Mr. Sandman
Commander / EDH
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Rise & Shine, Dream Stalker —April 27, 2024
Been thinking about this for a while and have decided to put Nether Traitor in the Sideboard. As great of a card it is, it almost never saw play unless I ran out of blockers or unblockable/fliers. Shadow doesn't do much and if I needed shadow, I prefer to play Dauthi Voidwalker.
That being said - traded out Minds Aglow for Indigo Faerie - MA was almost always one sided and I often was paying for it in the end. My playgroup likes to tap out so it never saw much play. Indigo Faerie helps target effects and also has the potential to make Fear cards more effective by changing my opponent's creatures to blue. Lots of combo setup.
Removed Fleshwrither as it was just too expensive. 7 mana for a 4 CMC that comes into play with summoning sickness is just too slow and even though I have the ability to reuse it with Lazav or the Looter, it is almost never worth the mana or effort. Instead, I added a beautifully thematic card - Rise and Shine. I have 17 artifacts in this deck and by mid-to-late game, I don't need all of that ramp. I've been in plenty of positions where my board presence was weak or folks would determine I wasn't a threat and swing out against someone else who was, leaving them open. Making 10+ artifacts 4/4 not only fits the Dream thematic, the concept of a book and other things coming to life, but it adds so much potential protection. We'll see how this plays but I've added it into the main board for now.
Also replacing Temporal Extortion with Dream Stalker in the side pool. TE only came out mid-to-late game due to the 4 Black mana cost and either put an unwanted target on my back or didn't do much since people were near death anyway and would just nullify it. DS however adds bounce back effects to permanents with ETB like Fogwalker and Baleful Strix, allows the reuse of Lost in the Maze and Cruel Somnophage, helps return Transmute Creatures to my hand, allows me to get a tutor with Disciple of Deceit, and allows redisgnation of my enchantments or a reset of Aether Vial and Cloud Key. Might add this to the 99 if Rise and Shine doesn't perform as well as I'd like it. We shall see.
Edit: Going to actually playtest this. Replacing Portent for now with DS. Curious to see how this manipulates the field. I could even potentially help it as a bargaining tool if I control one of my opponents creatures and decide to give it back if I need help with another opponent.