Cheater! You have two copies of Time Stretch in there. One in the mainboard and one in the sideboard.

;D

The sideboard is the potential cut list.

I haven't seen anything about Kira, Great Glass-Spinner . As far as a counter goes she does extremely well paired up with other utility cards and ultimately forces a board wipe or massive resource dumping into removing her. Not much you have targets your own creatures so she seems like a legit 3 CMC fit. Thoughts?

But if you cut Time Stretch, you wont have Time Stretch. My logic is flawless, trust me.

I used to have Kira, Great Glass-Spinner in an early version of this deck, but I cut it because it felt unnecessary. I might consider re-adding it, but I would need to justify the addition.

My major problem is that it doesn't have flash, so I have to cast it preemptively, which hinders my control options.

Have you ever considered any redundancy for Leyline of Anticipation ? Alchemist's Refuge seems like it could do work.

I cut Alchemist's Refuge a while ago because it was taxing my land base a bit too much. I might redesign the utility suite to more directly address the deck's needs, but I need more playtesting data first.

Fair enough, I like Alchemist's Refuge more than Vedalken Orrery if you're in the colors for it.

Vedalken Orrery is just bad in fast combo decks because there's no viable way to cheat it in. I'd much prefer to staple the effect onto a land.

would suck if Deadeye Navigator got exiled somehow :/

The deck can recover. Phantasmal Image picks up the role as combo enabler.

I often T&N for Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir as well (although that depends on whether I have a combo piece in hand.

i mean you have A LOT of counter so i doubt it would get exiled any way

Well, ideally anyway. It's always good to have a contingency plan, though. Combo decks just disintegrate without one.

how do you get the Phantasmal Image off without the dead eye though. cause i know thats my biggest weakness with my damia deck is somebody exiling my dead eye

nvm i see it

Phantasmal Image copies Palinchron . You don't need Deadeye Navigator at all. And once you have your mana, you can copy something else to tutor for your win.

once born of the gods comes out maybe Courser of Kruphix top card + 1 life for every land that comes in

Oracle of Mul Daya is better since it allows you to play more lands per turn.

@twisteddtim: Courser of Kruphix doesn't actually allow me to play extra lands. The lifegain is irrelevant. I'd rather pay 3G for an extra land drop than 1GG for some minor lifegain.

If you need more creature removal, Toxic Deluge is absolutely fantastic. I know you could fetch Damnation , but the life loss isn't significant for EDH, it can kill other things but keep Damia on the field, it costs less than Damnation . I would at least sideboard it for hyper-aggressive decks.

I thought I added Toxic Deluge to the maybeboard earlier. Good catch. I need to test it before I decide for sure, but it will likely be an alternative to/replacement for Damnation .

I have to chime in that Toxic Deluge is fan-freaking-tastic. Paying 4-6 life to potentially wipe an entire board is absolutely huge.

I definitely think it will do more than Glen Elendra Archmage or Chromatic Lantern overall.

My testing of a similar build (currently the effective changes are Toxic Deluge , Grim Tutor and Spell Crumple over Glen Elendra Archmage , Chromatic Lantern and Delay ) has been quite successful. The only one of those three that I've missed has been, on rare occasion, the Lantern, whereas the extra tutor has proven far more useful than the extra counterspell. While I'm well aware that Crumple doesn't do Hinder's job as well as Hinder itself does, my metagame has a lot of decks that are absolutely crushed by getting their commander tucked, so I felt the inclusion was necessary. Having both Deluge and Damnation as wrath effects has been more successful in testing than having merely one or the other, in my experience.

i'm surprised to see Savage Summoning not make an appearance in the deck, Epochalyptik. it keeps you open right after ramping to counter anything necessary and then at EOT for opponent, you cast general, uncountered, a bit bigger, then start your turn. idk, seemed relevant.

alright, re-unsubscribing for the deck, hate my newsfeed when i forget, lol. link me if you reply.