General Musings on New Decks: Post Rotation U/B/R Tezzert

Hello everyone and welcome back to the 5th edition of General Musings, where i vergil focus on current standard builds and how they will be affected for post rotation, this edition we will focus on Blue/Black/Red Tezzert and U/B/W Tezzert which is 2 of the most dominant decks ever built, let's see a list before we begin analysis as per usual.

Tezzert U/B/R List Primer


Creatures


1 Treasure Mage
1 Wurmcoil Engine


Spells


4 Everflowing Chalice
2 Galvanic Blast
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mindslaver
2 Mox Opal
4 Preordain
4 Prophetic Prism
2 Pyroclasm
2 Slagstorm
3 Sphere of the Suns
2 Stoic Rebuttal
4 Tezzert, Agent of Bolas
3 Tumble Magnet


Lands


1 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Creeping Tar Pit
3 Darkslick Shores
2 Inkmoth Nexus
3 Island
2 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Tectonic Edge


Sideboard


3 Duress
1 Flashfreeze
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Kuldotha Rebirth
1 Ratchet Bomb
2 Pyroclasm
4 Spreading Seas
2 Stoic Rebuttal

Now this list is prior to the banning of Jace, the Mind Sculptor thus the reason he exists in this list for my analysis, i'm sure most people have figured out what to replace him with, if you haven't yet well get to it, let's see what has to be removed for the rotation as per usual.

Tectonic Edge/Scalding Tarn/Creeping Tar Pit - As per usual, we lose these three land sources for the deck either we can add 1 Darkslick Shores/3 Blackcleave Cliffs/2 Inkmoth Nexus to this build to replace the missing land base and throw the rest into basics for the deck.

So after landbase changes it looks something like this

Lands


4 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Inkmoth Nexus
6 Island
4 Mountain

Or we could go into something like this for the build

3 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Inkmoth Nexus
8 Island
3 Mountain


Spells wise there isn't a lot to replace either, we do lose a tad bit of ramp in this deck due to rotation, we do lose a sweeper spell but we can easily replace it, we also lose a bit of card draw, but again replaceable.

Preordain/Pyroclasm/Everflowing Chalice - Ponder and Whipflare can take all the slots for Pyroclasm/Preordain in this list easily, card draw and sweeper spells still apparent in this deck, the chalice is a bit tricky to decide on, we do have access to Manalith, i could see that replacing this, but there maybe other choices for this spot but i'll put Manalith in that spot for conveniece sake during this article

Jace, the Mind Sculptor - We have to get rid of him now that he's banned and would be rotating effectively, so double the reason to remove him from this list, i think a sideboard singleton Elixir of Immortality and probably throw in Mana Leak as a 3 of in this list so spells wise it looks a little something like this

Prophetic Prism - If i had to guess here i would suggest Ichor Wellspring or even perhaps add a Sphere of the Suns/Tumble Magnet/2 Stoic Rebuttal in it's place

Spells


4 Manalith
2 Galvanic Blast
3 Mana Leak
2 Mox Opal
1 Mindslaver
4 Ponder
4 Sphere of the Suns
4 Tumble Magnet
4 Stoic Rebuttal
2 Slagstorm
2 Whipflare
4 Tezzert, Agent of Bolas


Creatures wise this list doesn't need to change it's only 2 dudes, i was going to suggest Buried Ruin for a sideboard card as a 2 of to replace the remaning stoic rebuttal in the list so sideboard looks a little something like this

Sideboard


3 Distress
1 Flashfreeze
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Kuldotha Rebirth
1 Ratchet Bomb
2 Whipflare
2 Ichor Wellspring
1 Mana Leak
3 Negate


The final list looks a little something like this

Final Tezzert U/B/R Generic List

Lands

4 Blackcleave Cliffs

4 Darkslick Shores

4 Inkmoth Nexus

6 Island

4 Mountain

Creatures

1 Treasure Mage

1 Wurmcoil Engine

Spells

4 Manalith

2 Galvanic Blast

3 Mana Leak

2 Mox Opal

1 Mindslaver

4 Ponder

4 Sphere of the Suns

4 Tumble Magnet

4 Stoic Rebuttal

2 Slagstorm

2 Whipflare

4 Tezzert, Agent of Bolas

Sideboard

3 Distress

1 Flashfreeze

1 Elixir of Immortality

1 Kuldotha Rebirth

1 Ratchet Bomb

2 Whipflare

2 Ichor Wellspring

1 Mana Leak

3 Negate

Thank you very much for reading one of my final primers for the deck, if you have different ideas how to take this list, please do let me know, this is vergil signing off.