Game Knights: Vial Smasher & Thrasios (updated)

Commander / EDH Battlecruiser Multiplayer UBRG

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Land (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 3x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Glacial ChasmGC
• 4x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Recursion (4)

• 1x Jace, Vryn's Prodigy  ^Flip
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Mizzix's Mastery
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk

Tutor (4)

• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Worldly Tutor

CardSelection (1)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Ramp (17)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Draw (10)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core AugurGC
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Treasure Cruise

SingleTargetRemoval (6)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Negate

Wincon (4)

• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x ExpropriateGC
• 1x Time Stretch
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Commanders (2)

Strategy (9)

• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Part the Waterveil
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Wound Reflection

Protection (5)

• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Empress Galina
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Void Winnower

Boardwipe (3)

• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x In Garruk's Wake

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Other (1)

• 1x Fury Storm

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Power Level 9/10

Strategy: Mulligan aggressivelly into a hand that has ramp and card draw. Ramp hard and utilize Thrasios, Triton Hero to use your mana if you have nothing better to play. Play Vial Smasher the Fierce once you have set up a hand to play spells during each players turn that creates value and end up in extra turns while hitting with Vial Smasher damage. Make deals to play cards to the advantage of the creature heavy player, you will still hit him eventually but reduce the aggro heat. Extra turns are your main win condition, I have never lost after resolving Expropriate. With recursion like Kess, Dissident Mage it is easily possible to chain 5-7 extra turns which will lead to a table concede. Wound Reflection, Sakashima the Impostor and Strionic Resonator are key to a fast win as they double the damage. Empress Galina is a very vulnerable creature, but you dont have to play her. Showing her to the table is in most cases enough to convince an opponent to obey. If you are set up with Vedalken Orrery to flash Galina in and use her directly you are pulling apart a deck that is too focused on their general.

Best Matchups: Control, Combo

Worst Matchups: Aggro, Decks that have ways to repeatedly shoot Vial Smasher

Tier 2: Can sometimes go infinite and lock down the whole table. Still to weak against competitive decks and still fun to play.

Reference: Game Plan idea is from Josh from Game Knights. I updated the deck to what I think increases fun and power level.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.17
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy