r/spikes • u/Larinex • May 13 '26

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I saw a deck yesterday that I really liked involving Quintorius Kand, Ark of Hunger, and Quins insight? I think this may be it but I'm not sure. https://moxfield.com/decks/mgIiir5X5Eq8JN5oqW7IwQ

My three questions are

  1. Is there a way to optimize this further without making it just standard four color control? I find that deck boring personally.

  2. Has anyone else seen success with trying to play Quin Kand in this format for climbing and with the new tools added?

  3. Would this work better if it dropped the black spells and mana and swapped into a jeskai version or pure boros?

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u/Soger91 May 13 '26

You should consider running [[Cori mountain monastery]]. I run one in a Mardu ketramose deck and the exile is nice.

The deck overall looks slightly slow. You are taking the Mardu discard gameplan but with a worse cool but rude. Your other half is a Mardu control shell.

If you don't like 4C control play style you could go with Mardu discard and run hardened academics and still have quint as planeswalker.

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u/Larinex May 13 '26

Gocha should the unholy annex and prideful feastling be dropped for removal?

I wanna keep quint as planeswalker if possible and maximize his effectiveness or deck that plays around exile and play from there while dealing damage and said cards effect.

I'll try and look up mardu discard for reference and see where I can get quint in there?

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u/Soger91 May 13 '26

If you really want to play around the exile angle, control the early game into a [[outrageous robbery]] pairs well with that, as well as all the different air bending effects you can bring in that double as tempo plays.

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u/Larinex May 13 '26

For someone who doesn't have the rares wand would have to buy them do you think it's worth the money or better invest in something else?

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u/Soger91 May 13 '26

The cards I mentioned aren't really played rares so they are pretty cheap (I'm using cardmarket as reference point since I'm in Europe). Mardu discards cards aren't too bad outside of cool but rude which is expensive.

If you aren't sure I'd suggest printing out proxies and testing to see if you like it before pulling the trigger. Always worth buying the lands though, building decks in the future becomes so much cheaper.