This is scarily similar to my Dimir deck. When Katelyn played it against Tom he said he should dismantle his deck and does not play it anymore.
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Is this named after Mike because of psychic spiral copy/mill? Get rid of guildgates --evolving wilds is better.
You could make this standard by swapping out wall of frost for Fog Banks, , cemetery puca for Lazav, and evil twin for phantasmal image. Maybe switch out the rites of replication for some graveyard retrieval?Your forests can half be woodland cemeteries, get a few catacombs and harbors. If you had chromatic lanterns you could run rootborn defenses.
Why not switch out cleaver riot for Dynacharge and/or legion loyalists? You'll be getting first strike from the loyalist, and you can boost single creatures if you need to during tense situations. Most of your double strikers won't be doing that much more damage.
What do you do until turn 5?
Thanks for the positive response!Just played against my buddy's simic land-search, draw, instant deck today. For the first five or 6 games this deck decimated him. For the last couple, it went a little slower.I 'boarded in smites hoping to kill something like wolfir silverheart, but his deck boosts creatures to insanely high levels of power and then makes them unblockable usually. His deck capitalizes on wild defiance, can make his critters hexproof with sheltering words and then gain loads of life. I was thinking that priest of penance is useful for bypassing that. Exquisite blood worked really nicely. I had cut two syndics in favor of blind obedience. I'll test it with 4 again. Kept 1 less mana in the deck and used a deathpact angel. Against slower decks this wasn't so bad. Against my other friend's zombie deck I was a turn or two slower than him.I need another Obzedat. He was defffffinitely beastly. EDIT: as soon as I pull another parasite it's going in. I like the dutiful thrill just as a turn 2 extort... maybe cathedral sancitifer or some other good 1 drop?
I was thinking of various directions to go in with this deck. One would be to add in a few more enchantments mainboard, and try a sphere of safety side of things. One would be to boost the exquisite blood interaction.Or to capitalize on lifelink more.