Uhhhh baby’s first full deckbuilding and I need some suggestions
#Redshift, Rocketeer Chief
dusk dawn
wide cosmos
Long term, actively monitor how much you are enjoying going infinite with Aggravated Assault / Sword of the Paruns / Umbral Mantle / Staff of Domination and how your playgroup's counterplay evolves knowing that that is a possible output of your deck. If they start proactively removing your commander, perhaps more protection will be something you want to play later on.
There are also a good handful of creatures like [[Kami of Whispered Hopes]] that can offer redundancy with the plan of converting power into mana.
cyan urchinBOT
Creature — Spirit
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead.
: Add X mana of any one color, where X is Kami of Whispered Hopes's power.
Nashi knelt reverently before the kami and envisioned his family reunited.
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dusk dawn
Long term, actively monitor how much you are enjoying going infinite with Aggrav...
So I’m doing a good job so far? Wow!
Do I need more sorceries/instants?
wide cosmos
The most important thing is that you are enjoying yourself in games. When you play this, if there's anything that comes up over multiple games that's disrupting your enjoyment, that would be something to address at that point. Have you played the deck yet?
The only thing that is, I guess, setting off some warning flags is that you're light on multiple ways to draw into more resources, which you might feel most strongly after a board wipe.
Given what the commander is doing, something like [[Sunset Pyramid]] or other cards in that space.
cyan urchinBOT
Artifact
Sunset Pyramid enters with three brick counters on it.
, , Remove a brick counter from Sunset Pyramid: Draw a card.
, : Scry 1.
Decades to build. Hours to demolish.
wide cosmos
Especially with how little card draw you have presently, I think it would be easy to find a land you could get more utility from than Reliquary Tower. Even a [[Rogue's Passage]] would offer you more than no max hand size with where it looks like you are right now.
cyan urchinBOT
Land
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, : Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.
wide cosmos
I suppose Reliquary Tower does come up when you draw your whole deck with Staff of Domination. Though if nobody stopped you from doing that, you're probably going to win that turn anyway.
dusk dawn
So card draw and things that utilize the ability mana is what I’m getting?
Maybe [[beast whisperer]]
cyan urchinBOT
wide cosmos
That's always a good one in creature heavy decks.
It's hard for me to read deckbuilding intent too deeply. I get the impression you're trying to do infinite mana with Redshift later in the game but I'm not sure if you had intended on them being part of your early game setup as well.
[[Umbral Mantle]] + Redshift is in the space of things that I think people would generally classify as a 2-card combo in that you make infinite mana and then can attack for lethal commander damage even before involving any other cards. I bring this up only because it appears that you manually set your deck with the intention of being in Bracket 2.
The bracket system is extremely brand new and is likely to be updated a bit. Check in on that in a few months. It may be that, with that gameplay goal, Bracket 3 would be a more appropriate way to explain your list when you sit down to games since it is possible that you can knock a player out as early as turn 4 with that, at least some of the time.
cyan urchinBOT
Artifact — Equipment
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: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn." ( is the untap symbol.)
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It harnesses the power of night in a land where daylight fears to show itself.
dusk dawn
It's hard for me to read deckbuilding intent too deeply. I get the impression yo...
Honestly, I don’t have much idea what I’m doing.
wide cosmos
Best thing to do is get some games in!
Even just playing a few games solitaire can be helpful in seeing how things work. But nothing beats games vs people for the full breadth of variance games can have.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with Moxfield, but it has a thing that lets you do it right on the website.
dusk dawn
For the rest of the cards can I just add ones in my collection so I don’t have to think much?
Also, should I not add more creatures?
wide cosmos
You can put whatever you want into your deck. Especially if you're building a physical deck, it makes total sense to fill slots with cards you already have on hand. You can always change cards out later if you get something new you want to put in.
dusk dawn
@wide cosmos I filled out the deck. I hope I did some good additions, I’ll playtest in the morning. Any thoughts you have (maybe you could playtest it too?) are welcome
dusk dawn
Also, do I need graveyard retrieval?
wide cosmos
It's always nice to have.
It's one of the reasons [[Bala Ged Recovery]] is so popular
cyan urchinBOT
Sorcery
Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
"Always have a backup plan." —Doral, Bala Ged guide
Bala Ged Sanctuary
Land
This sorcery // land enters tapped.
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"I know it's around here somewhere." —Doral, Bala Ged guide
wide cosmos
I'm also in the process of putting a Redshift list together. You might like [[Bonder's Enclave]] if you're trying to get the goblin to 4 power consistently.
cyan urchinBOT
Land
: Add .
, : Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
There is a sanctuary that reveals itself only to those graced by the eludha—the mystical connection between bonder and monster.
dusk dawn
I'm also in the process of putting a Redshift list together. You might like [[Bo...
I’m not sure about the land, but I would like to check out the list when you put it together! Thanks!
bleak coyote
[[doubling cube]] & [[orochi leafcaller]]
cyan urchinBOT
Artifact
, : Double the amount of each type of unspent mana you have.
The cube's surface is pockmarked with jagged runes that seem to shift when unobserved.
Creature — Snake Shaman
: Add one mana of any color.
"Only orochi hatched from eggs 'touched by the kami' may become shamans. These days, there are fewer and fewer new shamans being born."
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bleak coyote
let you launder your mana
wide cosmos
I’m not sure about the land, but I would like to check out the list when you put...
This is what I ended up putting together.
A heavy focus on cycling lands with Life from the Loam and Borborygmos and backup borborygmos [[Irencrag Pyromancer]] using Gamble and Fervent Mastery to find Life from the Loam.