Looking for feedback and SB suggestions. Also, there are 3 issues I have listed at the end of the description.Thank you!
Modern Format - The idea here is to donate
Aggressive Mining
and destroy/bounce their lands, maybe grabbing a creature or two from them in the process. Win condition is
Ember Swallower
and/or Red Sun's Zenith. Or they can scoop if they have no lands and no answer for the
Aggressive Mining
. :D
Theory:
Puca's Mischief and
Daring Thief
provide the donations. The bounce is good if you get stuck with the
Aggressive Mining
or if you run into something nasty that needs to go away.
Artful Dodge and the bounce are there to protect the Thief.
Icefall
,
Volcanic Awakening
, and Avalanche Riders provide the outright land destruction, and Reverberate is there to enhance the bounce/destruction.
Plan:
Early game - Bounce land or mana producing permanents as needed to keep them from establishing a solid mana base.
Mid Game - Get Puca's Mischief or
Daring Thief
(or both) into play, and then get
Aggressive Mining
into play. Now, depending on what they've played, you can go with either card. Point is, DON'T PLAY AGGRESSIVE MINING UNLESS YOU CAN DONATE IT OR DEAL WITH IT.
Late Game - Continue locking down their mana base. Use the
Ember Swallower
or the Red Sun's Zenith as your win condition. Burn out 'em out with the RSZ, or use the ES and monstrosity it to further kill their lands. You can save some bounce/evasion for your ES to better destroy your opponent. You even play Aggressive Mining on yourself to draw into a win condition or a response to a threat!
Caveats:
1) I'm not really sure if the win condition is solid enough. I feel like there should be more win conditons than 4 cards, but since RSZ goes back into your deck and hopefully they have very little mana, it may be all that you need. Furthermore, Ember Swallower does have a sizeable amount of fat, especially when he gets monstrous. Despite the fact that he kills 3 of your lands, he also kills 3 of THEIR lands, and given the direction this deck is taking, that should hose them rather spectacularly.
2) I think
Detritivore
would be a good idea here, but I'm not sure yet how best to use him.
3) I'm not that keen on the mana base. I think I could do better on the lands, so that's a work in progress too.
Thanks for reading!!!
