The Mimeoplasm - Comments

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Changelog
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Phyrexian Arena -> Rhystic Study
Probe -> Windfall
Rune-Scarred Demon -> Abrupt Decay

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Ideas
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Carpet of Flowers -> Skyshroud Ranger
Windfall -> Dark Tutelage
Island -> Preordain
Pulse of the Grid -> Phyrexian Arena

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Changelog
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Dark Tutelage -> Windfall
Phyrexian Arena -> Careful Study
Preordain -> Thoughtseize
Llawan, Cephalid Empress -> Dark Ritual?

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Changelog
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Dance of the Dead -> Plasm Capture
Llawan, Cephalid Empress -> Whispering Madness
Elvish Spirit Guide -> Memory Jar

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Changelog
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Thoughtseize -> Cabal Therapy
Plasm Capture -> Arcane Denial
Tidespout Tyrant -> Stolen Identity

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Update
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Revision 141 is what I'm settling for now. Aimed for a bit more resilience and consistency over breakneck speed. Happy with the list as is until further results.

As for pimpage, foils left to obtain:
*FOILS*
Polluted Delta
Flooded Strand
Windswept Heath
Misty Rainforest
Scalding Tarn
Wooded Foothills

*PIMP*
Demonic Tutor (B)
Forest (Guru)

*ALTER*
The Mimeoplasm
Natural Order
Survival of the Fittest
Flash
Triskelion (ANQ)
Phyrexian Devourer

Animate Dead (B)
Underground River (IA)

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Lotus Petal
Mox Diamond
Elvish Spirit Guide
Impulse
Recurring Insight

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To Buy
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Demonic Tutor (B)
Recurring Insight (Foil)
Lotus Petal (Foil)

To Alter
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Time Spiral
Mox Diamond
Lim-Dul's Vault
Underground River
Animate Dead
Sylvan Library

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New streamlining philosophy for this deck - don't run any cards that choose to be interactive with opponents. Example is Phantasmal Image or Gilded Drake. It's nice to be able to steal or copy bombs, but what's the point? They aren't going to help you reach Sylvan Primordial quicker or reach Necrotic Ooze combo quicker. All cards must either help you find or achieve combo or prevent them from winning or halt their attempts to stop you. There is no room for anything "interactive". Considering cutting Phyrexian Metamorph, but it can help copy ramp in the very least.

Bunch of edits. Too many too list out. Cards that are still being considered:

Thoughtseize
Carpet of Flowers
Recurring Insight
Time Spiral
Dispel
Misdirection

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Putrefy and Abrupt Decay come in vs GY-hate heavy metas.

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Idea
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Diabolic Intent --> Entomb --> Mimeoplasm
Requires it to be turn 4, so it might be too slow. Meh.

Currently analyzing the role of countermagic in this deck. Oftentimes I find that I do not have spare mana to counter things and I prefer not to wait a turn. I also don't have very many blue cards to support Force of Will. The better thing to do might to be to run better removal and/or better countermagic and/or Regrowth effects to operate on a different defensive axis. Will have to play more before coming to a conclusion.

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Changelog
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Frantic Search -> Thoughtseize
Delay -> Dispel
Putrefy -> Nature's Claim

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Idea List
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Exhume
Merchant Scroll
Phantasmal Image

Misdirection
Chain of Vapor
Dispel
Autumn's Veil

Tidespout Tyrant
Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

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And Careful Study, which is for sure better than Frantic Search

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And Ad Nauseum