stcsteven97: That's definitely a good budget replacement. I would also consider Agent of Treachery as another great option.

Enral Wow.. I never knew that Solemnity can be that clunky in the deck itself, and such card can hinder the main flow of the deck._.

stcsteven97: I never felt happy drawing Solemnity tbh. It always felt low impact and doesn't really synergize with the deck much other than the combo with Decree of Silence which needs a ton of mana to assemble. I always wish to have another cycler or a higher impact card in its place. Decree of Silence serves a better purpose as a free recurable protection piece with Hall of Heliod's Generosity in my opinion.

Hey I stumbled apron this deck before your first update. Do you think when you update you can tell us what you cut out and what you replace it with? Even if it’s for just small instant speed cards that have cycling? I just want to know as I try to decide what I can have as replacement budget versions if some of the cards you cut out fit with my play style better.

DonFluffles: It's not really logistically feasible for me to keep track of all of the minor changes I make, but I do update on the overall higher impact updates. Basically I've pivoted into a more cycling heavy direction and updated my primer to reflect that. Hopefully that helps somewhat.

Enral I guess that’s understandable. I just really like your deck and the commander and I just wanted to try to keep up with how you are changing the game plan. Really like the deck though! Would you ever consider using cards like mulldrifter or cloudblazer as includes or do they take away too much of the cycling?

DonFluffles: Glad you like the deck. I will be updating the primer according to the changes I've made to the deck so hopefully it will be easy to follow. I'm trying not to lean into the ETB theme because my commander isn't as reliable as Zur in tutoring out an astral slide/astral drift so I'm basically sticking to the cycling/tempo theme which has been working great so far from testing. However, if the ETB theme speaks to you for sure try it!

Enral, appreciate sharing your deck, nice work!

Just a small concern, how do you intend to go infinte on this second explained combo?

"If Thassa's Oracle is exiled, we have another infinite line we can demonstrate with Scholar of the Ages + Turnabout + Astral Slide/Astral Drift/Escape Protocol + Solar Blast (as a cycler) using Elixir of Immortality to reset the loop infinite times for infinite life, mana (with Turnabout), and damage to win"

Here Astral Drift/Astral Slide will bring you back the Scholar of the Ages and its trigger just at the end of your turn, if you remove it from the game again (after its return, at the same endstep), it will be brought back only at the beginning of the next end step (opponent's one), in this case this combo would only work with Escape Protocol. Did you copy and paste the three blink engines meaning just Escape Protocol for this case or did I miss something on this engine? Thanks!

WW13 You're right. Thanks for catching that. Fixed!

Bro, I love this deck. I am buying almost all the cards I need, except the gilded drake and mana crypt for financial reasons. Do you suggest some cards as substitutes? I am using Google Translate and my English may not be as good as it should be

Notherwizard: Hi, you can replace drake with Agent of Treachery and crypt with Lotus Petal.