Dragon Rebellion v2

[GandoTheBard]

Not necessarily improved but here is a different varient:

65 Total Cards

33 Creatures
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1x Aven Riftwatcher
4x Birds of Paradise
3x Blightspeaker
1x Broodmate Dragon
1x Flametongue Kavu
1x Furnace Whelp
1x Gravedigger
1x Hunted Dragon
1x Jugan, the Rising Star
1x Keiga, the Tide Star
1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
1x Man-o'-War
1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
1x Oros, the Avenger
1x Predator Dragon
3x Ramosian Captain
2x Ramosian Commander
1x Ramosian Revivalist
2x Ramosian Sky Marshal
1x Shivan Dragon
1x Squee, Goblin Nabob
1x Treva, the Renewer
2x Urborg Syphon-Mage

12 Spells
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2x Conspiracy
1x Enlightened Tutor
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
4x Tithe

20 Land
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4x Jungle Shrine
4x Plateau
4x Savannah
4x Scrubland
4x Seaside Citadel

thoughts:
I played my dragon rebs decks a bit and realized I was never drawing more than 2 lands. Ever. With 20 lands +5 moxen in a 64 deck I think the expected average draw is 3-4 lands after a turn. Only 30% of the games was I finding a hand that was playable. I think this is what JPB was saying wasn't fun about it (he didn't specify further except to say it was "slow". When I built this deck I didn't find it slow or mana deficient but well thats why we have others to test them for us.

One of the solutions was to change the mana base to more white centric and add in green for Birds of Paradise. This is supposed to give a better chance at a playable starting hand. It seems like this is the case though I am not a fan of the comes into play tapped lands all that much lol. The Tithes should also help. I thought about Land Tax but realized Tithe was really more to the point if I added a lot of plains dual lands.

Anyway next was to put the rebs base in and then dragons and then some toolbox critters that could be useful. The thing this deck really needs is a way to bounce critters on occasion and a way to disenchant with comes into play creatures. I could add Uktabi Orangutan but that leaves the enchantment angle untaken care of. We need Cloudchaser Eagles people.

Urborg Syphon Mage is a funky touch if things get hairy. and we have the Squee Syphon Mage combo if that gets going As I said above though it isn't necessarily a better deck. (60 cards would be more ideal but it seems I can't build this deck with just 60 cards. )