Spellheart & Scry-dent (Standard MTG Deck)

Spellheart & Scry-dent

Standard* Budget Combo UR (Izzet)

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Land (22)

11x Island
11x Mountain

Instant (24)

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Trying to get the best out of the scrying mechanic as well as the Spellheart Chimera, using only Theros set cards (that's my own weird rule).

Spellheart Chimera will be able to take advantage of the various counters and burns (including Magma Jet and Spark Jolt. The numerous scrying cards (16 in total that scry at least once, and some scry each turn) allow me to quickly bring the business cards in, and they also boost the Flamespeaker Adept. I've made the Flamespeaker the featured card just because all the other Izzets are using the Tarmogoat. :)

I've only tested it against a better Izzet Chimera deck that has more counters and burns. I imagine that a budget, 1-set deck will usually lose to a more expensive standard version, but let's see if that's true! What this deck really misses is Young Pyromancer, but alas, that's out of bounds.

One current thought is to get rid of Akroan Crusader and Arena Athlete in favor of a couple of Steam Augury and maybe another Swan Song; I won't mind seeing 2/2 birds on the other side if I've got a 6/3 flying trample Chimera I'm keeping healthy.

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Re-focusing — Oct. 8, 2013

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Based on J35T3R's comment, I'm streamlining so it focuses on Spellheart Chimera and Flamespeaker Adept: that is, critters that get benefit (and mana value!) from the instants, sorceries, and instants+scrying that will protect and buff them. Thassa gets to stay, but there's not enough devotion to justify Master of Waves, and the Bident of Thassa really doesn't buy me that much upside. The nice thing about flamespeaker is that, between Thassa and all the +scry cards, it's virtually guaranteed to be at least a 4/3 first strike every turn, and often a 6/3, for 3 CMC. And spellheart will get buffed up by the burns, counters and direct buffs, so that when the first one comes down it's probably 4/3 or 5/3 with flying, trample, for 3 CMC. Finally, I think those 2 heroic red cards do work, because the same buffs/scries that boost flamespeaker/spellheart can be targeted at these guys, so everyone shares in the joy.

Bear in mind, I don't actually own most of these cards yet, but I'm working on it!

Dropped: 1x Vaporkin - Doesn't benefit from the instants/sorceries 1x Master of Waves - Not enough double-blue to make devotion feasible 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge - Pairs nice with Akroan Crusader, but not a focus of this deck 2x Bident of Thassa - With all the scry, drawing extra cards is not really necessary. 1x Triton Tactics - I might want to remove another one of these in favor of another Dissolve or something, but we'll see how it runs with 2 in it.

Added: 2x Lightning Strike - Good ol' Incinerate Jr.; burns, buffs the chimera (and with Prescient Chimera, causes a scry) 2x Magma Jet 1x Spellheart Chimera - I guess if I'm building the deck around this and Flamespeaker, they should be 4-ofs. 1x Flamespeaker Adept

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Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 2 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.34
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Soldier 1/1 R
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