The Orphan Crushing Machine

Modern Taida

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Update for consistency —April 15, 2025

I have been trying the deck, but found it a bit inconsistent at times. Requiring three pieces and being a budget deck, its kinda difficult to search for the pieces. Thus I decided to include the suggestion of Ancient Stirrings for the artifacts, which now include Spawning Pit *list*. Its not as good as Blasting Station, but having more copies of a sac outlet gives a bit more consistency to the deck. I also decided to remove all Samwise Gamgee from the mainboard, and keep one copy on the sideboard to be tutored with Glittering Wish if needed, as I don't think that the recursion it offers for historic cards is that necessary, and I just substituted for two copies of Helping Hand, as when trying it was better here. For the rest of the deck, I added Incubation / Incongruity (only using the first one) again for searching the creatures in the combo.

I also tuned the sideboard to have a bit more interaction, as well as 4 copies of Guttural Response for decks with a heavy ammount of counterspells. It also includes some inclusions like Unmake or Gaddock Teeg to try and cover all possibilities of tools to be tutored with Glittering Wish.

I also have received the suggestion by kamarupa to include the color black, as it is true that it opens the way for many more sac outlets, but keeping the deck budget makes tricolor deck not very good unfortunately. I might still try but I don't think it will be the way to keep tweaking the deck.