My Latulla deck I've been working on slowly but surely over the last several weeks.
I've gotten to the point where no matter what I do I can't seem to find anymore cards to bring myself to cut, which is a problem since there's about 90 cards still without counting lands.
I've also got a small list of cards on the side that I wan't to put in but am still unsure as to if the would function cohesively with the rest of the deck or serve any general purpose.
Card discussion: Lightning Bolt- I'm not really sure how this card performs in EDH as I have never used it before. I feel like it could have it's uses but I get the feeling it might end up being underpowered. It's probably only survived this long because it's shiny. Platinum Angled- I pretty much throw this in every EDH deck I make. It feels rather random but mono red looks like it could use the temporary survivability, I'm just on the edge about it because my creatures already have such a high curve. Pyroclasm- Not sure how this would perform, but seems like it might be useful. Skittering Invasion- Another card I like to just throw in decks. It makes chump blockers I could desperately use and some mana, I'm just not sure if it's ultimately worth it or not.
Threaten/Act of Treason/Traitorous Instinct/Temporary Insanity- I feel like they might end up being too one shot and unhelpful, but I've never used them in EDH before. They could potentially be great it seems.
I can't make up my mind if the double attack phases cards like World at War and Savage Beating would be at home in my deck or not. I wan't to put them in but at the same time I feel like I will just end up never using them.
As for Magus of the Moon and Platinum Emperion, they both suffer from the "well I already have a card like this, do I need two" syndrome. I'm not sure if I should really run two Blood Moon effects in an unkown meta or if one would work good enough. Same for Emperion, I want to add it but I'm not sure if the 8cmc will be worth it at any point.
Conscription/Mindslaver- They are both really good, but they are both so random. I wan't to add them but I'm not sure if I should throw them in just for the sake of being good standalone cards that have no cohesion with the rest of the deck.
Anyways, thats about it. Theres still a few cards I need to get so I can add them in, but they are mostly mana fixers (Sol Ring, Gauntlet of Power, Gilded Lotus, etc.etc.)
Any advice or agreement would be appreciated to help me decide on what cards I should take out. Also experience with some of the mentioned cards and how they perform would be fantastic since I really have no grasp of how useful they migh or might now be.
EDIT: Please stop suggesting things that I should put into the deck. I haven't even finished making the deck small enough to be playable yet, I don't need more cards being added to the list of what should go in.
I didnt look at your whole list but I would probably only put in cards that
a. burn
b. ramp
c. draw
d. protect your general
All other cards I would remove unless it was stupid good.
That sounds pretty boring.
I'm not going for anything competitive, so I don't really plan on cutting every fun card out of my deck so I can straight up burn and go.
...am I missing something? Do you want to use Latulla at all? Throw in Squee, some phoenixes, and Rekindled Flame. (Then decide to use Jaya Ballard instead. I love Latulla and all of Keld, but none of those Legendary Spellshapers are great. )
If you want to focus on her or picking off creatures, your artifacts should have wither or infect. I wouldn't use any of those one-off instants and sorceries...unless they burn EVERY creature.
...am I missing something? Do you want to use Latulla at all? Throw in Squee, some phoenixes, and Rekindled Flame. (Then decide to use Jaya Ballard instead. I love Latulla and all of Keld, but none of those Legendary Spellshapers are great. )
If you want to focus on her or picking off creatures, your artifacts should have wither or infect. I wouldn't use any of those one-off instants and sorceries...unless they burn EVERY creature.
As I said, I have a list of cards waiting to be bought and thrown in, and Squee is definitely on it.
Said list also has some better madness cards as well as recurring cards. The deck will definitely be more focused around Latulla when I can cut things out to make room for the useful cards.
And yes, the only reason I'm building a mono red deck is because I want to use my shiny Latulla.
And I don't see whats wrong with burns that can only target one creature. I'd rather kill one creature thats a threat than play a late game pyroclasm and kill absolutely nothing.
Although to be honest a lot of them are only in there for the hopes that I can use them with Repercussion in play, so I probably could stand to take a few out.
try some of this: wheel of fate, wheel of fortune, bosium strip, recoup, top, scroll rack, mind's eye
It appears when I edited my post I took out the part where I don't want people to suggest cards for me to put in.
Not to mention half of those are fit into the "cards I still need to get" category and intend on getting.
You'd need to generate exorbitant amounts of mana (Omnath, Patron of the Orochi, Seedborn Muse mana...get-Mana Flare-out-turn-2-consistently mana MAYBE) to best utilize some of those, and others are one-off mediocre cards.
You have many steal effects, and the best usage is with a sac outlet...Carnage Altar would at least work with Squee, but that's ONE outlet. Get High Market or anything along those lines...or just cut the non-temporary effects since Squee should be devoted to Latulla.
You'd need to generate exorbitant amounts of mana (Omnath, Patron of the Orochi, Seedborn Muse mana...get-Mana Flare-out-turn-2-consistently mana MAYBE) to best utilize some of those, and others are one-off mediocre cards.
You have many steal effects, and the best usage is with a sac outlet...Carnage Altar would at least work with Squee, but that's ONE outlet. Get High Market or anything along those lines...or just cut the non-temporary effects since Squee should be devoted to Latulla.
Do keep in mind this is intended for 1v1, some of your comments make it sound like I will ever be using this for multiplayer, which is doubtful.
Aside from that this was very helpful, thank you.
I've gotten to the point where no matter what I do I can't seem to find anymore cards to bring myself to cut, which is a problem since there's about 90 cards still without counting lands.
I've also got a small list of cards on the side that I wan't to put in but am still unsure as to if the would function cohesively with the rest of the deck or serve any general purpose.
1x Koth of the Hammer
Creature: 28
1x Skarrgan Firebird
1x Inferno Titan
1x Ogre Geargrabber
1x Conquering Manticore
1x Bloodfire Colossus
1x Palladium Myr
1x Duplicant
1x Platinum Angel
1x Flameblast Dragon
1x Oxidda Scrapmelter
1x Flametongue Kavu
1x Magma Phoenix
1x Reckless Wurm
1x Aether Membrane
1x Goblin Ruinblaster
1x Ryusei, the Falling Star
1x Shivan Phoenix
1x Dwarven Miner
1x Ancient Hellkite
1x Hateflayer
1x Taurean Mauler
1x Chandra's Spitfire
1x Shard Phoenix
1x Squee, Goblin Nabob
1x Steel Hellkite
1x Knollspine Dragon
1x Solemn SImulacrum
1x Flowstone Overseer
1x Aether Flash
1x Furnace of Rath
1x Blood Moon
1x Lightning Talons
1x Granite Grip
1x Repercussion
1x Brand of Ill Omen
1x Splinter Twin
1x Mana Flare
1x Heart of Bogardan
1x Planeswalker's Fury
1x Braid of Fire
Artifacts: 17
1x Lightning Greaves
1x Strata Scythe
1x Expedition Map
1x Thran Dynamo
1x Dreamstone Hedron
1x Tower of Calamities
1x Predator, Flagship
1x Erratic Portal
1x Brittle Effigy
1x Trigon of Rage
1x Candles of Leng
1x Crystal Ball
1x Ward of Bones
1x Extraplanar Lens
1x Mindstorm Crown
1x Surestrike Trident
Instants: 10
1x Violent Eruption
1x Puncture Blast
1x Sudden Shock
1x Lightning Bolt
1x Radiate
1x Temporary Insanity
1x Barrel Down Sokenzan
1x Blast From the Past
1x Flaming Gambit
1x Starstorm
1x Breath of Darigaaz
1x Pyroclasm
1x Heat Shimmer
1x Flame Wave
1x Wildfire
1x Turn to Slag
1x Earthquake
1x Wake of Destruction
1x Insurrection
1x Elemental Appeal
1x Shattering Spree
1x Lightning Surge
1x Fanning the Flames
1x Ruination
1x Gamble
1x Skittering Invasion
1x Act of Treason
1x Threaten
1x Traitorous Instinct
Lightning Bolt- I'm not really sure how this card performs in EDH as I have never used it before. I feel like it could have it's uses but I get the feeling it might end up being underpowered. It's probably only survived this long because it's shiny.
