UGb Meta Conundrum

Standard BUG (Sultai) Card Draw Matters Combo Counters Hexproof Infinite Combo Tap/Untap Tokens

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Land (24)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 2x Cavern of Souls
• 2x Deathcap Glade
• 2x Dreamroot Cascade
• 2x Forest
• 4x Hedge Maze
• 2x Island
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Restless Cottage
• 1x Restless Reef
• 2x Shipwreck Marsh
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

Creature (20)

• 1x Containment Construct
• 2x Elusive Otter
• 4x Forensic Researcher
• 1x Glissa Sunslayer
• 1x Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
• 2x Likeness Looter
• 1x Living Conundrum
• 2x Picklock Prankster
• 1x Surge Engine
• 2x Tempest Hart
• 1x The Pride of Hull Clade
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Unctus, Grand Metatect

Enchantment (8)

• 2x Deeproot Pilgrimage
• 2x Founding the Third Path
• 2x Lost in the Maze
• 2x Proft's Eidetic Memory

Artifact (2)

• 1x Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 1x Dollhouse of Horrors

Instant (5)

• 2x Outrageous Robbery
• 3x Repulsive Mutation

Battle (2)

• 2x Invasion of Segovia  ^Flip

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x The Goose Mother
• 1x Titania, Voice of Gaea  ^Meld
• 2x Vodalian Hexcatcher
• 1x Zimone and Dina
• 1x Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy

Land (3)

• 1x Argoth, Sanctum of Nature  ^Meld
• 2x Underground Mortuary

Artifact (2)

• 2x Buried Treasure

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Deeproot Pilgrimage

Instant (2)

• 2x Intrude on the Mind

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Trying to build some sort of payoff around two Forensic Researchers untapping each other.

What seems to be working best is adding Unctus, Grand Metatect and Proft's Eidetic Memory. Each Researcher tap triggers Metatect's draw/discard thing. And then Memory pays off those draws with +1/+1 counters on an attacker. Evasion attackers like Tempest Hart (trample) or Elusive Otter or Picklock Prankster (flying) pays off getting +1/+1 counters the same turn.

Deeproot Pilgrimage is another way to pay off the Researcher tap loops. Generate infinite merfolk tokens. But you have to wait a turn for them to attack. (Maybe a Surrak and Goreclaw is needed.) Also, if you have Unctus out, you're mulching through your library to generate the tokens, but in a crazy way, decking yourself actually allows for Living Conundrum to get value. Containment Construct can maybe save some of the discards as you're churning through.

Another idea is to play convoke X spells to pay off having lots of token creatures. Flipping an Invasion of Segovia   sets up the convoke on Outrageous Robbery or Repulsive Mutation. Lost in the Maze is technically an X spell too, but you more want to use it for hexproofing your own characters on the fly, manipulating blockers for key attacks to flip a battle or finish the game. (Maybe we really want a Doppelgang.)

Wasn't sure what else should go in the deck. Tried a few angles like Vodalian Hexcatcher or The Goose Mother but didn't feel like they were fitting into the synergy. For now trying for cards that can recover key creatures from the graveyard, like Agatha's Soul Cauldron and Dollhouse of Horrors and Likeness Looter. Especially with the Cauldron I'm trying Surge Engine and The Pride of Hull Clade to see if their abilities are useful copies. Lier, Disciple of the Drowned and Founding the Third Path help recycle the spells and adventures from the graveyard.

Glissa Sunslayer is just a general good card that has some synergy with Battles and gets value from extra +1/+1 counters. But otherwise it's not really plugging into the core synergy.

Date added	11 months
Last updated	11 months
Legality	This deck is Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 4 Mythic Rares 34 - 7 Rares 15 - 1 Uncommons 0 - 2 Commons
Cards	61
Avg. CMC	2.76
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Food, Kraken 1/1 U, Merfolk 1/1 U w/ Hexproof, On an Adventure, Thopter 0/0 C