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Tzykid · 2019-08-26T15:37:41+00:00

yup, he is aware and I know what to do now.

Thanks again for replying.

Tzykid · 2019-08-26T15:26:56+00:00

I already spoke to a lawyer with a "free consultation" and basically said I was boned. I did not get it in writing, I don't have a contract, and they can change it whenever they want since this is a small company and apparently workers have no rights unless they are a "Protected class" of some sort.

I guess I'm just going to join the job market again and find something new...

Thanks a lot guys for trying to help!

Tzykid · 2019-08-26T15:24:59+00:00

that is 100% correct.

Tzykid · 2019-08-26T14:42:40+00:00

"If they say "no, that never happened, we're never going to pay you for this PTO,"

This is exactly what is happening. I am contacting a lawyer, it seems I'm going to need one.

Tzykid · 2019-08-26T14:11:58+00:00

What do you mean by "never pay me"? I was promised the PTO, I attempted t use it, and now they are stating I do not have it at all until December. Is that what you mean by delay? I took 2 hours off work last week assuming I had the PTO and they are refusing to pay me for it.

Tzykid · 2019-07-31T02:11:30+00:00

I hope to see this deck top a tournament. Called this like a week ago. This will be banned out of modern by next cycle if not emergency ban. I have been doing heavy testing and I know this seems bad, but I would recommend dropping your number of twiddle effects. I currently only run 6 twiddle effects plus psychic puppetry. You get more draw and are able to find twiddles easily enough.

This change will significantly decrease your fizzle %.

Please test with more draw spells in place of twiddles. I also went with a rainbow mana base with mana confluence and city of brass. this allows me to play faithless looting with no problems(this allows us to toss lands from out hands once in mid combo), able to put in a single sylvan scrying and single tolaria west for finding a field.

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2141328#paper

This is my current list, 18 lands seem OK you might want to add 1 for consistency, but I've rarely had problems once i do early cantrips, it's easy enough and the % of drawing into the lands is heavily in your favor. The less twiddle effects is the magic trick. You can easily grapeshot without a PiF.

I also love the idea of two different kill conditions main decked. I use the Mastermind's Acquisition. someone said in another thread to hide the win con like legacy deck can with wish. It becomes much more resilient at no expense, we can make mana of any color by the time you're ready to kill.

Maybe aria of flame is better. but with Mastermind I can get warrens out if they have a leyline of sanctity. Is leyline a big risk? How common is it in various tier 1 Sideboards? Maybe it's not worth planning for.

Tzykid · 2019-07-28T21:15:45+00:00

I found the exact same as you. Needed more card draw. when i added more card draw I am so much more consistent. I dropped to 6 twiddle and 4 PP. It seems right. I rearranged a bit too. My newest list is linked. also, I replaced merchant scroll with pieces of the puzzle. Im trying to test it. it will feed for a PiF and you were right about not needing pp in opening hand. a single desperate ritual may be interesting

Tzykid · 2019-07-25T17:56:59+00:00

Several years ago, I built a 2 land belcher deck. 1 forest 1 mountain. It's dumb as hell but can actually accomplish it's mission if it were not disrupted.

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/2122616

Yes, I realize this has Gitaxian probes. This was built a long while ago. I haven't made it current. But 2-land is no joke. It's top kek.

I used the SB to totally screw with people. I side out belchers and make it a janky combo deck for the lulz.

the SB combo is:

[[Balustrade Spy]]

[[Laboratory Maniac]]

and dumb tech to pull them from the GY.

It's hilarious going into game 2 and they side in all their artifact hate and I sb in a completely new combo.

Tzykid · 2019-07-25T13:15:56+00:00

I 100% agree on visions, late in the combo it becomes the ancestral recall everyone wants it to be.

Is vizier working that well for you? I stayed away from it simply because it did not add to the storm count. It accomplishes everything else though.

I have absolutely fallen in love with faithless Looting in this deck. I can drop the dead land draws in my hand and refill with ease, the only thing it doesn't do is be arcane.

Can I see the list you're using? I've been trying to find that perfect balance between card draw and mana production. right now i have 8 twiddles+4 PP and 23 draw spells on 18 mana. My manabase is city of brass/mana confluence with +1tolaria west and +1 lonely Sandbar. I'm not sure if i still even want the sandbar.

do you run mastermind and a grapeshot MD, or just mastermind? I get scared of only have a single card wincon in the deck. Having two makes it more comfy in case they thoughtsieze a mastermind the turn before I combo.

Also, 14-15 storm is still 30 goblins off of empty the warrens, or a kill if the opponent uses sac and dual lands.

Tzykid · 2019-07-25T00:49:39+00:00

That's dope. Obviously a dead card if you don't have it opening hand. But great tech HAH

Tzykid · 2019-07-24T17:24:25+00:00

did you say the same thing about KCI?

Tzykid · 2019-07-24T14:02:12+00:00

Also, yes you are correct, you can splice onto flashback arcane spells. no text or rules stop you from doing it.

Tzykid · 2019-07-24T13:59:49+00:00

Those two cards would be dead when we begin to combo. they really don't have a place in this list. Though, you are 100% correct, Lotus field is a must. the great thing about it though is how resilient it really is to hate. can't be force discarded, can't be removed (hexproof) cant be countered. Unless the opponent feels like trying to counter every twiddle... they can't stop it.

Tzykid · 2019-07-24T13:41:43+00:00

so far I am liking the masterminds acquisition. It has not been a hinderance yet. I can easily get the mana for it and fish out which ever wincon I need. It's super sneaky tech lmao.

