Glittering Company

Modern JacobAGrossman

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Newest Description —Feb. 16, 2023

Hello all and welcome to the latest update! So many new cards and shifts have added to the meta over the last couple months, so I've finally updated the deck to a point where I feel like it's ready for the current landscape. Let's just get right into it! Here's all the new stuff, and why:

The first major update was to reduce both Chord of Calling and Glittering Wish by 1 each. The thinking was Collected Company is the main spell that needs to stay at 4, but the others just augment.  I wondered if I could reduce the spell count in favor of more creatures, and more favorable Collected Company piles, and I was right.

Grand Abolisher is the best protection card I could have. It stops counterspells and removal on my turn, and also shuts down abilities. For just 2 mana on such a powerful card, it fits along with what I'm wanting to get out of my cards these days: something powerful that once landed, actually changes the course of the game. It's not just some single spot removal or hand disruption, it's there to shake it up until removed.

Skrelv, Defector Mite was an easy replacement for Giver of Runes. The only thing I lose is the ability to grant my creatures protection from colorless. But I now gain a further backup poison counter plan, in tandem with Ajani, Sleeper Agent.

Elvish Reclaimer is an amazing 1 drop, like Skrelv, Defector Mite, Hexdrinker, Birds of Paradise, and the combo pieces. That's great because it works so well in the current Ranger-Captain of Eos package I currently have going, for the sake of Walking Ballista. It also works amazing with the new addition discussed right below. But as a 1 for a 3/4, that can also search me lands to win the game with, it's quite the banger.

The newest combo in the deck is lead by Titania, Voice of Gaea  ^Meld, and Argoth, Sanctum of Nature  ^Meld. Working hand in hand with Elvish Reclaimer, she is another 3/4 body, like Endurance, that gets a surprising amount of work done. With just two cards, the combo can nearly end the game by just resolving. And it can definitely end it if I have infinite mana already going. The lands are made that much more reliable for both Titania, Voice of Gaea  ^Meld and Elvish Reclaimer by our planeswalkers of amazing power level, Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler and Grist, the Hunger Tide.

Endurance is just an amazing card overall. Can shuffle my gy back, in case of mill, removal, or counterspells. Can also be gy hate at instant speed. Super well costed, and great power and toughness stats. Way better than something like Bojuka Bog.

Grist, the Hunger Tide is my all-star removal specialist. Instead of one and done disruption things like Kitesail Freebooter or Skyclave Apparition, Grist sticks around to keep removing things as long as you balance it out with the self mill and creature creation. And in this case, that's a benefit, to maybe get lands in the gy faster, on top of going through the deck faster. I literally almost always use the +1 immediately. I used to think I couldn't handle the mill, but it actually ends up filtering my draws, like Mosswort Bridge.

That should be it for the most part, let me know if you have any questions in the comments!!