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 (30)

DryadArborGoesInCreaturePile on Pauper Splice Tide

1 month ago

Adversarial, this list is a meta deck. While I can admit I should be running a playset of Snap for graveyard hate matchups you can still churn through your entire deck until you find your combo pieces for a win on turn 3-4, then you can Deep Analysis your opponent to deck them. Playtest it yourself if you don't believe me. Merchant Scroll also tutors for Dizzy Spell which tutors for Stream of Thought. And the copies of Psychic Puppetry splice onto almost every draw spell, meaning your netting like 3 mana every time you cast an Ideas Unbound to keep digging on your big combo turn. Though when you can put your entire deck in your hand it doesn't really matter.

DryadArborGoesInCreaturePile on Pauper Splice Tide

1 month ago

Hello Adversarial, that is incorrect. Winning involves either meticulously milling your opponent via Jace's Erasure or Sphinx's Tutelage with a lock in place, or with infinite mana and a spell to use it on. As shown here with Stream of Thought, Snap, Archaeomancer, and a few copies of High Tide. Door to Nothingness is acceptable as well

legendofa on High Tide

2 months ago

Adversarial I believe the idea is to hard control/tap down everything including lands, then spam Stream of Thought for a mill win. Going almost permanentless turns pretty much all removal and most other interaction into dead draws, and lots of draw + SoT recycling means you always have an answer, even if that answer is more tapping.

It's a long-game hard control deck. I haven't checked in on the Pauper meta since the unbans, so I don't know how well it stands up, but it's at least functional for what it's trying to do.

DreadKhan on Commander Deckbuilding Advice - A …

3 months 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

1 year 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

2 years 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??

3 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.