No update for FNM this week. Wanted to test a different deck. Personally not sure what to update about this deck until new cards from next set come out where I might add some different pump spells.

If you are interested to know what deck I tried at FNm this time I took a silly enchantment w/g stall deck and gave it a go. Did Surprisingly well. Didn't get top placing but went 2-1-1. You can click this link What beuatiful stars the check out the deck.

Next week will be back to Zada as I wanted to simply see if the other deck I made for a joke could work and the answer is yes it can, sorta. Will be more viable with new cards coming out, but don't like playing that deck unless I am looking to make people twitch in rage because of how long it can drag out a game (I got close to the clock often).

Have you thought about adding Make a Stand to help your infinite combo?

That sounds like a good option to help achieve combo. I will consider it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Sideboard Lithomancer's Focus for the sake of eldrazi decks? It's still good, +2/+2 for 1 white mana, but the protection from colorless sources is the huge part

oh, also Ondu Rising

Ondu rising is not a good card for this deck. With how many lifelink creatures I run, this spell would only clog the deck. It is better to just use inflate spells over that one.

Not suggesting to mainboard it, but could you pull off the combo using Chandra, Flamecaller? Say you have 20, the enemy has 15, and you cast Arcbond on zada, then use chandra's -X to deal 1 damage to each creature, would you be able to survive the ticks of 1 damage from each of your creatures long enough for the procs to kill your enemy before you yourself die?

All you need to do is 1 damage to start the combo. You could in always just use a 1 cost burn spell and burn your own guys with that logic. For example you could just use target zada with Wild Slash after using Arcbond and basically perform the same idea of what you are saying. Just remember that when a creature takes lethal damage (and isn't indestructible) it won't receive any extra damage if creatures are exploding. That is important because it means that you can't stack extra damage to your creatures from spreading purposes.

So yes you could use Chandra... but I don't see her as worthwhile to run in the deck for my combo purposes.

Like I said, don't run chandra, i was asking whether or not if you could survive the explosion without dying before the enemy dies?

Sorry misunderstood the question. This is simply based on who has more life and if you have lifelinkers on board. A creature with lifelink can make you gain more life then the amount of damage you will receive; or give you a large boost to life that you might not be the first to take lethal.

without lifelinkers:

If your opponent has more life then you by a large sum then you will likely die first.

If you are close to each other and the damage is a large sum going around, then you could both die at same time resulting in a draw.

If you have more life then your opponent and they take lethal before you do, you win.

hope this clears things up. If you need further explanation please let me know and I will create a situation and walk you though how the damage works.