Too many cards, too little deck space (Nin)
Commander Deck Help forum
Posted on May 3, 2016, 7:55 p.m. by Kala
I love this deck, but I love it too much to remove any cards. I need help cutting some stuff.
Nin!
Commander / EDH*
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Cards I'd like to keep include:
I'd rather not cut these, but if you have a case for cutting some, let me know. Show
Trap and Desire are both cards I think are pretty sweet, I'll be keeping them. I think I'll cut the rest, though. What do you think of Hypersonic Dragon? I might keep trinket mage, due to sol ring fetching.
May 3, 2016 9:15 p.m.
McSleuthburger says... #4
Im not sure, he can be really helpful because if you have mana up on the player that is right before your turn you could play something big and untap during your turn. But he takes up a space where you could put another card
basically late game I could see him being good but early he would be meh
May 4, 2016 7 p.m.
I absoloutely agree with McSleuthburger on this one.
In a deck where your average CMC is roughly 
, this card doesn't have many advantages to it. You're better off just drawing another card, because the 
that you spend on this card could just be spent playing the next card you draw in the first place.
In a deck where you have 5 cards total that are cmc of over 
, this card does literally nothing except for 1/20 (5/100) times its used, and you pull something sweet like Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Temporal Trespass.
Mind's Desire just isn't a great card in this deck, its purely novelty and its spending extra mana on cards where it doesn't need to be spent, 19 times out of 20.
McSleuthburger says... #2
Im in the middle of trying to build a izzet deck as well but it has been meh(its not great) so take my suggestions with a grain of salt
Trinket Mage im saying this because it can only fetch two cards in your deck
Laboratory Maniac unless you are winning with it alot i would remove it because you could draw alot better stuff. Even though I understand both of these work with Sigil Tracer
I personally dont like Perplexing Chimera because he can come back to bite you if you dont contorl him.
Mind's Desire is kinda expensive, I feel there are better things to do with 6 mana
Runeflare Trap I could see where this would be good but kinda going along the same line as above
If I find some more time ill take another look (thats if you like my suggestions in the first place haha)
May 3, 2016 9:13 p.m.