Adaptive Storm Jhoira (ASJ)
Commander / EDH*
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Less Risky, Less Storm Flood. —Jan. 17, 2019
Out City of Traitors
In Island
City of Traitors was too all in, even though we like casting Jhoira on T2, we cannot afford to lose the game entirely to a Pyroblast or Pongify, also our deck is not quick enough to justify that level of risk. (no Jhoira list is fast enough to race a Hulk variant or a fully committed, all in storm deck, like Sidisi or Jeleva)
Out Faithless Looting and/or Shimmer Myr or Winds of Change
In Displacement Wave
Lots of cards compete for our last slot, Shimmer Myr proved itself too heavy, its hefty cost disables (or inviabilize) most instant speed shenanigans that would make him desirable.
Faithless Looting isn't efficient enough, lotting 2 cards in itself can't save us from a bad luck streak flooding our hand with lands on the storm turn, paying R+2R for the 4 card looting would also ruin our storm.
Winds of Change This was better than Faithless Looting, but it was still a dead draw on most situations, it couldn't give us more gas, just replace stuck lands.
Displacement Wave This, on the other hand, was the last mass bounce that our deck lacked, one more mass bounce is the best way to guarantee our storm won't ever frizzle, and what better card to do it than a control card that will give us tempo by bouncing all our opponents dorks and even stax on late game? NOTE: Very strong tempo play against creature based decks.
VelvetVendetta says... #1
Hey mmcgeach. There're many subtle (but important) differences between the lists, Suasion is Bolsheviktory btw, one of the designers of Shimmer Zur, so yeah, there's many to learn from it.
Whir of Invention was scrapped in fine tunning due to being UUU, I will think about bringing it back.
I'm reluctant to add stax like Pithing Needle to my list because I want to keep the power to behave like a storm list when I'm ahead, if I would use one it would be Grafdigger's Cage .
My mana base is superior BECAUSE it runs no mountains, I'm on a High Tide list afterall, but I should add that I mitigate dramatically the risk of drawing into dead fetches by only fetching one of the duals, then all islands, in case I draw into the only G fetch I can always go for the second dual.
I think you are right about making the deck function w/o Jhoira, that's why Mind's Desire was choose in detriment of Words of Wind , that's also why I kept Rhystic Study on an adaptive storm list.
January 16, 2019 2:37 a.m.