Momir Vig, Simic Combonary
Commander / EDH*
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More 1 drops! —Feb. 13, 2017
Removed: Clever Impersonator, Voidslime
Added: Training Grounds, High Tide
Notes:
I always love reducing the curve of my deck, especially when I get to do so by playing excellent cards. Streamlines the deck and makes it faster. And the two cards I've added make that doubly true! High Tide allows me to go infinite with just 3 islands and another land when I've got Palinchron + Image. I do need another blue source to cast the High Tide in the first place, so that usually means having a Mox or a Fifth land, but that's still turns earlier than hitting 7 lands hard. It also helps me accelerate when I want to do multiple things in a turn.
Training Grounds came as a spark of ingenuity to me. I was watching a Youtube video where a Tasigur player was able to recur his Palinchron + Image combo for just 1UUU. It then occurred to me that all of my wincons in the deck rely on activated abilities of creatures. Pro: It means I can play Training Grounds very beneficially! Cons: Watch out for Linvala and Suppression Field. Also goes great with my Duskwatch Recruiter (activates for just G!) and Thrasios (Activates for just 2!). As always, additions are subject to testing, but I'm pretty confident I'll be happy with these.
As for cuts, those were even tougher than last time. I agonized for a while over what I should cut, as I am currently pretty satisfied with just about every card in the deck. I ultimately came to realize that Clever Impersonator is only a target for tutor if and when I'm trying to copy an Ugin or Karn to get back from wayyy behind. I've never needed him otherwise. This brings my saga of running multiple clone effects from 4 way back when (Progenitor Mimic, Clever Impersonator, Phyrexian Metamorph, Phantasmal Image) to just one, the Image itself, which will never be cut from the deck unless they somehow print a strictly better one.
I am extremely disappointed to see Voidslime go. Mostly because I have the sweet, sweet full art one. But it was either that or Cryptic Command (another full-art!) and Cryptic is quite a bit better than Voidslime. I may switch it back in later on, but for now it looks like I'll have one less full-art.