Jeskai Ascension?

by FaQfUce on 09 December 2014

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Deck Description

Trying to find a successful merger of Jeskai Ascendancy and Pyromancer Ascension.

How to Play

Unless I am insane Pyromancer Ascension + Howl of the Horde + Grapeshot = LOLZ!

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Jeskai

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Jeskai Ascension?

I could be mistaken, but it seems that the goal is to untap manlands with Jeskai Ascendancy (and possibly use Pyromancer Ascension to exploit this further. If so:

1) Pyromancer Ascension is a "win more" card. It is not needed for your winning plan and is only good while your winning plan is working. It appears to have value but it only has value when you don't need to card.
2) Land. Jeskai Ascendancy is your only source that needs white mana and you "can" cast your whole deck without green mana; if all of your fetches were Scalding Tarn, you mana would be more stable. This would lead to other fine tuning as well, but you shouldn't focus on that until after your nonland revision.
3) Snapcaster Mage and Pyromancer Ascension conflict too much.
4) Grapeshot does not belong. Storm requires much more dedication. Grapeshot more or less becomes a "win more" card in this build.
5) The general direction of the deck seems to be rather vague. The coupling seems to be instants/sorcerys and cards that make instants/sorcerys better, but instead of a single pursuit, we have a combination of best case scenarios. The deck seems most akin to storm decks, but it doesn't chain as well, while there isn't enough creature support for Jeskai Ascendancy to work on the modern clock.

I'll print paper proxies at work if you want to come over and test it, sir.

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Posted 09 December 2014 at 07:53

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The idea was that Jeskai Ascendancy and Pyromancer Ascension COULD be used to win independently of each other.
I was trying to build a deck that would suit BOTH cards without putting preference on a single one.
I tried to put only one spell was dedicated to each strategy:
Manamorphose to Jeskai Ascendancy (which turned out to be good in BOTH cases),
Grapeshot to Pyromancer Ascension (which to this end I thought worked ).
When I was finishing this up i needed one more creature and it was down to Snapcaster Mage or Fatestitcher and admittedly I had went with Snapcaster Mage as to not OBVIOUSLY favor Jeskai Ascendancy. I thought that an early Snapcaster Mage would be counter productive, but a late one would be perfectly acceptable and be fuel for the fire.
As far as the land I wasn't thinking I guess it didn't seem to matter to me at the time.

With all that explained I am NOT unopposed to changing anything.
I THINK I fixed my mana problem and switched out Snapcaster Mage.

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Posted 09 December 2014 at 09:58

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