Hello again, everyone! With Aether Revolt out and the latest bans in place (RIP) the Standard meta seems to have gotten a lot more interesting to me. Ever since I saw the U/R spells deck, I wanted to make something like it and this is what I've come up with! And yes, I do hate myself a bit for drifting into this territory..
Note: I haven't tested this deck at all, so everything is just speculation!
Dynavolt Tower is such a cool card. I like envisioning charging up a lighting bolt by drawing lots of cards.. and then using that bolt to "destroy opponent lands". (I know it's not the tower that destroys lands itself, but that's what I want to think.)
Baral, Chief of Compliance basically turns all our land destruction into Stone Rains, one even being at instant speed. By focusing down lands, I feel like Spell Shrivel becomes a nice, easier to cast counter over
Void Shatter
. However, I think lots of testing would need to be done to figure out the correct configuration of counter spells. I focused Dispel and Negate to help ensure our Stone Rains get cast successfully.
Structural Distortion
gives us an extra option to kill an artifact as well as Shock the opponent for doing so.
Run plenty of burn spells to kill creatures, Harnessed Lightning being the big guy killer. Fiery Temper is our single enabler of discards from Baral and
Hungry Flames
does that extra kick to the opponent at instant speed. A single Burn from Within is in to Fireball the opponent or a fatty late game, or even a smaller creature early that we don't want coming back.
Also, picturing a Torrential Gearhulk coming out of nowhere and casting a
Volcanic Upheaval
seems so satisfying..
Anyway, that is the deck! I would love to hear any opinions or criticism on it. I was thinking of even delving into Grixis or Temur, but I think it looks solid as it is. I still need some sideboard suggestions, so hopefully you, the TappedOut Community, can help a fish out. :)
Enjoy!
