Blackstar (Yo pumpkin head)
Commander / EDH*
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A Veritable Legion of Changes —Jan. 13, 2023
Finally got a Sliver Legion in here, this makes my World Tree synergy much more powerful, as everything on my board will be a Sliver. The art is amusing, and the reference to the alien seems like a Vorthos win. It's not very good to draw into early, though even one or two Changelings being out with it make it pretty scary! Not sure if I should add a Trample Sliver.
In contrast, Tezzeret the Seeker is both one of the nicest looking cards I've ever seen, it also is extremely useful here. It's 5 mana to dig out Maskwood Nexus, or it can find Chromatic Lantern, or in a really weird game it can even dig out my Dragon Throne. The Untap can be pretty good in this deck too, if you have him out with the Throne, he can double up the activation, which seems good, and he can untap any other artifacts. The -5 seems pretty bad in this deck, but I do have Smothering Tithe and this can do funny things with that, it's not like it's a drawback.
Pulled Jousting Dummy and Kindred Boon, neither did much with any consistency, both of these carsd should usually be better.
Edit: With Sliver Legion in, I felt like I didn't need Silverglade, so I pulled it for the situationally a ton better Manaweft Sliver. Silverglade was useful mostly to pump 'all my plants' when I World Tree'd out Avenger of Zendikar and an instant army, she made them all bigger. Sliver Legion is very much a bigger buff if I've The World Tree'd, often making my army incredibly tall, fortunately I can also look at adding a Sliver that adds Trample (or Cloudshredder Sliver, which is backup Haste and offers excellent evasion. The obvious pull is probably Haakon at this point, he's an asset to have around but it's a bit harder for me to discard, so I'll probably switch Haakon for a Horned Sliver until I get a Cloudshredder.
Edit: Adjusted a tad further, finally pulled my last 99 Scarecrow, Scarecrone, I'm not sure this card really does anything here without Haakon and a knight/scarecrow weenie to recycle for cards, this seemed such a small niche that I wouldn't miss it. I replaced it (for now) with Necrotic Sliver, which is more removal, a thing I think this deck does want, but I'm not sure I'm eager to sac my Slivers to do it in a deck like this. It's nice to dig out with the combo, and it lets me blow stuff up without Reaper King, so this is hardly a 'nothing' here, even if I might repalce it with something better later. Looking hard at Imposing Grandeur, Debt of Loyalty maybe, and Mythos of Brokkos, probably pull Ugin's Insight for Grandeur, draw 10 is a lot better than draw 3, even with Scry 10 the floor is way lower on Insight, so I think this will be a good move. Not sure what I'll pull for Mythos, but I need some solid ways to recur my combo pieces or this deck is too unreliable, even if it is pretty good at digging it's combo out, it can't realistically play Nexus the turn I activate my World Tree, it just isn't going to happen, so Nexus will often be sitting out, and any time I can play World Tree I probably do it for the fixing, so it can also be a sitting duck. I'll see if I can find another recursion effect that's of similar grade, not sure one exists but we'll see?