garrettlstewart says... #2
wrote a long comment, complimenting and critiquing your deck, anyway the gist of it was, Brago, King Eternal has a home here with all your creatures with ETB effects (Mulldrifter, Angel of Finality,Sphinx of Uthuun, and you can change your clones, and move your Detention Sphere) , probably over Hanna. You can add Archaeomancer, Mnemonic Wall, or Venser, Shaper Savant to reuse your counterspells, and blink them with Brago for a lot of recursion. If you like that idea check my Brago EDH deck list for ideas. Garrett's Brago Deck... I've found Hindering Light not so effective and would use Disdainful Stroke or Dream Fracture instead.
If you keep the 'pillow fort,' you should probably add Norn's Annex and Sphere of Safety to make it stronger...
Looks to be off to a great start, and you'll be able to slowly tweak it to make it more awesome, by adding cards like Soothsaying, Swords to Plowshares or Condemn
March 11, 2015 12:53 p.m.
lilgiantrobot says... #3
A Strip Mine, Ghost Quarter, or Tectonic Edge couldn't hurt. EDH is flush with problematic lands.
Chuff_Bucket says... #1
I think this is a solid control build: I like the suite of counterspells and the like. I'm guessing Cryptic Command is left out for price reasons?
Cards I'm questioning are Sun Titan and Hanna, Ship's Navigator. While they have decent effects, they only hit about 10% of your deck each, and you have so much redundancy among the things they do hit already that I don't think you need to bother bringing them back on the off chance they're destroyed.
I'm also noticing that you have a ton of card drawing effects and card advantage tools in here (admittedly good things to have in control decks), so I'm also wondering if you might want to run another card that gives you no maximum hand size in addition to Reliquary Tower, like Library of Leng, so you can hold on to all those answers.
Something to consider as well is Planeswalkers: they are sources of endless card/board advantage, and may have a place in a deck such as this. Elspeth, Sun's Champion comes to mind to give you some support on the board and as an alternative wincon; Narset Transcendent would also have a home here. And this may just be the Timmy in me talking, but cracking the ultimate on Venser, the Sojourner would just be the bee's knees.
Overall, I like it! It looks very effective; I can see it causing endless headaches at the kitchen table ;)
March 11, 2015 1:42 a.m.