#Pell's Decks and Deck Accessories (formerly Chuck's)
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I think those are it, though.
[[Stormscape Familiar]] might actually be a valuable inclusion.
idk, maybe the raptor is right
@reef estuary what do you think about Marauding Raptor here?
But you are in colors to have mana dorks
no i am not
And that’s like 9 dorks right there
i am in jeskai the mana dorks suck ass
So? They’re better in satya than a rock is
The familiars are great too
Marauding raptor probably wouldn’t be good because copying it means you basically can’t cast any of your creatures
fair, but also copying it means the OG raptor swings in for 4 on curve
and then one of them dies lmao
Yeah… raptor ain’t good here
The familiars I’m mid on because you’ll definitely get into positions where you have stormscape and no white spells
I do like it for sure
You take that back
Ornithopter is sexy as hell
2 generic mana for a bop in every color combo?
Not to mention copying it with satya means it’ll DEFINITELY get through to survive to your next turn
I'll give it a shot but I really don't like it here
ooh, wait, maybe a creature that when it ETBs or dies or hits generates a treasure?
?
also quite likely to stick around AND has evasion?
similarly, could just put Ragavan in the deck
I do like generous a lot though
Yeah, but at least real mana dorks work past t1
yeah i think plunderer is better for this purpose
it's unlikely to get shot, it has evasion
and copying it does not necessarily compound the downside
also, the original never has to attack, which is important
alternatively, both
there's plenty of stuff in my deck that's legendary, although typically they get value from being copied
OKAY so here's where the creatures are at
I'm lookin at goin up another dude if i can find something I want
maybe Sakashima's Student or Clever Impostor if I can find a copy.
Clones could be pretty powerful
Is there a clone that gives evasion as it enters?
There’s the three mana one that can’t be blocked, but that doesn’t clone until a turn later
Not for copying your own stuff, the only one that exists that enters as is [[Malleable Impostor]]
Yeah. What was that other one? [[cephalid|SNC]] I think
No card found named “cephalid” in Streets of New Capenna
Creature — Octopus Rogue
Cephalid Facetaker can't be blocked.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have Cephalid Facetaker become a copy of another target creature until end of turn, except it's 1/4 and has "This creature can't be blocked."
Few think to look past a familiar face and a friendly smile.
1/4
One of my favorites tbh
hi im pell this is pain and suffering v4
We're 99/100 and I will probably begin just adding things to "considering" as i find them tomorrow
Also, Memory Lapse or something might be getting swapped for a removal spell or something tomorrow, who knows?
Consider [[Patron of the Arts]] for this role
This could generate 3 treasures in one turn with Satya
[[Charming Scoundrel]]
This one is one colorless cheaper and has haste and can also do other things for additional utility.
Sure, but it will make 1 less treasure per turn
The point of this slot was actually to ramp out Satya on t3, which Patron cannot do barring a sol ring start.
(which Sol Ring itself can also already do)
Scoundrel is also an option.
Out of curiosity, would you consider casting Satya on t3 a priority even if you don’t have a creature to copy? Like, if you have no one drop and play a mana rock on turn 2, is Satya the best thing to cast on t3, or should you wait until you have something to copy?
depends on the rest of my hand @quaint sorrel ; if there's a clone in my hand then yes, if not then it depends on board state
To clone what? Satya?
@marble pasture am I a fucking weirdo if I want Chain of Vapor or Void Snare or Alchemist's Retrieval in over Snap? I kinda fucking hate Snap.
if I am gonna hold up mana for a bounce, I'd rather it be easier to hold up that mana and have the flexibility of also being able to bounce my own One Ring if I need to
WHO PINGETH ME 💢
also no, chain is based
sorry
i also hate snap
im lookin at my current removal suite since V4 is up
and we're running Generous Plunderer and Ragavan now
i'm not actually mad, I just do that to everyone who pingeth
tis tradition
but chain is super based
11/10
I am so glad someone else fucking hates Snap
I gave it the old college try
because, you know, try everything once
holy fuck does it just feel terrible
yeah you could get the "free" bounce
or you could pay 1 to bounce potentially anything
not only am i holding up TWO MANA but I can't bounce noncreatures with it? what the fuck
at that point why am i not playing Snapback
"oh but you get your mana back!" but that only matters when i'm casting my removal on my own turn, which ideally I shouldn't be doing???
it's not free, it has a massive opportunity cost
^
and that opportunity is the huge tempo loss
snapback you will generally lose about as much tempo, or you can trade card advantage for it
now if snap could target anything you could maybe make a case for it
but it doesn't
yeah if it was any nonland, i'd run it no problem
I'm also thinking about taking out Generous Gift for Council's Judgment
or for Bovine Intervention
Ahh, the anti nadu tech option
it's not just that, it's a lot of things, but also i'm worried about being able to convince 2-3 people to agree with me on something
Probably bovine then
which is why it might become Bovine
A 2/2 isn’t nothing but it’s much better than whatever you’re wasting
if there was this but it said creature or enchantment i'd run it 1000%
well, i guess there is, but i'm literally already running it
How much blue do you play against on average?
it's called Get Lost 
not that much honestly, Pyroblast should probably be something else
I play against a lot of white though, and Smothering Tithe is kind of a problem
Ah, looking at red removal is always fun
Can’t remove enchantments but you can run liquidmetal and remove enchantments that way lol
Ugh, sorcery tho
Wild magic surge is very broad, but comes at the possibility of getting something worse
yeah, i'm a little worried about WMSing Smothering Tithe into like
Omniscience or something
not a valid concern
but there's a lot of enchants that would literally just end the game and people don't typically run that many
Hmm
[[Thraben Charm]] is kinda interesting, but my boards aren't actually very wide, usually.
although i guess you really only ever need 2 creatures to kill most things
I might try it out honestly, I think I pulled half a billion of them.
