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Changes to the mana base (and other stuff).. —Oct. 12, 2014

I recently splurged on replacing 3 of the dual lands with shocklands (and another dual with Isolated Chapel). Opal Palace got swapped out for Dromar's Cavern, as I pretty much never cast my general anyways so the intended effect that makes it not just another Shimmering Grotto/Unknown Shores (aka, bad filters) rarely if ever came into play, and Dromar's Cavern is quite a bit better at producing any color of mana relevant to this deck than Opal Palace is (the Lair lands are a cycle I'm actually a bit surprised they didn't reprint in the 2013 Commander products given they tap for shard colors) .

I've also swapped out Worst Fears with Mindslaver, which is one of those cards I had originally decided not to include because Mindslaver-locking somebody is rather mean (Worst Fears wound up in the deck mostly because I happened to open it, and I thought it was funny). I've since decided to include it anyways though because while I can dig through the deck to find it with Lim-Dul's Vault (not that I necessarily would), and I have multiple ways to recur it, Sphinx Summoner is my only other (non-land only) tutor effect so actually setting up a board state that lets me keep bringing it back turn after turn is unlikely, and it involves several different moving parts to function.

So much like the other ridiculous shenanigans the deck was already capable of before that change, if/when that ever does happen it (should) be hard to get too mad at me for it.