Nightveil Sprite thoughts? Rogue, flyer, card selection

jwitzleben its going in and replacing artisan's assistant. Just hasn't arrived in the mail for me yet.

How would Blinkmoth Nexus go here, out of curiosity? or is the consistent mana fixing that much more important?

enpc Mana fixing is too important and paying each turn to make manlands turn into creatures is not something we want to be doing with our mana.

I love this deck, but if you had to pick a different card than nexus of fate what would it be? I know its effect is really unique but I just don't play with foils

HealthyFrog We're really favoring warp density right now but If I had to choose a replacement it would be a piece of recursion or another attacker so probably either Nostalgic Dreams or Artificer's Assistant. Your call, though I would lean towards dreams as it lets you reuse a warp.

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Been playing edric for about 8 months now, and I have found that the aggro political beatdown list to be better. You can often leverage players greed to eventually explode forward and win the table instantly. I don't run it as a 100% beatdown, but combining some taking turns + aggro options is the ideal form of the list IMO.

mkohm5 Hey there! It seems that you may be playing Edric in a more casual setting. Politics are non existent in competitive EDH as everyone is aiming to make the best and most correct play possible. Your strategy may very well work better in a casual setting, but in 4 player competitive, bribes and politics just don't happen. If you want to find out more about competitive EDH and Edric in the format, please feel free to come over to the Edric discord. https://discord.gg/VHEwb7Q

-Allergy

Allergymedsandcats Fair enough, I have been running a Malaren of the Mournsong Ad Nauseam in more competitive scenes.

Why are you not running nexus of fate?>

You going to find a home for the new Pteramander here? If for no other reason than it's a salamander drake.

to save everyone some time;

@justinhohenshelt - it's in the deck already. It's an instant (one of the reasons why it's good), so you might be missing it. ctrl+f for it

@enpc - there was a discussion about it on Edric discord and everyone, including Allergymedsandcats, agreed that the deck has wide enough selection of attackers that we can be picky, so a simple " Flying Men with a slight upside" doesn't cut it these days. There is a guide for grading attackers in the primer so this all could make more sense if you take a look there. But it's cool that budget versions just got a new solid attacker.

JohnnyCRO Thank you for helping out, Johnny. I havent checked Tapped out in a while.

justinhohenshelt Just as Johnny said, Nexus of fate is right there in the list. You must not have realized that its an instant so you might have missed it.

enpc Yeah Ptera will not be making it in. Hahah just not good enough. No relevant creature types or utility that helps the gameplan.

Hi I am looking at this as my first dive into the format from casual play. Just wondering how much have a selvala in my meta would (if at all) hinder edric and lastly is gilded drake a good include?

kungfoomoo Not sure. I think I need more info. Which Selvala are we talking about and what is their gameplan?

Why Personal Tutor over Mystical Tutor ? Surely Mystical Tutor is better?

Oh wait...I forgot it's an instant. It's 1am, fml. Sorry lol

Sorry for the spam Allergy, but I have a story related to Clyde_Bankstons comment that I just have to share;

I recently played a game that boiled down to me and my Edric vs a friend piloting their Jhoira storm. He imprinted a Dispel onto a scepter hoping to stop me from going off. Next turn I topdecked a Personal Tutor , went for Notorious Throng that ended up winning me the game in the end without the need for me to cast a single instant.

( I play both Personal and Mystical, but this is a sweet corner case I just had to share)

Allergymedsandcats Selvala Brostorm, Tazri Food chain and the odd Jhoira and Zur storm.

I am liquidating my collection keeping only 2 other decks and building my first CEDH deck. It's a big leap, this deck looks really fun and pushes some diversity in this format which is what I think is great about it.

I am just worried it won't get off the ground before they storm off. I have proxied it up to give it a test run with a Gilded Drake, not sure what I am going to sub the drake in for yet though.

Allergymedsandcats

Oh sorry my gameplan. I have trialled Grenzo which felt way too fragile albeit fast and a golgari hulk ballista combo which was really resilient to hate but just didn't have enough interaction for my taste. The Selvala is pretty explosive but I found that if I can respond to her being cast or at least removing her before she can be tapped it can usually slow her down enough to get ahead, the Tazri is something I am still trying to wrap my head around in regards to dealing with him, I am probably aiming to go down the same route.

Sorry this is a wall of text I just know I can't copy and paste this list into my meta and I am just trying to get as much info as I can before I take the very expensive dive haha.

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JohnnyCRO Proof that Throng is the best card in the 99.

Hey Allergymedsandcats! I'm beginning to build this deck too, and was hoping a more experienced pilot like you could help me? I'm using your budget list for my biggest reference point for my deck however, because my meta is more casual than competitive insofar it doesn't have stax/blood pod/breakfast hulk/doomsday/chainveil/etc etc. (link here if you want).

What is your opinion on an odd card like Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip (and Drift of Phantasms ) to replace the expensive Gaea's Cradle (which I don't have yet)? And since I also don't have Dryad Arbor yet should I still include Crop Rotation just for Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx ? Do you think Exploration (which I don't have yet) is good enough to warrant Gaea's Touch ? Also do you think Birds of Paradise or counterspells like Logic Knot / Arcane Denial / Abjure / Swan Song / Heroic Intervention are all suboptimal for my budget constraints? What other budget cards are worth mentioning for Edric?

I was also wondering if I should include Twincast / Mission Briefing / Flood of Recollection / Skullwinder / Beacon of Tomorrows to make up for the lack of warp density (I don't have Capture of Jingzhou / Nexus of Fate / Temporal Manipulation / Time Warp )? Thanks in advance for taking the time to answer <3

I just read the "Allergymeds why not" google doc, so apologies. I have the khan fetches to take care of the tucking but you include all the fetches and still conclude it sucks, so yeah it's suboptimal but what about a cradle-absent budget list? heroic intervention can turn sweepers into one-sided sweepers which my meta does like, but yeah I agree that it's just a narrow counterspell.

oliveoilonyaasscureshemorrhoid Hey there! There's a lot to digest here and it would be a lot easier to discuss in the Edric discord or in PMs on discord.

https://discord.gg/VHEwb7Q

Pop in and ask there or DM me. I'll be happy to help.

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