[Legacy] Fluctuator Combo

[interfector]

So, this is a combo deck built around Fluctuator , and with that in play you cycle through the deck playing a bunch of stuff and win thanks to Laboratory Maniac.

https://deckstats.net/decks/18078/757245-fluctuator-combo

Sometimes the deck fizzles mid-combo if you start it too soon, clearly with Fluctuator in play you'll need Shadow of the Grave or Restless Dreams to continue the cycle loop and obv. 1B or B to cast them.

My thoughts...

1) Maindeck i have no card manipulation (brainstorm, ponder etc.) to search for the combo so sometimes it's difficult. Can I remove some non-cycler to add some manipulation?

2) Maindeck i have no protection and i have Cabal Therapy in side, I added Burning Wish to possibly get a Therapy but the wish is only 1. Maybe i can add Force of Will? but removing what?

3) My only wincon md is Laboratory Maniac and in side there's Doomsday with the stack: Predict, Grapeshot, Conjurer's Bauble, Lion's Eye DIamond, Second Sunrise to use it post side. You can also use only Conjurer's Bauble , Grapeshot and Second Sunrise for the combo. There are some easy combo to side ? (i thought about painter servant and grindstone but meh)

4) Burning Wish is the only maindeck answer (along with Rescind) for problematic permanent by wishing for Hush , Massacre (D&T) , Void Snare or Doomsday  if you see you can fizzle (stack 5 cycler and win with maniac). You can however wish for Infernal Tutor to get anything else. There's a better card for this slot?

Some choices explanation:

Lion's Eye Diamond : pretty good with Shadow of the Grave and Infernal Tutor.
Sol Lands : Necessary for "fast" combo. (sometimes T1)
Cycleland + Jhessian Zombie : Very good synergy, when there are no cycleland in the deck you can imprint Zombies on Chrome Mox.
Burning Wish : Strange choice but can search for answer maindeck.
Restless Dreams : Good to not fizzle, but sometimes not necessary.
Rescind and Unearth : Flex slot but Rescind can answer maindeck on opponent turn (and cycles), Unearth to bring back Maniac or a creature to use Cabal Therapy post sideboard.

What do you think?

[Soren841]

There's a way simpler version. 4 fluctuator, 4 street wraith, 1 island, 4 unearth, everything else has cycling 2

[Soren841]

And lab maniac

[interfector]

You have to hit every land drop each turn to combo turn 3 without protection and/or any answer to anything with that setup. So not the best.

[Soren841]

Worst case u win turn 4

[Soren841]

It has protection, they have to either counter fluctuator or lab maniac, which is why u have 4 fluctuator and unearth. Cycling isn't a spell they can't counter it

[interfector]

Yeah but it's like talking about a random storm deck and a pushed storm deck fully optimized. I know that the list you suggest "can" do it but I search to improve a list that do it better.

For example, with my list you can combo turn 1.

And protection =/= redundancy.

[Soren841]

And what's the price

[interfector]

The price of the deck? Very out of my budget but it's not of my concern. I don't want a budget version  of the deck but the possible best version of a deck.

[Soren841]

lol same but only when I care about the deck

[interfector]

asd well i care a little about this *shitty* deck...

[Soren841]

I care about my green deck. And the colorless eldrazi deck no one has commented on ;<