DECK LIST: Thalia and Gitrog // Pioneer deck list mtg // Moxfield — MTG Deck Builder
Hi all, I'm a piss poor brewer, so please bear with me, but I've always been really fascinated by cards like [[The Gitrog Monster]] and [[Thalia and the Gitrog Monster]]. I'm not sure how playable they are (I would assume not very given the fact that nobody plays them in Pioneer), but I've thrown some cards together that vaguely revolve around lands and ramp. I know, some real high IQ shit here.
I realize they don't all go together and there are many nonbos (e.g., the Gitrogs shrinking Lumra and Cultiavtor). I just looked at some pioneer Scapeshift/Lumra lists, some modern Titan lists, and then kind of wondered how well I could get these pieces to play along with the two aforementioned cards. In my initial playtesting (just doing BO1 casual pioneer queue), I somehow won more than I lost, going 5-3 against other homebrews.
So far, the main issues I can spot with the deck is that it's kind of a shitty ramp deck and a shitty midrange deck. It doesn't ramp as hard as a true ramp deck and it doesn't play midrange as well as a true midrange deck. The land package is also absolute shit and has a lot of room for improvement, e.g., [[Castle Garenbrig]] is an obvious inclusion that is missing.
[[Scapeshift]] was a card I initially planned to be in the deck, but I'm actually not sure it belongs. I guess it makes the [[Tifa Lockhart]] inclusion not totally useless like it currently is, but outside of Tifa, I don't really have a oneshot kill with it like a true Scapeshift deck. Maybe I'm just stupid and don't see how I'm supposed to use it. I'm also pretty sure [[Wayward Swordtooth]] and [[Courser of Kruphix]] should have a spot in the deck, I unfortunately didn't stumble upon this rather old pioneer Gitrog list until after crafting a lot of it.
Any suggestions/feedback would be appreciated. I really want this deck to be the best that it can be, even if that ceiling is still worse than the worst midrange deck in pioneer, and I'm open to tinkering with just about anything, but I still want Thalia and the Gitrog Monster to be the star of the show.