Totally excited about Mirrorwing Dragon, and looking forward to (re)brewing the deck for EDM Standard!

Mirrorwing upside:

• A bigger, better Zada!
• Superb against targeted removal!

Downside:

• Dangerous vs. decks with combat tricks. For example, if an opponent casts a pump spell targeting only Mirrorwing (Dromoka's Command doesn't work!), all their Creatures get the pump :-(

That downside hurts a lot. Free buffs. I think Mirrorwing is good as a sideboard or totally remove him from decks that run Dromoka's... :D

maybe im looking at this wrong, but wouldnt targeting Zada, Hedron Grinder while Mirrorwing Dragon is on the board create an endless loop casing an instant draw?

nvm, read it. sorry

LithiumHD,
No worries!

I am missing the combinations that become available with Cryptolith Rite and Vines of the Recluse or Aim High. I actually prefer Ember-Eye Wolf to Lambholt Pacifist  ^Flip, but both work. I would tend to limit creatures to 3 of each and drop 1 Expedite and Nissa, Voice of Zendikar to add in some Cryptolith Rites and some Aim High or Vines of the Recluse to enable multiple area effects per turn that spawn large numbers of ramped wolf tokens, that might also gain haste.

The type of play that I would look for is: Zada, Silverfur and Duskwatch on the field; play Might of the Masses on Zada to generate 2 wolf tokens; tap 5 creatures for 5 mana using Cryptolith Rite; play Aim High on Zada to give everything +2/+2 and untap them, also summon 4 new wolf tokens; play Expedite on Zada to give everything haste; Swing with 4, 11/11 wolves, 4, 13/13 wolves and Zada at 14/14 (as Might of the Masses now ramps off 9 creatures)

Murphy77,
Yeah, I ran Cryptolith Rite and Vines of the Recluse mainboard for most of last season, and the mana acceleration from Rite + the untap from Vines fueled some unbelievably explosive wins (my best-ever was swinging for 100+ on Turn 5, but at one point in the deck's history Magical Christmasland was no-kidding swinging for 337,183,170 on Turn 4).

I needed to make room for Mirrorwing Dragon though, and Cryptolith Rite was frankly an easy cut. At its worst (especially in a removal-heavy meta), it's just a dead card. And at its best, it's just a win-more.

I'm less sure about Vines of the Recluse though, which is why I've still got it on the maybeboard.

Thanks much!

Murphy77,
I forgot to mention: Yeah, I love the late-game value of Ember-Eye Wolf. I lean heavy towards Lambholt Pacifist  ^Flip though, as she's harder to remove and better with Neglected Heirloom  ^Flip.

Ashmouth Blade + Lambholt Butcher is just a thing of beauty :-)

I love this deck and i run it at fnm all the time but just then when i was sorting through it i realised i was accidentally running 5 game trails! oops lol

Maybe I'm just getting unlucky, but I think the deck could use 24 lands. Other than that, the list looks sweet! I might get this list together to finally use my 2 foil Zadas I pulled lol.

I love the deck. Was play testing it yesterday on Xmage and didn't loose once. I have a question though: what would happen if I used Borrowed Hostility's both effects one targeting the Dragon the other targeting Zada? Would it count as two spells or would it not trigger the effect at all (because of the "Only" clause)?

qrjusz there are some cards that might say "cast a copy of this spell, you may choose new targets" which would be a second spell and then that would work, but the card by itself would be a single spell with potentially multiple targets. However, you can have the borrowed hostility's both effects target zada or target the dragon and they'll work like normal.

What do you think of Ulvenwald Captive  ^Flip replacing Lambholt Pacifist  ^Flip to give you a bit of the mana ramp that Cryptolith Rite used to provide?

Vandyel I think the 3 defense of Lambholt Pacifist is important for stopping those early Sylvan Advocates or W humans before they get a ton o +1/+1's. It's also quite useful that Pacifist can attack with a +1/+1 counter from Nissa, boost from Arlinn or Howlpack Resurgence. The Captive can't do all that and dies to practically any removal (even the stupid 2 dmg from Fiery Impulse kills it on the spot)

Harmless Offering is a great way to lose with this deck REALLY fast.

