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Gifts from M20 —June 18, 2019

Hmm, so we are getting some nice new cards here from Core 2020...

  • Cryptic Caves: on the heels of modern horizons, this is a nice and quick way of Wizards to help us wait until they print the full allied horizon land cycle. Cryptic Caves can help out this deck to have gass in more situations. Will consider this card.
  • Field of the Dead: now I am always hoping to get new landfall cards, but I never expected Wizards to put it on a land! What a gift! This card will surely find it's way in the list. Scapeshift will probably still target Valakut in most cases, but that doesn't matter. In a deck like this Field of the Dead is close to a land version of Zendikar's Roil, especially if we would switch out some basic lands for snow-covered ones. It is also another prime target for the copy lands. Very happy to see this spoiled.
  • Elvish Reclaimer: This could be a good include for lands matter decks, but I will probably not add it here. It's another example of a build-up card that takes a long time to give you value (creature has no haste, land comes into play tapped). So after 3 turns, you have, for 3 mana, what crop rotation does instantly. I think it's too slow for what I want for this deck.

Changes

I am going to test the following changes:

  • Petrified Field -> Field of the Dead: Very happy with the testing of field of the dead so far in this deck. It’s a consistent token producer that is easy to find and to get online.
  • 1/2 Regular basics -> Snow-covered lands: Changing about 1/2 of my basics to snow-covered ones, increases the odds that Field of the Dead turns on at 7 lands without any drawbacks.
  • Realms Uncharted -> Hour of Promise: I did not really like Realms in my testing after all, because it does not reliably get me the lands I want. It also kind of needs Petrified Field in the deck, and it turns out I don’t like to dedicate a landslot to make one spell perform better. Hour of Promise is going back in, as it has a good play pattern with Field of the Dead.
  • Vivien Reid -> Shamanic Revelation: With Field of the Dead in the list, I think this deck can now reliably make good use out of shamanic revelation. I am going to give it a try.
  • Pir's Whim -> Force of Vigor: Pir’s whim is a fun card, but Force of Vigor is just a lot better. I want to try it out in this list.
  • Hour of Devastation -> Beast Within: With the other changes I figured I’d rather have a good single target removal spell than an OK board wipe in this slot.

Cheers