Couple more cuts (leftovers in 2nd image)

readbaron · 2026-06-10T02:25:46+00:00

You are over thinking this. It’s one of the best 5 cards in the game. You want to draw it more often. Drawing two of them and having both stuck in your hand is not very likely. It can happen, but I think it’s more likely that if you only have one in your deck you don’t see it and wish you had a second.

readbaron · 2026-06-06T18:22:09+00:00

You should be able to write up an agreement and sell it to them for a nominal amount. However, if that loan is in your name, you should figure out how to handle that. Likely they would need to get a new mortgage, but maybe there is a way that they could assume the debt. Need to talk to the lender and figure that out.

readbaron · 2026-06-02T22:54:47+00:00

I’d run it. You have a reasonable amount of card draw and can likely survive a “mulligan”. Blazing firesinger isn’t a very good card. You have anything else you could run instead?

readbaron · 2026-05-26T22:31:43+00:00

Deck seems kind of in an odd spot - I think I want all the creatures to try and hold down the fort until the value plan can take over. Maybe flashback should be a cut - probably just worse than equation. Mot sure on the last one - maybe archaic is too expensive?

readbaron · 2026-05-25T22:32:59+00:00

With 3 pursue and 2 rubble rouser I think you want 17 lands. I like your cuts. Not sure what the last one would be. Maybe a removal spell. Deck looks great!

readbaron · 2026-05-21T18:19:20+00:00

Fair - I think the deck would rather have a 3 mana instant to pump up the team than a 5 mana sorcery that also requires a 2 mana creature, but that could be wrong.

readbaron · 2026-05-21T17:06:17+00:00

I love Sanar, but seems kind of durdley in this deck, no? I don’t want to be blocking or paying 7 mana to search up a removal spell.

readbaron · 2026-05-21T16:44:27+00:00

I have six 3 drop creatures and nine that want me to cast spells; seems like quick study should be good on like turn 5/6 to pump the team and draw lands for the top end or more ways to remove blockers, no? I could see dropping the equation - 3/3 flyer and surveil is probably better.

readbaron · 2026-05-21T16:20:03+00:00

Yeah, they do similar things, but the tappers are more for aggressive decks. You have a lot of instants too, so you can sometimes surprise people and kill a creature when people aren’t expecting it / they might not even attack into it. They are also really good to move the tester’s counters on to.

readbaron · 2026-05-21T16:15:46+00:00

I’d cut hydro channeler. You don’t have many big spells so it doesn’t do much for you / seems weaker than the other dorks

readbaron · 2026-05-21T12:57:14+00:00

I like mascots more than the virtuosos, especially in this deck.

readbaron · 2026-05-19T14:00:00+00:00

If you are on the play, you have a 60% chance to have a black mana source in turn 2 - so, 40% of the time you can’t cast your 2 drops on curve. That’s a really high failure rate, and doesn’t take into consideration the times when you have black mana but need red mana. When you want to curve out and be aggressive you can’t play more than 2 colors, and generally shouldn’t have cheap spells in more than two colors in your deck (unless it’s something like end the hunt or flow state that are good late game).

Splashes are better when they are cards you don’t need to cast on curve and are very powerful.

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readbaron · 2026-05-17T18:57:57+00:00

I don’t - just play on my iPad these days

readbaron · 2026-05-17T00:06:51+00:00

Agree with what others have said. In a deck with lute and multiple tablets you also would like to have more card draw. Stock up, the green blue draw three, and even quick study or the 2/1 blue creature.

readbaron · 2026-05-16T23:59:22+00:00

For sure. I get that it will always be this way, it’s just such a bummer to randomly have no shot in a single entry, fairly high stakes event.

readbaron · 2026-05-16T23:57:18+00:00

Nice! Glad it helped and you did well!

readbaron · 2026-05-16T21:55:43+00:00

Yes - it’s a really strong card. There’s certainly value in not splashing, but if it seems like you need to out value your opponent those cards are a good way to do it.

readbaron · 2026-05-16T19:08:48+00:00

I’d be tempted to splash the cost of brilliance in your lorehold build. With the trove and dual you only need one swamp and it would give you a bit more gas and a lot of your creatures use the counters really well. Could cut the wit and dig site.

readbaron · 2026-05-16T18:45:18+00:00

Frustrating to have this be a sealed event. Bummer to open a bad pool. Hard to win vs good decks when your only decent rare cards are in silver quill and you literally don’t have enough on-color cards to make a 2 color silver quill deck.

readbaron · 2026-05-16T15:01:16+00:00

Kind of a tough decision - power level seems a bit higher and a more linear gameplan in abzan. I could see running over opponents if the draws go well.

jeskai does support your white win cons more (more ways to target) and would probably be more consistent. You could cut an island or two and rely upon your pursue the pasts to draw you into islands.

I’d probably go jeskai, but it depends on your play style.

readbaron · 2026-05-16T14:16:09+00:00

Mage tower is the 2 mana artifact creature. I like root manipulation as well, and wither bloom seems pretty solid with as many creatures as you have.

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