Not Infinite, but Larger than the Universe
Commander / EDH
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Post-Black Friday Shopping —Nov. 30, 2017
Welp, my self-control could only hold for so long. This has easily become my new favorite deck and I've been wanting several pricier cards for a while now...so here are the new updates:
Vizier of Many Faces --> Clever Impersonator I'll miss the embalm and random scry off of Path of Ancestry, but being able to clone just about anything is too good. With a Clever Impersonator token in play, we can now populate Parallel Lives tokens, which is a HUGE boost to our combo. :)
Taigam, Ojutai Master --> Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir I was debating cutting Taigam for Prowling Serpopard to protect our creature counters when I realized that Teferi does everything I could possibly want (and gives us flash!), and is cheap thanks to Iconic Masters too.
Prismatic Geoscope --> Seedborn Muse I got to clone an opponent's Seedborn Muse at the 2HG tourney and it was AMAZING. Getting to untap just once with Seedborn Muse is worth it. Plus, it's a creature, so Ravos can get it back if it dies.
Manglehorn --> Kami of False Hope The nail in Manglehorn's coffin here was actually Hostage Taker--since Hostage Taker can also hit artifacts, along with the Beast within that we added, Manglehorn was just too irrelevant too often. Spore Frog on the other hand, was amazing, so we added a colorshifted version of it.
Blighted Woodland --> Twilight Mire Blighted Woodland is a very nice land in a lot of decks. This isn't one of them--our commander can easily pay four to find us another land. Plus, I have an Expedition Twilight Mire and I wanted to use it. :D
Yavimaya Elder --> Solemn Simulacrum Elder is nice, and being able to send himself to the graveyard is cool, but too often I just wanted to use the mana for Thrasios instead. Plus, I have an Invention Solemn Simulacrum.... :D
Vedalken Orrery --> Leyline of Anticipation Sometimes, we don't have to cast this one. Simple, straightforward upgrade.
Uncage the Menagerie --> Vizier of the Menagerie Still not sure how I feel about this, but Uncage being a sorcery always felt awkward--by the time we could cast it at instant speed the way we wanted to, it was usually better to just go digging with Thrasios. Vizier, on the other hand, lets us know what's on top of our deck so we know when to use Thrasios and when not to. ~~Not sure how detrimental the extra info that our opponents get from seeing our draws will be--more playtesting will be needed first.~~ Edit: As it turns out, I misread the card. This says "look at", not "reveal". So no extra info is given. Hooray!
Guile --> Sol Ring I confirmed Guile wasn't worth keeping, so it's back out and Sol Ring is back in.
Zendikar Resurgent --> Mana Reflection Yeah, I bit the bullet and shelled out for Mana Reflection. It makes our bouncelands, Temple of the false god, and Cradle of itlimoc even better, applies to our mana rocks too, and is one mana cheaper to boot. Losing the awkwardly-mandatory draw on Zendikar Resurgent is not a big deal--we have Thrasios for that.
Dryad Arbor --> Forbidden Orchard This change gives us additional options for "mana of any color", as well as removing a pesky infinite combo from the deck--making several Lotus Cobra tokens, which provide us a refund of mana when we populate the Dryad Arbor tokens. This is a Timmy deck, not a Johnny deck. We want stupidly big, but not infinite numbers.
Maybelist additions: Plasm Capture Cheaper (in terms of money) Mana Drain that we can use to counter spells and still get to use Thrasios. {{That Black Dino Avatar that Got accidentally Spoiled}} Potentially can be a boardwipe stapled to a creature. Competing with Magus of the Disk, Dread Cacodemon, and Mageta the Lion for the possible spot of "Creature Boardwipe"