Wanna combo? Wanna tempo? wanna aggro? Wanna soft-lock? Heartless summoning/Kiki of course! This deck was a mix of me mucking about with things for edh and thoughts about efficient creature copying. Importantly, it makes it really easy to play creatures largely immune to Fatal Push quickly enough to steal tempo.
The combos! Heartless Summoning/Semblance Anvil w.creature +anything.Kiki Jiki + Zealous Conscripts = inf creaturesKiki Jiki + Avalanche Riders/Fulminator Mage= extra land destructionSimian Spirit Guide+Heartless Summoning+
Flamerush Rider
= t2 land destruction. Watch the outher player player weep as they lose any hope of tempo.
card alternatoves +4Thoughtseize (or your choice of hand disruptionTerminate/Fatal Push/ your choice of board disruptionLiving End/Collective Brutality/Goblin Dark-Dwellers/Cathartic Reunion is amazing in creature-focused metas. A massive tempo swing from etb disruption abilities is really, really good.
Shadow of Doubt (fetch disruption can be brutal in some metas, especially when repeatable with gdd etc)
Postmortem Lunge for those creatures.Sideboard some mainboard hate etc
Demon sideboard1x Rune-Scarred Demon3x Shadowborn Demon4x Blood Speaker3x Desecration Demon
DragonboardBoltwing MarauderHunted DragonScourge of ValkasKolaghan, the Storm's FuryThundermaw HellkiteStormbreath Dragon
I'm sure a grixis with snapcaster and vendillion I believe to be playable, but I haven't tested it. Rules changes to split cost cards makes goblin interaction less functional, but it matters less than you'd expect.
The important thing to remember with this deck is that it is very flexible. If you want to run mardu with resto and tidehollow, more power to you. Playing aggressive with Zurgo and Blood Baron of Vizkopa works too. And if you can slam heartless summonning as soon as you get it, inquisition is often blank.
Remember, the important thing is to have fun. Soft locking an opponent out of the game can be fun. So can abrupty pressing an 'I win button'. It all depends on what you want that week. What I want whenever I play this is that look of surprise, then confusion as they read the rules text, puzzle it out over three to four turns, then concede.
