No problem Optimator. You build a lot of good stuff and I’m always on the lookout for new ideas to incorporate into my own decks, and any ways to improve my win rate.

As DreadKhan mentioned, Sol Ring is banned in Legacy. Usually the site is pretty good at emboldening banned cards in red, but I guess this one slipped by.

That said, there’s a lot good here but some not so good. You have a fairly good grasp on exactly what you want your deck to do, which is key, but I think some card choices don’t fit well in the greater scheme of things even if they possess theoretical utility.

Protean Thaumaturge and Copy Enchantment are questionable. There are too few Enchantments in the deck to make either viable; Protean Thaumaturge is essentially useless unless you successfully resolve an Enchantment, of which there are only 12–and your opponent is likely going to view this possibility as a distinct threat, holding counter magic in reserve (particularly if they’ve already cast a powerful creature threat of their own).

At 4 copies, Copy Enchantment is already in and of itself a full third of your total Enchantment count, which make the odds of effectively utilizing it diminished. If you can fulfill the criteria to cast it and have it resolve, all well and good, but if not you’re stuck holding a dead card. Imagine an opening hand with one or even two copies.

Ensoul Artifact and Arcane Flight are both great choices that offer immediate, tangible results. I’d recommend cutting the other cards I mentioned earlier and replacing them with with something else. Good countermagic comes to mind, as since you’re in and in the format with arguably the best countermagic, there really isn’t a good reason not to run it. It’ll create opportunities to stop the opposing player from removing your own key pieces, as well as open the door for you to preemptively eliminate big plays on their side.

@Gidgetimer There’s a George V/Royal Assassin joke in there somewhere.

Edit—…too soon?

I wonder if halfway across the world there are backgammon players mulling over the idea of incorporating mechanics from Magic: the Gathering into their game

Edit-Oh darn, the little thinking face emoji doesn’t show up:/

No problem. I was thinking of building a Temur variant based on this for Modern. Black Market Tycoon + Freed from the Real could do some really degenerate stuff.

Thanks Epicurus, and I appreciate the suggestion too. I’ll add Priest of Forgotten Gods to the maybeboard for the eventual revision.

Edit-it’s literally not letting me save the deck after adding the card. No idea what’s going on. I’ll try again later.

Decks including known banned cards really ought to be tagged as Casual. You may not care about the illegal card(s), but plenty of users on this site view other people’s decks for the possibility of improving their own in a given format.

Thanks Oldcrow80, much appreciated!

@Chasmolinker ah, thanks for the recommendations. I don’t think Infernal Grasp had come out when I built this, but it’s definitely worth considering over Cast Down. I think I had Cast Down here as a remnant of an earlier Pauper draft I wasn’t able to get working, but with the multitude of Legendary creatures in Modern I agree Infernal Grasp is a better choice. I’ll maybeboard it for now until the overhaul process. Thanks!

@sergiodelrio thanks, and thanks for the suggestions too! I went ahead and added Profane Command to the maybeboard for now. That was a card I overlooked back when I built this, and maybe it is worth including. I happen to have a few too, if I recall. I’ll probably eventually give this deck an overhaul, at which point it might find a spot.

@hiddengibbons that’s clever, I completely overlooked treasure tokens as a way to pay the flashback cost without adding .

Great build. I have a Modern version that works well, and I’ve tried my hand at a Pauper format variant too but I wasn’t able to get it off the ground. You have some interesting and effective card choices here (Qarsi Sadist among others) I hadn’t considered.

Excellent deck description. If this is specifically a flavor/lore build, that’s fair enough.

But if you intend to actually sit down and play this in Legacy as-is, you will likely be massacred primarily because of the card count. Trimming this down to exactly 60 cards is the best possible advice. Consistency will exponentially improve, and you’ll be far less likely to encounter mana drought in your opening draw.

Hm, I was going to link the only deck you have listed on your page for you, but it’s entirely blank. You may have to add it again.

While it’s randomized as to what’s discarded, you get to repeat that process as many times as you want to/are able. With the option to tutor your wincons to hand, it’s just a matter of discarding enough times until you hit one. Couple that with the fact you’re likely to have less than your starting 7 cards in hand, and odds go up you’ll discard what you want to. It isn’t a perfect system, but this was never intended to be a tier 1 deck.

@Batman18 Are you referring to the ‘discard at random’ part of Kindle the Carnage’s rules text?

@Batman18 Dovin's Veto is viable I suppose, but I’d rather have the ability to counter anything. I think it outweighs the guaranteed success that Dovin's Veto offers in exchange for only taking care of non-creature spells. Although if you know in advance what threats you’re facing in a given matchup, you may want to switch them out after all.

Thanks Chasmolinker, I’m definitely still looking for feedback on this one. I’ve received a bunch of great suggestions but since getting a PS5 I haven’t given this one much time. Still planning on a complete overhaul at some point.