My take on a Elemental/Land destroyer deck that I would like input on. A big problem I run into a lot is removal and counters targeting
Incandescent Soulstoke
.
This deck features some of my favorite elementals!
Liege of the Tangle
,
Tyrant of Discord
,and
Supreme Exemplar
!
The deck runs very smooth thanks to the synergy between
Flamekin Harbinger
,
Smokebraider
, and
Incandescent Soulstoke
and allows you to destroy enemy lands very quickly thanks to Boom/Bust
+
Darksteel Citadel
and Incandescent Soulstokes' tap ability.
Opening Hand and Turns
Optimal hand would be two lands (Mountain Darksteel Citadel, or Double Mountain),
Flamekin Harbinger
,
Smokebraider
,
Incandescent Soulstoke
,
Seismic Spike
and, Mulldrifter.
Turn one:
Play Mountain and
Flamekin Harbinger
Searching for this elemental is a pivotal movement to secure victory. I usually go for
Supreme Exemplar
, but not every opponent runs the same deck
Turn two:
Draw
Supreme Exemplar
, and play Mountain or Darksteel Citadel and
Smokebraider
. Hold onto that
Flamekin Harbinger
on the field.
Turn Three:
In turn three, we have no control over the draw, but hopefully we can draw lands for the next two turns, or either another
Smokebraider
or an Assault Strobe.
Depending on the draw, we might not be able to play a land, but we can still cast
Incandescent Soulstoke
thanks to our
Smokebraider
that was summoned on turn two.
Turn Four:
Here, if we have drawn two consecutive lands, we can have an interesting play with our four lands, the
Seismic Spike
in our hand, and our Incandescent Soulstoke
+
Supreme Exemplar
. We can destroy a land, gain two red mana, and deal some serious damage with
Supreme Exemplar
by summoning it through
Incandescent Soulstoke
so that it has haste, and dies at the end of turn. Hopefully, our little
Flamekin Harbinger
survived till this turn, and we can champion him. By doing this we guarantee that our next turn has another large elemental to deal the decisive blow to a crippled enemy.
Auxiliary Combos for the late( or delayed) game:
Should the game drag on, we have some nice things to keep our beastly elementals coming. For example, Mulldrifter is a great way to draw cards and block enemy attacks. Note that Mulldrifter is blue, but this should not be a serious problem for it because we have
Smokebraider
and
Incandescent Soulstoke
to work around its blue mana costs (This is also true for
Supreme Exemplar
, and
Liege of the Tangle
). Mulldrifter also synergizes well with Incandescent Soulstoke
+
Supreme Exemplar
because we can champion our Mulldrifter, deal damage or block, and at the end of the turn, draw an additional two cards when our champion dies.
This card, despite its high cost, is simply amazing when used with
Incandescent Soulstoke
. This is a land destroy (typically 4 mana drop) for two mana that can then punch your opponent in the face with its 5/5 trample, haste thanks to
Incandescent Soulstoke
, Whats not to like?
This card is in here because we rarely obtain the optimal hand. This is our delay tactic when we need to buy time in the early game, and our board wipe in the late game. The bust card, allows us to wipe out all lands on the field except our Darksteel Citadels, by the time we have enough mana to cast Bust, we would hopefully have at least one
Smokebraider
which allows us to rebuild faster than the opponent.
This card is downright amazing if you believe in RNGesus and he believes in you (and this deck). Remember
Boom/Bust
? There is nothing more satisfying than unleashing a
Tyrant of Discord
after a
Boom/Bust
using Incandescent Soulstoke
+
Smokebraider
to wipe not only all the lands, but all your opponents field into oblivion. As if adding insult to injury wasn't enough, he would descend as an 8/8 with haste and sit on your opponents face and vanish into the sunset as your turn ends.
When I first came up with the idea for this deck, this guy was my muse. He can make your lands into 8/8 elementals. Whats really cool about this is that if we have Darksteel Citadel we have 8/8s that cant be destroyed by board wipes. The downside to this is that if you make your Mountains into elementals, you could lose a lot of mana to board wipes ( So choose sparingly!)
This card makes for hilarious plays with any large elemental, but it works especially well with
Supreme Exemplar
on turn four ;)
