35 spells
4 Ponder
4 Treasure Hunt
4 Spreading Seas
4 Captured Sunlight
2 Jace the Mind Sculptor
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Day of Judgment
1 Ajani Goldmane
3 Polymorph
3 Bestial Menace
2 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Martial Coup
1 Wargate
25 lands
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Khalni Garden
1 Sunpetal Grove
1 Celestial Colonnade
1 Stirring Wildwood
1 Forest
7 Island
5 Plains
I have a decent chance against mid-range aggro (jund, boss naya) but it's the RDW, goblins, RW weanie, vampires, and even RG Valakut that are going to be a terrible match up for me. They kill my 0/1 plant when i try to polymorph, they kill me on turn four or five consistently. My sideboard is gonna focus on that.
2 Solemn Offering -- good for lots of stuff, actually, but only 2 because it is mostly good against decks i can already beat. It hits O-ring, spreading seas, zendikar 7/1 elemental shrine, any of the ascensions, and it helps out vs the boss naya--it kills their equiptments, but also game 2 and 3 they will have boarded in manabarbs, and i have to name white for iona, so if they have lots of creatures and gain life stuff and all i have is iona, i might want to get rid of manabarbs.
2 mind control -- synergy with polymorph. when i play decks with stuff like baneslayer or big dragons or big creatures i want a couple of these. i get their creature and sac him to polymorph. 2 birds with 1 stone.
4 rest for the weary -- 8 life for 2 mana (with landfall) or if i hit it with the cascade, 12 life for 8 mana. I'm not sure this is the best stall tactic I could find, but it is the best thing i've seen so far. Not a long-term solution, by any means, but good enough to get me through an extra turn. This slot is pretty questionable. Might be better to run divination and hope to draw some answers?
4 path to exile -- i need this to get rid of blood ghasts, also good to hit the RDW creatures with unearth.
3 oblivion ring -- good for lots of stuff, especially jund, and i hit it with my cascade.
so it still isn't much help vs. RDW. I might be better off with a dragon's claw than Rest for the Weary. I'd love to run a Kor Firewalker, but not only is my manabase questionable to make it useful by the time i can play it, but i want to hit iona with my polymorph, not a firewalker. iona wins the game vs vampires and RDW and goblins, so my best bet is to hope they tap out on turn four, or else they aren't holding a removal when i polymorph my guy for the win.
I am afraid I still lose a lot to RDW and vampires. Ideas?
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Wait for the next set to really get started on this deck. Best polymorph target possibly ever:
Emrakul, the Aeon's Torn
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can't be countered.
When you cast Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one.
Flying, protection from colored spells, Annihilator 6
When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Even if you dont get the extra turn, his protection, size + annihilator is nuts.
oops, he's a 15/15
Also, it looks like there may be a cycle of cards that give you eldrazi tokens, like this one:
Corpsehatch - 3BB
Destroy target nonblack creature.
Put two 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn
creature tokens onto the battlefield.
They have “Sacrifice this creature:
Add 1 to your mana pool.”
They've spoiled a red creature that makes those tokens too, so I'm betting each color will have at least one.
sweet, I was thinking this deck was going to sux when eldrazai came out, on account of iona is severely nerfed by colorless spells. so a new iona is gonna be good
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