Hey guys, working on a deck that needs high power creatures with low casting cost
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Posted on Aug. 11, 2013, 5:14 p.m. by MageBlue
Im looking for cards like Nova Chaser or Force of Savagery . Wasnt sure how to search for them on gatherer, so i came to the wonderful Tapped Out community for help :D
Im building a fun casual deck to play with friends, i might throw some Pandemonium in there. My idea so far is to get these big dudes out, have some enchantments that increase there attack/defense, have some enchantments that give haste to punish opponent, have flings if they try to kill my creature, have a cards like Assault Strobe to give some useful abilities. Pretty much ill get these guys out early and hit hard. I just started this deck today so im still flushing my ideas out
August 11, 2013 5:28 p.m.
Shivan Wumpus , Desecration Demon , Phyrexian Colossus ... there are many more though
August 11, 2013 5:33 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #5
Arc Runner , Ball Lightning , Blistering Firecat , Boldwyr Heavyweights , Cosmic Larva , Death's Shadow , Deep-Slumber Titan , Desecration Demon , Desecration Elemental , Dormant Gomazoa , Eater of Days , Fruitcake Elemental , Groundbreaker , Hunted Horror , Hunted Troll , Lord of Tresserhorn , Myr Superion , Nyxathid , Phyrexian Dreadnought , Phyrexian Soulgorger , Ravaging Riftwurm , Ruhan of the Fomori , Sheltering Ancient , Skaab Ruinator , Spark Trooper , Tarmogoyf (or really any Lhurgoyf), Tempting Wurm , Waning Wurm , Woolly Razorback
August 11, 2013 5:34 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #6
There are a few more, mostly 5/something for 3, but that was a little too much.
August 11, 2013 5:40 p.m.
Thanks thats really helpful! Could you tell me any that dont have major draw backs, like a vanilla 7/1 or something similiar
August 11, 2013 5:45 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #8
Non "Major" Drawbacks:
Arc Runner , Ball Lightning , Blistering Firecat , Desecration Demon , Groundbreaker , Myr Superion (if you Quicksilver Amulet it), Ravaging Riftwurm , Skaab Ruinator , Spark Trooper , Tarmogoyf , Waning Wurm , Woolly Razorback
Things that work with Torpor Orb :
Boldwyr Heavyweights , Deep-Slumber Titan , Dormant Gomazoa , Eater of Days , Hunted Horror , Hunted Troll , Lord of Tresserhorn , Phyrexian Dreadnought , Tempting Wurm
August 11, 2013 6:04 p.m.
I count sacrificing as a major draw back i.e. Ball Lightning and the sort :D. Torpor Orb is a really neat idea though, i might move the deck in that direction
August 11, 2013 6:10 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #10
Sacrificing isn't necessarily a major drawback. I mean if you have Pandemonium , Ball Lightning automatically deals 6, then if it gets through unblocked, that's another 6. So there's 12 damage right there. Then if you use Fling , that's six more damage, totaling up 18 damage. Plus cards like Fling , Culling Dais , Culling the Weak , Birthing Pod , Brion Stoutarm , etc. all work to your advantage by sacrificing creatures.
August 11, 2013 6:21 p.m.
Upon reading this, I was shocked that Varolz, the Scar-Striped was not mentioned. He's another excellent use for many of these cards.
August 11, 2013 6:24 p.m.
aeonstoremyliver says... #12
Mimic Vat and Altar's Reap could work well with this concept.
August 11, 2013 7:06 p.m.
Varolz, the Scar-Striped and Mimic Vat both look amazing for this deck. I was originally going to do a red green, but now i might have to add black and go for Jund.
August 11, 2013 7:43 p.m.
I saw a deck on here somewhere that specifically played "drawback" etb creatures and ran 4 Torpor Orb . Things like Eater of Days and the like with torpor orb negating the downside. It was pretty sick. But it was also a competetive deck with a pretty heavy price tag(mostly due to lands) but building a budget version shouldn't be hard
August 11, 2013 8:42 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #16
The nice thing is that all those high risk creatures like Eater of Days , except for Phyrexian Dreadnought , are really cheap. Seriously, if you don't run the Dreadnought, Varolz, the Scar-Striped might be the most expensive spell you play.
Now I want to make a deck like this...
August 11, 2013 9:22 p.m.
@Tempest because 6 for an 8/8 isn't really "High power for low cost" so much as "High power for around the right cost since it's triple green"
August 11, 2013 10:52 p.m.
If you have a lot of fling/sacrifice effects, Abyssal Persecutor , Shah of Naar Isle
If you are using Pandemonium effects, Pangosaur is great.
August 11, 2013 10:59 p.m.
GoldGhost012 says... #21
Temptation got really strong. So I made this bad boy:
It doesn't have red, so no Pandemonium -type spells, but I think it works really well.
Epochalyptik says... #2
What's the premise of the deck? Pandemonium effects?
August 11, 2013 5:19 p.m.