The Red Death skips Turn 3

Commander / EDH* Bracket 3 Cascade Discover Ramp UR (Izzet)

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Creature (26)

• 1x Aurora Phoenix
• 1x Boarding Party
• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
• 1x Frost Fair Lure Fish
• 1x Heralds of Tzeentch
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Magmatic Force
• 1x Mutalith Vortex Beast
• 1x Noise Marine
• 1x Overlord of the Boilerbilges
• 1x Ovika, Enigma Goliath
• 1x Pinnacle Monk  ^Flip
• 1x Rampaging War Mammoth
• 1x Sakashima's Protege
• 1x Scampering Surveyor
• 1x Scholar of the Lost Trove
• 1x Screamer-Killer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Tidal Force
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Trumpeting Carnosaur

Instant (6)

• 1x Artistic Refusal
• 1x Mystic Confluence
• 1x Practical Research
• 1x Sublime Epiphany
• 1x Thoughtflare
• 1x Whir of Invention

Land (40)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Ferrous Lake
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 1x Great Furnace
• 1x Hidden Cataract
• 1x Hidden Volcano
• 11x Island
• 1x Mistrise Village
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Silverbluff Bridge
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Training Center

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Anzrag's Rampage
• 1x Call Forth the Tempest
• 1x Creative Technique
• 1x Daring Discovery
• 1x Into the Time Vortex
• 1x Let the Galaxy Burn
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Volcanic Torrent

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1x Firemind Vessel
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Ichor Elixir
• 1x Lavabrink Floodgates
• 1x Meteoric Mace
• 1x Sarevok's Tome
• 1x Sisay's Ring
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sol Talisman
• 1x Stonespeaker Crystal
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Battle of Frost and Fire
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Warstorm Surge
• 1x Where Ancients Tread

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

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Enchantment (1)

• 1x Battle of Frost and Fire

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Salutations, welcome to the only Izzet deck I actually enjoyed building.

This deck operates under a very simple idea: You start every single game with a 2-drop ramp spell in your hand. The Red Death can goad basically any turn 1, 2 or even 3 play from any other player and ramp by 1 red mana. This allows you to cast 4-mana spells on turn 3.

What 4-mana spells? It's basically just ramp! At 4 mana, we get access to 2-mana rocks and other comparable ramp (like Solemn). If we curve out ideally, we untap, play a land and have with 7 mana on turn 4. This deck effectively doesn't run any other setup cards, since the Commander launches us really far ahead.

This brings us the the secret sauce: Cascade and Discover. Every 5-mana cascade or discover spell will hit another 2-mana rock to boost us even further. 6-mana cascade will usually cascade into a 5-mana cascade and get a rock, etc.

What do we spend all this mana on? Big beefy bombs. Yes, our deck - despite being Blue/Red - is a creature deck! We have a Strength matters theme, which rewards us for casting and playing Power 5 and greater creatures to do additional damage. A bunch of our bombs also have cast triggers, which trigger again on every cascade and discover. And if our little crab survives all of this setup, we can use him to annoy opponents by goading their biggest beaters into hitting other players.

This deck is really fun and outside of the landbase, very affordable.

Tricks:

Tidal Force: It can untap the Commander for extra goads or untap manarocks to have interaction up.

Whir of Invention: In hand, this card can use excess mana to tutor up a Gearhulk for more threat. But if you end up cascading into it, you can fetch Sol Talisman or Great Furnace + Seat of the Synod + Silverbluff Bridge because X = 0.

Ovika, Enigma Goliath can use every cascade card to quickly create an army of Goblins to overrun your opponents.

Date added	3 weeks
Last updated	6 days
Key combos	Great Furnace + Seat of the Synod + Silverbluff Bridge
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.36
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dungeon: Undercity, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Fish 1/1 U, Fish 1/1 U, Phyrexian Goblin 1/1 R, Skeleton 4/1 B, The Initiative, Treasure