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First round of changes. —April 26, 2021

For the longest while, I excluded a number of things to try and appease folks who immediately scowled at the thought of a list headed by Zur. No bland tutors, no counterspells, minimal non-combo interaction. While I'd still like to keep things that way, I am trying to remove blatantly low-impact cards in favor of stuff that can lead to fun moments or explosive plays. Quick changelog:

• Intuition out, Oriq Loremage in // Pretty similar uses, though in this case creatures tend to be more fun to play and play against. This one is a reusable Entomb. Needs to tap, but I've been adding more hastey things as of late to help with Zur so it works out. Not the strongest card but I'd be upset if they were.
• Dimir Signet out, Monologue Tax in // I had a large sum of rocks in the list in an attempt to consistently get an attack with Zur out on turn 4. Of course, this meant a full round of waiting and hoping nobody removed him while he recovers from summoning sickness, which folks are generally smart enough to not do. Rather than resort to begging and weak politics every game, I've slowly incorporated more haste stuff over time. Too many rocks was an after effect of this development though and so I'm phasing them out for more stuff like this tax, which I like way more than Smothering TitheGC in casual situations.
• Terramorphic Expanse out, Keen Duelist in // Been needing a card to offset going minus early for discard, and this one's got that fun political spin on it that is more fun to play with than Dark Confidant. I replaced a land due to a number of reasons, mostly because with the new structure I was getting land flooded quite a lot.
• Magus of the Will out, Demonic TutorGC in // I really want demonic in, but am not sure about removing Magus since it leaves me without a huge graveyard payoff. I may end up adding in All Hallow's Eve as a mass-reanimation piece since I'm missing one right now - it's cheap, and has a delay on it that lets people prepare. Fun for everyone, hopefully.
• Field of Ruin out, Wandering Archaic  ^Flip in // More land removal. May seem greedy, but I'm aiming to build this list in a way to where it goes through plenty of cards and has enough card selection to warrant a lower land count. Anyways, mr. Archaic is an incredible new political piece and I can't wait to get some games in with them.
• Thought Scour out, Bolas's CitadelGC in // I love the citadel. I also like Thought Scour, but due to the power level this list is played at it's seldom used for anything but excessively weak self-mill. Will see how Bolas's works out.

Those are the changes thus far. Just trying to weed out low-impact cards and replace them with more interesting stuff.