Discussion about tutors/transmute for combo deck
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Posted on Dec. 9, 2017, 10:32 a.m. by Suns_Champion
Hello all! I'm trying to find good tutors for my combo deck without having to spend $40 or $60 on a Vampiric Tutor or Demonic Tutor.
The deck in question is IntruZur Alarm | Zur EDH.
Zur the Enchanter helps a ton in the tutor department, but he can't grab everything.
The combo pieces I need to grab are: Intruder Alarm, Bloodline Keeper Flip, Steward of Solidarity, Thraben Doomsayer, and to a lesser extent: Stonybrook Schoolmaster, and Necrotic Ooze.
The tutors I have so far are: Diabolic Tutor, Razaketh's Rite, Recruiter of the Guard, Open the Armory, Demonic Collusion, Enlightened Tutor. Please note that I'm only running the handful of $10 tutors because I already had them.
Now, this seems like a decent tutor package to me. But I wanted to know if there are any other budget tutors that might be slightly better. Also I suppose a good question would be: How many tutors should I run? Is 6 enough? Too many? Hopefully looking at the decklist and my beginnings of a primer will help you determine that.
Additionally, I've come across the Transmute ability and wanted to know what you all thought of it. Sub-optimal of course, but budget. Clutch of the Undercity, Dimir House Guard, Dimir Infiltrator, Dimir Machinations, Drift of Phantasms, Muddle the Mixture, Perplex, and Shred Memory all get one or two of my pieces, and have the added flexibility of being normal spells. Are any of these worth running over, say, Demonic Collusion or Razaketh's Rite?
Would love to hear any thoughts/opinions! Thanks in advance!
Increasing Ambition is a good budget tutor effect, and should you need it its flashback effect allows you to grab two cards as opposed to 1. Transmute effects are good but running too many could just lead to useless cards in your deck.
December 9, 2017 11:01 a.m.
Steelspike says... #6
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure I'm missing some, though...
December 9, 2017 3:02 p.m.
bushido_man96 says... #7
I'd say the transmute cards would be worth running over cards like Razaketh's Rite and Demonic Collusion, just because they are cheaper to cast, which means it gives you a better chance of actually casting the card you tutored for that turn, which could mean the difference between comboing off and winning, or waiting a turn and having a piece removed and being back to square one.
Entrei says... #2
Muddle the Mixture comes to mind. The best transmute cards are ones that can also be cast normally for a useable effect (Shred Memory)Given the tutor package Zur gives, I think you should be fine running 8 tutors at most
December 9, 2017 10:54 a.m.