IronBlackZepp, wonderful play line to win around tormod's crypt, leyline, rest in peace, etc that I've never thought of. thank you

What is the reason you are not using Arbor Elf? Specially if you are playing enchantments like Utopia Sprawl and Freed from the Real. Seems like an auto include to me?

Why not use Lightning Greaves instead of Postmortem Lunge, the boot also allows the combo with deathrite shaman, out of the way for the mana dorks, as still combo with the Cephalid Illusionist, could someone explain to me why not use the Ligjtining wave Graves in place?

Postmortem Lunge is not just there for haste, it can also reanimate something like a Gilded Drake if need be. Furthermore, Lunge can be found with more tutors than Greaves. I haven't really found myself wanting another way to combo with Illusionist so far.

What is your motivation for Survival of the Fittest over Green Sun's Zenith?

I'm thinking of using Conjurer's Bauble instead of timetwister, for financial reasons. What do you think ? I can loop my entire deck in the Bomberman combo.

Giuliano_Dias Thought of doing the same thing but went for Riftsweeper instead. I found its ability to be more relevant than the Bauble and at the same time allows us access to the Memory’s Journey loop.

Hi with the new update, can someone please explain to me the new win cons? I still don’t quite understand and why it’s better than the old update. Please, someone help me.

I'm thinking of using intuiton in the list. What is your opinion of the card? Practically he is a tutor in instant speed, with other interactions with graveyard.

Why not considering Shallow Grave instead of Postmortem Lunge? Is it only an Ad Naus purpose?

Why is Cabal Pit not in the deck? Is there a reason besides no extra space? I want to put it in my list.

Sparkill666 notice how Shallow Grave says top card of your graveyard. I think that's why.

elfric Could you explain your post #14 a bit more? I'm not sure I understand what "soft tutors" and "hard tutors" mean. I think a hard tutor can find any card and a soft tutor has limitations, like only search for instants.

I'm trying to understand what the numbers "8-11" in "1st 3-6-5 -> 8-11" mean. I think 3-6-5 is A-B-C, where C is hard tutors, and the 8-11 is A+C, B+C (3+5=8, 6+5=11). Do I understand correctly?

The point you are making is that there's 8 ways to get the first card of the combo and 11 ways to get the 2nd card of the combo, and that the 5 hard tutors apply to all the primary combos.

hello guys! using this exactly deck for a month now! and loving it but today im wondering some changes, being the most importante

OUT: Bloomtender IN: Incubation Druid

thoughts ?

KAKAHPT That’s what I thought to but the card Incubation Druid only adds one mana. It doesn’t go infinite with Freed from the Real .

Hey I love the list and I know it’s a little outdated but I read the entire primer. I get why you decided to cut out Lab man, but my meta is pretty heavy on the grave hate. I was thinking of putting back in Lab man and Researcher. I know it’s less than optimal but it’s just just so I have a hail Mary of FlashHulk for my Hermit Druid, Lab Man, and my Hapless Researcher when there’s a turn 0 leyline of the void.

I’m having trouble finding what I could cut for those too because everything just seems so perfect, and recommendations?

With active grave hate you could still win, but you need Bloom Tender + freed from the the real. This generates at least infinite green and one blue mana. Cast Thrasios, Triton Hero and draw your deck with the infinite green. You should be able to remove the grave hate with your whole deck in your hand Cyclonic Rift Nature's Claim etc. Afterwards you proceed with Auriok Salvagers and Lion's Eye Diamond for infinite mana of all colors and finish with twister -/ memories journey loops. I think that's the backup plan. Not a piece of cake, but possible.

neolithic Thanks for clarifying that, I still like the idea of a lab man wincon but that makes a lot of sense and I'll test it out in my meta and see how I do using the bloom tender + freed combo before deciding on if i still would like lab man in there or not.

Even if I chose to not add in Lab Man now, do you have any recommendations for what I could cut if I change my mind in the future

has Sigi or anyone else made a new updated primer?

scheerlc8520 No, but if you have some questions I might be able to answer, I currently play a list very similar to this.

I'm slowly transitioning over to this verison. One change I've made is Mana Drain for Delay. I just like Drain as a counter better. Thoughts?

Sure, mana drain is a hard counter with a powerful bonus... But... I understand Sigi's decision against it in favor of delay. Delay costs just 1U and not UU what's not always guaranteed. Against commanders it's often a hard counter. And last but not least in cEDH a 3 turn delayed thread could easily be long enough to win the game.

LabManiac_Sigi, are you still planning to update the win conditions part of the primer?

I am, it's just a lot of work because I'm considering structuring that section differently, and I hate having to do TappedOut formatting.

Can you explain why you decided to cut Spell Pierce over Dispel and Flusterstorm