Another thing I might swap is Pyroblast for [[Tibalt's Trickery]] or something?
Instant
Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.
very terrifying but red is a better color than blue for me in a lot of situations
Eh, trickery usually ends up fine
I think with Thraben Charm, I'll try it out, if I wish it was Generous Gift I'll try out Bovine instead, and if I still think Gift would be better I'll swap back to Gift?

and we'll wait til that's done to figure out a replacement for Pyroblast
because it's still not a bad card rn
Is the deck mainly red over blue or something
Also, depending on power level, could just get away with good old countespell and mana drain
yes
it is primarily RW/u
Counterspell and mana drain are a bit rough, but maybe doable.
Ability to cast uu depends on what power level of pods you want the deck to be at
I play mostly at higher power level tables
The more untapped duals you run the easier it is to.
At higher power, but not cedh, uu counterspells could still be fine to run
Aight, so the card shop has everything I need to get to current build EXCEPT Machine God's Effigy, and I don't have the time to go get it elsewhere.
I need something else to go in that slot.
[[$Solitude]]
$17.35
$18.80
$30.09
4.89 TIX
$23.02 • €26.26 • 4.77 TIX
$27.00 • €38.34
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I cannot think of what to replace MGE with
it was kinda weird in that slot anyway
maybe Imposter Mech?
[[Sculpting steel]]?
Enchantment
When Dance of Many enters the battlefield, create a token that's a copy of target nontoken creature.
When Dance of Many leaves the battlefield, exile the token.
When the token leaves the battlefield, sacrifice Dance of Many.
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Dance of Many unless you pay 
.
The nice thing about that one is you can bounce it while the trigger is on the stack and keep the token
[[Clever impersonator]] is also an option
maybe Clever Impersonator, hard to say
I'm assuming you want it mainly for dockside
i dont own one so if i can get one i'll try it, if not i have no idea
it's mostly for dockside but also for copying satya tokens
because satya can't make token clones of tokens
but he can make token clones of clones that are copying tokens
gives me some resiliency against the major weakness of this deck: removing the things i target with Satya.
[[glasspool mimic]] could also work
Creature — Shapeshifter Rogue
You may have Glasspool Mimic enter the battlefield as a copy of a creature you control, except it's a Shapeshifter Rogue in addition to its other types.
"When I touched the Glasspool, I tasted infinite possibility." —Ashen Wal, Akoum Expeditionary House
0/0
Glasspool Shore
Land
Glasspool Shore enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add
.
"Past and possibility come together in the vastness of infinite reflection." —Ashen Wal, Akoum Expeditionary House
Has the benefit of also possibly being a land but you lose the ability to copy a One Ring
Glasspool is in the deck 🙂
Missed that!
it is always an early inclusion in blue for me
just too powerful of a card not to run
[[$Clever Impersonator]]
$2.95 • €2.86
$5.49 • €2.27
$3.05 • €2.38 • 0.30 TIX
lemme see if the shop's got one
aight, yeah, im picking up a Clever Impersonator friday as well, so Satya is done for now!
(until I can order in a copy of MGE)
So, it is time for the next project
or should I say, Froject
Which of the frogs?
I'm still working on Flubs
Flubs seems fun for a combo-y storm deck but I don't like being hellbent, Song of Creation is really good though
[[Song of Creation]]
I don't think he works outside of a storm/spellslingery combo deck personally but I could be wrong.
I've linked them all in https://discord.com/channels/675113113934364683/1092498898746085506
But yes, most of them are spellslinger/stormy lists
If I like a commander it's PROBABLY a combo deck.
I was much more interested in Glarb -- I am addicted to value
and this guy lets me set up Miracles
It's going in my Zimone and Dina
Entreat the Dead seems like an easy fit for Glarb
with 2 surveils a turn, you are PROBABLY going to have a reanimation target
There will probably be more after Duskmourn for U and B because of the Aminatou deck
It's called Miracle Worker
The subtitle is "see the future, cast miracles"
Glarb and Miracles seem like a match made in heaven
surveil 2 every turn is one thing but also just "you can cast spells with MV 4 or greater from the top of your library" ensures that even if I can't Miracle them, I have the option to just hardcast them
[[mirko|mkc]]?
Legendary Creature — Vampire Detective
Flying, vigilance
Whenever you surveil, put a +1/+1 counter on Mirko, Obsessive Theorist.
At the beginning of your end step, you may return target creature card with power less than Mirko's from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If it would die, exile it instead.)
