Oh I get it!Thanks, I'll need it then

How effective do you think Pitiless Plunderer is with Alesha? It's a 4 drop but can be recurred with her and can help ramp up when our creatures die. I guess he would work better in a more aggro version, but with the sac outlets and such in your version he could do some work.

OldSun

He is a bit ... Cute?

Where I actually see this guy being useful is a replacement to Food Chain in Prossh (with a sac outlet) - not a great one, but times are rough

Any improvements / changes to the deck? There's been plenty of new stuff since RIX :)

If you're sick of fog-effects run Everlasting Torment as damage can't be prevented. Giving Alesha wither is also pretty good as first-strike and wither will put -1/-1 counters on their creature before they deal damage back ensuring your commander lives if blocked by a 4/X creature. Wither also does well at removing indestructible creatures through combat damage as well.

Just so you know Experimental Frenzy can easily be part of an infinite combo. All you need is Experimental Frenzy + Sensei's Divining Top + Helm of Awakening or Cloud Key naming artifacts. Basically you can keep casting Sensei's Divining Top an infinite number of times off the top of your deck which allows you to draw unlimited times which can result in drawing your entire deck for free.

After that you'll want to cast the following cards off the top of your library as you draw to them; Lotus Petal , Dark Ritual , and Elixir of Immortality . Order doesn't matter here, and your Elixir will cost 0 mana given the Helm of Awakening or Cloud Key . Dark Ritual gives you 3 black mana and Lotus Petal gives one mana of any color. You will then spend 2 black mana to activate the Exilir shuffling it along with the Ritual and Petal back in your deck to repeat this all over again. Do note you'll always need the third black mana from Dark Ritual to recast it again every loop, and thus each loop you net one extra mana of any color with Lotus Petal . Congratulations you now have infinite draw, infinite mana of any color, and infinite life from the Elixir, as well as an infinite storm count due to constantly recasting Sensei's Divining Top .

At this point you can win by activating Experimental Frenzy 's effect that destroys itself allowing you free range to assemble any of your lethal combos as every card that was in your library and graveyard will now be in your hand, or can you simply run a Grapeshot as a back-up plan with your now infinite storm count.

StopShot

It is a nice combo, but problem is adding some cards breaks the parity of my stax pieces, and some are good only with the combo, and as a Taxing deck I really need to pick my silver bullets

@Mishraharad, That's understandable. Reconsidering your stax pieces a better fit for your deck would be Flameshadow Conjuring + Felidar Guardian + Mountain or any land/artifact that comes untapped and can produce .

You have Flameshadow Conjuring in play and a Mountain . You then proceed to cast Felidar Guardian . Both the Felidar and the Flameshadow trigger. You'll always resolve Felidar Guardian 's ETB first targeting your Mountain to flicker and untap it. Then you can tap the Mountain to pay Flameshadow Conjuring 's triggered ability creating a hasty Felidar Guardian token. Because a token enters Flameshadow Conjuring does not trigger again, so instead you have the Felidar Guardian token's ETB target the original Felidar Guardian blinking the cat and having it re-enter the battlefield again which will also re-trigger the Flameshadow Conjuring . You then repeat, cat blinks mountain, mountain makes another haste cat token, haste cat token blinks original cat, until you have enough hasty cats to deal lethal to everyone.

Felidar Guardian is good as it can also combo off with Karmic Guide and Goblin Bombardment . Flameshadow Conjuring may not be an optimal stand alone card, but creating extra ETB's per turn will always give it something to do. Do note if your opponent kills the cat before you can go infinite you won't be able to reinitiate the combo for lethal by recurring the cat with your commander, as you'll have wasted the combat step doing so. However, if you do so with a Goblin Bombardment or Altar of Dementia you can then deal lethal as you'll have infinite tokens to sacrifice to anyways.

There are a few other lethal combos that crossed my mind that would also by-pass all your current stax pieces:

Mana Echoes + Goblin Trenches + Drownyard Temple = Infinite goblins, infinite colorless mana, and infinite landfall. Can be activated at instant speed on an opponent's end-step making the tokens safe from boardwipe.

Endless Cockroaches + Deathrender + Goblin Bombardment = The equipped roaches die going back to hand, Deathrender triggers putting the roaches back on the field equiped to be sac'd again.

Teysa, Orzhov Scion + Darkest Hour + Goblin Bombardment + any other creature = Sac the other creature, since Darkest Hour made the creature black Teysa produces a 1/1 white spirit token. Darkest Hour however makes the spirit token black, so sacrificing the spirit will produce another black spirit, and again and again for endless sac-effects.

Just curious, you don't actually run a lot of tutors. Is there a reason why?

thk89

Currently, budget.

THere was a Demonic Tutor a few months ago, but then few expenses loomed their ugly head so some sacrifices had to be made

Mishraharad I see. Let's say, you would be inserting Vampiric Tutor, Enlightened Tutor, Diabolic Intent, Mox Diamond, Mox Opal, Chrome Mox, and Mana Crypt into your deck for fast mana and consistency, what cards would you replace? Fewer creatures in the deck?

thk89 If I'm getting those cards, I+m also getting an LED, which would mean I lower one combo for Bomberman Combo, and a few situational removal creatures, like Hedge Mage and the like

Have you considered the newly spoiled Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion ?

ThaneGarrus I'm still wondering where to put him.

In BloodPod he'll deffo find a spot, but not sure how much more 4 mana things I need in Alesha

Couple of cards from War of the Spark that I'm curious to hear your opinion on. Command the Dreadhorde and Liliana, Dreadhorde General . Think they could work pretty well in an Alesha deck?

Lambofan217 Liliana seems a tad slow/higher costed for the impact she has. If she were 5 mana, or had a bit stronger +1 perhaps. But this is only talking for a faster meta ofc.

Command the Dreadhorde mostly depends on what do you plan to getting back. 6 mana is huge in a type deck like ours, but if there is people with great creatures/you can combo with it... I'd still use Reanimate or Necromancy or Animate Dead

Do you still happen to have the original non-budget list of a competitive deck?

Some of the new Modern Horizons card have just been revealed and I noticed the card Seasoned Pyromancer.

(1RR Human Shaman 2/2; When Seasoned Pyromancer enters the battlefield, discard two cards, then draw two cards. For each nonland card discarded this way, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token 3RR, Exile Seasoned Pyromancer from your graveyard: Create two 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens)

What is your opinion?

Lambofan217

Seems pretty deece:

-1 Tormenting Voice

+1 Old Peezy

I may be mistaken, but doesn't cursed totem cancel Alesha's own ability?

TallKanz211 Alesha''s ability is triggered, not activated

"In BloodPod he'll deffo find a spot, but not sure how much more 4 mana things I need in Alesha"

What makes you say this? Mishraharad.

Bouquetin

I've tested out Neheb in Alesha...

He is amazing, and you should run him - he does all the things you want.

Smack people, ramps you a bit and is a discard outlet.

Now, doubt I had was following - he is 4 mana, he needs to connect to have any use.

But boy, when he does...

Mishraharad I was more interested in you saying that he's great in Bloodpod. I don't necessarily see why he'd be so good in Bloodpod.

I'm normally very quick to dismiss 'limited bombs' from new sets, but I agree Neheb is actually quite strong

Bouquetin

For BloodPod it's a reasonably sized fatty that dumps your reanimation targets, like Kiki-Jiki and/or Felidar Guardian that's stranded in your hand, so you can Birthing Pod for Karmic Guide and combo off 2nd Main Phase

How about the silliness of Maralen of the Mornsong and Stranglehold ?