Nexus isn't there to infect.. its there to forge away. It's an artifact. bonus to tez it for two turn clock . discussion on numbers of planrswalkers... other people play jace, so very often this will just blow 7p an opposing jace. Tez needs to be at four because you really want to play on turn 3
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Forked bolt is better in the meta imo
Actually, I came into just this play.. he got day of judgement, putting it into the pool for something trash, and I was able to seal the deal by forgemastering pool away when the trash spell was on stack
Nearly half the deck is mana sources, if you count the ramp spells.. Meh, I'm heading to test live as we.speak, ill let you know
You really need to kill your mana base for white? You have a whomping three white cards? I really like distortion strike as well. What about vector asp and mox opal? Take a look at what I'm brewin' http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=144293
Turn 2 architect turns all your artifact guys into mana accelerants .
Thanks for the replies... how do you get your deck on the homepage the amount of likes?
This deck applies early pressure, can stay ahead with the couple counterspells and has haymakers it can throw real early. If you have steel overseer and they don't have pyroclasm on two, you're pretty good there. And if you have counter for it, this a moot point. You obviously have to ease back against the red decks and not.blow.the.whole.load. Pool shuts down counterspells (for the most part) and Titans, as well as let's you cheat in your own big spells if they are on top.
Pool is to shut off Titan. They have to cast Titan + another spell, since the Titan gets exiled at first. Slows them down, and you just cast it instead . Meh, I think its semantics on the counterspell argument. Leak is not what is wanted.. rebuttal is better, and I'm still leading toward will right now.. Back to the land argument. The majority of this deck costs 0 to 2 cmc... you want 3 to 4 over a whole game. Between opals chalice and architect (making the rest of your creatures into accelerants) I feel flooded at 18. You want to ramp or cheat everything costing more than 4
Im building something similar if you want to take a peak... http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=144293
I got a kind of aggressive build of tez http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=144293
Got something along the same vein http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=144293
The land count I'm shaky on too.. its pretty delicate there. But 5 is way too many to add. The net cc of the deck is something retarded low. About the forgemaster, there are some ridiculous cards it gets in certain matchups. There are what .... 7 cards that cost 5 or more? Forgemaster gets pool against valakut before they can go off... the guys are to provide pressure early and can be looked at as acceleration when drawing architect, fodder for forge or as just a win condition if they can't deal. For the leak vs will argument... when dropping 2 or 3 guys turn one do you think you'll be ahead on men? I might be going higher w trinket mages, grabbing a friend (0 cc) or a pest is very good. Have you played any games w this? I suggest loading it up and trying it out
So I've fit in forgemaster instead of t mages. Makes sense since it can get all artifacts, makes the one of masticore look a little less unseemly ... love to hear some thoughts?
I'm trying something similar myself... more aggro, and utilizes knowledge pool http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=144293
I have a similar deck, though more aggressive. It's posted on vault as well... pool aggro posted a couple days ago ... http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=144293
Turn 2 grand architect off a mox is turn 3 whatever you'd like.. I'm thinking about changing around for forgemaster . Testing has been pretty good .. winning percentages against vampires and ramp, still trying to find a happy medium for the control matchups.
Knowledge pool is pretty nuts in this deck, you have a bunch of useless things for your opponent to cast, and you get to cast their spells in the cheap