[Competitive] Tainted Shimmer Zur
Commander / EDH
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Small tweaks —July 22, 2018
Thought Scour for Frantic Search is just a minor tweak, but in hindsight should have been obvious, even without High Tide.
Unearth for Reality Shift is interesting one though. Unearth has enabled some pretty sweet EOT Quicken + Unearth in response to Necro's exile trigger, followed by Consultation + Draw, but I needed a couple more answers to creatures, and this was the only reasonable cut i could make for that. The addition of Frantic search back means that with two 'draw two' effects, you can still pull of the LED + YawgWill doomsday line fairly efficiently, so hopefully it's not too large of a hit. Technically, you can still instant speed labman if you can set up the top of your deck, Reality Shift on Zur, then morph Labman, but I don't expect it to come up much, if at all due to the sheer amount of mana you need.
Note that the LED isn't as good in Doomsday lines without a good draw-2 effect to set it up, because you want to LED + draw spell. Right now there's only Frantic Search to set it up, but that has it's drawbacks in that it needs 3 mana initially, and that you need 2 other cards in your hand to discard. It might be worth considering Perilous Research over Frantic Search, since I've already cut High Tide, and most of the High Tide cards are very lackluster.
May 28, 2018 9:55 a.m.
Actually that's not a bad idea. -Frantic Search +Perilous Research for now.
May 28, 2018 9:57 a.m.
Alexdagreat says... #4
Yeah, I'm going to wait on your feedback with the Doomsday lines for that one. I haven't cut High Tide yet, but I'm definitely considering it for maybe Rapid Hybridization or some piece of interaction currently.
May 28, 2018 10:01 a.m.
Alexdagreat says... #6
Currently, my Tainted Zur list ties Hulk for wins in my meta. The deck is obscenely strong, and a huge upgrade over the old style.
May 28, 2018 10:04 a.m.
You want as many of your spells to be instant speed as possible. Night's Whisper is slightly better in a vacuum, but when you're trying to go off, Perilous is better when you're shimmering since you can actually cast it, allows you to sacrifice Necropotence to keep your cards in the graveyard if you whiff, and when you're going through Doomsday lines, sacrificing a permanent is negligible since you either win or lose regardless.
I was kinda torn between Whisper and Research, honestly. But given that I've played with Night's Whisper plenty of times in the past I thought I'd give Research a try, especially since this is the kind of deck where Research is actually a justifiable choice.
Alexdagreat says... #1
Interesting idea. I'm curious to see how it pans out. I cut LED recently, and have been pretty happy about that. I'd consider putting it back in if these Doomsday lines are worth trying out.
May 28, 2018 9:28 a.m.