Lotus Batterskull

I don't really play 5 colors so I don't have any good suggestions, sorry. :(

Looking at this, I'm thinking... Green Sun's Zenith for the Dryad t1. I'll need to call K and ask him how he feels about that change, but what to replace...?

The overall strategy is pretty inefficient, especially considering the result of that whole chain is just a big flyer with lifelink and firststrike. If it takes a paragraph to explain what you are doing, you should probably be winning the game.

If you want to keep the focus on using the Paragon of Amesha and Meekstone interaction I would suggest a lot of changes to make the setup more efficient.

To start with perhaps you could use Crystal Quarry for your rainbow mana. That way you can focus on just ramping instead of color fixing.

I would give a lot more suggestions but I'd basically be replacing half the cards in the deck. I dont really know how casual your playgroup is.

Anybody liking this?
Suggestion on how to protect from DTC spells ?

i like the deck i would add oracle of mul daya

Hmm, i like this. Pretty neat stuff. Lots of self aimed land destruction, have you considered terravore? They get pretty colossal, especially if your playing a Loam dredge deck, because your opponent has constant land in their graveyard. And it has trample :]

For the sideboard, id maybe run some good ol universal control. Trinisphere, vedalken shackles, chalice of the void. Void prevents combo, like warrens/tendrils decks, shackles are just fun, and chalice is just universally good against all kinds of stuff. Counterbalance COULD be an addition, simply because you have tops in here and you can pop the top when an opponent is casting, and hopefully put stuff on top with the same CMC to lock them out of spells. Most legacy decks are CMC 3ish and under, as is this deck. I think a counterbalance in here would be frusturating, and then even on your opponents turn you constantly get to do cool suff, and your deck is moving all the time. :]

Oh, and you may very well like to add Sylvan library, just to have constant card draw. This deck is neat, and i think with a little work, it can become very nice. Noble hierarch could be a good addition because of the mana variety and beatdown supplied by exalted (especially if you swing with a massive trample terravore.)

Counterbalance and top were made for each other. I see your point about shackles, kinda overlooked that, as well as chalice. And trinisphere may slow you down a bit, but it hurts your opponents too and if you have a counterbalance, then chances are you will have the advantage over them. Keep up the good work, feel free to check out some of my decklists! Id love to pit my merfolk or tim the goblin decks against this.

I see what you did here...

First thought, again you have a near perfect mana curve, but between Sol Ring, Birds of Paradise, and Lotus Cobra, is it really necessary? I understand you put lands in to lockdown, but you should be producing plenty of mana besides.

Great use of Force Spike. Am I correct in assuming that this deck wins by bouncing Batterskull between Birds and Cobra? If so, I think it could benefit from more creatures. You can take out 4 lands (since you really don't use them that much) and add 4 Llanowar Elves. Heck, you could take out 4 more and add 4 Fyndhorn Elves!

This deck reminds me a little of my Overwhelming Stampede deck, the idea was winning primarily through use of 1 CMC craetures. It does so with great success.

BTW, Sol Ring is either Restricted or Banned in every non singleton format (if I'm not mistaken). The reason being is you could start out with 2/3/4 of them in hand and play them all on turn 1, ending up with 5/7/9 mana per turn on turn two (+1 if you had a second land). There are plenty of other artifacts that mana accell that you could use, but for this deck, just to troll your opponents, I would highly recommend... Sword of Feast and Famine.

It fits the theme with both powering up your creatures, it's easier to bounce around than Batterskull (lower equip cost), AND it untaps all your lands in an alternate way. Causing your opponent to discard, getting +2/+2, and protection from green and blue are unfortunate side effects, but you'll just have to live with em'.

Seems I neglected the vigilance from Batterskull, nice! Even so, feast and Famine is easy to re-equip to another creature so you have a beefed up defender if need be. Or just put it on the same thing as Batterskull and laugh meniachally.