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Nice deck Necramus!
How are you liking Chains of Mephistopheles so far? You'd previously mentioned avoiding cards like Notion Thief and Narset, Parter of Veils due to them shutting off the damage Nekusar and the like would do with wheels. I would think chains would actually be much worse than the others in that department.. As not only are you missing out on the damage from wheels, you're also missing out on the card advantage by leaving the entire table (yourself included) hellbent.
February 6, 2025 12:07 a.m.
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#1Glad I was able to help Necramus!
I think we're on the same page, but just to confirm in case you're ever considering Chains again; as you'd mentioned "Chains checks to see if it's the first card being drawn for turn", but that isn't quite right. Chains only cares about the first card drawn in your draw step. A small distinction, but very important when it comes to wheels. For example if you were to resolve a wheel of fortune, everyone would discard their hand, then when they go to draw, chains intervenes and sees that everyone has no cards in hand and would force them to mill instead, leaving everyone with no cards in hand.
While true that you would get the benefits of the initial discard of the wheel, I don't think its worth giving up the damage potential of the draws, or knowing that all future wheels you draw into are dead as long as chains is on the field.
Shifting focus slightly, I was wondering if you've considered Faerie Mastermind for the deck? I'm running it in my list and absolutely love how well it synergizes with Nekusar and some of the other forced draw effects!
Also how is Gixian Puppeteer doing for you? I had previously considered it but could only consistently get it's first ability to trigger once per rotation, so it seemed underwhelming for me in a lot of other scenarios.
February 7, 2025 3:09 p.m.