Fire the Laser Cannon! [Alibou Primer]
Commander / EDH*
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Post All Will Be One updates —March 3, 2023
So! your temple is under attack is out is out and Skrelv, Defector Mite is in! Skrelv doesn't protect against board wipes, but it's a better card with more synergy in the deck. I like the Alibou gives him haste, that's he's an artifact for all my artifact effects. He's not as good as an exact artifact version of mother of runes would be, but he's still a really good card that provides excellent protection or potential evasion.
I've also decided to keep Phyrexian Rebirth in the deck. I was considering swapping it for the new White Sun's Twilight or a cheaper board wipe like Vanquish the Horde. However I feel like the mite tokens from white sun's zenith are worse than the phyrexian rebirth token, and rebirth offers utility that vanquish the horde doesn't. Vanquish is also fairly straightforward, I could run in any white deck. The same can't be said for Phyrexian Rebirth, and I'd prefer to play to more niche synergistic card over the generically powerful one.
Also, The Mycosynth Gardens is definitely going in. I took Urza's Saga out of the deck a while back (the card was a bit too powerful in my meta. I think it's really cool, but I got tired of winning games because I made a land drop on turn two that gave me two huge creatures and ramped me. I'd play it in a more powerful meta, but have lost my interest in playing it in my Alibou deck right now). The Mycosynth Gardens feels like a great replacement! it's a really cool effect on a land that can be flexible, but it has a few key downsides that keep it reasonably balanced.