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Nevermore is the Meddling Mage of enchantments, and is a good followup after Thoughtseize / Tidehollow Sculler. Almost good enough to mainboard. With good timing it can both protect your stuff or shut down the opponent's win condition. Can you imagine dropping this naming Jace, the Mind Sculptor?

It was a tossup between Vastwood and Llanowar. Can't have too many tapped lands in an aggro deck. Settled on Llanowar because of the immediate effect of Graft and not putting myself back one mana for the turn just to activate it on one, maybe two creatures.

What's your answer to cards like Back to Nature / Paraselene? It's a card not only good against this lock, but also the GW Bogles deck, and is why I have Primeval Light in the sideboard of my Ponza deck.

If you do go with the fetches, Evolving Wilds would be the better of those two because it's what's used so often in Standard. Don't want to introduce the 'exact same card, but different name' thing too early. Another option that I've come tolike are the Panorama (Esper Panorama for WB). Sure, it may cost extra mana to search, but it's an untapped source that can add {C}.

Looks like Isolated Chapel is getting a reprint in Dominaria, so that should bring the price down some.

The artifact hate is because of some affinity players at my LGS. A lot of the lands they use are the artifact lands

I don't know if you've seen Dominaria spoilers yet, but Squee is getting a new card that can be cast from exile. Kind of a better Eternal Scourge in that it doesn't exile itself when targeted and can also be cast from the grave if destroyed / countered.

Squee, the Immortal
1RR
Legendary Creature — Goblin
2/1
You may cast Squee, the Immortal from your graveyard or from exile.

Caves of Koilos:
2015/06/22 The damage dealt to you is part of the second mana ability. It doesn’t use the stack and can’t be responded to.

Blood Sun:
2018/01/19 A mana ability is an ability that produces mana, not an ability that costs mana.

So I'd say yes, you still take damage. If anyone can prove me wrong, please do.

Where you put the Wurm is up to you. It does work well with Elish though. Letting you kill creatures with 4 or less power. Depending on the order, you could drain a lot of the opponent's life.

Small problem with Reality Smasher: no colourless mana anywhere in the 75.

Nice to see someone likes my ideas enough to personalise them. If you're going on the Elish plan, there's another creature to consider: Massacre Wurm. A few years back I ran both Elish and Massacre in a reanimate deck based around Unburial Rites. Fun times.

Elish is a powerful card for Heartless type decks, even in reanimate decks (I did this once). Ultimately the titan base is up to personal preference. I like decks with the ability to personalise them, probably why I like Ponza so much.

Just remembered, Dryad Arbor also untapps with Intuder Alarm / Jeskai Ascendancy, and because Sprout Swarm and Scatter the Seeds have convoke, the summoning sickness down side of Dryad Arbor is often mitigated.

Ok, I couldn't find any definitive list, which is the nature and charm of Ponza overall, but from my short look into BBE Ponza lists I've noticed the following:

> Most seem to keep the core of the deck mostly in tact, with the rest of the deck's average cmc lowering to meet BBE's Cascade and lowing the average number of droks to 8 (Elf + Sprawl).
> Moons stay at 4, or drop to 3 because hitting extras off BBE isn't that great.
> Mwonvuli Acid-Moss is normally dropped, or lowered in favour of Molten Rain because of the lower overall cmc and BBE's cascade. Stone rain is the normal 4 of.
> Tireless Tracker and Kitchen Finks are seeing more play in BBE lists and I've seen Goblin Rabblemaster at 1x in a fair number of lists.
> Goyf is seeing play in some lists, with Strangleroot Geist being a budget alternative for it.
> Chandra, Torch of Defiance is the go to 'Walker, normally at 2-3 copies, with Nissa, Voice of Zendikar and Nissa, Vital Force seeing some play.
> Inferno Titan and Stormbreath Dragon are still big hitters, though their numbers are lower in favour of more threats that BBE can hit.
> Bonfire of the Damned and Mizzium Mortars are nowhere to be seen, though I have seen one or two decks using Lightning Bolt and Beast Within.
> The land base is largely unchanged: 4 Wooded Foothills, 4 other forest fetching lands (normally Windswept Heath, but sometimes a mix), 3 Stomping Ground, 1 Mountain, and 8-9 Forest. The odd one includes a single Kessig Wolf Run.

