Quest for the Holy Relic

[Simping For Hina]

funk #EldraziWinter

 

4 Accorder Paladin
4 Glint Hawk
4 Faerie Imposter
4 Signal Pest
4 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
2 Kor Skyfisher

4 Quest for the Holy Relic

4 Mox Opal
2 Argentum Armor
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Light and Shadow

4 Gitaxian Probe

4 Arid Mesa
4 Marsh Flats
4 Seachrome Coast
4 Hallowed Fountain
2 Plains

[Flame Dragon]

If your playing this many artifacts why no Mox?

[Simping For Hina]

If your playing this many artifacts why no Mox?

Because it does nothing other than accelerate my hand for the first turn. It is a bad top deck, and horrible in multiples. Seems unnecessary unless I am going for a faster draw, and I want to keep my dead draws down to a minimum since I have only 6 ways to properly filter.

[Flame Dragon]

IMO the most important thing for a deck like this is the ability to be explosive. All your creatures are EXTREMELY weak on their own and Quests drawn on turn 3 or even 2 are already pretty dead. Plus 3/4 equipment are basically useless if you draw them. This deck is all in so thinking about having dead draws isn't really something you should concern yourself with here. Your trying to do something broken and the Mox will help enable that. Personally I'd cut Vision and Slight for 2 more Probes and 4 Mox.

[Simping For Hina]

IMO the most important thing for a deck like this is the ability to be explosive. All your creatures are EXTREMELY weak on their own and Quests drawn on turn 3 or even 2 are already pretty dead. Plus 3/4 equipment are basically useless if you draw them. This deck is all in so thinking about having dead draws isn't really something you should concern yourself with here. Your trying to do something broken and the Mox will help enable that. Personally I'd cut Vision and Slight for 2 more Probes and 4 Mox.

That's the thing, the explosiveness isn't about being able to put a critical mass out as as fast as possible, but also putting a critical mass with the usefulness of battle cry and Quest, setting up for being explosive. You're right that drawing the artifacts are dead if I am already all in, but the idea is that Batterskull and Sword give me the ability to play a long game if I draw badly, and Argentum Armor helps with the nuts. This isn't as all-in as it is supposedly seems, it is trying to attack from different angles with the critical mass that it has. Accorder Paladin + Signal Pest help to put the weakness of the creatures together, with synergy. Having more Mox Opal will only increase the amount of dead draws without giving me any leverage if I need to have it. I don't have any means of making use of them, like other cards this this deck. Batterskull + Sword make creatures a threat, and so do having more creatures when I have 8 Battlecry cards.  

[Flame Dragon]

That's the thing, the explosiveness isn't about being able to put a critical mass out as as fast as possible, but also putting a critical mass with the usefulness of battle cry and Quest, setting up for being explosive. You're right that drawing the artifacts are dead if I am already all in, but the idea is that Batterskull and Sword give me the ability to play a long game if I draw badly, and Argentum Armor helps with the nuts. This isn't as all-in as it is supposedly seems, it is trying to attack from different angles with the critical mass that it has. Accorder Paladin + Signal Pest help to put the weakness of the creatures together, with synergy. Having more Mox Opal will only increase the amount of dead draws without giving me any leverage if I need to have it. I don't have any means of making use of them, like other cards this this deck. Batterskull + Sword make creatures a threat, and so do having more creatures when I have 8 Battlecry cards.

Which the Mox enables.

 

W source, Quest, 0 drop, 0 drop, Mox, 1 drop gets quest half way on turn 1. This is the kind of opener the deck is built to do. Same for the critical mass of creatures for Paladin and Pest.

 

This deck has no long game. It has 18 lands and all its creatures are very weak. In fact, adding Mox makes Batter Skull more realistic to play.

 

The core of this deck is that it can't have leverage. You burn hot and fast, if you don't get what you need in that very small window your very likely to lose. In fact, double Mox isn't even the worse thing since then you have a lotus petal and turn 1 or 2 when your trying to just drop as many dudes as possible that is fine.

 

I never said cut the equipment or creatures, I said cut the 1 mana cantrips. They don't really do what this deck wants, which is drop is hand into play turn 1 and 2.

[Simping For Hina]

Okay, I can seemingly understand. I have doubts, but a combo deck like this relies on the critical mass of its opening hands to figure things out.

-4 Serum Vision

-2 Sleight of Hand

 

+4 Mox Opal

+2 GItaxian Probe

[Simping For Hina]

-4 Mox Opal

+4 Serum Visions

 

Mox Opal was a dead card more often than not, and was a bad draw that did nothing. Having only 12 artifacts to make it work wasn't enough, and I would have Mox Opal flood my hand doing nothing. While it enabled the nuts, it wasn't worth it to try and set up for a combo or filter my hands when I wasn't drawing into cards I needed. I would rather have cards that did something than cards that just stick in my hand waiting for something to happen.