1/3
perhaps, I'm a little worried it might be too slow but honestly it could just be worth it anyway
the deck's gonna be slow regardless
hmm, is this a deck where I should care about Delirium/Threshold/grave count?
I mean one of the first cards I put in was [[Ethereal Forager]]
I think there are some enchantments you want in there
[[case of the shifting visage]]
[[enhanced surveillance]]
[[sultai ascendancy]]
[[titan's nest]]
15 is a lot if I'm Escaping and Delving, but fair
Yeah, if you're dropping it a lot then that can probably be out
But, enhanced surveillance letting you see 4 is so many
I probably don't want most of these although Titan's Nest is tempting
one card I do want though
[[Search for Azcanta]]
Legendary Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
The Sunken Ruin houses all the learning of a long-forgotten age.
Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
Legendary Land
(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
: Add
.

,
: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Along a similar line, what about [[everflowing well]] as an artifact
Legendary Artifact
When The Everflowing Well enters the battlefield, mill two cards, then draw two cards.
Descend 8 — At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, transform The Everflowing Well.
The Myriad Pools
Legendary Artifact Land
(Transforms from The Everflowing Well.)
: Add
.
Whenever you cast a permanent spell using mana produced by The Myriad Pools, up to one other target permanent you control becomes a copy of that spell until end of turn.
That one seems good as well
oh, and I need [[Sunken Palace]] in my landbase FOR SURE.
[[lazotep|m3c]]?
unsure on quarry, but maybe, depends on what kinds of creatures i am actually running
i have a feeling i'm gonna be pretty creature-light
i should at least add [[Dryad of the Ilysian Grove]] since I'm able to play lands off the top
ooh, maybe this is finally the deck where [[Palantir of Orthanc]] is good?
Legendary Artifact
At the beginning of your end step, put an influence counter on Palantír of Orthanc and scry 2. Then target opponent may have you draw a card. If that player doesn't, you mill X cards, where X is the number of influence counters on Palantír of Orthanc, and that player loses life equal to the total mana value of those cards.
I probably ALWAYS get a free Preordain every turn
I made a Karador deck last night and couldn't find my Palantir, I was sad abotu that.
yeah, another deck where indeed nobody is ever giving you the dredge
Oh they probably will though. There are a lot of LARGE cards in the deck
I don't have it up or I'd link it.
doesnt karador extra care about the grave tho
Yep
i am grappling with this decision
okay so hear me out, i think for Glarb, if they know Miracles are in the deck, they should pretty much always mill me, right?
but Miracles have such a huge CMC that they're going to take a ton of burn damage if they hit one
so it may be better to just give the draw, but then they're letting me miracle

this is difficult
And I think for something like Karador that's also difficult but less difficult because there's less innate threat in just letting you have the top 2 cards of your deck
Finally? What world are you living in where the card isn’t a strictly better phyrexian arena
I am living in the world where Phyrexian Arena isn't all that great. 
Right, I’m saying that palantir is insanely good
Strictly better phyrexian arena doesn't actually say how good palantir is
Every Graveyard deck needs it, and every other deck wants it
Right, but my statement that is insanely good stands
Cards that “3 mana draw a card each turn” i call phyrexian arenas, like 3 mana draw 2s are divinations
Which is really good
my thing is "I like having things on top of my deck as a Miracles deck"
Nobody is gonna let you mill, even if you don’t care about the grave
and so if they ever DO mill me, knowing that I am running Miracles, I will get punished
I think I’ve only ever seen palantir mill one time and it only had one counter
I've seen it go up to 4 counters
I also have no idea what to expect from your lgs lol
I guess right now I'm only running 3 miracles
people at my LGS have good decks and play badly, for the most part
The person had no cards in hand and no recursion pieces on the field.
My lgs is higher power on avg, but basically always plays budgetless battlecruiser
that's a mean way to say it but they will frequently just go "i'm not paying my taxes" and then play 6 cards into a Rhystic after 2 people before them pay taxes
My LGS is Johnny/Timmy wonderland
I think budgetless battlecruiser is a great way to describe a lot of the people locally, which is why I don't play with most people at the LGS if I can avoid it
I've kinda got a core group now that I play with because they consistently produce interesting games
Sorta same? People love having lots of synergy and playing big timmy decks, but nobody really does infinite combos, just really good aggro, control, or some fusion between
Well, by “battlecruiser” i basically just mean that nobody does any infinite combos or win-the-game combos unless they’re playing cedh
yes
Outside that, it’s free game
similar here, except to an extreme, these people don't run interaction
Ah, see that’s where we differ
We use win the game combos but so few people play blue that it's not thoracle. Crackle with power mana combos? Yes
We got lots of interaction
These are mf with literal Gaea's Cradles and not a single Deadly Rollick or anything
Deadly rollick yes, cradle? No
It's so fucking wild to me how frequently I have to be like "hey if you're going to try to win this game it might help to have some interaction, you cannot rely on the blue player to handle every problem"
and as you know i run a lot of interaction, not just for this reason but because I don't wanna be that guy
If your whole lgs is like that then that’s a rough sell
Idk, for me id either do extremely controlling or extremely stompy and fuck then over until they start running interaction
It's not everyone, it's just a lot of the people
Also, yeah, I pretty much do that. They also mostly don't care what you play as long as you're not stomping the precon people.
