After I decided to cut Duress from Keeper due to a lack of FoFs to force through, I also had to cut Hollistic Wisdom due to a lack of sorceries. However, Judgement has given us the Wishes. This gives me three reasons to bring HW back:
1) The Wishes themselves are sorceries
2) Burning Wish also needs extra sorceries to be effective
3) I need to increase my green mana to cast Living Wish
Conventional Wisdom v2.0
4 City of Brass
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
3 Tropical Island
3 Wasteland
2 Tundra
1 Undiscovered Paradise
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
5 Moxen
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Zuran Orb
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
1 Morphling
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Braingeyser (potential open slot)
1 Chainer's Edict
1 The Abyss
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mind Twist
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Sylvan Library
1 Hollistic Wisdom
1 Living Wish
1 Regrowth (potential open slot)
1 Fire/Ice
1 Vindicate
1 Balance
1 Gorilla Shaman
SB:
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Hydroblast
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Aura Fracture
1 Perish
1 Pyroclasm
1 Obliterate
1 Timetwister
1 Masticore
1 Morphling
1 Dwarven Miner
The current slots that are up for debate are:
1) Switch SB Morphling with Braingeyser
2) Regrowth for Teferi's Response
3) Regrowth for Mis-D #2
4) Obliterate for Kaervek's Torch
5) Obliterate for Call of the Herd
How could a single call of the herd be good? If you want to pack something in the SB to fetch with living wish pack phyrexian negator.
hmmm... JP... where's burning wish?
Oops it should be there, since the list there is only 59 cards.
Living Wish fetches Miner against control and Burning Wish doesn't fetch Negator :-P
No, I know it doesn't. I was speaking about living wish for negator.
Mmm, one Morphing. "Sir! The primary Morphling has flamed out! Should we switch to backup Morphling?! Brace for impact?? What are you saying Sir?! We did not install a backup Morphling?! WTF!" :-)
I am also intrigued by the Chainers Edict. A typo, or are you seriously considering it? I havent playtested it, so I dont know, but flashing back for 7 just seems too much investment in this type of control deck.
How about the Vindicate? I thought a lot of people tested this when it came out and it really didnt go anywhere, being a 3cc sorcery and all.
I've been thinking of trying a greener Keeper with Oaths, Holistic Wisdom and perhaps Nostalgic Dreams. Still in the "thinking" stage though, rather than the "doing" stage.
Silly me; green wish = Morphling. Expensive Morphling, but Morphling nonetheless. Somehow I was stuck on the idea that the Wish would go in the Shaman slot, not the Morphling slot. I wonder which is the correct way to do it? I think there are good arguements for either.
I still like maindeck Duress, but found that Burning Wish just didn't get enough against control. I like Cunning Wish much better--gets REB, StP, Response, MisD, Edict depending on the situation. Here's the list I'm experimenting with:
//NAME: Keeper
// Counters (9)
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Counterspell
// Draw (5)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Braingeyser
1 Sylvan Library
// Search (5)
1 Cunning Wish
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Living Wish
// Discard (4)
3 Duress
1 Mind Twist
// Board Control (4)
1 The Abyss
1 Fire/Ice
1 Balance
1 Hull Breach
// Recursion (2)
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Holistic Wisdom
// Utility (2)
1 Zuran Orb
1 Time Walk
// Kill (1)
1 Morphling
// Mana (28)
4 City of Brass
4 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tundra
1 Undiscovered Paradise
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
// Sideboard (15)
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Powder Keg
1 Misdirection
1 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Dwarven Miner
1 Morphling
1 Masticore
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Teferi's Response
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Aura Fracture
Another idea: Board Academy in Keeper? When you have the mana artifacts out and no monkey, go nuts? And they do have a point that if you SB Academy in Academy you get 4...but somehow it doesn't seem right to me. Someone please explain why.
Jps your mana looks like shit.
Yeah I know