I see what you're saying about Utopia Sprawl since vernal bloom can generate so much more mana,

It just feels weird haha

I love the idea of chaining ulamogs and nuking the opponents board

@wolfhead Thanks! This was the most popular modern deck on TappedOut a week ago. The system they use to categorize the top decks on TappedOut however, had its 10-day reset(or whatever it is) and due to a lack of new upvotes or comments it fell off.

You can see that it was ranked #15th just a week ago.

These cards may help for control matchups. Autumn's Veil , Avoid Fate , Vexing Shusher Also for an alt win condition with all that mana Helix Pinnacle

Thanks for the suggestions Burpinator! Some of those are definitely going into the Maybeboard. I did think about Helix Pinnacle as a win-con, but dumping all the Eldrazi was just too much fun to pass up.

Wait, how do you get your cards in exile?

@Kederekt: They are in your sideboard, which is technically out of the game. It's kinda tricky wording. I had to look it up in the rules book.

Yeah I just looked up the rulings on it too. It seems ridiculous. Like from an un set.

But it is sooo fun when you get it off. You get to see their face crumple as they realize that no matter their board, they are not surviving all 3 Titans, an It That Betrays and a total of annihilator 50.

So, I just viewed this deck again with recent comments, and it got me thinking; Why bother having more than one of each Titan in your Sideboard? They will legend-rule themselves when you combo off, and those are 'Board slots you could be using to help against your bad match-ups. Just a thought.

@ancientskull Basically it is to get the value they provide. 2 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth in order to trigger his etb ability twice drawing 8 cards, totally refilling your hand instead of just drawing 4 cards. Then I play a playset of Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre in order to nuke their board or drop an airstike on a specific target. Troublesome things like certain enchantments, or a Platinum Emperion.

I really don't get your justification for not playing Utopia Sprawl . So what if it's used in a Stompy deck? That doesn't make it any less good as a ramp spell. In other words, just because a card makes you think of a certain type of deck doesn't mean it only works in that type of deck. Like, Lightning Bolt is Burn's best card, but it's also used as a removal spell in UR and Jeskai Control decks, which are on the opposite side of the spectrum.

Plus, with Utopia Sprawl, you can pull off the turn 5 Spawnsire win you wrote about in your description on turn 4 without having to play Harmonize to draw the rest of the cards you need.

Turn 1: Land, Arbor Elf

Turn 2: Land, Utopia Sprawl on untapped land, tap/untap/tap land to get 4 mana, Vernal Bloom

Turn 3: Land, you now have access to 10 mana (the land with Utopia Sprawl on it taps for 6 w/ Arbor Elf, the other two lands tap for 2 each) and 3 cards in hand assuming you went first. From here, there are a couple ways to get to 30 mana:

• Primeval Titan --> Arbor Elf or Vernal Bloom or Utopia Sprawl or a land (next turn) + an Early Harvest next turn
• Arbor Elf --> Utopia Sprawl + Early Harvest

Turn 4: Draw a card (it'd have to be a Spawnsire or an Early Harvest if u had Spawnsire in hand) and then Spawnsire ftw!

If you went second the extra card would give you a lot more options for getting to 30 mana on turn 4, and I'm sure I missed a few routes up above.

But other than allowing the turn 4 win, Utopia Sprawl also just speeds everything else up a lot with Arbor Elf, letting you play 4 mana worth of ramp on turn 2 or a Prime Time on turn 3 (you don't even need any extra ramp to do that), and unlike Joraga Treespeaker , it is also untapped by Early Harvest . It might be worth testing some more untap land effects like Voyaging Satyr and Magus of the Candelabra (Magus especially seems neat; it's kind of like an extra Early Harvest).

Also, here's a Spawnsire of Ulamog deck I saw a while back (almost a couple years ago I think): https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/much-abrew-harvest-wave-modern (Note that it used both Utopia Sprawl and Fertile Ground to great effect). Idk if it helps at all, but it's nice to look at a different take on the same deck to get some ideas. There are also some G Devotion lists that make a ton of mana with Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx + Garruk Wildspeaker .

@hungry000 I can totally see where you are coming from. Utopia Sprawl is a great ramp card and CAN be used to great effect. My main problem is: What do I take out? Pretty much every card has its niche in my deck and I can only thing of 1 or 2 that I could replace w/ Utopia Sprawl but I'd like the deck to keep its protective aspects or its trademark explosiveness. Can I get a little help in decided what should I keep and what I could drop? I can see that you've actually looked at the deck list, so any advice you could give me would be wonderful.