u/Crocmon

Hey folks!

Might remember me from this recent post, where I revealed a pet deck that would go on to put up a decent fight, but failed to close the games out in a positive way. In one of the comments I explain how I washed out, basically either keeping bad hands (forgot the key rule of this kind of deck was to start with removal and draw power) or completely running out of gas and having no way to either refill my hand or close the deal after effectively controlling the board for several turns.

I'm stuck at a bit of a crossroads, though. I have the cards set up for making a Sultai list, which you can see the beginnings of here (WRONG LINK WAS POSTED INITIALLY). I can't recall what the rules are for building w/ fetches, as when I was learning when they came out I didn't really have Fetchland money. That plus Verges and things are incredibly new to me, so definitely looking for pointers on how to build with them. Advice I was given was 8-10 fetches, 2/2/1 on shocks splitting with primary/primary/splash, and then the rest being deck dependent. No idea how viable that is, feels weird to me to have so few basics, though.

An idea that is either going to turn into a separate deck or something, though, is taking a UW Scepter build and making it Esper to bring in monsters like [[Phyrexian Crusader]] or [[Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon]] and going back to my roots as a WWK/Scars aspiring Control player. I'm just really married to the Infect/Phyrexian bit, to be really honest. Something of a style point, I suppose.

In short, I'm hoping I could start something of a brewing session to make a Sultai list that can hold up a lot better than my UB Infect list which has been adjusted to Hell n' back since that original thread, just haven't played it in Modern since. Or, failing that, I could get encouragement to go whole-hog into Esper Scepter that kills w/ Poison for a good laugh.

Edits: Tweaked the list; dropped Prologue to Phyresis because it's just not great. Every time I've cast it, it's either getting 1 poison across or doing a very bad job digging. Tossed in Tyrranax Rex as an additional pressure, and with a Sultai setup the 3 green pips shouldn't be terrible. Assuming I can hold the board down, he comes down and bombs the game in a way Skithiryx probably only dreams of.