't have a memory of their previous state. That is, if you flicker a creature with a +1/+1 counter, the "new" creature is considered to be entirely new by the game, with no relation to itself when it was previously on the battlefield. As a result, flickering Saheeli causes her loyalty counters to reset to 3 and also enables her to use one of her loyalty abilities, regardless of whether the old version used an ability before being flickered. This means that you can use her -2 to create another Felidar Guardian token, then use that token to flicker Saheeli, then use the "new" Saheeli's -2 on the Felidar Guardian again, and so on and so forth until you decide to attack with an arbitrarily high number of 1/4 hasted tokens.

Okay okay okay okay, why has no one put in Mechanized Production. Is there something I am missing? In my mind it would be an instant win.

The tokens are exiled at your end step and Mechanized Production only checks for 8 or more artifacts at your upkeep.

Need 2 Nahiri in mainboard. Dig deeper for combo pieces. negative effect is relevant in the meta and the biggest hate card. Ultimate to find the Cat or a Gearhulk.

DrFishyNo Nice work on the deck, I see you went a similar direction. I like the idea of TiTi in the sideboard. You can check out my deck over here Jeskai Guardian Twin. +1

I run a similar list http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/how-standard-was-broken/ . My list focuses more on the combo. Also, i reccomend usin Disallow. Good build tho.

I think we need to do Metallic Rebuke here instead of other counterspells because of added mana drain effect. Its just really good.

I think you must've misread Metallic Rebuke. It doesn't drain mana: it gives your opponent the option to pay an extra 3 mana to cast their spell anyway. That's a downside, not an upside.

What's more, the main benefit of Metallic Rebuke is that you can reduce its cost through Improvise, but this deck doesn't run any artifacts so you'll only be able to take advantage of that benefit if you've already achieved your combo.

I agree with BlaineTog here. Disallow is strictly better, even at UU, because it's unconditional counter that spell with the upside of countering abilities if we need it, which could be very useful in the mirror match up.

To be honest, this deck could use a little more card advantage and a little less control maybe cutting a disallow or harness lighting for more draw effects by good deck +1

I have been working on this deck too, and I was think of only running three of each combo piece to allow more flexibility main board. Thoughts?

BloodOfTheWolf I was actually considering the same thing, mainly because I don't wanna buy another Saheeli at $25 lol. And as long as there's ways to dig for the combo (Anticipate, Glimmer), I see no reason why you couldn't just run the combo pieces as a 3 of instead of 4.

In this version of the deck, Gearhulks can be an alternate win condition, so even if the combo gets disrupted, or we don't find it, that's not a huge deal.

I have also been thinking about whether or not to run a 2 - 2 split of shock and harness lighting simply because shock is so good in the mirror just a thought