Don't you hate it when your Emrakul, the Aeons Torn gets exiled with a Solitude? Or stopped by an Ensnaring Bridge?
So fret no more, the idea of this twist is to protect your combo and interact more with your opopponent's pesky answers.
My playstyle has with show & tell decks has always been to get Omniscience out and get as much value as possible. With the rise to split second removal and Solitude it got me thinking how to protect the combo and get more walue.
This is the second iteration of a twist and after my first failed attempt I realised the deck needs ways of protecting the combo, enabling it and making it more consistent.
We have most of core of sneak and show in the cantrips, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, Omniscience, Show and Tell and Force of Will.
As you can see Griselbrand is not in the deck, this may seem odd, but he usually took away from the rest of the combo and reduced the opponent's clock. The combo is now more streamlined and focused on getting emmy out.
Aside from Teferi, Time Raveler stopping interaction removing cards that stop us winning and making our Show and Tell an instant, there is Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy. This little known commander legend's card adds more synergy to our combo, he enables us to make use of our cantrips twice. when Omniscience is in play we only pay for the cards we cast from the gy.
Imagine cantripping during a counter war or casting Show and Tell from a Brainstorm on their end step.
Being in white means Karakas has more utility and provides us with an infinite wincon when omniscience is out (a trick I enjoyed in simic 12post).
Terminus is the boardwipe of choice because it can be cast instant speed off a cantrip, can cost just 1 mana and gets around indestructibility.
The sideboard is a work in progress, but as all of our creatures have not etb or activated effects we can consider Cursed Totem and Torpor Orb to slow the opponent down.
I look forward to any thoughts and feedback on the deck.
Testing Atraxa, Grand Unifier as a one of as the synergy with the rest of the deck is worth looking at:
Can be bounced for value with Karakas
Is a value engine
Best case scenario gets instant win by getting emrakul, the aons torn, Teferi, Time Raveler, Omniscience, Lotus Petal, Show and Tell, City of Traitors & Intuition
After testing Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy is being cut as it is always the first card I cut and is for games going late, which doesn't synergise with the aim of the deck. Atraxa, Grand Unifier came out once towards the end and every time I had Show and Tell or an Omniscience I would have been happy having atraxa in hand.
I'll be testing out Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines in the sideboard replacing one of the Stifle. I'll also be trying Jin-Gitaxias
when he's released to see if he works with the deck.
