Momir Vig, Simic Combonary

Commander / EDH* GoldenCapitalist

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Feb. 21, 2016

Removed: Temur Sabertooth, Mental Misstep

Added: Thada Adel, Acquisitor, Remand

Notes: Both removed cards severely underperforming. More times than not they simply didn't do anything for me, or were dead draws. Thada Adel always presents a reliable threat, even against non-blue decks. Remand is being tested with for the tempo advantage.

Fairfax says... #1

Very similar to my deck.

Not read the entire change log but wonder if you've considered cutting Survival of the fittest for Fauna Shaman? Shaman is easily tutored.

Wirewood Channelers and Elvish Archdruid also are effective, I'd probably cut Azusa and maybe Somberwald Sage for those two.

I also run Kaho in my deck.

February 7, 2016 8:05 p.m.

@Fairfax Thanks for commenting! To respond to a few things:

Fauna Shaman is too narrow and slow by comparison to Survival. You have to wait a turn to activate it, and then you can only do it once at a time. Survival can't be tutored for, but its ability to be used multiple times consecutively is very important I've found.

Channeler and Archdruid would require me to run an elven manadork package in the deck, which I currently avoid. Alone they don't do nearly enough. With extensive testing, I've also found that CMC 4 mana dorks are far too slow for me. If I were to run one, it would likely be Karametra's Acolyte.

What does Kaho do for you? Seems slow.

February 8, 2016 11:03 a.m.

Fairfax says... #3

Ahh well I'm running thousand year elixir so don't have to worry about summoning sickness, either that or I make sure I can protect her for a turn. I guess I run her for two reasons 1) I like the card flavour 2) I used to run mind bend so I could change Momir's ability to cast a green search + draw. Also, being a creature she was the perfect way to tutor for it and any other instants I cared for. Finally, being able to cast any of them for colourless mana was always a help.

I figured your reasoning for not running Fauna Shaman would be as you described, each method has it's pro's and Con's I guess, which brings me into my next point.

I don't run a Traditional Mana dork package at all myself but I do have other elves in the deck and often one of my three opponents has elves on the table. Wirewood taps for all of them, had him tap for 20 in one game haha! Both of them are usually tapping for 4 or 5 which is plenty enough. I see you have 5 or 6 in your deck.... Oh I also run Priest of Titania.

Finally my meta is often made up of slow drawn out games lots of Countering, Stax decks and so on. It's often not good to stick your head over the parapet first or you get dog piled.

February 8, 2016 4:32 p.m.