Hello guys, thank you for what you've shared with me so far.
Morganator, the thought was that Kalamax will be a lightning rod for removal and will eventually cost too much to cast. Having the magecraft creatures who get +1/+1 counters offer other (less efficient) routes for a big creature who can attack for lethal or be a target for
Chandra's Ignition. Do you think the redundancy isn't necessary?
And the method to draw the entire deck was using a
Greater Good style draw effect once a creature has been made really large.
jlutzxinc, thank you, I appreciate the wall of text because there's a lot to correct with this deck. Thank you for the #show_description lesson, I updated the original post. I'll take your advice chunk by chunk:
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you could even KEEP all three of your wincons, if you emphasized consistency over running every POSSIBLE card."
Do you think as a starting goal I should reduce the amount of cards in all of my categories to 9 or something? My main problem here is I don't know how to
balance my copying effect ratio with the other
pieces of the puzzle. The three main things are getting Kalamax tapped, be ready with a
fork effect, and then have a way to win once I've copied those effects. If I cut all of my removal (of which I admit I went for weird
chaos warp effects that seemed really fun instead of staples), and all of my protection, I'm still way over my card count. It seems like there isn't enough room to ever draw into the combo engine if I'm going by Normal Deckbuilding Advice™ of always having a chunk of ramp, removal, and protection.
I would appreciate if you bluntly told me which of my categories are unnecessary.
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Notably, Kalamax copying the first INSTANT could be leveraged (further than it already is) by FIRST casting a Sorcery-speed Tutor"
This never occurred to me because I don't like playing with tutors. This would certainly be the first step to ditching all the random crap in my deck and having it run consistently, but upon doing some scryfall searching I only see
Solve the Equation as a sorcery speed tutor for what other instants/sorceries I want.
Mystical Tutor does the same thing as an instant. Which ones am I missing?
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You're also missing a LOT of Fork effects;"
I am? There's only 12
fork effects at instant speed that come up while doing a scryfall search, (
https://scryfall.com/search?q=id%3Atemur+t%3Ainstant+o%3A%22copy+target+instant%22) and 28 of them if I include all types of cards, which I didn't think would be too helpful as Kalamax only copies instants. What syntax am I missing to see what other
fork effects you're talking about? This is a case of ignorance, I know old cards are worded differently but oftentimes I simply don't know how to find all instances of the effect I'm looking for.
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Ertai's Meddling will get rid of Dovin's Veto (I noticed you particularly hate that card). If it's Lab Man you want, then Chord of Calling (which you have) for 5, copied with Kalamax, will get you Leveler and Thassa's Oracle, which will replace that wincon without ANY Draw power, plus it won't fall to Nars3t or Notion Thief (but instead to Opposition Agent)."
Awesome card suggestion, I didn't know that
Ertai's Meddling existed, that's a great one to know about! I lost a game this past weekend to a friend casting
Boros Charm and then
Obliterate, I could have stopped it there too. I also hadn't known of using
Leveler +
Thassa's Oracle, that can really clean up having an alternate wincon without all the weird jankiness of my method to draw my deck, get lab man out somehow, then draw a final card. Thank you!
Maybe I need to put the words "Low Power Inconsistent Budget Jank Combo" into the deck title
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