The Unlucky Miner (Custom Commander)

Commander: Rule 0 Burn Casual Landfall Lands Mono-Red

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Creature (14)

• 1x Akoum Hellkite
• 1x Alpine Guide
• 1x Battle Rampart
• 1x Bloodlust Inciter
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Goblin Gardener
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Petravark
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spitfire Lagac
• 1x Tectonic Giant
• 1x Torch Courier
• 1x Tunneling Geopede
• 1x Walking Atlas

Instant (7)

• 1x Barrel Down Sokenzan
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Fault Line
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Omen of Fire
• 1x Price of Progress
• 1x Puppet's Verdict

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Aftershock
• 1x Cleansing Wildfire
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Geomancer's Gambit
• 1x Meltdown
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Pulverize
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Reign of Chaos
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Wild Swing

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Burning Earth
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Outpost Siege
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Spellshock
• 1x Sulfuric Vortex
• 1x Valakut Exploration

Commander (1)

Artifact (8)

• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Journeyer's Kite
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Seer's Sundial
• 1x Storm Cauldron
• 1x Temple Bell
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Land (50)

• 49x Mountain
• 1x Terrain Generator

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Artifact (5)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Pyramids
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Well of Knowledge

Land (1)

• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Creature (3)

• 1x Akki Drillmaster
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Goblin Motivator

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Fervor
• 1x Fiery Emancipation

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Nahiri's Lithoforming
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Wildfire

Instant (1)

• 1x Boil

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This deck is essentially a land-matters mono red deck using a custom commander (described below). We want to try and get as much land on the table as quickly as possible. I wanted to make a viable burn-like deck for commander and was always fascinated with the mechanic on Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle. Flavor-wise, the commander is a Dwarf miner that in supremely unlucky, ultimately attempting to mine in the Valakut Mountain range and in the process, accidentally sets off a dormant volcano. Testing has not been done yet, however, and the custom commander may have to be changed if it is too annoying. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please let me know!

The Commander (represented by Dwarven Blastminer as I thought it looked perfect for depicting a dwarf miner the moment before they are erupted into oblivion) is called Brandeldorff, The Unlucky Miner. It's a {1}{R} 1/1 Legendary Dwarf with {T} Sacrifice (cardname): Put a Volcano counter on a mountain you control. Lands with Volcano counters have 'whenever a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have it deal 3 damage to any target.'

Edit 1- We found that being able to essentially get several Lightning Bolts a turn was very oppressive for opponet's creatures and plansewalkers. The commander is the same but Volcano counters now only do '3 damage to any player.' While this moves away from Valakut's ability, it simply needs to happen for the deck to be balanced and fun to play against.

Edit 2- While better, the Nerf was too hard; it made it extremely difficult to get damage going. To help with that, the Volcano counters now say "whenever a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, if you control at least five Mountains, you may have it deal 3 damage to any player.' The idea here is that you can start getting damage off when you play your 5th land as the counters count the incoming land as part of the total. So far this seems to be a good balance.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander: Rule 0 legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.14
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Cool Stuff