GlistenerAgent How do you feel about the Command?

Atarka's Command is very very terrible. 3 Cryptics is very bad. 6 fetches, 11 Mountains and 2 Islands is bad.

Don't play more than 35 mana sources, and even that's pushing it.

I haven't played the deck yet, first FNM tomorrow.

Glistener, it would help more if you expanded. First time playing the deck and not 100% sure what the land base should be, plus I don't have all the cards yet so its what I can get hold of to start out.

3 Islands is mandatory, so that you can cast Cryptic under a Blood Moon. 11 Mountain cards is fine, but you could cut down to 10. I also highly recommend Flooded Grove if you can get your hands on it. Misty Rainforest > Wooded Foothills.

Four Cryptic Command is needed, as it's the best card in the deck. Atarka's Command isn't very good, and I suggest you just replace it with perhaps the fourth Cryptic and something else.

I don't like playing Farseek, because it adds to dead draws and increases the chance of flooding. I'd cut at least one.

I want to try the Atarka's Command before just dismissing it. As for the rest of your suggestions, they seemed valid, so tweaked the landbase a bit. I will again point out that I don't have all these cards so it isn't as straightforward as having the perfect numbers of each land, sometimes a different shock or fetch is needed because I just don't have the one I want.

Thank you for replying

Fair enough. Explore is just better than Command IMO because it draws a card, and doing that is much more important than stopping lifegain or dealing 3. We are a control deck, and don't care for those things much.

So first FNM results - Went 1-3.

Two of the losses, against Merfolk and Amulet Bloom, were close. Both times it was just luck - didn't draw the scapeshift or was stuck on 6 lands (chalice of the void for 4 is painful too).

Poor deck piloting by me also probably didn't help, and I think the list needs tweaking - namely the removal of the Atarka's Command, probably to be replaced by Anticipate or something similar to that.

It was also suggested to me that I could have a sideboard which turned the deck into Twin. Could be amusing but not sure it would be overly effective.

I also had somebody suggest BreachScape as an alternate build, maybe it is something else I could sideboard into - throw a PrimeTime or Emrakul into them.

You need four Stomping Grounds. Probably cut a Foothills. Try to get your hands on Flooded Grove if you can, it's the best land in the deck.

Sideboarded ScOozes are... weird.

Also, don't bother with Breach or Twin. They just make the deck less consistent.

Been trading into the lands, at the moment just using what I have/can borrow, which also includes adding some sideboard cards I have such as Scooze.

Did manage to borrow a Flooded Grove last night. Completely agree with you, but getting hold of cards isn't always as simple as saying 'I want it'.

I think the Twin thing was more a joke as I was stripping someone's twin deck for their cryptics and snapcasters.

Absolutely. Just noting what you can be working towards.

More mountains.