I can't like this comment enough.

If you deck only splashes, You can get a way with only basic lands for the pips you use to find cards and removal for blood moon (fragment reality

That is well reasoned. It's still very much a guideline, because if you are on 5C, running double island, mountain, forest, swamp... is going to be more harm than good.

On the other hand I just laugh each time opponent plays a Blood Moon. Playing 5c with no basics BTW. However I play in cEDH where tons of mana dorks and mana rocks are the norm. Unless Blood is serious part of your metagame I would just not bother adding that many basics to your deck myself in 4 or 5 colors it losses you the game quite often and that is coming from a 100 card format.

look up the card Sneak Attack

I've been playing the standard modern random midrange deck in timeless. Not really seen any " combos" yet. Strongest play I have seen is a turn one The One Ring. Uro is strong. Oko is annoying. Format is fun so far though.

Cgb ain’t gonna play combos cause the only combos he’s like nowadays is in brawl.

Dragon Storm

Thoracle tainted pact is legal

I don't think there are actually that many new combos with the timeless format, keeping in mind except Khans cards, no new cards were actually added in Timeless that wasn't already on historic. It's really the cards that are banned in historic that may be combo fodder (off the top of my head, thoracle, time warp, nexus of fate. Intruder alarm at a stretch) Keeping in mind counterspell and memory lapse also both got unbanned, delver and delver adjacent decks (probably the ones with bowmaster) may just keep the combo decks in check. For the time being, I think this might just be the bowmaster format until it gets restricted, then it'll become the Ragavan format, once that gets restricted, maybe there won't be QUITE as many delver decks (I mean, fetchlands + unalchemied DRC + treasure cruise is still a house). Then we might need to worry about combo.

A relic of an ancient time

Doubt they will give wild cards for cards made restricted unless it's literally only playable in Timeless and/or not already been banned somewhere else.

Quit your crying

Alchemy is trash. Timeless includes Alchemy

@@cheezybastard8661 It does, but I’m still excited for all the other stuff we get to play. If it feels like alchemy is taking the format over then I probably won’t play it. Otherwise I’m all for the new stuff! I do wish they had the format without alchemy cards though.

Most Alchemy cards dont even make the cut for Historic so i doubt that Alchemy is going to take over the format

@@benweirich4176 I invite you to consider that Oracle of the Alpha summons the fucking Power 9 (banned in just about EVERY format) into your deck. "Alchemy won't take over the format." What a fucking joke that is. 😅🤣🤣

​@@cheezybastard8661 Meh, the power 9 is suprisingly tame when locked behind a 3 cost 2/3 flying you have to play first. In a format that's more than 50% Some combination of Leyline combo, Minion of the Mighty or Discover combo. Most games are effectively over before you even cast Oracle. If anything in Alchemy is a problem, it's Fragment Reality.

Azorius and Esper control decks are still pretty big in the meta at the moment, though takes a lot of wildcards to play them (because all the boardwipes are rares).

If they get restricted, you get 3 wildcards back (if you have 4) anyway. So you end up in the same place as if you just got 1 copy (well, having 4 copies also better if there are ever no ban list events that arn't also open access). There are exceptions to this where these cards are legal in other arena formats, but for those particular examples you listed you'd get your wildcards back (except mabe Karn? Pretty sure that's still legal in historic). I think the bigger risk is that if Timeless just doesn't turn out to be that good of a format, then you'd still lock up 1 of each wildcard for cards only playable in a format you don't then want to play. But you run into that same risk with getting 1 of everything anyway.

Probably for balance reasons. They'd completely dominate the meta. It'd be vintage, without any of the glue that holds the format together (FoW, FoN, Flusterstorm). If you look at Vintage decklists, almost all the decks are playing 1 of each mana rocks in the power 9, and the majority of decks are playing 1 of each of the power 9. Almost all the interactions that happen in the format are just people trying to stop the 1 gimmick of the other guy's deck (oath of druids, tinker , paradoxical outcome, doomsday.. whatever while trying to position themselves to go off with counterspell backup). Without all the free/1 cost interaction (I mean, there IS spell pierce, yay?), all the fast mana would just mean the format would be just a bunch of linear decks trying to go off as quickly as possible. Especially in the absence of the cards that provide alternatives to this (Bazaar of Baghdad for dredge, Mishra's Workshop for lock peices etc).

Because he's cool

He wanted to show off his timeless list. Which is fair.

Also draw cards without actually drawing them to trigger Bowmasters