The Dimir Guildsman Who Came in from the Cold
Commander / EDH
SCORE: 3 | 5 COMMENTS | 1959 VIEWS | IN 2 FOLDERS
Facelift: Increase Draw, Lower CMC —Oct. 3, 2016
In ---> Out: Description. (CMC +/-)
Dragonlord Silumgar ---> Cairn Wanderer: Sorry to see CW go--it's a pet card with cool art--, but more steal effects are needed and DS is flying deathtouch. (+2)
Gonti, Lord of Luxury ---> Mutilate: Testing Gonti's useful on-theme ability and solid body, have a board wipe to lose, we'll see how this works. (+0)
Animate Dead ---> Vesuvan Doppelganger: This deck started as shapesifter tribal, and VD is iconic, but I can get the same effect for 3 less. So long to another pet card (-3)
Reanimate ---> Body Double: See above with 1 more cmc savings (-4)
Windfall ---> Shadowmage Infiltrator: more reliable draw, and fills the graveyard, easy call (+0)
Praetor's Grasp --->Hypnotic Specter: More vestigial pieces of a dead version of this deck that had a discard subtheme, cut for a much more relevent steal/deny option. (+0)
Propaganda ---> Dimir Cutpurse: This deck has difficulty with tokens or spell slingers, this helps against the former, more discard can be safely be cut. (+0)
Necropotence ---> MImic Vat: This was my toughest cut, I love MV, but relying on creatures to exit via the battlefield has burned me in the past, adding Necropotence is a no-brainer. (+0)
Mind's Dilation ---> Sepulchral Primordial SP is a great card and really embodies what I like about EDH, but for the same CMC, I'm drooling at the chance to try M's D.
Overall CMC change: -5, good work.