Time for an 85% win rate
It's gotten much worse recently with the influx of highschoolers getting into the game because they are young and do not have card game fundementals
I try to teach them as best I can but I'm also trying to play the game, you know?
That’s just an experience thing, yeah
God knows I spend more than enough time helping people in this discord, sometimes I want some time to chill 
New players see so little value in removal
Yknow, nobody’s forcing you to do that lol
I do it because I love the game and it's a way for me to interact with the game and be social when I can't play.
I mean, bonus points for doing so, but I stopped doing it a while ago since I’m pretty burnt out on brewing my own decks let alone others lol
That’s fair
I haven't been able to properly deckbuild for myself recently with Satya being my primary focus. I'm struggling with this fucking Glarb thing now
because i just don't know what kind of direction I wanna take it
Yeah that dude is such a ridiculous card
Too much going on, I just wanna do Bria prowess shenanigans
Satya had a very clear focus
he does really just 1 thing well
but this... I don't know what the fuck to do with it? control? reanimator?
[[glarb]]
Oh, this is NOT what I thiught we were talking about
no, you were thinking about Flubs
I mean this just screams stompy to me
a lot of people are thinkin about Flubs
Lands and big fuckin’ dudes
i was thinkin miracles because miracles have mv 4+ so even if i put one on top with surveil, if i have to i can cast it before my next turn's draw
but the number of miracles I have access to that are even kind of okay are low
it's just Entreat the Dead, Devastation Tide, and Temporal Mastery
The problem with them is that if they’re on top they’re locking you out of casting cards
Because you want to draw them and them being on top isn’t great
i only want to draw them as my first card for turn
Right
which is why i was trying to find ways to draw on opps turns
Because we like impossible tasks
Ah
There’s lots of ways, I’d think
[[Psychic posession]]?
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant opponent
Skip your draw step.
Whenever enchanted opponent draws a card, you may draw a card.
"You will do the thinking for the both of us!"
maybe miracles is a bad direction though
I think you'll know after duskmourn
Miracles may be a mechanic in the set
do i hold off building frog man 
Maybe
Or really strict no combos just value?
I did also see another suggestion of Glarb with Keruga as a companion
I don't wanna do Keruga, I don't find Keruga's benefit powerful enough to do that to my deck.
I considered Gyruda, though.
then I realized I can't
because Glarb costs 3
So, this has slightly too many cards, but I could see trying a deck derived from it for Glarb https://www.moxfield.com/decks/eGqyosi3Y0qPFCNSapVhOA
Keruga is a really fun restriction
Restriction is one thing but I do not value the reward for that restriction
I am forgetting something
FUCK I FORGOT TO LOOK THROUGH THE LIST MXKALE SENT
I will do this in the morning, trust

Emry probably gets cut here btw I forgot she's 3 not 4
4og building is hard
oh my god @torpid hinge you're so fucking right, this can be my chain of smog combo deck
ive been wanting to play chain of smog for fucking FOREVER
i need to figure out an easy indestructible permanent i can get to use [[Chain of Acid]] as well
can't be a creature so unfortunately i have to figure out another option, maybe [[Darksteel Citadel]]?
Chain of Acid is specifically important for this because you can cast it off the top with Glarb
Anyway, last night I played as much Anikthea as Satya, but I still did get a few games in with Satya!
When the deck gets rolling (and it usually does), it is really hard to deal with -- I kept a kinda bad opening hand in the last game of the night, but drawing into Fury and being able to just make a bunch of Fury clones meant I was extremely oppressive on board state.
Generous Plunderer worked wonders, as well, that card's CRAZY good for this deck. Huge inclusion, really. It was a must-remove, however, after they saw how much damage I was able to deal with it, so that might be a sticking point for the future. For now, three cheers for Team Wahoo!!
I am going to consider this particular project finished! Moving onto the next one, Glarb 
I think i put a couple of indestructible cards for that purpose in the list I linked
The one ring
[[Cascading Cataracts]]
Instant
Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
To keep the Reality Chip out of Jin-Gitaxias's hands, the Wanderer entrusted it to Tamiyo.
And [[heroic intervention]]
Okay, no, this is a bad idea. I really like Omnitell but this is not it.
Oh?
I'm sorry that it wasn't working out
oh it's fine im just

i wanted to put omniscience into play at a discount
but its ok
Okay so we're trying this again.
I have no idea what direction I wanna take this.

There's a few things I could do as wincons:
**Omnitell **— This seemed bad when I looked at it before and probably is bad, but Omniscience is a pretty good card, so putting it into play should be able to win me games.
Chain Magecraft — This was the combo mxkale had in the list posted before, and it's cool and all but I'm not 100% sure it's the direction I wanna take things. The combo's pretty telegraphed and unless you're using specifically Witherbloom Apprentice or Professor Onyx, it doesn't win the game outright. Does get the benefit of getting to use Archmage Emeritus, though, if I can find a way to just cast stuff from my grave?
Stompy — Umaru and a few others keep wanting me to build a stompy deck, and I'm not too great at doing that, but it truly could not be simpler with the commander that wants to cast CMC4+ things from the top of my deck. Could even abuse Delve/Convoke/other self-cost-reducers.
