This week, we look a few sets back at a rare that, while not extremely efficient, is incredibly cool.
Terrible fury. Excellent aim.
How cool is that? Now, the Barrage Tyrant is meant to be flinging other eldrazi at you opponent, but Kaladesh brings us to many fine colorless creatures to be tossed. Even better, the Tyrant can crew every vehicle in the set. The Johnny in me says "Interesting combo." while the Timmy in me screams "HE'S THROWING CARS HOW COOL IS THAT???"
The meat of the deck is, of course, the Tyrant, and a series of mana efficient fling targets. The Lupine Prototype crews all our vehicles, and is itself a very efficient fling target. Beyond that, our intention is to get to Tyrant mana as quickly as possible. The Hedron Crawlers start us off, leading to a turn 3 Hedron Archive, or, missing the Crawler, a turn 3 Cultivator's Caravan still gets us a turn 4 Tyrant. And then the flinging begins. The Caravan provides ramp, and an excellent projectile, crewable by te majority of the deck. With all of our vehicles and Archives hanging around, Metalwork Colossus gets very cheap very quickly. Swing, fling the colossus, sac two artifacts, and recasting the colossus the same turn is very reasonable, ready to be flung again. In the words of a wise man: The only plan I need is more ammo.
Our instant selection brings up the third card that inspired the deck. What is better than tossing a mech at your opponent? Tossing a mech and lifelinking off of it, of course. Rush of Vitality serves the twofold purpose of gaining life, allowing us to outlast aggro lists, and protecting our tyrants, who are fairly irreplaceable in the deck. Given our artifact count and glorious Rakdos color scheme, Unlicensed Disintegration is a no brainer.
Our sideboard is focused on our two main hard matchups: aggro, due to our lack of early blockers, and decks that pack lots of removal.
BUDGET ALERT: Given the low, low numbers of colored costs for this deck, dropping the multicolored lands drastically reduces the price of this deck, allowing you to fling cars at your local FNM for ~$20.
Spoiler status: Very few spoilers for Aether Revolt are out at the moment of this deck's posting, and already there are multiple excellent pieces. Scrap Trawler and Pia's Revolution really increase the lethality and staying power of the deck. Stay tuned for an updated decklist once the full set drops.
Check out our Facebook page for more Jank decklists weekly!
Pure Jank
