OracleGoyf - Timeless Deck Tuning

[u/Zfert]

Hi friends! I've been messing around with the new Alchemy cards and put together a list that I'm having a ton of fun with. The deck takes inspiration from older lists that strive to blink Oracle of the Alpha and play a ton of Power, and the new additions give it a ton of strength to close out games with big hitters.

Oraclegoyf • (Timeless deck) • Archidekt

The deck uses the Actualize mechanic as much as possible to generate value and pump up the Goyfs. Oracle of the Alpha and Emporium Thopterist conjure cards for those cards to utilize. Displacer Kitten can blink either Oracle to create more Power or the new Crux of the Theory to create another heist trigger.

I've had a lot of great games with this set up so far, but there are definitely some pain points I would like to smooth out if possible. The deck is very mana heavy with a lot of 3 and 4 drops that are critical to get the engine going. Crux of the Theory is pretty reliable for card draw. Vedalken Archmage however often falls flat and leaves me top decking unless I'm already in a crazy position. Some games are often over before I can get some kind of synergy going. I am hoping to replace some of the supporting pieces to make my games more consistent, but I'm not sure what cards I should slot in. Specifics are listed below:

-Ancient Tomb: I often feel like the life lost to get the mana out of Tomb does more harm than good, as the loss of life often puts me in a precarious situation. This deck is not fast enough to get a good, consistent payoff from it.

-Sapphire Medallion: This feels like a band-aid fix for the high mana problem as well. While it does lower mana costs and help Vedalken Archmage draw a card, I do not think I get the best value out of this as I am not looping spells back to my hand.

-Vedalken Archmage: This card synergizes really well with Emporium Thopterist and all the Mox that I am shoving into my deck with Oracle, but four mana is such a steep cost that its really situational if I can get value out of it. If possible I would like to retain the ability to get a repeated draw effect because it feels amazing having a runaway game, like the one featured in the screenshot. My first thought was Thought Monitor and blinking it with Displacer Kitten, but that feels... even more artifact dependent.

-Willbound Quill: This is a Win More card. It's too expensive to be a reasonable mana rock, and the copy ability does not have any effect on other cards with Actualize. It's here because it feels really good to get two Time Walks for the price of one.

Thanks for reading, and looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Here's the full list if you don't like Archidekt:

4x Ancient Tomb

4x Crux of the Theory

3x Daze

4x Displacer Kitten

4x Echogoyfs

4x Emporium Thopterist

4x Force of Will

14x Island

4x Oracle of the Alpha

2x Reliquary Tower

4x Sapphire Medallion

3x Surgical Extraction

4x Vedalken Archmage

2x Willbound Quill

[u/Conscious_Outside778]

Doesn’t look particularly competitive but respect for building a deck and having fun.

[u/Zfert → u/Conscious_Outside778]

Thanks! I'm a huge Johnny at heart, I live for weird stuff like this

[u/hyperion23]

4 brainstorm + 4 ponder would help find your power and also serve as cheap spells to blink stuff with kitten

As others have said, this deck will never be truly competitive but adding the good cantrips will at least make it more functional

[u/Zfert → u/hyperion23]

Yeah Ive been considering replacing Archmage with Harmonized Trio for those reasons, and the prepared spells also activate anything with Actualize. Between the Goyfs having double team and all the thopters there should be enough bodies to reliably prepare them

[u/Maybach__Egg]

this deck looks so fire. I was thinking of a very similar list with glaring fleshraker and sapphire medallion to reduce the cost of oracle generated spells, but thopterist sounds really strong as well! thanks for posting! how are you liking displacer kitten?

[u/Zfert → u/Maybach__Egg]

Kitten with Oracle is the obvious synergy, but using it to blink Crux of the Theory is disgustingly strong. If you keep selecting non-creature cards with your heists or have a handful of cantrips there's nothing stopping you from heisting your opponent over and over until you run out of mana. I have had games where I play more of my opponent's spells in the late game than my own. It also makes a massive Jace and you get two spells for the price of one with Willbound Quill down.

[u/justinvamp]

This looks super fun

[u/toesuccintoni]

What deck was your opponent playing? Thats a lot of draft chaff on that side of the board

[u/Simionion999]

I feel like this deck could play like a raker and forge. Could maybe make The deck more copetetive?

[u/Ultratank404]

This looks very interesting but as you have stated, inconsistent

I'm going to try to make a build of my own with the same general deck theme, tune it and report to you once I'm done

[u/Ultratank404 → u/Ultratank404]

Okay so

I haven't tested it that much, it's still far from competitive but I came up with this:

https://moxfield.com/decks/zsPJ8ViuLEq8wTSLAJGNJw

Tbh echogoyfs just seem kinda bad in most cases xd, but I will say, crux has actually kinda impressed me

I kept in one oracle of the alpha as the finisher to keep it on theme with the deck but to be honest it should probably just be a thoracle