4C Value Pod

Canadian Highlander GWUB

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Creature (41)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Charming Prince
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Custodi Lich
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Kitchen Finks
• 1x Knight of Autumn
• 1x Leovold, Emissary of Trest
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Llanowar Visionary
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Luminous Broodmoth
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Palace Jailer
• 1x Plague Engineer
• 1x Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1x Questing Beast
• 1x Recruiter of the Guard
• 1x Renegade Rallier
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sin Collector
• 1x Skyclave Apparition
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1x Vendilion Clique
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Land (35)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Horizon Canopy
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Island
• 1x Karakas
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Bloodchief's Thirst
• 1x Collective Brutality
• 1x Duress
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Thoughtseize

Instant (7)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Once Upon a Time
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns
• 1x Teferi, Time Raveler
• 1x Vivien, Monsters' Advocate

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (2)

• 1x Aether Vial
• 1x Birthing Pod

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Four color value pod, building off my sultai pod list. Experimenting with different colors.

Survival of the Fittest [2] Birthing Pod [2] Spellseeker [2]

Cards that have been underperforming:

• Aether Vial
• Jace, Vryn's Prodigy?

Changelog

10/03/20 Zendikar Rising

Skyclave Apparition is a huge win for this style of deck. It removes almost every permanent you care about and gives your opponent a middling resource when they do remove it. Glasspool Mimic   is a cool way to double-up on effects you have in play while having a decent floor of being a land. I'm not sure how much spell-based removal this deck needs but Bloodchief's Thirst is a really powerful effect.

I've flooded out a bit too often with this deck, so I'm going to replace a land with the Mimic. Gaea's Cradle is obviously a powerful card but it can be a little awkward - you don't always have use for the extra green compared to other colors. I don't think this deck really needs the cantrips with all the tutors, so I'm cutting the worst one. I've never been super happy with Jace. He so often dies without giving you any value.

Turntimber Symbiosis   should also be in the deck but I haven't picked one up yet.

Out

• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  
• 1 Preordain

In

• 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
• 1 Glasspool Mimic  
• 1 Skyclave Apparition

7/30/20: Points List Update and Core Set 21

I haven't played Canadian Highlander since the points update, but Spellseeker is now 2 points, which makes the current configuration illegal. In playing the deck the infinite turn combo came up enough that I wonder if it's right to keep that and drop the Birthing Pod, but that seems a little crazy.

So for now, that means Time Walk is out and so is Archaeomancer, since that was mainly there for the infinite combo. In their place I'm looking at Survival of the Fittest and a card I'm interested in trying out from M21: Llanowar Visionary.

Out

• 1 Time Walk
• 1 Archaeomancer

In

• 1 Survival of the Fittest
• 1 Llanowar Visionary

Old infinite turn combo, for posterity:

1. Get Spellseeker into play
2. Grab Ephemerate. Blink Spellseeker.
3. Grab Time Walk. Cast it. Total mana: 3 + however you got spellseeker into play (6 if hardcast)
4. On next upkeep, Ephemerate Spellseeker off rebound. Grab Neoform.
5. Neoform Spellseeker into Archaeomancer.
6. Grab Ephemerate with the ETB.
7. Ephemerate Archaeomancer. Grab Time Walk. Cast Time Walk. Total mana: 5
8. On next upkeep, Ephemerate Archaeomancer off rebound.
9. Repeat steps 6 - 8. Total mana per turn: 3

5/1/20: Ikoria

Trying out a couple things from Ikoria. The tri-lands seem pretty great for a 4-color deck - can fetch them out early if you're playing off-curve or cycle them late. This deck has some pretty big mana requirements (double pips for all four colors), so extra fixing is nice.

Vivien, Monsters' Advocate seems absurd in a creature toolbox deck. It keeps gas flowing and gives you more opportunities to tutor out creatures. I'm trying her in place of The Scarab God since they're both value creatures and I've found Scarab God to be the least important 5 drop when podding up the chain - he just doesn't impact the board like the other two.

Luminous Broodmoth seems really strong in a deck that's intentionally sacrificing creatures. Can potentially be a 4-mana do nothing but easily worth trying out. I don't know what to cut for her though. Going with Restoration Angel since they fill sort of similar roles of increasing value of other creatures (very loosely though) and they're both 4 drops. Don't feel confident about that at all though.

Fiend Artisan is a Green Sun's Zenith on a stick, with a few extra hoops to jump through. Turning your mana dorks into 3 and 4 drops seems really powerful. I've never been happy with Regrowth, and that's not really a 2-mana play anyway, so cutting that for him.

Out

• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 Restoration Angel
• 1 Regrowth

In

• 1 Indatha Triome
• 1 Zagoth Triome
• 1 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
• 1 Luminous Broodmoth
• 1 Fiend Artisan

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Card Score	2 / 10
Legality	This deck is Canadian Highlander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 61 - 0 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.46
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Clue, Elk 3/3 G, Experience Token, Food, Illusion */* U, The Monarch
Folders	Canadian Highlander