Asking for more deck Help
Hello again everyone!
After the first round of deck building and thinking Hogaak was legal I’m back asking for some more advice from those who know how to brew. I have discovered my love for value and have been tweaking an ETB deck with Aminatou at the helm. My hope was to make a midrange deck that can play a solid game while out grinding whatever I’m up against but from my research on MTGTop8 it looks like the general consensus is a control shell is the smarter and safer play.
This is where I’m stuck as I have cobbled a near 100 but still short cards and even then I’m not fully convinced that the cards are good enough. (Though that may be more of my internal monologue doubting everything.)
Many of the cards I’ve added were to pull double duty to be good in both the early game and the late game. The soul stone allowing me to make double plays on a later turn or to reanimate more value seemed reasonable and Virtue of Persistence being early removal or an eventual engine looked like potential on paper.
The Mind stone and Air benders Ascension are additional cards that looked like they had potential with pulling double duty but, as I said, deck building has never been a strong point of mine so I didn’t know if I was on to something or if they were a bit to cute to include.
The final thought as I was going through my rares was if there could be some artifact shell that could be stronger than what I was already trying. Urza, Lord High Artificer, Simulacrum Synthesizer and Krang have powerful ETB’s and are strong cards in of themselves but would be doing a ton of brewing because most people are leaning harder on counters than artifacts and so forth.
I hope this word vomit makes sense as my meta is friends of mine who either net deck some of the bigger decks or bringing their own amalgamations but I do hope to push Value town to the best iteration possible so any and all advice would be appreciated because the last time I asked I learned of the correct ban list and that was already an eye opener! (Also, in the mana base there is 6 snow covered plains and that’s a place holder till I can trade for better lands.) Thank you guys in advance!