MTG List: Turn 3 OR 4 Lethal: Izzet Artifacts

fightkiing

Land (20)

Enchantment (8)

Artifact (4)

Instant (16)

Creature (12)

Description

I love Izzet. I had a deck that was crazy like this last year and now it looks like another is possible this year. There are two new double strike cards which fill my desire to be Armed / Dangerous. Really the key piece is the instant +3 power from Titan's Strength which RDW knows to be extremely powerful. Credit to SixthSamurai for posting the turn 4 lethal and leading to me realizing an even faster way.

Turn 3 Lethal

Turn 1: Temple of Epiphany and Ornithopter Turn 2: Ensoul Artifact, swing for 5 Turn 3: Titan's Strength and Temur Battle Rage for 16 or Turn 3: Temur Battle Rage for 10 and then Shrapnel Blast

Turn 4 Lethal

Turn 1: Temple of Epiphany Turn 2: Hero's Blade Turn 3: Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest who's now 6/4 with his weapon Turn 4: Titan's Strength on Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest (after they choose not to block), using his ability for 20

So the faster combo requires 4 cards in order to complete, but it offers evasion and could be done some other way on turn 4 possibly with 5/5 Darksteel Citadel or Hero's Blade. Even without the evasion, the ferocious on Temur Battle Rage allows you to mostly not care about blockers. The turn 4 combo offers another way to set up early victory if you do not have the cards for the other approach. Shu Yun lacks evasion, but may gain it from Hammerhand or not fully need it with Temur Battle Rage. Magma Jet primarily offers scy 2 with the addition of removal. A strong card I am considering is Tormenting Voice, but for now I am keeping the deck 4 copies of each card until I playtest it. There are already effectively 12 creatures in the deck, but 4 are Ornithopter so Monastery Swiftspear may come in to help out.