Sideboard is also warped by the inclusion of BBE. Now, as you know, sideboards are extremely meta dependent, but keeping BBE's Cascade in mind is key here:
> Trinisphere is nowhere to be seen because it does not work well with Cascade.
> Ancient Grudge seems to be the go to Artifact hate, though some lists use Abrade.
> Obstinate Baloth can be good with the potential increase of BBE Jund lists. Discarding it to Lilly is always awesome. Extra Kitchen Finks are often in this slot too as it's a BBE hit. Thragtusk is also another good lifegain threat.
> Thrun, the Last Troll as a 1 or 2 of VS Jace, the MInd Scultor is good.
> 2-3x Choke seems to be a popular choice both against Fish and Jace.
> Anger of the Gods is the sweeper of choice, though I've seen some use Slagstorm instead.
> Crumble to Dust for Tron.
> Chamaleon Colossus for Death's Shadow.

I hope this helps.

Remand is only good as a stalling tactic. I know a lot of blue based control decks run Mana Leak as their catchall mainboard, with more specific counters in the sideboard. Spell pierce is another good mainboard option as it gives you a counter for 1 mana that hits a lot of things that can disrupt your combo. So those are the ones I'd concentrate on the most.

I played a UB Heartless Summoning back when it was standard legal and have been tinkering with it on and off for a while. One of the biggest down sides to building around a single card is you're not likely to do well if you don't get it on time, so the Blood Sun ramp is a decent backup plan. It in this case, Heartless is a food backup to Blood Sun ramp :P

Blood Moon and choice 'Walkers (like Chandra, Torch of Defiance) are likely going to be the biggest single cost. Arbor Elf + Utopia Sprawl are your main mana dorks, with BoP normally being the up to two extra dorks, though I've seen some use Noble Hierarch for the exalted bonus as you're often only attacking with one creature in the early game. Give me a few hours and I'll come back to you with what I feel is a decent BBE Ponza.

Blood Sun Eldrazi Tron is a strong deck idea. I just wanted to abuse the bounce lands in this one.

First thing's first. Preordain in the main deck and Life // Death in thr sideboard are the only non-Modern cards (from what I can see). Preorain is easily replaced by Serum Visions or Sleight of Hand. As for Life // Death, I'm assuming it's for the Life half, which has a slightly more expensive Modern equivalent in Natural Affinity, which makes them 2/2's instead of 1/1's.

Beck's draw is optional, so no fear of decking yourself.

I must ask, where's the Impact Tremors ot Altar of the Brood for the instant win? If you go the Impact Tremors route, Jeskai Ascendancy should be considered as a backup Intruder Alarm style effect.

BBE Ponza, from what I've seen so far (it's still relatively new), is more of a midrange / tempo than the traditional Ponza which is midrange / control. And that's largley because BBE is such a tempo card, so I don't think you need to fear the aggro route in this case.

As I said already, Masters 25 will be having an effect on Blood Moon's price, and I see that both Utopia Sprawl and Arbor Elf are getting prints in the set (I'm happy to see Sprawl finally get a reprint). What staple cards do you already have? Despite my dislike of BBE in Ponza, I'm willing to help you where I can.

This looks very similar to a WB Tokens deck I ran at FNM's in 2015. Obviously it's been a while and the format's meta changed some, even before Jace and Bloodbraid's unbanning, so it's horribly out of date. Without having access to the actual deck (I'm currently not at home), here's an updated list that still needs play testing:

https://www.mtgvault.com/dedwards/decks/orzhov-tokens/