Maw and flesh are horrible. And Viscera Seer should stay as a 4 of until our able to add n Voice of Resurgence .

mstancea, bman5604 is right. I shouldn't try to add any infinites here as it would ruin the consistency of the deck. But thank you for the suggestions.

Now, bman5604, can this list be improved upon more, in your opinion?

Out side of cards you don't want me to name...... No. Pretty normal pod list before Voice of Resurgence

Alright, sounds good. Thanks

Just be aware for those saying you want a 4 drop sac outlet. Ranger of Eos fetches Viscera Seer and another, irrelevant, 1 drop. So you can play Melira, Sylvok Outcast , into Birthing Pod , into Kitchen Finks , to pod that off to get Ranger of Eos , cast Viscera Seer and now you have infinite life. Pass turn and next pod the finks again and get Murderous Redcap for infinite damage. You can skip the Ranger of Eos step if you have a sac outlet that you can play.

Is Deathrite Shaman worth it as you have to depend on your opponent's graveyard if you want to use that mana? (No fetches = useless as ramp.)

I've found Wall of Roots to be incredibly useful when I test just because an ass of 5 is hard to get around, add to that the fact that he can produce mana and it's a really effective creature.

Initially, yes, Shaman was in here for his interaction with the fetches, but when I removed him, he became graveyard hate and essentially a one-drop to get Pod's engine started. I'd like him to stay because he does provide other utility, even though I'd rather see Viscera Seer in my opening hand.

(I do plan on getting fetches eventually, just not yet)

Also, I've managed to pull that off once or twice before, it's really fun. Oh how I love pulling off infinite combos. Watching your opponent get up and leave without a word does bring a sadistic smile to my face...

Thanks for the input :)

I only ask about Deathrite Shaman 's worth because I have not yet purchased the parts of my own pod deck and was wondering if he was worth the money. Seems like the answer is yes. How do you feel about Summoner's Pact in general? Using it on the turn you go off seems good to me but then it has it's drawbacks.

you really want to see a mana dork in your opening hand over Viscera Seer . the seer isn't as important as you might think, just because the combo itself is rarely relevant. The aggro aspect is more than enough to win consistently, the combo part is just nice to have. He works great as a 2 of most of the time.

why did you take out the Spellskite ?

Summoner's Pact is a great card, but you can't do anything the turn after it's used, at most you can throw down a 1-drop and then Pod with life. It's really good here if you know you're going to win quickly, but I don't like risks so I wouldn't put it in my build.

And, gufymike, I don't have him in here for the combo, it's in here for Scry power. The combo is a bonus

just don't use Summoner's Pact to early, I pack Render Silent sb when I play b, just to kill pact users who are trying to combo off or playing a bit reckless (elves I'm mainly looking at you).

also, you have 7 tutors (4 pods, 3 chords) you don't need the scry power as much as you might think and it really does become overkill.

Yeah, you would really only use Pact if you have the mana open or know it will be open the turn after. But in this deck, I also wouldn't use it because the 4-drops I want I can Pod for.

Not necessarily. I essentially need Kitchen Finks/Redcap, Melira, and Pod all out in the same game. I can't tutor for Pod, and I can't tutor for Chord, so if I'm able to better my chances of drawing into Pod if for some reason I kept an opening hand without it, I'll take it. And if I can draw into Melira or Finks and play them before Pod comes out (ideally), that makes my game that much better.

the opening hand you want is a pod and a mana dork, ideally with a finks, but most other creatures are ok, seer is optional. I'm just telling you now 'I want a seer in opening hand' is a bad way to look at this, especially with no voices mainboard.

Well, I said I'd rather have a Seer in my opening hand than Deathrite Shaman, I never said it was ideal.

Definitely not saying you're wrong, just clarifying haha.

It looks like you are quite heavily relying on your combo. The fantastic thing about melira pod is that you don't need your combo. It's a nice win con, but not essential to the deck. Comboless pod has had some success actually. The main point of the deck is that it's a beatdown deck, utilising Kitchen Finks , Reveillark ect. to win. I'd drop your combo pieces down to 1 melira, 1 Viscera Seer , 1 Cartel Aristocrat , 1 redcap and the full 4 finks.

Four cards that I'd love to see in here are Path to Exile , Mikaeus, the Unhallowed , Voice of Resurgence and Scavenging Ooze . Despite my unhealthy attachment to Voice of Resurgence , it's great value for pod, and is great in the control MU. Scavenging Ooze is great in most matchups. It's good against control and aggro, but it rapes the mirror and reanimator decks (like Living End ). Also, the thing about Mikaeus, the Unhallowed is that he acts like another Melira, Sylvok Outcast - persist creatures don't get counters. The counters cancel each other out. The thing that I love most about mikaeus is his mana cost. His converted mana cost, if you see where I'm going with this. Pod Reveillark into mikaeus and reanimate Viscera Seer and Murderous Redcap . Beautiful. Path is great in most matchups like control, where you don't really get chance to use Abrupt Decay .

You might also want to replace deathrite with Noble Hierarch , sice deathrite is banned.

A card that I love in this deck, you might not though, is Athreos, God of Passage . He doesn't disrupt your combo before you tell me that, both persist and athreos are death triggers, and you chose how to stack them. When you stack persist on top, and it resolves first, you do it again before athreos triggers. Just do it an infinite amount of times. ;)

I wouldn't bother with the metamorph or the wall of roots tbh. I can go into detail on that if you don't agree.

You may want to take a look at my pod deck.

Pod is ban in modern