My First Lizard Deck - Comments

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My First Lizard Deck

[Lizardman Dan]

Current prevailing issues:

Too many creatures requiring swamps leads to occasional aggro stall.  Sadly, Deathgazer, Graveshifter, Sprouting Thrinax and Skeletal Changeling all are getting shafted. Lack of black has prevented one cast of Merciless Eviction where desired in 1 out of 22 games played so far.

Too few blue sources leading to throttling of Archetype of Imagination and to somewhat lesser extent, Frilled Mystic.

Disliking Sprouting Thrinax in general.

Garruk's Uprising is mostly working as slightly more expensive (mana-wise, actual card much cheaper) Primal Rage.

Low draw power.  Realmwalker has been my best friend.  Often, by the time Morophon is down, I lack creatures to even play.  Considering even swapping Reliquary Tower and/or Thought Vessel out for the fact that I've never used them for retaining my full hand.

[Lizardman Dan]

Card costs are generally so low and lands so frequent in this deck that Mosswort Bridge very seldom yanks out something worth cannoning and about 40% of the time laughably spoils my draws. 

Nyx Lotus has proven either tough to play in time, so shortlived it doesn't do much, or color devotion leads to it not producing as much mana as might've been expected.

[Lizardman Dan]

Currently loving the flier hate Whiptongue Hydra provides, although so far it has worked only seldom.  Gravity Well might provide some anti-air.

Obelisk of Ord, while appropriate, has seldom gotten out in any games other than 1v1. 

Strixhaven Stadium has been medium effective.  So far, three players have been knocked out of games due to it (out of 22 games, most of which multiplayer), and out of those, two were knocked out in the same swing.  Sadly, players oft trample or outmatch my little lizards, and my upticks on it are met with just as many downticks by the time either beefier guys can step up or the smaller guys become beefy to do the trampling.

[Lizardman Dan]

Aetherwind Basker might have to go.  Successfully summoning it has broken down into chancing it twice with Mosswort Bridge (great, but I know that luck ain't gonna last) and regularly casting it once or perhaps twice after being tempted with discovery twice and taking both tempts in that game.

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Kindred Summons doesn't often fire off.  High mana cost, and I usually have fewer lizards than I'd like to have by the time I can muster the mana to cast.  It'd be a nice way to get out Aetherwind Basker, Whiptongue Hydra, or Deathgazer, but I doubt somewhat its utility.

[Lizardman Dan]

Thinking of shifting out of black and going straight into Red-Green-Blue.  Would adjust lands accordingly.  Might want to move out of these slower lands.  Also try to include mana rocks that play with blue.  Morophon seems to come out about a turn or two too late to take advantage of mana cost reduction.  With Fist of Suns in the deck, getting the lands to bring Morophon out would be possibly even more important.

[Lizardman Dan]

Decided to lean into blue heavier and drop the black and white.

Morophon, the Boundless -> Animar, Soul of the Elements
Thriving Grove -> Simic Growth Chamber
Thriving Bluff -> Izzet Boilerworks
Reliquary Tower -> Ketria Triome
Thought Vessel -> Izzet Signet
Nyx Lotus -> Simic Signet
Explore -> Fevered Visions
Merciless Eviction -> Bane of Progress
Samut, Tyrant Smasher -> Temur Ascendancy
Changeling Outcast -> Shamanic Revelation (Was considering Primeval Protector because of group sizes I play with)
Deathgazer -> Vizier of the Menagerie
Graveshifter -> Orvar, the All-form
Skeletal Changeling -> Surrak Dragonclaw
Sprouting Thrinax -> Augur of Autumn
Cragcrown Pathway -> Frontier Bivouac
Harvest Season -> Kodama's Reach (Was also considering Tempt with Discovery since it almost always gets the group when everyone else plays it)
Sylvan Anthem -> Eldrazi Monument
Mountain -> Spinerock Knoll
Forest -> Boseiju, Who Endures (because a friend gave me one)