This deck goes hard with Mirrorwing and Zada. especially Rouge passage and Might of the Masses...and the planes walkers ability...good deck.

Also...if you had Zada, Hedron Grinder and Mirrorwing Dragon out would an instant or sorcery go infinite?

onemorevictim The Zada, Hedron Grinder + Mirrorwing Dragon combo doesn't actually go infinite because if you look at either of the cards it says that the spell has to target ONLY Zada, or ONLY Mirrowing so it doesn't keep copying.

Just a message to clayperce, I have found a combo in a new Eldritch Moon card but I want to run it by you before I actually play it. If you add Geier Reach Bandit  ^Flip in as well as a few copies of Ulrich of the Krallenhorde and you can instantly flip it into a 14/14 that can fight whatever you want for 5 mana. Then you get a fat old werewolf guy after. Just a suggestion though.

How about some Westvale Abbey  ^Flip in case of a board wipe and as a potential secondary win-con?

And is Nissa needed for the deck to work or could she be replaced with Hanweir Garrison for example?

Finally catching up on comments ...

AXMANER,
Thanks much, and oooops on the extra Game Trail! :-)

SilentSpook,
Thanks much for the feedback on the number of lands. I had it pretty set last season with 22 Lands and a lower curve, and I was hoping to get by on bumping it up to just 23. I've been kind of going back and forth on whether that's enough or if I want 24. So again, thanks!

qrjusz,
I'm so glad to hear the deck was performing for you! And yeah, like Rasanck says, if you cast Borrowed Hostility (or any single spell with multiple modes) and target multiple Creatures, Zada/Mirrorwing's ability will not trigger.

Vandyel,
In addition to the points qrjusz lays out, longtime readers of this thread know Lambholt Pacifist  ^Flip as my favorite card in SOI and IMO one of the best two-drops in Standard. So a card would have to be unbelievably good to pull Pacifist out of the deck. And while Ulvenwald Captive  ^Flip definitely has a place in a Wolven Ramp deck (shamelessly, one like my Eldrazi Wolf build, I think this deck needs the Pacifist much more.

Shimdom,
:-D

onemorevictim,
Thanks much for the kudos. And to pile on to what AXMANER said ... like I say in the Strategy and Card Choices section (and above in Post #3): There is no crazy interaction if both Zada, Hedron Grinder and Mirrorwing Dragon are on the battlefield at the same time. The key piece is "Whenever you cast [a spell] that targets only ~ ... copy that spell for each other creature ...". For example, if you cast an Instant or Sorcery that targets only Zada, you copy the spell, targeting Mirrorwing. But since the second spell is copied rather than cast, Mirrorwing's ability won't trigger too.

AXMANER,
Yeah, Vildin-Pack Alpha  ^Flip and Ulrich of the Krallenhorde are really good together. But you end up with a 10/10, not a 14/14. It woks like this: Ulrich ETBs and can target himself, so he gets +4/+4 until end of turn. Then you may transform Ulrich, using Vildin-Pack's triggered ability, which gives you Ulrich, Uncontested Alpha, now a 10/10. But please note Ulrich reads "...or transforms into Ulrich of the Krallenhorde...". So transforming into Uncontested Alpha does not trigger an extra +4/+4 ... that ability only triggers when he flips back.


Eleros,
I ran Westvale Abbey  ^Flip for a little while last season and liked it OK, but I found that I either had TONS of Creatures available (which made it easy to transform, but kind of a win-more) or I had very few creatures available (which made it really touch to transform, and SO painful when it invariably got hit by a Clip Wings or whatever.

Still though, it's worth a re-look for sure; thanks much!

Thanks again to you all!

Thanks for the answer to my first question clayperce , but could I bother you to answer the second one as well? ;P

Eleros,
Sorry about that!

Nissa's -2 is super-powerful, and the main reason I run her. I'm not sure how she's going to end up compared with other three-drop in EMN Standard, but I figure I'm going to start with her for this deck. I like Hanweir Garrison though ... I'm brewing a Zada/Dragon deck and I'm trying it (and Hanweir Battlements too) there!