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biorose671

I do need to get around to putting a sideboard list together. I imagine against miracles we would bring in Nissa, Vital Force as a value walker that can apply pressure. Maybe a Pithing Needle for Celestial Colonnade, Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin, and the planeswalkers. Can’t do much about Terminus itself. Only improve our ability to rebuild.

biorose671 Terminus can be rough but Bitterblossom can solidly rebuild us after a wrath. And we can actually move through cards if we some spare clues or Vraska.

I don’t know that BUG has the right support for Vraska. Mind you you are free to jam her anyway. I don’t know what blue brings to Vraska.

biorose671 Swordtooth could be the right call. I like that it rewards our inevitable board flood. But missing trample is that fine line that leaned in Azusa’s favor.

Ramunap Excavator over Crucible of Worlds points at the subtle aim of the deck to capitalize on Vraska, Golgari Queen’s ultimate. Her ultimate really allows us to leave our creatures back on all our defense. Any body helps achieve that goal. Ultimating Vraska makes any body a forced issue. Excavator may not have the trample I want out of Swordtooth. But unlike Crucible, it can attack for damage.

I was hesitant about adding an Azusa, Lost but Seeking but I can’t deny it adds extra permanents and ramps us nicely. I like what’s you’re doing. Very similar.

Toak83 I’ll be interested to see the list. I’m sure that I could trim the utility spell base. I did get rid of Bloodghast in favor of an additional Assassin's Trophy and Thragtusk.

lagotripha You are probably right about Bloodghast being superfluous. Bitterblossom has proven to be the best piece with Vraska. I’d like to test Thragtusk and Liliana, the Last Hope in that slot.

6ixer One thing I can see going for Assemble the Legion is that it can stonewall go wide decks better than Sigil if it’s allowed to build.

Sigil just ends the game more efficiently. This deck is already extremely slow. Even though the growth is exponential, the bottleneck of turns is much harder to survive than a bottleneck of castable enchantments. It even gives us value off of redundant enchantments. Sigil will give us something for drawing our second Leyline of Sanctity. Assemble will not. Assemble has the appearance of a finisher here and it can work. But I find Sigil to just be the best at what it does.

Total side note. How about combining Assemble the Legion with Divine Visitation in Commander?

Toak83 I originally wanted it to be abzan for Knight of the Reliquary (and Path to Exile) but didn’t think that was enough to warrant the splash, even with some sideboard adds. I completely overlooked Voice of Resurgence which fits nicely into the plan of creating extra permanents AND giving us value if we sacrifice it. Aside from Bitterblossom, we kind of struggle against control as is so points all around for Voice. I’ll have to rework things a bit but I like that plan better than my janky delirium sub theme. Thanks for the suggestion!