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Set You Off Like a Spark, Into Oblivion

Modern Aggro BR (Rakdos) Burn Discard Elementals Haste Sacrifice

Xalor90


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Aggro haste/sack deck with lots of potential for controlling your opponent’s hand.

Big combo potential on 3 mana turn:

  • Attack with Thunderkin Awakener to play a Lightning Skelemental or Ball Lightning from your graveyard in attacking position.
  • Make your attack, dealing 6 with trample (and causing opponent to discard 2 if using Skelemental)
  • Play Ob Nixilis, the Adversary for 3 mana, sack the Skelemental or Ball, and create a 6 loyalty Nixilis token.
  • +1 Nix and his clone and force opponent to either discard two more cards or take damage.
  • For each copy of Liliana's Caress you have in play, your opponent will take an additional 2 damage per discard, so using the Skelemental and then the Ob Nixilis and his copy token will net you a ton of additional ping damage on top of obliterating your opponent’s hand.
  • Alternatively, instead of playing Ob Nixilis, we can throw down either Fling or Thud to literally throw our elementals at our opponent’s face for additional damage.
  • Solphim, Mayhem Dominus adds some extra value by doubling our non-combat damage caused by Liliana's Caress, Fling, Thud, & Lightning Bolt.

A couple turns of this will destroy just about anyone by denying them any cards to play, all while hitting hard with the Skelementals & Balls, making more copies of Nixilis, flinging Balls & Skelementals at our enemy’s face, and using the Awakener to repeatedly bring back your elementals.

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In order to ramp up the value of forcing our opponent to discard so much, I’ve swapped out one copy of Ob Nixilis, the Adversary for Liliana of the Veil, then swapped out Fatal Push for Liliana's Triumph.

I’ve also added Bloodchief Ascension and Waste Not, which further help me gain value from the discarding.

Comments

Casual

99% Competitive

Top Ranked
  • Achieved #25 position in Modern 1 month ago
  • Achieved #1 position in Modern Haste 1 month ago
Date added 2 years
Last updated 1 month
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

9 - 0 Mythic Rares

26 - 0 Rares

16 - 0 Uncommons

1 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 1.95
Tokens Devil 1/1 R, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders Modern
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