Dredge — I don't even know how Dredge wins in commander, to be completely fair. I'd need a lot of help with this, but it might actually be the best option.
I'm not considering Thoracle Consult in here, as I find that locally people don't really care for playing against it and I want to remain able to play the deck. Brainfreeze or Tendril storm would be cool if I could find a way to generate a bunch of storm count? Opinions much needed.
Idk what your power level target is, but delve spells seem pretty good
Per these kind of decks, senseis top and scroll Rack work decently well
Current goal for power is high power casual, I'm not looking to cEDH with this but I'm definitely looking on the stronger end.
Delve spells are something I'd been considering, especially Temporal Trespass, Treasure Cruise, and maybe Ethereal Forager?
Scroll Rack and Sensei's Top should probably be in, though, good looks.
You don't want too many delve cards, they compete amongst themselves
Probably the best ones
Also are a bit Fetch land reliant.
Top deck strategies like this want to have fetches anyway tho
yeah i've got 5 fetches lined up rn, plus prismatic and fabled passage if i feel i need it
Pitching commandeer or fow off the top deck is pretty funny
Evoke cards are pretty good here too
Even like mull drifter or something
Commanders like these usually wanna spam cast off the top as much as possible
i hate mulldrifter but very fair, i can just evoke it off the top and i basically drew 3 cards
Sort of weird the froggy wants higher cmc cards
yeah
im fine not making everything topdeck castable
he does still play lands off the top
I'd rather the deck still be playable when he's not out, lots of drannith locally
Yea for sure, but with top deck commanders like this, you do want a critical mass of valid targets
My wife used to run nalia, it'd feel awful whenever you goose egged the top card
Tbf, dredge is just stompy but graveyard flavored
Stompy is where I’d go, since it just feels so good to play
It’s a great kinda deck where it takes little relative brainpower, so if you want to monke brain and smash face for a game stompy is always recommended
(Disclaimer: you do still use your brain for some sequencing stuff but past that, meh)
Dredge has a few options in commander. There's "empty your library," land-aristocrats, rise of the dark realms, and mill.
If you put snake in frog it feels like you make everything about the snake and similar effects
I had been considering doing like, Torment of Hailfire stuff as a wincon?
Torments really an infinite mana win con
How far off was the list I posted from what you were looking for with omnitell?
A little far, I think you might be on the money though that it's better to just run Emergent Ultimatum than try to run Show and Tell and such
I guess you could do dredge with [[go shintai of life]] if you consider 5c
like, the shrine part is great but the activated ability brings any enchantment back.
Shipping? I'm pretty sure I got them in the nickel box
i will definitely pay shipping that's not even a question
The nickel bin is great at my store. Best recent finds are [[volrath's curse]] and [[!twiddle|4ed]]
twiddle is a great pickup
I'm going to sleep can work things out with text messages?
totally fine by me, i dm'd you but im taking a nap myself here for a sec
It's 2am where I am
Have you considered our lord and savior [[ms bumbleflower]] :3 she can be built as an Approach/Thoracle deck
I haven't, I did consider [[Foxglove]] though
The bnuuy is v fun
i just dont like the bnuuy effect
i think once we're done with Minsc & Boo (or Korvold, if it ends up becoming Korvold), the next deck is Jon Irenicus
There’s a surprising amount of cards that turn the card draw you’re giving away into huge benefit to you
FWIW [[alania]]'s gifted draw seems to perform well too. People like drawing cards...
Multiple cards match “alania”, can you be more specific?
[[Alania, divergent]]
Legendary Creature — Otter Wizard
Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell other than Alania you've cast this turn, you may have target opponent draw a card. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
"Why would I chase the storm? Does a cloud chase the rain? Does the sun chase the light?"
3/5
I get looked at a shocking amount less if I promise people cards and give cards as “penance” for using removal on them
Like I think bumbleflower has been hit by targeted removal maybe once
This is the current build.
gonna try to go through this again in a step-by-step approach
I want to apologize, I still have the chirugeon... I haven't had a chance to send it.
nonono its fine!
- Core Cards
- Ramp
- Redundancy
- Interaction
- Lands
So, core cards for Rusko:
Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal — This is a kill combo with the commander.
Displacer Kitten — A primary way to flicker Rusko to generate clocks.
Hullbreaker Horror — Combos with Sol Ring + any fast mana rock or free artifact to create a kill combo with Rusko.
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse — This turns Midnight clock into a powerful source of lifegain as well as pressuring life totals to make killing with Rusko when not going infinite easier.
Talion, the Kindly Lord — Again, life pressure and a draw engine. Our primary means of actually killing are lifedrain effects, so having life pressure is very powerful.
Torment of Hailfire + Exsanguinate — The primary kill pressure in the deck. Searchable, works very well with large numbers of mana rocks. Just works.
Midnight Clock — Yeah, my commander makes these, but having an extra one is functionally a better flicker effect in a lot of circumstances as it doesn't reset summoning sickness.
Staff of Compleation — It's a cheap way to proliferate, utilizing my increased lifegain to generate card draw more easily and stagger the Midnight Clock pops.
Is there anything here I'm missing @reef estuary ?
