DevoMelvminster says... #2
Alright. I’m back, and we’re making some big changes. Dropping most, if not all, of the life gain sub theme, in favor of a bunc of additional draw, which we have been needing for a while. Which also means I gotta come up with a new name. Rest assured, Oketra is still rockin’. Will update the list over the next few days.
January 29, 2022 6:10 p.m.
IHATENAMES says... #3
Here are some ideas
Angel of the Ruins might be good. Late game Removal with plains cycle
Ambitious Farmhand Flip tutors a land
Armillary Sphere works well 4 mana draw 2 lands and you have recursion already in the deck. Helps keep a lot more hands off this one card doing work.
Alms Collector staxy card draw
Knight of the White Orchid ramp
Loyal Warhound ramp
Wandering Archaic Flip More powerful effect than it looks
Expedition Map land tutor
Ondu Inversion Flip boardwipe that's a land
Emeria, The Sky Ruin recursion late game
Enduring Renewal recursion
Warping Wail multi use preferably counterspell for sorcery
Sigil of the New Dawn recursion
Some sac outlets like Altar of Dementia or Fanatical Devotion or Martyr's Cause
Perhaps Eldrazi Monument orAkroma's Memorial for evasion
Guardian of Faith protection
Field of the Dead tokens
Odric, Lunarch Marshal so you commander has double strike. Your tokens have vigilance. Some rando dorks have flying. It can easily be evasion/threatening in this deck.
Beyond that good Ole elesh norn grand celobite it a powerhouse
This is just a few ideas ramp =card draw kinda so adding more ramp may fix the card draw issue you were talking about.
January 30, 2022 12:18 p.m.
DevoMelvminster says... #4
Thanks for the suggestions IHATENAMES!
A couple i’m already running, and quite a few had their time in the deck and didn’t pull enough weight, or weren’t working towards a game ending combo. This deck is in fact combo based, i rarely, if ever swing for a win, and if i do it’s with infinite tokens so evasion and whatnot become meaningless.
Guardian of Faith is definitely going in, in this next revision. Teferi's Protection on a body?! Yes. Absolutely, yes. Shame it only hits creatures though… i usually want protection for my artifact/enchantment combo pieces.
Ambitious Farmhand Flip is great. It’s cheap, and doesn’t have the “if an opponent controls more lands than you” clause, which i honestly hate. Hence why Knight of the White Orchid and Loyal Warhound were cut some time ago.
I am planning on adding another piece of recursion, but it’ll probably be Emeria Shepherd (list is a tad outdated and already has emeria in it, but it got cut at some point] since i’m also adding the whole suite of fetches to make Scroll Rack more useful.
For draw we got Search Party Captain, Spirited Companion AND Priest of Ancient Lore in the recent sets so we are looking goooood.
January 30, 2022 1:46 p.m.
IHATENAMES says... #5
Sounds good DevoMelvminster only additional card I'd suggest is Brought Back t2 2 fetches turn into 4 lands t3. Looking forward to seeing your updates! Lists become really tight the more you tune it.
January 30, 2022 11:59 p.m.
DevoMelvminster says... #6
Oh man. That does have a lot more appeal now that i’m running fetches. Thanks!
January 31, 2022 12:51 a.m.
DevoMelvminster says... #7
Alright, list is updated, but the description is not. So, for now, the description is pretty far off from the decks current lines if play. We are leaned way more into comboing off with tokens, and winning via mill (Altar of the Brood, or Altar of Dementia), or with a bit more work we can storm off and win via Aetherflux Reservoir.
Biggest consideration i have left is whether to drop aetherflux for Blasting Station. Aetherflux is the last remaining wincon that requires us to cast spells, as opposed to assembling a combo and winning outright. Both Phyrexian Altar and Ashnod's Altar allow us to do this, but it definitely makes the combos more card intensive.
January 31, 2022 4:12 p.m.
Omniscience_is_life says... #8
A few name ideas:
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Bounce and Ye Shall be Milled
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Bounce and Ye Shall be Killed
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Bounce and Ye Shall be Trounced
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White can Win--CombOketra
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Any combination of the above
Loving the update so far, and very happy they printed such a good boy
February 2, 2022 9:17 p.m.
DevoMelvminster says... #9
Hahahah. Thank you Omniscience_is_life! I desperately need a better name. The suggestions are much appreciated.
I’m loving our new little doge friend too.
What’s your opinion on Blasting Station in place of Aetherflux Reservoir?
February 3, 2022 1:17 p.m.
Omniscience_is_life says... #10
Seems a lot less fragile to me. I’d run Station any day.
DevoMelvminster says... #1
Alright, I swapped out:
Solitude for Giant Killer
Azor's Gateway Flip for Cartographer's Hawk
A Plains for Winding Canyons
And am testing Binding Mummy in place of Monologue Tax . I like the idea here, binding mummy can do some serious work with God-Eternal Oketra out. Stopping attackers, tapping artifacts to lock people out of artifact effects or mana, etc. Maybe i’ll end up not utilizing it since the deck has become so much less reliant on Oketra, we’ll see.
June 28, 2021 12:45 a.m.