Need some ideas for protecting my combo

Thicket · Joined: 18 Mar 2006 Posts: 112

So last night I played a series against a mono red burn player. It was quite educational. He went plus, but I had some bad luck, blah blah, so it goes. I def didnt lose faith in the strategy tho as having a tooth available would have been GG in nearly every game. But I did realize some stuff:

1. Reclaim def needs to go in. Recollect I dunno because at 3 mana, I might as well just use Witness. But one of each should be good.

2. Gifts is my fav card in the game. But it does rely on the accelerants to be used in a timely matter. However when it does resolve, I have my combo pieces.

3. And most important, I'm gonna retract my attitude that other Tooth creatures arent necessary. KevMaster asked about Volcanic Fallout, and that is why Pacts of Negation are in, but I dont want to NEED a Pact in order to win.

So here's what I'm thinkin...

1st off, Kiki + any fatty is pretty nice, let alone 2 fatties. Based on suggestions here and my own thoughts I'm trying to decide between Mephidross/Triskelion, Hellkite Overlord/any, Baneslayer/any (lifelink good stuff), Inkwell Leviathan/any. Not Progenitus because hes legendary so I can't make a dupe. Iona + Painter.. might Iona and kiki be enough too? My biggest problem with iona and Painter is while it does lock them out, it also maintains their current board. And we are allowing decks to develop as we wait to go off. Akroma, AoW is another consideration.

Currently my 2 thoughts are Meph/Trisk to clear the board vs aggro or Baneslayer andor Overlord. The problem is even with 2 hasty flying overlords, we're only doing 16. And we've likely not done any damage yet so we'd be left with only kiki to defend and another turn needed to kill.

Im very confident this deck can work, but it needs to be crafted just right. I'd like to replace 1 witness for reclaim, try to maybe fit some desperate rituals in to increase speed, and have some versatility on what Tooth can fetch. Though Kiki-mite is still Plan A, for sure. Just want a solid plan B.

Also, any ideas to fetch up tooths besides Gifts? Even the tron versions have to wait for their tooths, so I dont think this is necc a weakness of the build.

Thoughts? Thanks for the input so far, everyone. Youre all awesome

SugarShark · Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 457

fatties are good because people already play hypergenesis