This is beautiful, I must proxy it and test it +1 for sure

Thank you so much! :D I live it when people want to play my decks! Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy

If only Phyrexian Dreadnought was modern!!

God that would be amazing!

Ever consider Sundial of the Infinite? Its a worse torpor orb, but when you drop something into play, its triggered etb goes on the stack then you just end the turn. It works with Hunted Horror, but not entirely sure if it does with Eater of Days. If it does though I would definitally consider it. Either way nice deck plus 1

Thank you! I thought about it a while back and since I have Shred Memory I already have 6 theoretical copies of Torpor Orb and I feel like that's just enough.

I like this deck and at the same time I don't cause it works and it also doesn't work. Its reason as a deck is broken the minute you don't get the right cards. Through many play tests I had no torpor orb nor a varolz. Many of the drawbacks ruin the play when I get a main combo piece gets countered or a creature is destroyed/exiled. There is also no way to fetch for a varolz when I needed it. I really think a Nyx Weaver can work here for many reasons, I also feel like Grisly Salvage can assist put things on the grave and also grab on to something you need land or creature at the same time putting the right cards in the grave. Treasured Find can be a potential sideboard card. Lastly maybe a Tormented Soul instead of the birds cause your mana is fine as is. Getting a forest is never a problem.

Have you tried giving the creature infect? Works like a dream on my torpor orb deck: Speak "friend" and Enter Give it a look and your thoughts.

+1 from me.

if your a really mean person you could add Tainted Strike

I've been considering that,it seems so mean yet so fun! What should I remove for a couple copies?

i would personally say pit dweller and memory shred

I was think just the dwellers,the shred memorys help quite often,plus I think I should only run a couple.

Wait nevermind,I should totally run a playset haha

if you check out some of my decks i run something quite similar also another suggestion if you ever decide to make a non modern sideboard for casual Worldly Tutor its extremely over powered and only 5$

Has anyone ever Abrupt Decay'd your Torpor Orb when you tried to cast Eater of Days? How would you deal with that? 3 turns in modern is game over.

Would I not have priority to play my spell first before abrupt decay even resolves?

I was under the impression it would like this:

You cast Eater of Days

Opponent responds with Abrupt Decay targeting Torpor Orb

Abrupt Decay resolves destroying Torpor Orb

Eater of Days resolves and his ability goes on the stack

You lose 2 turns.

His only answer appears to be Spellskite

Since I would be casting it on my turn I would have priority,meaning the water of days would resolve before the abrupt decay.

The torpor orb would be destroyed after the eater of days resolved

seuvius No. That's not how Magic works. Any spell you cast, your opponent has the ability to respond to.

Eater of Days would go on the stack as you cast it. At that point, priority passes to your opponent to respond to the spell. At this point, your opponent can cast Abrupt Decay in response, and it goes to the top of the stack. If you do not have a response, (for example Spellskite's ability to change the target of Abrupt Decay to itself instead of Torpor Orb) the spells now resolve from the top of the stack to the bottom. (Most recently cast to least recent.)

The result of which is that Abrupt Decay resolves targeting the Torpor Orb which is destroyed. Then Eater of Days resolves, and the ETB effect goes on the stack and resolves, resulting in you losing 2 turns.

@seuvius: That's not how priority works. If someone casts Abrupt Decay on Torpor Orb in response to you casting Eater of Days, Abrupt Decay will resolve before Eater of Days because it's the top-most item on the stack.

Priority is just something used to track when players are allowed to cast spells. It doesn't effect the order in which items on the stack resolve. That is always in Frist-In-Last-Out order.

Ah,that part has always puzzled me lol well I learned something new!

It would likely be best to run Spellskite in the mainboard so that you have an answer in the main for what will likely be the go to response against your strategy.

Nice deck though.

well if you know that they are running artifact destruction just scav eater of days instead?