It seems pretty comprehensive
What about cards like [[fain the broker]]
Just other ways to manipulate the counters on the clocks
[[chisei]] then
or [[soul diviner]]
Yeah, I think Soul Diviner is an option.
I picked the wrong one from memory.
Yeah, that would be about right. Unless you have a good way to make treasure to supplement it.
Yeah, I don't think I do.
Ramp for Rusko:
Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Talisman of Dominance, Dimir Signet — The absolute baseline.
Lotus Petal — An early Rusko is going to win games for me outright, sometimes, plus it's a free spell for Hullbreaker/Displacer.
Mana Vault — I'm trying to keep the budget a bit lower on this, so no Crypt, but I do just own a Vault and since I can flicker it, that seems really solid here.
Blur — Flickers Rusko and draws a card. Hard to beat this one.
Planar Incision + Teferi's Time Twist — Being able to flicker Clocks is MASSIVELY IMPORTANT because otherwise I lose my ramp as the game goes on.
Ghostly Flicker — Flickers two artifacts or creatures, giving me the ability to reset a clock and make a new one when needed!
Oh, and probably Dark Ritual, right?
1) Core Cards
2) Ramp
3) Redundancy
4) Interaction
5) Lands
Okay so looking at redundancy pieces, I've got a few of these already, but would like a way to win the game through Drannith lock.
And probably also through Narset lock.
[[emry]]?
Emry does Lotus Petal loop, right?
Yeah
yeah, that'll do it
Displacer Kitten
she doesn't have haste
I just love me a mirran spy
maybe worth running anyway since she does say draw 4 cards
well, kinda, depends on how close she drops to a midnight clock
is there a decent way to drain my opponents when i cast spells that isn't Rusko?
maybe Sedgemoor Witch?
alternatively, i could try to play a fair gameplan instead of getting more ways to drain, with stuff like Psychic Frog
and [[Basim Ibn Ishaq]]
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin
Whenever you cast a historic spell, draw a card. Basim Ibn Ishaq can't be blocked this turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Whenever Basim Ibn Ishaq deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Haunted by memories he never had, of a family that was never his.
2/2
unsure which is better/less salt inducing
I love basim
yeah, basim and psychic frog are a really nice pair of free beaters attached to card draw engines
and it's not hard to play good historic spells
maybe a gyruda, a sakashima, and baleful strix?
it would actually be pretty easy to just make Gyruda the companion for this
but does mean no dark rit, no hullbreaker, and no sol ring/staff of compleation/midnight clock
no sol ring means i probably have to play mana crypt 
oh, and no mana vault, yeah i think gyruda's just fine in the 99
what's another efficient lower-cost beater i can pump in this deck
My love, my heart [[ledger shredder]]
[[metalwork colossus]] becomes low cost fairly quickly
oh, yeah, that's -3 every time Rusko ETBs
and i can sac midnight clock if this is in my graveyard in response to the midnight clock trigger
to shuffle it into my deck
Yep
little concerned that it's just a 10/10, but a 10/10 is fine
It is at least expensive for any card that cares about the MV of an artifact
the real issue is it is not even for Gyruda
that's very minimally an issue, that's 1 card in the deck
Multiple cards match “rusko”, can you be more specific?
im flickering a 3/3
Yeah, only drawing off of <=2mv seems mid
[[Pollywog Prodigy]]
It only draws off of spells LESS than its power
So you’re only drawing off of mv <=2
After it gets to 3 power, pollywog stops getting bigger
yeah, i mean that's totally fair
also, i've got a lot of big guys in the deck
Shelly, Gyruda, Hullbreaker, Talion
it's fine to only draw off less than 3, because then it's a 3/5 that's drawing me cards
would prefer it was evasive but hey, what can i really do about that
Is a 3/5 with no evasion mattering in your meta?
not really unfortunately, outside of being a good blocker
Tbh i think pollywog is highly overrated
In decks where you can buff it reliably sure it’s fantastic
But outside that is just feels like a cope because it could potentially maybe possibly eventually be unconditional draw for 2 mana
i would prefer something that's more consistently a large evasive beater if im gonna play fair cards
that's a very reasonable take
i should look at legends and artifact creatures since Basim's in my deck
and evens since Gyruda's in the deck
maybe Alandra?
[[Alandra, Sky Dreamer]]
Legendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Whenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra, Sky Dreamer and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
2/4
she turns my clocks into a +7/+7 pump for the board
What about clones of rusko?
maybe Canoptek Scarab Swarm? Seems like a good control option
yeah, running a few clones is probably a good idea
Glasspool's probably already going in anyway
[[Canoptek Scarab Swarm]]
Creature — Octopus Rogue
Cephalid Facetaker can't be blocked.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have Cephalid Facetaker become a copy of another target creature until end of turn, except it's 1/4 and has "This creature can't be blocked."
Few think to look past a familiar face and a friendly smile.
1/4
fuck you cost 3
also don't really do what i want 
oh, maybe this is my Cyberdrive deck?
Where is gyruda in the list?
I've started another one on moxfield so im not looking at the old stuff
Not in the companion zone, just in the 99.
