Obviously we are playing Omnath, and like the decks of old, the list is built with it completely in mind. Moving up the curve again, we have our two fives. Since it’s such a nice synergy with Omnath, I think it’s worth the inclusion. Furthermore if the Moonveil dies with an Omnath on board, you can send 4 damage wherever you want. What that means is that you can curve Moonveil Regent into Omnath and draw FOUR cards off of the trigger. When you cast a spell, you can discard your hand to draw a card for each color of the spell. The new addition to the deck is Moonveil Regent, which normally wouldn’t make sense in a deck with such a high curve, until you consider it’s triggered ability.
Yasharn, Implacable Earth was another nice one as it’s simply a 4/4 that can find us more lands and can be randomly insane against sacrifice decks. Since we have so many ways to hit our land drops, it’s very easy to flood the board with 2/2s and then suddenly have a huge fighting force threatening to grow larger. Felidar Retreat was another piece of (most) of the old Omnath builds and it feels just as powerful now.
Now out of the early game, we move into the 4 drops of the deck. If you prefer Settle you can go for it, but I think Path is the correct option. Settle the Wilds could hypothetically find a 4 or 5 drop, and it’s really strong when it does that, but when you already have land 5 then it’s so much worse than Path. I’ve found that even in the late game, drawing Path isn’t that bad as it can enable super swingy turns with Omnath or Felidar Retreat out. Second and much more importantly, Path has Flashback where Settle doesn’t. First, although it does tend to be marginal, single green over double green can matter. Now I know most players are gushing over Settle the Wilds, I like the card a lot too, but I think Path is still better. Next up we have our lone 3 drop, Path to the Festival. In theory I would like to play more, but I don’t want to dig into the top end or lands more if I can help it, but you may be able to shave a Spikefield for an additional copy if you really like it. Rootgrazer has been a solid, yet innocuous addition as it could help ramp early and then provide more Landfall triggers late. Finally, we have the lone Murasa Rootgrazer holding down the fort. The second dork is Tangled Florahedron which doesn’t color fix, but has the versatility of turning into a land which is very valuable in a deck with 12 landfall cards. This ramps, this fixes, and this works with all the land drops we’re putting down. Lotus Cobra was in the initial build of Omnath and it’s still just as broken here. Nevertheless, we start our curve at 2 mana for this build. Admittedly, I would still be willing to experiment with the mana as it feels near impossible to have the perfect configuration, but this is definitely much closer. I played around with the sources and even found we could get away with just playing 25 real lands, but considering we have 6 MDFCs and 4 ramp spells, that should be more than enough. There was way too many Red sources and not enough Blue and White. In my first version I absolutely massacred the mana base. Generally at this point I would start talking about the curve, but I’m actually going to touch on the mana base quickly. I knew I had to tune to get the deck to a closer strong 60, and I think I reached it. Funny enough, it being 5 mana has also been relevant multiple times where my opponents couldn’t hit it with Skyclave Apparition! Omnath is such a powerful design by nature that even with this level of nerfs, it still felt incredible! It’s an absolute house against aggressive decks and it’s really easy to set up explosive turns still, just like it used to. Is this Omnath much worse than the original design? Absolutely, this is terrible in comparison… and still feels busted. After a bunch of games, I reached my conclusion. I was expecting a card that was nearly too weak for Alchemy and more of the gimmick than anything. Anyway, Alchemy comes through, I try out a few decks that seem obviously good and I hear Omnath calling my name, just begging me to give it one more chance.Ĭuriosity overcame me and I needed to know where Omnath stood. This was pretty difficult to do as I didn’t have too many lists to base off of, but enough of the pieces were similar I figured I could have something close to decent.
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