I discovered scepters about a month ago and have been experimenting pairing with the cards I have lying around. This is a for fun deck (i think its modern not sure if i picked the right format) and fits into the meta-game I have with the guys at work when we play at lunch.
My deck building issues were drawing scepters and pairing them with what I would need and mana drought (even with 22/24 land). I've now sorted that out with Transmute and a couple of mana ramp cards. This is v0.3 I actually have 4x Dimir Infiltrator coming which will replace Fog Bank,
Murmuring Phantasm
, one delver and one pred sliver.
I face some interesting decks at work:
red/green fast creature aggro and ascetism (hexproof)
red black fast creature aggro with lots of removal
red black creature steal and sacrifice (this one is really interesting but pretty slow)
I also struggled with a solid win condition so I've gone for as many options as possible:
Guttersnipe/Sphinx-Bone Wand for combo damage, geyser and
Cinder Elemental
for big bang, basic sliver synergy or Ludevic's Test Subject
for big beastie/combat damage and sneaky mana ramp thrown in
importantly these all work with transmute so I can get most things cmc 2 out at will for cost 3 and a couple cmc1 with dizzy spell though im trying to remove that or work it out and keep everything synergised at 2 cmc transmute
two things to note, I'm planning to switch Fog with Dawn Charm so 2x transmute will work which will let me remove my Dizzy Spell in favour of something else im thinking a Fabricate and
Conjured Currency
for steal your stuff lols.
I'd like to improve card draw, only got Brainstorm, Train of Thought and not draw but same as brainstorm with Halimar Depths.
And possibly return from gy stuff as right now its only Elixir of Immortality which returns stuff and can work with Fabricate/Dizzy Spell transmute but thats quite a high cost and if it gets binned i'm stuffed, I do have
Bound/Determined
but bound is a huge cost and a little bit of a waste on a scepter despite the card draw you get as well.
I also want to add Heartstone for scepter reduction cost and Voltaic Key for re-use
