So I've modified my deck some to lower the curve. Overall non-land CMC is running just below 2.8 now. I like some of the ideas
@pokken has run with, so I'm trying them too: more fetches, more 1 and 2-drops to trigger Varina earlier and more often, no more mana rocks, etc. However, I don't plan to go lower as I don't want to fork out for an
Intuition and thus I don't plan to run that package. I've also proxied
Crucible of Worlds and felt it being ho-hum in the three games I've had a chance to cast it. Each time I had managed to either get
Land Tax,
Tithe, simply hit my land drops, use
Sevinne's Reclamation to help, or obtain one of the two sac/mana altars. Such that I didn't really want that card in my hand at that moment. I'm wondering if since my curve is a running a bit higher than Pokken's,
@Reya's, or
@plaganegra's that my deck is more mana hungry, so-to-speak, and thus Crucible isn't necessarily such a good choice the higher your curve is. For now, I've replaced the proxied Crucible with
Ponder, which seems good enough and lowers the curve a smidge. I'm curious if any of you have had similar experiences or whether Crucible has simply been an all-smiles card each time you've played it. Thoughts?
Side note, I rather like the deck at a slightly higher CMC with a couple of the larger creatures like
Noxious Ghoul and
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed in there. Mikaeus recently helped me drain the table with a sac outlet and a Wayward Servant on the table. It was glorious!! I often don't cast him, opting to pitch him for mass reanimation purposes mostly.