Astral-Genesis

CREATURES 25

4 Satyr Wayfinder
3 Jade Mage
2 Genesis Hydra

2 Reclamation Sage

4 Saruli Gatekeepers
2 Skymark Roc
2 Jalira, Master Polymorphist

2 Species Gorger
1 Baneslayer Angel
1 Arbor Colossus
1 Palisade Giant
1 Resolute Archangel

OTHER 12

4 Cultivate
2 Seance
3 Triplicate Spirits
3 Angelic Edict

LAND 23

4 Selsnya Guildgate
4 Simic Guildgate
2 Azorius Guildgate
5 Forest
4 Plains
4 Island

I would add 1 archeomancer and 1 time warp. It only takes 2 slots but gives you an infinite combo. Also both cards are good enough on their own.

This deck is quite flexible after couple of games I have a better idea, drop 4 Elvish Visionary and add Time Warp and 3 Archaeomancer

If your Time Warp is not near the bottom of your deck, you win the game by not letting your opponent play his/her turn
with combo Species Gorger+Time Warp +Archaeomancer

but then you lose all the friend probably lol

Is cloudhsift, quickling, and gorger to much of a good thing? As is cloudhsift does not offer much in terms of investment. The flicker is good for abusing etb or avoiding key creature death. But with the other 2 slots fulfilling this mechanic I think it is overkill.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Just a heads up that's actually an older version of the deck. The newer one can be found here. That said lets address your points.

@ Kirah_WoNg
I actually did think about including Archaeomancer in this build but ended up going against it. As much as I would love to get the infinite turn loop going I don't think this is really the build for it - I'd have to up the mana a little (nine mana a turn is a little intensive for this deck). Plus outside of the Time Warp their isn't really much for the Archaeomancer's to do. If I draw all three before Time Warp they're basically dead cards. I did end up building a Simic deck to work around the Time Warp recursion though.

@ Neqtan
At this point yeah almost certainly. Gorger and Cloudshift do the job admirably by themselves as is; Quickling is just an added bonus. I've been meaning to cut it for a while now for something with a little more impact. Only real issue is blue is kinda thin on the ground as is so I'd prefer to cut from there. Maybe a little draw to help clear out clumps of lands? I don't know I'll work out something.

I can see you are quite professional, but in my opinion if you draw three Archaeomancer at early term they still have their jobs, bring back Cloudshift and Cultivate too accelerate the tune if you would never grab Time Warp at the game, Cloudshift is also a tricky card to keep the tune, protecting your creatures, re-activate their inbound abilities, after couple of games, I don't feel your deck would stuck from planting lands anyway, well, that's my view only lol

Garren have you tried the Hydra in this build? But either way something with ETB would be good to add to the theme.

Ah I completely forgot I ran Cultivate in that version. Hmm. That does change things quite a bit actually - mana issues certainly wouldn't be as prevalent (though I would have to alter the land/gate ratio a little I think). Early Archaeomancers wouldn't actually be that bad in that case - very worst they can do is help thing the deck and ramp me up. I may have to go back and tinker with the older version now.



I actually ended up subbing in a fair few more ETB creatures into the later build; specifically Lone Missionary and Mentor of the Meek (not technically ETB but he triggers on a good 2/3rds of the deck). The Hydra might actually be a decent addition though - would certainly give me something to do if I find myself with excess mana and I must admit I've had great success with him in my Simic deck.

I tried it and found it lacking.

1) It is double green which is not good in a 3-colour deck. You want as few double mana symbols as possible.
2) It's not really worth casting until X = 3 or more, and once it's that big you do not really want to bounce it due to massive tempo loss.
3) Terrible with Cloudshift?? I didn't get to try this as it never came up, and Wizards keep changing these rules for exiling. I *assume* it comes back with X=0?
4) It can sometimes fetch nothing (duh)

All your points are true. But a card that offers similar ability would be nice in this deck. Something to fish through the deck a bit would be great. Hydra offers that but is there a more optimal choice?

In a moment of rage due to repeated land draws (no I'm not running too much), I decided to create a deck where land draws late in the game are good.

Land Bomb
Land

5 x plains
5 x island
4 x forest
2 x Azorius Guildgate
2 x Selesnya Guildgate
2 x Simic Guildgate
3 x Radiant Fountain

White

3 x Ajani's Pridemate
3 x Wall of Omens
4 x Lone Missionary
3 x angelic accord
1 x baneslayer angel

Blue

3 x Hedron crab
4 x Doorkeeper
4 x Ior ruin expedition
3 x guard gomazoa

Green

4 x Grazing Gladeheart
4 x Cultivate

Other

1 x Elixir of immortality


Late game land can gain life, mill, boost Pridemate and summon angel (with 2 Gladehearts). Overall the deck is slow though. Still looking for that certain something to make it better while keeping the theme. Suggestions welcome.

I have a deck with similar goals but still different, it does constant drawing and Burning Inquiryies to recycle my library a lot with Kozilek, Butcher of Truth (If I can't find him, he's inside the Pyxis of Pandemonium, which means I should pop it open for a surprise)

Some things I have going on in it you may consider for the 'extra something'?

Roil Elemental
Avarice Amulet
Ground Assault

Adventuring Gear, is, a card I don't want to admit is in there, but ok, it is. It is kind of fun on my disposable BloodGhast

Happy land drawing!

How did I miss Roil Elemental? Not sure I want Adventuring Gear since this deck is more about stalling than attacking. Thanks for input.

Always looking out for things and I think I found a decent Bant Exalted deck. Let me run this a couple times before I post a deck list.
Give you a hint... Gnarlid's fit into the picture.

From the depths of Hell comes the dreaded.
BANT ARTIFACT DECK

I think you really get the best of both worlds, so to speak, here. And, I'm partial to Bant. The idea of quickly using the graveyard to your advantage came from Hakeem, base landgrabs from Stevo and awesome Obelisk tech from Elk. So, thanks.

I'm trying to digest the part where it says you only have 20 land in this deck. Is that a Mirage or is that real?

Took that out for a spin devil and it performs pretty well so far. I did take the liberty to trim and add a few lands but it's overall solid thus far I'll let you know if I have any suggestions but good work

Edit: Henceforth this deck is named The Wustershire

After running it against Gemini's Esper Artifacts I will agree that it needs more land Hakeem. My first thought was shoving and letting Shards do the magic. In the two games I played with it so far it seemed rather unbalanced.

Sharding seems counter intuitive with the exalted theme?

The shards are for a little more mana fixing and more importantly the Obelisk.
I trimmed a bit and added some land and it smoothed out. Not a match for Gemini's Eper but I just need a little more wingtime with it.
I edited my original deck list to reflect the changes.