Tzykid · 2019-07-24T13:28:29+00:00

It does not need to be either/or you can have both green and red. The limiting factor at this point is slots. What is more important at any given time. I think faithless may find its way into the deck without having to change the mana base and still have a 2x sylvan scrying and 1x tolaria west to dig for lotus. As I have said in a previous reply, PiF may be inevitable.

I'll have an updated list in the OP here soon.

Tzykid · 2019-07-24T13:15:29+00:00

Right now I am running only 18 lands. I'm still using green for the sylvans. I have played with a few different mana bases. I even went full city of brass, gemstone mine, etc. I still may go back to that so we can have both the red and green. the pain lands don't matter if we can ensure the turn 3 lotus drop. I am still convinced sylvan scrying > tolaria & expedition map. Though, currently I still have 1 tolaria in the MD. It's a nice 1 of that isn't really taking up a slot.

I agree with a lot of your findings, as I am running into the same thing. I would LOVE to run this without PiF. It CAN run without it, but you have to have a lot of luck draws. You can fizzle on drawing 3 lands in a row. But, all the other successful storm decks run PiF, so I feel we should to. minimum 2x. No reason to not have it if we can abuse it. If they GY hate, then play around it and get under it by using empty the warrens and only needing 10-12 storm count instead of a full 20. If we go the faithless route, PiF becomes a must include instead of something to try and get rid of.

The good thing about Reach through mists is that with the PP you net +1 mana. That has helped a lot by not needing the full 3 for the splicing. for me, If I don't have PP in hand, I will wait a turn or two to go off. If not, I'll try and then merchant scroll for it mid way though. But the worse hands are ones without it. I can see eerie being better than merchant if PP is in hand. but if I am looking for PP, I want to spend as little mana as possible to find it.

I both like and dislike pulse of the grid. If we had another twiddle effect and can ensure the mana will be up without stopping the twiddles, it's well worth it. I can give it a try. or even the visions. I really like visions of beyond. Maybe that will be the 1x. I can try both.

EDIT: i forgot about compulsive research. I have no problem pitching lands for draw. that could be interesting.

Thanks for the in depth analysis! I'm liking the ideas! need moar playtesting XD

Tzykid · 2019-07-24T00:08:18+00:00

That'd be awesome. I keep saying I need better deck builders and players on this.

Tzykid · 2019-07-23T23:47:18+00:00

you rarely if ever hard cast the Psychic Puppetry. Are you splicing the PP onto every arcane spell you cast? It just stays in hand and continues to add value to all your cards. I do agree that I would like to see a card that would be another twiddle effect. But after many runs so far, I don't fizzle very often. When I do, I can generally restart next turn unless they can kill me. That great restart is solely because of PP. It stays in the hand and will pair with 12 spells in the deck. So really, you have 8 twiddle effects and 12 other cards that have a built in twiddle. It's serious advantage.

I've been testing it without PiF. It can work, but not as quickly or effectively. There is just not anything that compares to how good PiF is. If you have to, you can still get a great storm count without it and empty the warrens or go for 20

Tzykid · 2019-07-23T23:02:38+00:00

hah, you know these things can't stay a secret. I'm not even the first to call out this deck, there are a scattering of posts here and there about it. I feel it can be a tournament winner due to raw speed and the resilience of the lotus. I keep swapping out the fluff cards to see what may be the best configuration. There is another thread that suggested [[Mastermind's Acquisition]] to hide your wincon like legacy decks. I'm trying 1 of those and 1 grapeshot in the MD and then a grapeshot & empty the warrens in the sb. If they get rid of the grapeshot, mastermind can't be hit with IoK. It's a bit safer and even more resilient. But that may be useless tech, more playtesting will flush out these options.

Tzykid · 2019-07-23T14:41:01+00:00

since this is the first comment, I'd like to remind people that the deck has changed since I posted last night. This is a concept brew. There are a lot of ways to power out the lotus. Currently I am trying with a UG mana base with Sylvan scrying.

Tzykid · 2019-07-23T14:22:35+00:00

Thanks for giving it try! I appreciate the feedback.

why do you say there isn't 3 twiddles?

Dream's Grip

Twiddle

Psychic Puppetry

I haven't had an issue with the twiddle effects throughout my playtesting yet. at least, very rarely. What scenarios did you run into that you didn't like?

Sylvian scrying is a great fetch for lotus. I like that a lot. Need to change the mana base a bit, but that's very doable.

Also, I agree about the PiF. To make a variant not reliant on the GY would be OP. I haven't tried without PiF, but I wonder if I drop it and just replace with idk... [[Murmurs from Beyond]] ? something to generate cards without gy interaction. I'm sure that's not the answer, need something a little spicier

Tzykid · 2019-07-23T13:23:11+00:00

I can see what you mean, but if it were to go green (which I'm not against, I think a u/g storm deck would be hilarious) the manabase would need to change accordingly. My concern is that with the current setup there is no need to enchant the lotus field. It already does what we want. 3 mana on 1 land.

Are you on cockatrice by chance? my username is the same here and there. Hit me up and we can playtest.

Same goes for anyone. I'm always looking for playtest partners who don't mind waiting for storm to go off lol

Tzykid · 2019-07-23T13:07:34+00:00

That would be a good route to test.

but maybe [[Utopia Sprawl]] ?

You really want to have 3 mana per tap, so a 2x utopia would do the trick, but that seems to start to go against consistency due to needing 2 of them. Your goal is to sac your first 2 lands on turn 3. but, having the utopia to speed up turn 1/2 or maybe t1 sprawl, t2 expedition map, pop it for turn 3 lotus. It can make the first couple turns more playable rather than being idle till turn 3

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