The swords and jitte you have are excessive "win more" cards and do nothing to help the main focus of your deck.
Cantrip cards a madness in Niv. Spells like Electrolyze and Brainstorm become completely disgusting.
A couple creature enchants that would help more than the equips would be Pemmin's Aura and Clout of the Dominus. Give Niv evasion and untaps = faster + better.
After playing this format for a while, I've noticed that Pyroclasm does close to nothing. Try out Breath of Darigaaz
And just because I think it rules: Final Fortune. Who knows when one turn is all you need to seal the deal.
Most of those cards seem like they'd be really good in here, especially Eye of the Storm.
Not sure why Spellshift would be good, but I could be missing something.
Ahh, when you use spellshift with eye of the storm out you go somewhat infinite. You end up being able to play every instant and sorcery in your deck to the power of every instant and sorcery in your deck.
Step 1: play brainstorm. it is removed under eye of the storm.
Step 2: play spellshift on brainstorm. spellshift is removed from the game. you then play another brainstorm. then play spellshift, countering brainstorm.
Step 3: Spellshift brings you to another instant/sorcery that triggers steps 1 and 2.
Effectively, you play your whole deck and laugh maniacally as such would be in the case of an overweight gamer trolling over his icebox packed full of pizza pops and freeze's.
I had Ophidian's Eye in here at one point, along with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Pestermite, but I never wanted to use them and end a game just like that.
Huge problem with the Eye/Spellshift combo is that the stack is very easily hijacked unless you have Teferi in play and a three card combo like this will VERY seldom all hit the table at once. I like it, but it just doesn't work reliably. Trust me, I tried because I used to run this Spellshift deck way back when it was in Standard. But one copy of each plus 100 card deck, plus no Mystical Teachings? Nope. Not gonna happen all that much. And there is NOTHING worse in a game like this than going off and having the stack jacked at an inopportune time.
Huge problem with the Eye/Spellshift combo is that the stack is very easily hijacked unless you have Teferi in play and a three card combo like this will VERY seldom all hit the table at once. I like it, but it just doesn't work reliably. Trust me, I tried because I used to run this Spellshift deck way back when it was in Standard. But one copy of each plus 100 card deck, plus no Mystical Teachings? Nope. Not gonna happen all that much. And there is NOTHING worse in a game like this than going off and having the stack jacked at an inopportune time.
Agreed. Took out spellshift the other day. Left in eye of the storm, I like it and it causes all kinds of confusion in a big multiplayer game. As a side note though, I could see them both in most games if i tried. Its rare that I don't see most every card in my deck every game.
Agreed. Took out spellshift the other day. Left in eye of the storm, I like it and it causes all kinds of confusion in a big multiplayer game. As a side note though, I could see them both in most games if i tried. Its rare that I don't see most every card in my deck every game.
The last game I played where someone played Eye of the Storm a Mind's Desire got put on it. That was pretty silly.
It is good card draw, but discarding my hand is what the doctor ordered. I've tried it before, and every time I played it, Niv would get killed in response, making me toss alot of cards for nothing.
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The swords and jitte you have are excessive "win more" cards and do nothing to help the main focus of your deck.
Cantrip cards a madness in Niv. Spells like Electrolyze and Brainstorm become completely disgusting.
A couple creature enchants that would help more than the equips would be Pemmin's Aura and Clout of the Dominus. Give Niv evasion and untaps = faster + better.
After playing this format for a while, I've noticed that Pyroclasm does close to nothing. Try out Breath of Darigaaz
And just because I think it rules: Final Fortune. Who knows when one turn is all you need to seal the deal.
Not sure why Spellshift would be good, but I could be missing something.
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Step 1: play brainstorm. it is removed under eye of the storm.
Step 2: play spellshift on brainstorm. spellshift is removed from the game. you then play another brainstorm. then play spellshift, countering brainstorm.
Step 3: Spellshift brings you to another instant/sorcery that triggers steps 1 and 2.
Effectively, you play your whole deck and laugh maniacally as such would be in the case of an overweight gamer trolling over his icebox packed full of pizza pops and freeze's.
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Were you not wanting to play the comboes with Mind Over Matter, Curiosity, and Ophidian Eye (and a Thran Foundry for multiplayer)?
Thran's Foundry is good though, should get one of those.
[EDIT] Traded Eye of the Storm and Spellshift at FNM last night. Put those in, took the swords out.
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Agreed. Took out spellshift the other day. Left in eye of the storm, I like it and it causes all kinds of confusion in a big multiplayer game. As a side note though, I could see them both in most games if i tried. Its rare that I don't see most every card in my deck every game.
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The last game I played where someone played Eye of the Storm a Mind's Desire got put on it. That was pretty silly.
Am quite happy with the crazy amounts of card draw and chaos I can cause in games.
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Still not 100% where I want it, but very close.
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