New Look Titan (He's back and better then ever!)

Modern hcmen1

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Update —July 8, 2019

Blood Sun made Titan not nearly as good so I cut it. -4 Blood Sun -1 Lotus Field +1 Khalni Garden +4 Serum Visions

Snowmen1 says... #1

Oh wow I guess Blood Sun could be relevant. That is a cool interaction. I'm not sure if it belongs in Amulet Titan or not because on surface level it looks like you would want bounce lands in the situations where you may have lotus field, but I could easilly be very wrong. I dont know too much about amulet titan. I think that this card may actually have a place making its own deck since If you could get blood sun out turn 2 with like a birds of paradise, you can have 6 mana on turn 3. On top of that, you could just naturally play 2 lands and sacrifice them to field. If you play a card like Voyaging Satyr or Magus of the Candelabra , you can have something like 4 or 5 mana on turn 3 without blood sun. Also, with just naturally sacrificing lands, you could use Flagstones of Trokair to generate value and deck thinning. it looks like a different angle to ramp than the Arbor Elf decks and Amulet Combo decks seem to take. I'll test your deck out and maybe make my own version. Very cool concept!

July 7, 2019 3:51 p.m.

Kuubudaraa says... #2

Interesting, as I hadn't thought of the interaction of Blood Sun and the bouncelands essentially removing their 'downside'. But I don't really think this iteration works, Blood Sun removes our ability to activate Slayers' Stronghold and Sunhome, as well as almost blanking Amulet due to the lands not coming into play tapped, this effect is most noticeable when you have multiple Amulets, which is the decks strongest interaction and allows incredibly broken things. I think there might be an actual spot for Lotus Fields somewhere in the deck, at least in theory, but definitely not as a 4-of. There will be many times where your entire hand will be bouncelands and Lotus Fields, essentially forcing mulligans. If you don't draw enough lands to even cast a Blood Sun the drawback is huge since just playing it out you will often have bouncelands as targets, which is losing you mana. Sure you could maybe generate some large amounts of mana with amulets and the Lotus Fields but you're still blowing up all your lands unless you have Blood Sun in play, which makes the deck way more all-in on that interaction since if they have an answer for your titan you've now put yourself incredibly behind instead of still leveraging your lands in play to cast more things. Just my two cents!

Also, Gemstone Mine is often better than Mana Confluence/City of Brass in this deck, as bouncing it restores counters and it's painless. Crumbling Vestige , Tendo Ice Bridge , Aether Hub are also good. Vesuva as a one-of is pretty standard for Amulet Titan decks, as it removes the necessity to run two Boros Garrisons for the Sunhome activation and is much more flexible, I have even won a game using Vesuva to copy an opponent's Celestial Colonnade for lethal.

Also good cards for this kind of deck:

Trinket Mage , utility for sideboard cards + extra Amulets

Walking Ballista , wincon/aggro deterrent

Hornet Queen , almost an auto-win vs. Midrange/Control

Ruric Thar, the Unbowed , against storm/spellslinger decks

Dragonlord Dromoka , anti-control/protects titan combo

Sigarda, Host of Herons , anti-control/midrange, impossible to remove

Chameleon Colossus , extremely strong vs. Death's Shadow and black decks in general

Courser of Kruphix , anti-aggro wall that generates life and value, easy to cast

Explore , safer but less explosive than the tribe scouts, also cycles

Khalni Garden , stalls against aggro and can be insurance as a sacrifice target against cards like Liliana of the Veil to protect Titan

Radiant Fountain , good against burn, bounce multiple times

Temple of Mystery , extra card filtering, better if you also run the Serum Visions versions

Abrade , versatile answer

July 7, 2019 4 p.m.

hcmen1 says... #3

The deck still needs retooling do to Blood Sun negating a lot of titan’s upside. I’m tinkering with either going more of the Sun route or for the more traditional titan build. Thanks for the help.

July 7, 2019 11:48 p.m.