Spy Cat (with Primer!)
Commander / EDH
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First Major Revision —Aug. 28, 2018
Since the deck was first built, there were just a couple minor efficiency improvements like Arashin Sovereign --> Loaming Shaman and Reclaim --> Noxious Revival.
Just now I made 3 swaps: Remembrance --> Riftsweeper, for a different "second Verdant Succession". Lurking Predators --> Green Sun's Zenith, because my creatures could be anywhere in there, man. Sungrass Prairie --> Dryad Arbor for GSZ synergy and an uncounterable green creature.
Noxious Revival: Hard to argue with "strictly better"-- that's going right in. Thanks!
And I really love Search for Tomorrow. This deck wants to ramp repeatedly early on, and Search lets me do that on turn 1, without being dead later. I also like the land coming in untapped. Signet's the current runner-up on ramp. If I find an underperformer, it goes in.
Weirdly, I want to ramp enough that I often find myself doing a turn 3 Reclaim to get my 1-use ramp back and do it again.
January 13, 2018 11:23 p.m.
Noxious Revival: Hard to argue with "strictly better"-- that's going right in. Thanks!
And I really love Search for Tomorrow. This deck wants to ramp repeatedly early on, and Search lets me do that on turn 1, without being dead later. I also like the land coming in untapped. Signet's the current runner-up on ramp. If I find an underperformer, it goes in.
Weirdly, I want to ramp enough that I often find myself doing a turn 3 Reclaim to get my 1-use ramp back and do it again.
January 13, 2018 11:24 p.m.
thatguycrow says... #4
I'm absolutely blown away. Stuff like this is the reason why I love this game. I've been struggling to put together my Nazahn deck (got the precon for my birthday and liked the look of him the most) and came across this just searching around. Easily one of the most interesting EDH decks I've ever seen, I fully plan on putting together my own version of this combo. Well done on this!
April 6, 2018 9:03 a.m.
Have you tried using Mortarpod? It seems to work better than Demonmail Hauberk while it's not a free sac outlet, but with ashnod's altar + wurm it wins the game on the spot since you can loop doing 1 damage to everyone.
April 10, 2018 11:59 a.m.
thatguycrow says... #6
So, from my testing, this deck really needs a Riftsweeper. Lets you get back exiled spy kit or any other combo pieces, and lets you reuse Academy Rector. I think Eidolon of Blossoms could probably be cut, given that it rarely seems to do a whole lot in my experience
April 24, 2018 9:37 a.m.
I tutor for Eidolon once in a while-- it's a green creature that I can loop, it draws cards if that's what I need, and I can grab it with basically any tutor I want.
Damn I'd love to have a slot for Riftsweeper, though. Sun Titan ain't so great, right? :P
May 10, 2018 10:40 a.m.
Playtesting note: A lot of my combo turns start with "I equip Conqueror's Flail. Any responses?"
May 25, 2018 12:01 p.m.
Love the deck. Have you considered the classic Verdant Succession partner that is Wheel of Sun and Moon?
June 9, 2018 1:52 p.m.
Whym_: That actually doesn't work-- Wheel of Sun and Moon is a replacement effect, so Verdant Succession never triggers.
June 12, 2018 10:43 a.m.
Loaming Shaman acts a bit like Worldspine Wurm and Arashin Sovereign, if you sac him with the ETB trigger on the stack you can shuffle him back in like he has a built in Soldevi Digger. Plus it has applications in other scenarios.
June 12, 2018 11:37 a.m.
Streakist: That's quite good! Drivin' those combo pieces down in CMC, slowly.
June 12, 2018 3:20 p.m.
If there is room for it Grand Abolisher could be used as combo protection redundancy.
July 21, 2018 4:46 a.m.
Planned changes: Sungrass Prairie out, Dryad Arbor in. Remembrance out, Green Sun's Zenith in.
Prairie forced a mulligan on a hand where I needed an unconditional land, so screw it. Remembrance is cute but who wants to pay casting costs?
Meanwhile, GSZ + Dryad Arbor is a slam dunk. Not only do they work together as turn 1 ramp, GSZ fetches any number of combo pieces, and Dryad Arbor is a green creature that I can play without casting.
August 26, 2018 4:30 a.m.
what about Sigarda's Aid? that free flash attach to a creature skips the equip cost, and then you can flash equip the next creature you tutor up. Puresteel Paladin would allow you to do it for free too
ClockworkSwordfish says... #1
Looks pretty cool. I like the idea of building around Spy Kit, especially as part of a big engine.
Just off the top of my head: why not Noxious Revival in place of Reclaim? Might be nice to play it mana-free once in a while, plus you can also use it to sabotage an opponent's reanimation spell. You might also appreciate Selesnya Signet over, say, Search for Tomorrow, which always seemed like an underwhelming card to me.
January 2, 2018 10:22 p.m.