Simic Initiative

by drakontois on 18 April 2014

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (17 cards)

Enchantments (2)


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Deck Description

First attempt at a Simic deck. The sideboard is just other cards I had thought about throwing in. Let me know what you guys think.

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Simic Initiative

You have a lot of good synergy here, and I like it overall. For suggestions, my personal adjustments would be roughly as follows:

Get rid of llanowar elves: your curve is good, and don't really need all that ramp, or if anything add an actual land or 2 and go up to 23, plus you have gyre sage and I added paradise mantles below.
Get rid of 2 Cloudfin raptor and Add 3 Nimbus Swimmer from your sideboard.
Get rid of 4 Kiora's Follower, you don't have enough tap cards to warrant that card, unless you were running it for mana, which again I don't think you need, or defense, in which case I'd rather have a different defense?
Get rid of Helix Pinnacle, 1 isn't enough to rely on, and it's too slow anyway unless you completely build around it.
Get rid of 4 Shambleshark, it's weak imo.
Get rid of 2 Bident of Thassa and Add 2 more Bred for the Hunt instead.
Add 1 more Master Biomancer.
Add 1 more Primordial Hydra
Add 2 more Vorel of Hull Clade
Add 3 Gilder Bairn from sideboard
Add 3 Paradise Mantle to put on Gilder Bairns or to help with mana in general.

Only other thing I could think of, would be to consider using something to give more trample, like: Berserk, Rancor, Brawn, or Primal Rage. Hope all that opinion gives you some things to consider.

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Posted 30 April 2014 at 02:45

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After adjusting the cards a tad more, this is what I ended up with based on your cards:

http://www.mtgvault.com/synthesist/decks/simic-initiative/

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Posted 30 April 2014 at 15:09

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Thanks for the comments!

-I like the idea of taking out the Helix Pinnacle, I basically just had it in there for fun.
-I think Shambleshark is decent. You get a evolve trigger at flash speed.
-I think the Kiora's follower is awesome. It works for mana ramp and Vorel. With the Gilder combo to be super effective you need the added mana boost.

I balanced out the numbers and streamlined things a little more. I was also thinking of adding Sage of Hours to get some extra turns with Bioshift.

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Posted 01 May 2014 at 00:07

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