Platinum Angled- I pretty much throw this in every EDH deck I make. It feels rather random but mono red looks like it could use the temporary survivability, I'm just on the edge about it because my creatures already have such a high curve.
Pyroclasm- Not sure how this would perform, but seems like it might be useful.
Skittering Invasion- Another card I like to just throw in decks. It makes chump blockers I could desperately use and some mana, I'm just not sure if it's ultimately worth it or not.
Threaten/Act of Treason/Traitorous Instinct/Temporary Insanity- I feel like they might end up being too one shot and unhelpful, but I've never used them in EDH before. They could potentially be great it seems.
1x Platinum Emperion
1x Mindslaver
1x World At War
1x Blaze
1x Volcanic Fallout
As for Magus of the Moon and Platinum Emperion, they both suffer from the "well I already have a card like this, do I need two" syndrome. I'm not sure if I should really run two Blood Moon effects in an unkown meta or if one would work good enough. Same for Emperion, I want to add it but I'm not sure if the 8cmc will be worth it at any point.
Conscription/Mindslaver- They are both really good, but they are both so random. I wan't to add them but I'm not sure if I should throw them in just for the sake of being good standalone cards that have no cohesion with the rest of the deck.
Anyways, thats about it. Theres still a few cards I need to get so I can add them in, but they are mostly mana fixers (Sol Ring, Gauntlet of Power, Gilded Lotus, etc.etc.)
Any advice or agreement would be appreciated to help me decide on what cards I should take out. Also experience with some of the mentioned cards and how they perform would be fantastic since I really have no grasp of how useful they migh or might now be.
EDIT: Please stop suggesting things that I should put into the deck. I haven't even finished making the deck small enough to be playable yet, I don't need more cards being added to the list of what should go in.
Reckless Waif; It's the red Delver of Secrets.
a. burn
b. ramp
c. draw
d. protect your general
All other cards I would remove unless it was stupid good.
That sounds pretty boring.
I'm not going for anything competitive, so I don't really plan on cutting every fun card out of my deck so I can straight up burn and go.
Reckless Waif; It's the red Delver of Secrets.
If you want to focus on her or picking off creatures, your artifacts should have wither or infect. I wouldn't use any of those one-off instants and sorceries...unless they burn EVERY creature.
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
As I said, I have a list of cards waiting to be bought and thrown in, and Squee is definitely on it.
Said list also has some better madness cards as well as recurring cards. The deck will definitely be more focused around Latulla when I can cut things out to make room for the useful cards.
And yes, the only reason I'm building a mono red deck is because I want to use my shiny Latulla.
And I don't see whats wrong with burns that can only target one creature. I'd rather kill one creature thats a threat than play a late game pyroclasm and kill absolutely nothing.
Although to be honest a lot of them are only in there for the hopes that I can use them with Repercussion in play, so I probably could stand to take a few out.
Reckless Waif; It's the red Delver of Secrets.
Now I'm at the point where every card left is either good or it looks like it could be good but I have never used it so I can't really tell.
Reckless Waif; It's the red Delver of Secrets.
It appears when I edited my post I took out the part where I don't want people to suggest cards for me to put in.
Not to mention half of those are fit into the "cards I still need to get" category and intend on getting.
Reckless Waif; It's the red Delver of Secrets.
You'd need to generate exorbitant amounts of mana (Omnath, Patron of the Orochi, Seedborn Muse mana...get-Mana Flare-out-turn-2-consistently mana MAYBE) to best utilize some of those, and others are one-off mediocre cards.
You have many steal effects, and the best usage is with a sac outlet...Carnage Altar would at least work with Squee, but that's ONE outlet. Get High Market or anything along those lines...or just cut the non-temporary effects since Squee should be devoted to Latulla.
I wouldn't use Ward of Bones or Brand of Ill Omen unless you want to draw hate or if you are running a Big D red deck (Imagine Kazuul + Fumiko/War's Toll/Mana Web.).
Lightning Talons and Granite Grip are badd.
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
Do keep in mind this is intended for 1v1, some of your comments make it sound like I will ever be using this for multiplayer, which is doubtful.
Aside from that this was very helpful, thank you.
Reckless Waif; It's the red Delver of Secrets.