Stream of Thought

Sorcery

Target player puts the top four cards of their library into the graveyard. You shuffle up to four cards from your graveyard into your library.

Replicate {2}{U}{U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (27)

DreadKhan on Commander Deckbuilding Advice - A …

2 days ago

I mean there is always Roon of the Hidden Realm that blinks stuff and is in Bant, some of the best blink colours? It used to be a real house of a Commander, but now we have stuff that's just way quicker and with a better top end, so you don't have to be stuck in Bracket 4. If you blink something like Yorion, Sky Nomad you can blink a bunch more stuff. You can also throw in good old Brago, King Eternal as a value piece (every time he sneaks in he blinks all your relevant stuff). A real feature of Roon is that Green can help you tutor up creatures, meaning you can find your Archaeomancer more reliably.

The other option I'd suggest is Grand Arbiter Augustin IVGC, and you'd be more into using flicker spells and benefiting from the discount to make them better, while slowing down everyone else. This would be a higher power deck potentially, but would also be harder to run.

I'd go with Roon if you want a less pushed deck (Bracket 2 or 3), or something like GAAIV if you want Bracket 4 blink to work.

This discussion reminds me of a deck of mine a bit, if you're in mono-Blue and you have enough mana and tutoring you can easily set up a game state where you can constantly return stuff from your graveyard to your hand (where you can recast), I used Talrand, Sky Summoner and instead of Fogs I used stuff like Aetherspouts and AEtherize (and Polymorphist's Jest haha) to ruin people's days, I used a mix of Proteus Staff and a low creature count (and having those creatures draw extra cards) to set everything up, and then juggled Stream of Thought and Call to Mind to get anything I want back into my library, where Proteus Staff can reorder my library to then draw said card. FWIW if you have infinite mana (I used Dramatic Reversal and Isochron Scepter for infinite mana) I think you can just infinitely replicate your Stream of Thought to mill out everyone but you, not quite winning on the spot but very close.

leovolt884_ on

9 months ago

Balaam__ Haha dw lands are not done the deck isn't close to done I've just thrown in what I want for nonbasics. I've looked at toughness matters options but pretty much all there is are a few end of turn effects. I was thinking of turning it into somewhat of a gates deck initially cuz yknow, walls, gates, makes sense. There are 2 walls that deal direct damage other than Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs but they're off color and I really don't want to stretch the deck as I think it might actually become unplayable. Mill seems like an option to me with cards like Dreadwaters and Stream of Thought but its a bit boring and im trying to avoid it.

tinhead on Say hello to my force field

1 year ago

Balaam__ it's hidden, but it's definitely in there! Stream of Thought is the wincon. The card is a (very) slow clock, but the rest of the deck supports it by shutting down any possibility of winning from your opponent. All the cards either provide card advantage or delay an opponent's win through fogs, countermagic, and lifegain. I know it's possible to run only 2x Stream of Thought in the deck (use one to recur the other), but I feel a little vulnerable to graveyard hate after playing the second. Given the philosophy of the deck, I'd rather save my spells for stopping enemy advances rather than protecting a card in my graveyard. Does that help answer your question?

Kurush on Jace's Groundhog Day

1 year ago

jonjonhholt - if you liked this deck, I have several years back created even better one, that utilizes Jace's Phantasm. Here is the link: Illusions mill It isn't top tier deck by any means, but since it's my creation, I'm quite proud of it. Since I created that deck back in 2018, there are certainly cards that I haven't taken into account, since you know, they weren't pauper legal back then or haven't yet existed, like Stream of Thought.

Degaine on Why is Mulldrifter not a fish??

2 years ago

"This style of dimir" is like 3 decks combined together: Alchemy, Angler-delver and UB Control. I can believe that you can mill yourself out with alchemy, AC, preordains and mulldrifters pretty easily.

• If you want to play angler-delver - swap mulldrifters for delvers, add brainstorms for alchemy, change preordains for ponders.
• Alchemy plays only augurs and anglers. Or at least play one Stream of Thought
• UB control would cut alchemy and throw more spells or non-selfmill CA. Black rose could be helpful.

I would cut main justice for Arms of Hadar. Maybe not repeatable but kills all bully creatures and they can't even protect themselves. Imo AC is not that great of a card. In alchemy it is fine, but even only one bog and this card just feels sad. In the same slot you can use Behold the Multiverse, Think Twice and Pop Quiz - this last one is weird, cause it can ramp you&gains you life and provide reasonable threat later. I takes 5-6 slots in SB, but after little testing, I am very surprised how good this CA is.

wallisface on Esper Control

3 years ago

Thoughts/fears:

• 18 lands is super low. The only modern decks going this low are burn - cause they’re happy to live off 1 landdrop for most the game. I think you’re going to really struggle to be in a good land position. And, with such a low lamd count, there’s no chance at all of casting your Obzedat, Ghost Council .

• Control decks do well mainly because they aim to maintain card advantage over their opponent, once they lose that, they tend to lose the game very quickly. So cards like Bone Shards seems super troublesome, cause it will leave you vulnerable to the opponent late game.

• Same goes for Stream of Thought and Folio of Fancies , they cost you a card from hand (i.e themselves), but don’t actually appear to do anything. This deck isn’t geared/built to mill out the opponent, so i’m not sure why they’re here.

Unenlightened on Cheapskate Talrand ver. 1.5 ($100)

3 years ago

Here's another handful. Riddleform allows scrying at will, albeit for 3 mana, but it's also a creature as needed, and probably a lot of the time anyway.

Stream of Thought and Stream of Consciousness are good recursion cards; you probably (hopefully) won't have to recur more than 4 cards at a time and these are cheap to cast.

Don't forget to work in Solve the Equation somewhere!

An interesting card I pulled from a pack is Silundi Vision  ^Flip, which I swapped in for an Island. As a land it's slow mana, but the spell side is perfect for this deck.

Another random pull for me was Mystic Reflection . I would have to classify it as a spot removal which actually erases the identity of the card, kind of like those enchantments I linked before, but you hit the target before it enters the battlefield. You can also can potentially hit more than one target.

Finally, I know it's out of budget range, but I can't help but squeeze Shark Typhoon into the deck because I got one and I want to use it. And it works well with the premise of a mostly-instants-and-sorceries deck.

I'll probably add Boseiju, Who Shelters All because, again, it's burning a hole in my pocket and it's really good in the deck. But it's definitely not a budget card.

BlaineTog on Devious Assembler -- Blue Tron Robots

4 years ago

nathanielhebert Glad you like it! This list is very out of date by this point but I do still like the idea.

The thing is, you really can't afford to spend do-nothing cards shuffling copies back into your deck. Self-Assembler is playable only because it gives a card's worth of value on ETB. If you're getting 5+ copies of Self-Assembler by spending cards, you're fighting a losing battle with your own deck. That means the Devious Cover-Up is one of your only options in Pauper. Clear the Mind is also a consideration since it replaces itself and Tron generates so much mana that spending 3 to cycle something isn't a deal breaker, but I'm still not convinced it's where we want to be. The third option is Stream of Thought , but we're looking to win through combat damage so it doesn't work for this deck.