So. Many. Triggers.
Play things, sacrifice things, create more things, it all does damage. All of it.
Carrier Thrall with
Skin Invasion
does 1 damage for hitting the battlefield with Impact Tremors. Exploit it when playing
Qarsi Sadist
to create 2 creatures and deal another Tremor and they lose 2 life and you gain 2, dying causes 1 damage with Zulaport Cutthroat and the two new creatures cause two more damage from Tremors, and an extra damage from
Flayer Drone
. So for five mana on turn 5 you would deal 8 damage from triggers while gaining a 3/4 creature, a 1/3, and a 1/1 that you can just sac for a 10th damage while gaining 2 life. If you have a Nantuko Husk out, you can attack with all 4 creatures the next turn and play
Foul-Tongue Shriek
for 4 damage while gaining 4 and then sac the three other creatures for 3 more damage from Zulaport and an extra +6/+6 on the Husk. Popping a
Spawning Bed
with a
Flayer Drone
and an Impact Tremors would deal 6 face damage, and then they can sac themselves for another 3 damage to Cutthroat.
So many things trigger so many other things you don't really even need to attack. Multiples of anything on the board ramp the damage up significantly, such as two Tremors or two Drones or two Cutthroats, or all of the above. Insanity.
The entire sideboard can be added in to give it even more token-ness and ETB craziness. Kalastria Healer with Captain's Claws together with Impact Tremors and a Zulaport Cutthroat on the board is just stupid. I had wanted to main board all of those cards, but 4x everything else just had to be a thing. I might try thinning everything to 3x for main so that it can all be there and other options can be put in the sideboard as answers, but so far this deck has just been winning so I'm not sure I'll need to change it.
Change of plans. I've found great fun with Act of Treason and Bone Splinters since I don't have the Claws yet on MTGO. Claws would still be amazing, but I might not need them. Perhaps 2 and 2 with the Kalostria Healer. I would just run a full set of everything, but the land in sideboard is important because I find myself just adding all 15 cards and they need to be part of it or I'll just get screwed. The play is pretty simple: Steal the biggest creature with Act of Treason, attack with everybody, then sac the creature with Bone Splinters and kill another one of their creatures. Works best when one of their creatures is tapped and they only have 2, but Treason works with just a simple Nantuko Husk to kill their best creature if you don't have Splinters. If you can add a
Skin Invasion
to their creature first even better.
Playtesting on MTGO causes so many little popups whenever you do something it's actually kind of funny.
Another variation of a Token Burn deck on a budget. This one squeaks in just under 1 TIX as well, and only $15 on paper. Very obtainable cards that you might even already have.
