Utvara Hellkite and Mutavault
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Posted on Jan. 29, 2014, 8:37 p.m. by ZToups
Thinking about GR ramp with Utvara Hellkite and Mutavault to trigger it. Attacking with a Mutavault and getting a 6/6 Flyer seems a bit insane, thoughts?
You would get 2 Dragons. =D Not a bad thought, I tried Utvara hellkite in my reanimator deck.
January 29, 2014 8:44 p.m.
Yeah I guess it'd be a bit of a glass cannon by itself but if the deck was mostly the standard GR ramp list (something like this: Gruul Midrange) would it make it worse or better to take out say one land, one Polukranos, World Eater , and one Stormbreath Dragon for two Utvara Hellkite and another Mutavault and be able to ramp into 6/6 flyers makers on a land. You would have 8 dragons including the Mutavault to trigger it. It may just be a case of something cute making the deck overall worse.
January 29, 2014 8:50 p.m.
ChrisHansonBiomancin says... #5
It's definitely not a bad idea. However, you'll probably want to run at least 3 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
in such a deck to get the Hellkite out in the first place, so that only leaves so much space for Mutavault
. Just something to keep in mind; perhaps 3 and 2 would be a good mix. By adding other Dragons like Stormbreath Dragon
, Forgestoker Dragon
(sweet sink for Nykthos mana), and/or Scourge of Valkas
(awesome synergy w/ Hellkite, and a great Red Devotion source and Nykthos sink), you could have plenty of other ways to get the Hellkite trigger going without devoting too much space to Mutavault.
January 29, 2014 8:54 p.m.
Using Red Devotion I guess I could make it mono red and still have enough ramp, got to put this together now and test lol.
January 29, 2014 8:57 p.m.
ChrisHansonBiomancin says... #7
If you want to check it out, I built a mono-Red Dragons deck that splashes Blue (CHB's Dragon Devotion), tho the Hellkite is only a 1-of so I didn't bother with Mutavault and instead went for 4 Nykthos. The cool thing about that kind of deck is you can run Anger of the Gods for early control and most of the early creatures can survive it, like Frostburn Weird , or you don't mind losing them, as with Boros Reckoner .
January 29, 2014 9:07 p.m.
Made up a rough red devotion deck Devotion to Utvara Hellkite, now to test. Thanks ChrisHansonBiomancin, also I checked out your deck.
January 29, 2014 9:11 p.m.
MindAblaze says... #9
January 29, 2014 10:52 p.m.
MindAblaze! It's an incredibly fun deck with a lot of synergy and recursion with whip. I eventually decided Hellkite wasn't worth it but may include him again. Ghostride the Whip *3k views! Thank you everyone!*
January 29, 2014 11:10 p.m.
Now, imagine Utvara Hellkite in a tokens shell, running Dragonshift and Progenitor Mimic to power out more Utvara Hellkite s...
TheGamer says... #2
It's not a bad thought. I like the idea of it but by then control has counter spells ready and mono black had Doom Blade and Hero's Downfall ready.
Good thought though, im always looking for cool combos like that.
January 29, 2014 8:41 p.m.