100% it’s a cyberdrive deck
Kill people with your massive… clocks
i have a pretty extended art japanese cyberdrive, too
oh, phyrexian metamorph is historic
[[sculpting steel]] doesn't do creatures but it does clocks
it does indeed do clocks
and since it's not a creature i dont care if it's even or not
[[auton soldier]] and [[flesh duplicate]] are hits with Gyruda.
Artifact Creature — Alien Soldier
You may have Auton Soldier enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
0/0
Creature — Shapeshifter Rebel
You may have Flesh Duplicate enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it has vanishing 3 if that creature doesn't have vanishing. (A permanent with vanishing 3 enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.)
0/0
Auton soldier copying rusko
Legendary Creature — God Artificer
Those Who Came Before — This spell costs
less to cast for each historic card in your graveyard. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Exile any number of historic cards from your graveyard with total mana value 30 or greater: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control have base power and toughness 9/9."
7/7
Yeah, no, the folding things back in with the clock negates it
there was a creature i was looking at before that gets a counter when you draw a card, and then i thought about the OG
[[Toothy, Imaginary Friend]]
Legendary Creature — Illusion
Partner with Pir, Imaginative Rascal (When this creature enters, target player may put Pir into their hand from their library, then shuffle.)
Whenever you draw a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Toothy, Imaginary Friend.
When Toothy leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.
1/1
who is both historic and cmc4
i think this might be a good amount of creatures, 17 is a lot for a deck like this
oh, i forgot orcish
aight, so that's a pretty reasonable amount of redundancy, a 3rd kill alongside Torment or Exsanguinate would be nice though
potentially Starscream as a consideration, as well
[[starscream]]
Legendary Artifact Creature — Robot
More Than Meets the Eye 
(You may cast this card converted for 
.)
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, if you're the monarch, target opponent loses 2 life.
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, convert Starscream.
2/3
Starscream, Seeker Leader
Legendary Artifact — Vehicle
Living metal (During your turn, this Vehicle is also a creature.)
Flying, menace, haste
Whenever Starscream deals combat damage to a player, if there is no monarch, that player becomes the monarch.
Whenever you become the monarch, convert Starscream.
2/3
i kinda dont want the monarchy in play i think
okay @marble pasture @reef estuary @torpid hinge https://www.moxfield.com/decks/t19HqfOWCkO9M3tzmNBPSA how do we feel about this attempt at the deck?
I think I'd kinda like 2 more artifacts in the deck but I gotta be heavy on instants, so
Isorev blehhhh
But tbf you’re trying to get people to play against it so I can’t recommend thoracle instead
Though I like the 31 land count
31 lands, blehhhh
i dont need any other card, since isorev casts
31 lands good
Embrace low land gaming
i'd consider going lower if i could
Let’s see
maybe drop a swamp for another 0 mana artifact
No crypt gaming eh
Will literally never be me
no, im trying to avoid running hyperexpensive stuff
34 lands at minimum
if i was going to play the expensive stuff there'd be a jeweled lotus in here first
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yeah
vault's only in there because i own a vault and it's legitimately pretty good in this
Yeah with the stronker cards I’d knock that land count down even lower
26-28 land gaming, but that’s hard without moneh or proxies allowed
yeah
only card that's getting falsified is Rusko himself
because imagine actually getting a copy of that
Guessing you don’t really feel like grabbing a one ring then
i should probably, at this point, consider dropping an island for urborg
but i'd have to buy one
And people who want to play something that’s more than, say, 5 mana
Or be able to play the game after our ramp gets bonked
i have so much ramp though
That’s what fast mana and rituals are for
Or tutors/clones in a dockside meta
my commander is ramp
Yeah those are all cringe
that's like part of the deckbuilding i chose to do here, i looked at what the land count in Golos was like
since Midnight Clock taps for blue
My meta don’t run no dockside, tutors or fast mana and I’m having a great time
Clone gaming
i need them to be Gyruda hits
Cyber conversion is interesting
yeah, it's there mostly for notion thief
because holy fuck i get obliterated the literal second someone flashes in notion thief in response to my clock trigger
being able to upside down it instead of kill it is important so it cannot be reanimated
I’m a big fan of the mages for tutor creatures, especially in a blink deck where you have multiple targets
[[Trinket mage]] and the like
yeah, the 2 mv one is actually very good in this case
Also no oppo 😦
no oppo because i want to be able to continue to play the deck
:/
Fair
How about praetor’s grasp
Grab an answer or wincon from your opponents
Clique is nigh unplayable in commander
it gives me a reasonable amount of disruption and is a legend, and since i can blink it, it is reusable
which is something i have to think about because i do get to recycle my blink spells
I love clique because I can use it on myself.
i guess they just run literally every even clone
that they possibly can?
sorry i was lookin for hot tech for rusko
and was lookin through gyruda, toxrill, and talion decks
yeah I'm not sure why he's running that
thought i was missing something
but he's also playing spark double and stuff which is wild
yeah
and those are all evens
yeah i was trying to do that actually
since i'm also running gyruda in the deck
but i think that made the deck worse
if i had to guess
he threw every clone with an even amount in
so that when he gyrudas he can gyruda
i think that's what happened here
interesting
i dont think gyruda players typically do that i thought
i was pretty sure they just run the good clones and then even game enders?
