Edit: Added 5th and 6th point Thanks for another deck tech, just wanted to mention a couple things about the list: 1. In terms of recursion, you don’t really need it. Almost always should be comboing off once I have protection for it, and if the combo is stopped there’s enough utility through pieces like karmic guide to get something going, and at the end of they day the tree can always go face. The only piece of recursion I’ve considered really is eternal witness but I’m unsure what I’d cut for it, deck is pretty tight as it is and I don’t think there’s enough of a reason to run it over something already there (maybe over cleric which IMO is the worse card in the deck) 2. Pattern of Rebirth comes with the upside of turning any creature into a tutor for Sidisi and is especially explosive with Kodama out and Solitude (ending the game on the spot if no one can interact) 3. Rector ends the game. This is a pod deck, rector with any pod effect (evolution, pod, fiend artisan with enough mana) ends the game on the spot. Rector tutors Aluren to etb, pod effect tutors Sidisi which in turn tutors Acererak, and we go from there. 4. Archaic is a protection piece as well as interaction. It doubles up critical interaction pieces to stop others going off while also potentially providing protection by being able to stop counter spells on your end. Card is an absolute must have in a deck like this. 5. No Urborg because we don’t need the black, if I was on coffers I’d slam it, but in all the games I’ve played I’ve hard casted Sidisi a total of once, and at that point double black isn’t too hard to achieve. 6. In my infinite wisdom it appears I have forgotten to add Eladamri’s Call to the deck
Edit: Added 5th and 6th point
Thanks for another deck tech, just wanted to mention a couple things about the list:
1. In terms of recursion, you don’t really need it. Almost always should be comboing off once I have protection for it, and if the combo is stopped there’s enough utility through pieces like karmic guide to get something going, and at the end of they day the tree can always go face. The only piece of recursion I’ve considered really is eternal witness but I’m unsure what I’d cut for it, deck is pretty tight as it is and I don’t think there’s enough of a reason to run it over something already there (maybe over cleric which IMO is the worse card in the deck)
2. Pattern of Rebirth comes with the upside of turning any creature into a tutor for Sidisi and is especially explosive with Kodama out and Solitude (ending the game on the spot if no one can interact)
3. Rector ends the game. This is a pod deck, rector with any pod effect (evolution, pod, fiend artisan with enough mana) ends the game on the spot. Rector tutors Aluren to etb, pod effect tutors Sidisi which in turn tutors Acererak, and we go from there.
4. Archaic is a protection piece as well as interaction. It doubles up critical interaction pieces to stop others going off while also potentially providing protection by being able to stop counter spells on your end. Card is an absolute must have in a deck like this.
5. No Urborg because we don’t need the black, if I was on coffers I’d slam it, but in all the games I’ve played I’ve hard casted Sidisi a total of once, and at that point double black isn’t too hard to achieve.
6. In my infinite wisdom it appears I have forgotten to add Eladamri’s Call to the deck
great video