There's something to be said for just playing all the best cards.
Sure, Hammertime is a synergy deck that is playing some cards that aren't usually playable in Limited (Sigarda's Aid, Memnite, etc), but what if you took out all the crap and put in a murderer's row of all the best cards in Modern?
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03:15 - Match 1
27:09 - Match 2
44:55 - Match 3
Omnath Hammer Time | Modern | Toscanini, 5-0 MTGO League
- Creatures (22)
- 3 Omnath, Locus of Creation
- 3 Puresteel Paladin
- 4 Esper Sentinel
- 4 Noble Hierarch
- 4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
- Planeswalkers (6)
- 3 Teferi, Time Raveler
- 3 Wrenn and Six
- Instants (1)
- 1 Magnetic Theft
- Enchantments (3)
- 3 Sigarda's Aid
- Artifacts (9)
- 1 Batterskull
- 1 Kaldra Compleat
- 1 Shadowspear
- 1 Springleaf Drum
- 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
- 4 Colossus Hammer
For a deck that looks and feels like a meme, there's a surprising amount of synergy here!
Wrenn and Six is obviously an excellent Magic card, but allow your 19 land deck to make all its land drops while also picking off small creatures and allowing you to recur Urza's Saga in the late game is very powerful in a deck that's also capable of attacking for 11 on turn two! Teferi, Time Raveler is a great card for ensuring your opponents can't react to you on your combo turns, while Ragavan is obviously just a good card that plays well with exalted and equipment.
However, this deck can definitely be improved beyond meme status.
Omnath, Locus of Creation is a bit much in a deck with only 19 lands and four colorless lands. Omnath is obviously a great card, but this deck isn't really using it to its full potential. The mana base also probably doesn't want the full set of Urza's Saga, as this deck has fewer crappy artifacts to power it up and more mana requirements. Shaving the Omnaths, one Urza's Saga, and probably one of the equipment allows the deck to add a real land or two, as well as the 4th Sigarda's Aid (which is much better than Magnetic Theft) and 4th Puresteel Paladin. The sideboard could definitely use a tune-up as well.
You always want to maximize the power level of your deck whenever you can, and it would be hard to play more of the format's best cards than this deck!