but interesting one nonetheless
oh
i didnt even see that
nevermind
yeah so then they loop one of the clones that doesn't die to legend rule over and over right?
sometimes you abuse the legend rule because it's a sac too
which i think is why he has deadeye navigator in
yeah, i noticed that, that was a card i'd been excluding for rusko
i think maybe this list isnt too useful for my purposes
but was interesting to look at
i was intending to win with hullbreaker loops with rusko out
or with torment of hailfire/exsanguinate
so probably not too useful since this doesnt really do any of that
ah, i forgot about hoarding broodlord saw in half though
that's something to consider
is a good line
especially since saw in half on my commander is also very good
well yeah but
since i know you play that
[[Rusko, Clockmaker]]
oh i know
it's this
you could always join 5c gang
we have 5 color cookies
holy shit, i didnt think about this
but scroll rack is probably insane in rusko right?
i would assume so
i am consistently timetwistering myself
hmm
should consider [[Unwinding clock]] as well, maybe
since my commander makes mana rocks
you should play paradox engine because it does the funny artifact stuff
but i agree
clock can do stuff
but you're playing rusko
who better to play the paradox than the paradoxical commander
timetwister is a good card
if i put timetwister in this list though i think people will shoot me in the parking lot
just on principle
im also just not sure how low on creatures i should be going for this kind of deck
rusko doesnt proc on creatures but i obviously don't want people to beat my ass
then just play the essentials and roll with it
i am the one who plays thoracle moment
rn it's:
Displacer Kitten
Sakashima the Impostor
Sheoldred the Apocalypse
Talion the Kindly Lord
Thassa Deep-dwelling
Gyruda Doom of Depths
Hullbreaker Horror
I should probably also be running something that doesnt cost 4
ledger shredder for sure
i was also looking at uhhhhhhhh
what's the one from asscreed
[[basim ibn ishaq]]
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin
Whenever you cast a historic spell, draw a card. Basim Ibn Ishaq can't be blocked this turn. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
Whenever Basim Ibn Ishaq deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
Haunted by memories he never had, of a family that was never his.
2/2
i dont know if this is actually that good
[[pollywog prodigy]] that's the boi
yeah, im just concerned about my ability to get it to a power that it matters
with so few creatures
ledger shredder's good though
notion thief?
also costs 4 but i guess fair
i dont wheel other people so they might be fine with it
blue creatures outside of clones are hard
oh
black too, since you don't wanna oppo or pew pew bowmasters
ayyyy
oppo though is probably not happening
:/
[[psychic frog]] seems good here
since i can get lands out of my graveyard before i shuffle
also, i can discard my hand to pump it in response to clock trigger
true
other lower-cmc creatures in my colors are hard
like faerie mastermind is a 2 mana 2/1 flyer
and nothing else in most of my games
people really do not be drawing cards
volatile stormdrake is a solid one, if only for removal
you could also play like, thada adel
i could, yeah
or malevolent hermit
maybe psychosis crawler?
i fucking hate that it costs 5 though
but it does certifiably ping everyone for 7 every time a clock goes off
What deck is this? Rusko still?
What’s the move
cant quite find a build i like
Also I still don’t recommend pollywog
I mean tbh, I think turbo flicker could be very fun
Just lotsa mana
Your hand will always be full
yeah but the problem is how do i actually win
You’re casting noncreature spells
i like doing cool value stuff but i also dont wanna hold 3 players hostage
I mean you can set up some flicker combos
but yes, pollywog is not in the deck
Flicker combos are instant wins with rusko
Isorev does it too
current working rebuild
Control is good too
Especially if you can flicker rusko at least sometimes
Because your hand will always be full
kinda how he sees play on MTGA except we have different options
like in Historic Brawl, they have Pengine
Ooh
and so he's a Pengine deck
but here we can abuse flicker effects to give us stuff that helps with our control gameplan
Would [[dispersal shield]] be good?
i mean it's probably still fine
2 mana counter target spell cmc3 or less is still fine
I’d rather run, like, [[stern scolding]]
some flicker spells that were seeing play in Gyruda here (this is why i looked them up first)
Planar Incision
[[planar incision]]
You can also set up the archaeomancer flicker combos
yeah
That’s also good just to make more clocks until you hit the combo
ghostly flicker isn't exactly the one i want but
there's one that was, can't think of the name
illusionist's gambit?
[[illusionist's gambit]] ?
Instant
Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step on an opponent's turn.
Remove all attacking creatures from combat and untap them. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Each of those creatures attacks that combat if able. They can't attack you or planeswalkers you control that combat.
no wrong one
[[illusionist stratagem]]
those don't hit artifacts, which is a little concerning
Hmmm, i mean we don’t care thaaat much about that
Your clocks are fine getting exiled if you’re getting another one
sure but i can flicker them in response to the trigger to get them back and still get the draw
Right
so ideally i can do that
but is that worth so much that im willing to pay 2 more mana?
I just mean don’t discount ones that can’t hit artifacts
Even single target ones are literally free
[[lillysplash portal]]
Lmao
[[psychic frog]]

. Spend this mana only to cast a spell that's one or more colors without
in its mana cost.
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