My take on the Azorius Omniscience combo deck : Portent of Calamity (standard meta)

Hi everyone !

Recently, I've been enjoying playing the Omniscience/Abuelo's Awakening deck. Making a comeback at 1 life by reanimating Omniscience and flooding the board for lethal is just so refreshing. My only complaint regarding this deck and what this list tries to solve is : graveyard hate entirely shuts down the gameplan.

So, knowing that, I started brewing and I had a crazy idea : what if I cheat Omniscience into play with the janky card that Portent of Calamity is. I originally built this deck in mono blue, but quickly figured out that relying solely on Portent of Calamity wasn't consistent enough. I then returned to the azorius version and added the said card to it. It clicked. Thanks to this change and some other adjustments that I'll discuss later, I got a win rate of 14-4, wich got me from platinum to diamond in bo3. Here is the list (there is also a link to see it in Archideckt):

https://archidekt.com/decks/10919798/portent_of_omniscience

Creature Spells: (9)

x4 Fallaji Archaeologist

x4 Picklock Prankster // Free the Fae

x1 Threefold Thunderhulk

Non-creature Spells: (27)

x1 Unsummon

x2 Jace Reawakened

x1 Moment of Truth

x2 Confounding Riddle

x4 Ephara's Dispersal

x4 Invasion of Arcavios

x1 Portal to Phyrexia

x4 Omniscience

x4 Portent of Calamity

x4 Abuelo's Awakening

Lands: (24)

x4 Adarkar Wastes

x2 Floodfarm Verge

x7 Island

x4 Meticulous Archive

x1 Plains

x3 Scene of the Crime

x3 Seachrome Coast

Sideboard: (15)

x1 Elspeth's Smite

x3 Ghost Vacuum

x2 Exorcise

x1 Get Lost

x1 Negate

x1 Fear of Impostors

x1 Split up

x2 Temporary Lockdown

x1 Unnerving Grasp

x1 Heroic Reinforcements

x1 Season of Weaving

In this deck, you need as many different card types as possible to make Portent of Calamity work. That is why I put Jace Reawakened (it replaces chart a course), Scene of the Crime, Threefold Thunderhulk and Portal to Phyrexia. Invasion of Arcavios is also great with Portent of Calamity because battle is a card type on its own and a rare one. Even if you don’t hit an Omniscience of Portent of Calamity, you can still cast a spell for free such as Portal to Phyrexia and it refills your hand in the process. This exact list is probably not the most optimized (especially the sideboard), so I would be happy to hear your thoughts on it. Thank you for reading this article untill the end and have a nice day.