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      Landgraf last edited by

      So I ran the following deck to second place in a small 27-ppl event i Sweden a couple of days ago. I think there's some improvements to be done so any thoughts would be appreciated.

      4 Gush
      3 Preordain
      4 Gitaxian Probe
      1 Treasure Cruise
      1 Ponder
      1 Dig Through Time
      1 Brainstorm
      1 Ancestral Recall
      1 Time Walk
      1 Yawgmoth's Will
      1 Demonic Tutor
      1 Vampiric Tutor
      1 Mystical Tutor

      4 Force of Will
      4 Mental Misstep
      1 Flusterstorm
      1 Cabal Therapy

      1 Repeal
      1 Swords to Plowshares
      1 Abrupt Decay

      1 Tendrils of Agony
      3 Monastery Mentor
      1 Fastbond

      1 Mana Crypt
      1 Mox Jet
      1 Mox Pearl
      1 Mox Ruby
      1 Mox Sapphire
      1 Mox Emerald
      1 Black Lotus

      3 Polluted Delta
      3 Misty Rainforest
      1 Island
      1 Tropical Island
      3 Tundra
      2 Underground Sea
      1 Library of Alexandria

      sb
      2 containment priest
      1 sylvan library
      2 swords to plowshares
      2 spell pierce
      1 nature's claim
      2 hurkyl
      1 tormod's crypt
      1 rest in peace
      1 pithing needle
      2 stony silence

      • The deck is weak against shops, and I'm not sure the sideboard plan works out. (It turned out to be actual 0 shops in the tournament.)
      • I'd like to fit in Lotus Petal, possibly over the third Mentor. One more mana producer seems good, and it'd help a lot while going off.
      • The removal suite (Swords/Repeal/Decay) might be a bit unoptimized. Decay in particular is bad for the mana base. Maybe a maindeck copy of Hurkyl? That helps as an extra small storm engine as well.
      • Also unsure about the Therapy/Flusterstorm/Spell Pierce setup. My reasoning is that a single copy of Therapy would rarely be dead with the probes and mentors but a second copy might. Spell Pierce is mainly to help against planeswalkers because I lack Pyroblasts, but also against Oath.
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        Prospector last edited by

        Quite similar to a list I played in one of the early P9 challenges. I would cut mystical for merchant scroll.

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          Landgraf @Prospector last edited by

          I was considering that but chose Mystical for the opportunity to find Will or Tendrils while going off. I frequently side it out vs blue decks.

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          • tsoatt
            tsoatt TMD Supporter last edited by

            I played a list like this a while ago, I played a couple of thoughtseize, hurkyl's recalls and a regrowth main and didn't have probes or any removal. The deck was pretty good and the mentors give you a much better shops MU then you would have if you were only storm.

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            • bips
              bips last edited by

              Didn't Steve Menendian play a Mentor Grow / Gush Tendrils list somewhere last year?

              Something like his Pyromancer Grow list, but with Mentors, 2 Therapy, 2-3 Git Probe and 1 Regrowth?

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                kistrand @bips last edited by

                @bips at least such a list is in his Gush book. I've played quite a lot with that list and it's a very potent list but folds to shops/spheres pretty badly.

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