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Landfall in cEDH?

Over the past 6mo or so, I've been watching a LOT of cEDH gameplay online, and I had a thought. With the prevalence of powerful draw engines, and the meta slowing to more of a midrange grind, mana advantage is becoming more and more relevant. One of the most powerful things you can do is play a land every turn, and I was wondering if it was possible to accelerate that process. About 1 in 3 cards drawn are lands, or 1 in 4 for the fastest turbo decks, why not use that value to your advantage? Often I see those cards discarded, or just taking up space in your hand, when they could be put to much better use on the field.

With this in mind, I tried to build a value shell that includes as many ways to draw cards as possible. I start with Tymna/Thrasios for colors and value, and included [[Burgeoning]] and [[On the Trail]]. These two enable me to play out additional lands per turn cycle, and generate mana to run out even more value engines. I included [[Words of Waste]] as a way to use both additional card draw and extra mana to deny resources to opponents, and high-CMC bombs like [[Consecrated Sphinx]], [[Seedborn Muse]], and [[Hullbreaker Horror]] to overwhelm my opponents with value. I also included a flash package with [[Alchemist's Refuge]], [[Leyline of Anticipation]], [[Borne Upon a Wind]], and [[Emergence Zone]] to take instant-speed advantage of windows, and a hefty countermagic package to keep my opponents locked down.

My wincons are Hullbreaker/cheerio loops with Thrasios as an outlet, and Pact/Consult+Thoracle. I'm aware my curve is a bit high, and my land count is as well, but I intend to make up for that with the extra mana generation. I also included [[Maze of Ith]] as a niche piece of tech that seems to turn off a fair amount of commanders in the meta. Normally, the land drop isn't worth the payoff, but I think in this case it might be.

Any thoughts? I'm open to suggestions, ideas, and improvements. I have yet to actually playtest the list, so there may be glaring flaws I'm missing. I also have very little experience in tuning manabases, so that probably needs some work as well. I have no specific budget in mind, I intend to proxy the deck for the most part.

https://manabox.app/decks/0KdLjYrvQGqkIGwSbRNYJA

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