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The main form of drawing power in the deck is my commander. Kozilek will get me a new hand, but very rarely will I pass with more than 7 cards in hand, and if I do, I haven't had the scenario yet where I had to ditch anything useful. I typically mulligan for some form of acceleration and try to immediately get to 10 mana which usually empties my hand. Reliquary Tower is a good budget option but it might as well be a Wastes with the way the deck runs most games. I think Field of the Dead would be good in a casual meta but I try to play this at cEDH tables as this deck is ridiculously unfair to play at casual tables. As for Field of the Dead, I am not a fan of tap lands and roughly 1 out of every 20 games with this deck would even go long enough to get to 7 lands for it's ability to be relevant. Typically by the time I would go for that combo, I would have access to casting Kozilek. The Metalworker combo is absolutely a backup option though.

Chromatic orrery update#

I tried updating it a few times but I ended up changing out 20ish cards so I figured I would wait until I had a pretty stable list to update it. Regarding the Metalworker combo, a lot of the primer is outdated. I might swap out Tormod's Crypt for it so that all of my graveyard hate can be cycled if it isn't relevant.

Chromatic orrery upgrade#

I'm not sure if I would call it a strict upgrade to Relic of Progenitus but it is definitely good. I had no idea that Soul-Guide Lantern even existed. On that topic, using it as a High Market with access to infinite mana through Rings of Brighthearth + Voltaic Key + Chromatic Orrery (also gives infinite untaps of all artifacts) allowed me to win once as I didn't have access to a different way to sacrifice and recast Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. At one point, this deck ran Candelabra of Tawnos as a way to repeatedly use tech lands but I would argue that Manascape Refractor is a much better way to accomplish that. Bazaar of Baghdad and Eye of Ugin are useful as well, especially when I have access to Unwinding Clock and can repeatedly activate a random tech land every turn. Ancient Tomb or City of Traitors makes it into a Worn Powerstone (which I already run). Mishra's Workshop is my personal favorite but it also copies Inventors' Fair pretty frequently. Manascape Refractor has been very good in testing. From my testing, cutting a lot of the random value pieces for extra ramp has allowed for a lot more turn 2 or 3 Eldrazi Titans and a lot more success against cEDH decks. cEDH nowadays has the 'turn 3 rule' where you need to be threatening a win or overwhelming advantage by turn 3 consistently by turn 3 if you want to be relevant. I mighy try Mystic Forge again but I felt that it was too slow in my testing. I have messed around with Mystic Forge and it's associated combo a bit but I ended up cutting Sensei's Divining Top as I felt that it was unnecessary more often than not and not having ways to shuffle consistently made it way worse if I didn't have a way to go infinite with it. P r o f e t 9 3 Thanks for the recommendations. Colored Mana is for the Weak 1 month ago Good luck and hope your deck performs well for you. This is just what I would start with and see if it helps.

I'd try it as a 2 or 3 of in place a memnarch and thoughtcast(s). This will allow for you to use the colorless mana as u mana for memnarch and even pay for an urza activation all by itself. So here's what I'll suggest to bridge the gap between the 2 ideas. Either way, the lands don't really support the spells very well to me. Part of me says less urza lands, another part says to drop the green instead. That being said, I do see how all that colorless mana could be used with urza, especially if you have 1 or both of your training grounds active. I'd trim some urza lands in favor of blue sources. My instinct tells me that since you are primarily using it for an early memnarch, you won't have very many sources of blue to take advantage of it's abilities.

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I like the premise behind the deck, but I am not sure you need the full set of urza lands.