Saheeli Shenanigans - Theorycrafting Turn 1 kills
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Minor Alteration - New world of possibilities —Nov. 21, 2019
Alrighty, so the alteration doesn't look like much, but it makes a big difference.
How so? Turn 2 end game. I'll list it below
We'll say your starting hand is thus:
1x Any land that doesn't ETB tapped 1x Ancient Tomb 1x Simian Spirit Guide 2x 2cmc mana rock 1x Isochron Scepter 1x Dramatic Reversal
Turn 1:
1-Play Ancient Tomb.
2-Cast a mana rock.
3-Discard Simian Spirit Guide to get the R
4-cast 2CMC Mana Rock.
Turn 2:
1-Draw into another Talisman of creativity/Izzet signet.
2-Play other land.
3-Tap Ancient Tomb to cast Isochron Sceptre & imprint Dramatic Reversal.
4-Tap Mountain & 1 mana rock to cast the third talisman/signet.
5-Use the last 2 mana rocks to use Isochron Scepter to cast a copy of Dramatic Reversal, untapping all 4 artifacts in play.
6-Tap all 3 to repeatedly use Isochron Scepter, which leaves +1 mana of whichever colour you really want until you have about 7 mana sitting in reserve.
7-Cast Saheeli and use the remaining mana to continue using IS, which casts a spell (it's a copy, but still casted), which will make Saheeli create a 1/1 servo token.
8- Use your Signature Spell, Thoughtcast, to draw cards until you hit one of the win conditions in the deck description above.
9-Cast win condition and....well...win the game.
Previously this deck could do this as early as turn 3, with a typical wincon occurring turn 4 if the opponents didn't answer anything on my board. While the odds are not super high you can do this turn 2, when is any combo deck known to pull their win condition as soon as possible every single time? The fact it has a chance to pull it off is what made working on this deck very interesting.
EDIT See "Potential First Turn Kill discovered" update for further updates. Not sure why this site put the latest update in 2nd slot