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Hello.

Some background info, I quit magic after the invasion block, but have lately begun to play casually again, no deck format limits besides the standard ones. Ive been toying with reassembling a 5-colour deck, but i was always more a player than a deckbuilder so to speak.

The main idea is split into 3 parts:
1 - mana accelerate to hit 5 colours as fast as possible.
2 - Nuke with Global ruin to destroy the enemy mana-base, groundskeeper and fertile ground limit the damage to myself, as well as allow me to harrow without destroying my own mana.

3 - Use my heavy hitters to annihilate them. If possible, pull a cromat-victory combo. Also, using gate and legacy to keep up superiority.

However, I would be interested in some feedback before I start getting the cards I need, fortunately, most of the cards I either already have, or are really cheap to get.

Was thinking of maybe adding in more heavy creatures, so far in test draws, I have been able to hit 5 mana pretty fast and regularly, so seems the 3-4 mana creatures are fairly skippable, and I have options for getting health back and thus recovering from early punches. Also toying with the idea of maybe upping the deck to 65 cards, but that might create problems getting the mana base i need. Also, focusing more on green mana since its needed to power up my acceleration. Maybe throw a planeswalker in?

So, any thoughts and suggestions?

magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=...

1 Cromat
2 Draco
2Groundskeeper
3 Wall of Reverence
2 Maelstrom Archangel
2 Quirion dryad (to be replaced with primordial hydra once i get a hold of some.
1 Crosis, the purger
1 Teneb, the harvester
1 Numot, the devastator




1 Coalition Victory
2 Collective Restraint
3 Darksteel Ingot
4 Fertile Ground
1 Genju of the Realm
3 Global Ruin
4 Harrow
1 Obelisk of Alara
1 Conflux
1 Nicol bolas, Planeswalker
1 Legacy weapon
1 Maelstrom Nexus
2 Allied Strategies


8 Forest
3 Island
3 Mountain
3 Plains
3 Swamp
4 Terramorphic expanse

Lands: 24

Thanks for the response. Already switched a few terramorphics into my test deck, although while i can certainly see what the intent of the deck you listed is, wont relying on just 5 creatures for win conditions leave it vulnerable to decks who can get rid of those?

Also, note that the linked deck and listed deck are different, mostly due to playing around with tweaks and adjustments, while also wanting to keep a list of what i had as a starting point, so the link is WiP, while the list up there is the current "set in stone" point, until i create a new one

Door to Nothingness and Coalition Victory say hi.

lol! 5 colours have really become spoilt for choise since I last played magic! Im almost tempted to just make a secondary deck that focuses on control!

Been running some tests with the modified deck, and over 100 draws i hit 4.53 mana on average by turn 4, although the vast majority of tests i end up with 5-7 mana, especially lucky or unlucky draws resulting in 8 or 0-2 mana :S Overall, the amount of mana seems fine to get the multicoloured machine going, and getting in some terramorphic really helped avoid that my colours blocked me. Also replaced planar portal entirely with conflux, and replaced a cromat with a maelstrom angel. (recycling, and still fufills Coalition victory, yay!). I would like to include more of the utility spells, like evasive maneuvers and voices of the void, but still not sure what to lose.

Also prefer sticking to using land-boosters instead of land-finders as they work better with global ruin. If you have 3 forests out, you still lose them, but if you got one forest with fertile ground you retain the full 2 mana.

Still considering if maybe the path to take is to increase to 65, throwing in 1-2 more lands and 3 other cards, but it would reduce my access to 4Xcards, on the other hand, it would give more toys to play around with and there are several win conditions in already.

Also, been pondering if to toss in something like a planeswalker, is it worth it? And where would you cut if you had to in order to throw in some cards that could better optimize it?

And finally: Nephilim beatdown? Im a bit of an old player, so not quite sure how that works. Looked up some nephilim cards but they seemed kind of mid-power, but im really curious, any more details? ^^

Thanks for the feedback everyone! No idea how on earth i missed Prismatic omen, although I am starting to have my doubt, since getting 5 colours is not a biggie, but it would allow to focus more on green without suffering the penalty as much. ^^  Fortunately US prices are so cheap I was able to get both the heavy hitters and the cheap control cards suggested in the first reply, so will be doing some actual playtesting to find out how to tweak it.

Also, pondering if Maelstrom nexus is worth it, as I hae many high cost cards (cascade draco, hooo!) howeer that could also work against cascades, hmm....

Also, never used a sidedeck before, any tisp for what kind of cards one usually uses in a sidedeck?