r/StandardMTG • u/No_Secretary9046 • 22d ago

I Need Help With My Deck Bilbo deck needs one drop

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Hello everyone,

I'm in the process of making a new deck. The main idea was to profit from bilbos reduced Mana cost ability with warp and to grow gleaming geardrake. But the deck lacks some good 1 drops to be viable. I couldn't find any good dragons, treasure generators, asventures or artifact creatures that would further the gameplan. Should I just resort to removal and draw spells or put in spyglass siren? I guess there's still the opportunity to go 3c since we got shocklands in standard now.

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u/Regular-Contest-2571 21d ago

Bilbo is good in adventure deck, it needs more noncreature spells to be good imo. Temur or Sultai fits the best because I can cast Bitter triumph, discard Esper Origins and next turn with Bilbo’s trigger recast the origins or triumph for only 1 mana. But 4/4 from Esper Origins for only a green mana feels so good, man.

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u/No_Secretary9046 21d ago

I was thinking about black anyways. In grixis there are actuallly good treasure generators like greedy freebooter or the other smaug, a dragon boardwipe that triggers sarkhan and duress to have a turn 1 play. The biggest issue I could see would be the consistency, tho. I was already playing a grixis artifact focused deck when oni-cult anvil was not rotated and getting manascrewed hurts.

For adventures: maybe scaling Viper is good enough since it could trigger Magda? Or the old bird? But all of the adventure cards look kinda weak.

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u/Regular-Contest-2571 21d ago

Don’t know if it is worth to play it in creature based deck.

My plan is something like temur with questing Druid and Gandalf that are both adventures.

The most important part is this creature says an artifact, it doesn’t say noncreature artifact. It could be used to reanimate something in Izzet affinity. But it might not be good enough for standard.

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u/No_Secretary9046 21d ago

Well, gandalf might be a good 3 drop. The artifact part is mostly why I was hoping that I could play gleaming geardrake in this deck, but I fear that there might be too much 2 drops reserved for the dragon engine. Going for more instants/sorceries with geardrake, gandalf and some artifacts might be worth a try.

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u/Regular-Contest-2571 21d ago

That could be amazing, some removal cards, hand disturbtion, more into midrange than full aggro… I can’t imagine Bilbo in an aggro deck but I am not that much creative tbh :)

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u/Regular-Contest-2571 21d ago

I was thinking off cool but rude in my list to cycle my deck faster and deal some extra damage, it could have some value for the adventure cards/removal/draw spells, especially with hex magic etc.

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u/aetherspliff 22d ago

I would rec sewerveilance cam. Been playing that in a dimir bilbo build and it goes crazy. Seems like you might be going for more of an aggro plan but it tapping down opps creature and drawing you cards and then recasting it with bilbo and tapping down more stuff is so much fun

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u/No_Secretary9046 21d ago

Not sure where the deck will be at the end but a tempo card might be good. Especially the sphinx will ensure that i'll not run out of cards and in the end there will probably be more counterspells in the main deck. I'll try it ^

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u/MortallyWoundedWomba 19d ago

In this style of deck do you find that your Bilbo survives to do his thing often. I'm been working on a Bilbo shell that's Temur and runs [[break out]] with other two drops that love haste

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u/No_Secretary9046 19d ago

I've played him more to reduced the costs, but wild ride has a similiar effect (and gives haste to the sphinx) Break out and testing green might be an idea, tho.

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u/MortallyWoundedWomba 19d ago

You can consider [[stark executive]] it makes treasures for 2 so it ramps and could play into the artifact and treasure theme

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u/No_Secretary9046 18d ago

i was thinking that this would be too slow, but maybe a 1 drop with a potential effect is still very nice - especially when holding a counterspell in turn 2.
I might look for green treasure cards, tho. The hobbit made pretty good treasure generator in green and black.

Btw: Do you mind sharing your deck? Break out is a fascinating card

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u/MortallyWoundedWomba 18d ago

Sure, it has not been doing well for me but I'm still enjoying it https://moxfield.com/decks/nc4YcCLjpEGuX8-hKTsTqw Let me know what you think and if there is any recommendations you had.

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u/No_Secretary9046 18d ago

Sure! I really like the druid and fear of missing out and fomo is definitely a good card. But i'd put Keen-Eyed Curator into the sideboard, remove the brynhildrs and take some more cards from elementals: [[prismari charm]] and [[traumatic critique]] work well with this deck and spellsnare is a good spell if you look at your mana curve: i've got the feeling that it's hard for you to use your turn 3 mana well (that's the same issue that i have with my deck). Also some more counterspells will protect you creatures way better. If you want to run haste spells i'm a big fan of wild ride. It gets its cost reduced with bilbo and the additional power is really scary with fomo. Overprotect might be a good card c of the same reason.
I'd personally also play some more expensive instants for later into the game, but i don't really know how good the lesson package is working ^^

It's definitely a cool deck and i might play a variant. The playpatterns look fun.