MTG Salvation

So a quick explanation, my brother, three friends and myself are all making a deck based on the flip walkers, specifically what their cards have done previously and things related to their travels. For example Chandra has never been to Theros that we know of so it doesn't make sense to call on the help of Purphoros, God of the Forge. I've just had the chance to test the deck and I've noticed some trouble with Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh because she needs to deal at least two damage then tap for the third damage in order to transform her I only really play her once a game, usually when I have three mana and then in the next two or three turns cause her to flip and try to reach ultimate; I have yet to successfully ultimate her.

I'm looking for some suggestions on ways to make it easier to flip/ultimate Chandra. I can't run a number of the more effective or efficient burn spells because they usually depict lightning in some variant and Chandra is a pyromancer, she specialises in fire. Other cards I can't run are things like the proliferate cards or The Chain Veil, Chandra's never been to Mirrodin/New Phyrexia and The Chain Veil is a Liliana card. Also I don't want to run Dragons/Goblins out of both personal choice and Chandra historically has had more to do with elementals and phoenixes than other creature types. Mass land destruction and infinite combos are also not allowed at all in my group.

Oh and we're only allowed to use the full name version of the commander and the flip walker, so Chandra Nalaar in my case.

With that out of the way here's what I'm currently working with:



Obviously there are some cards that don't fit the flavour like Charmbreaker Devils but there's a limit to how far I'm willing to compromise a deck for a one off game. I still intend to take the win after all and as one of my tests today against Jace, Vryn's Prodigy and Nissa, Vastwood Seer proved if given the chance I can annihilate my opponents with little warning.

I'm a little unsure on Circle of Flame, it might be good against the elf-tribal Nissa, Vastwood Seer soldier tribal Kytheon, Hero of Akros and zombie tribal Liliana, Heretical Healer decks and Surreal Memoir just seems like a good card in a deck that uses so many spells.

I'm not sure if you can fit it into the flavor, but chaos warp is absolutely nessisary so you can have an answer that gets rid of an opponent's enchantments.

Other cards that come to mind are:
- Blood Moon, it's as good as land destruction in EDH without actually being it.
- Stranglehold if you can swing it with your flavor restrictions
- Mana Flare to help you to ramp into casting your big x spells.
- Leyline of Punishment to prevent life gain shenanigans as well as Sulfuric Vortex.

I also think you can get away with using a lot of artifacts since Chandra is from Kaladesh, an almost steampunk like plane. So as long as you can find good artifacts that don't specifically reference Mirrodin/New Phyrexia/Esper you should be able to swing it.

Chaos Warp unfortunately cannot fit the flavour of Chandra but as it's a Pentagram game I only have to be concerned about beating two players, it's less of an issue.

Blood Moon, good as it is, has the same problem as land destruction, whilst it might not be removing the land it still constitutes attacking the other players mana so that's a no go.

Stranglehold is unnecessary for the same reason as Chaos Warp, doesn't really fit flavour wise and isn't that necessary.

I only run three X spells and am already running Caged Sun, Gauntlet of Power and Sculpting Steel to copy one of them. So Mana Flare would cause more problems by giving others mana.

The Leyline of Punishment is good but at least for this game I don't need it, the white deck has one prevent damage spell and one protection card. Sulfuric Vortex will get me killed just as, if not faster than, my opponents, unfortunately. Otherwise I would run that for sure and probably will after this game.

Chandra can do her first two damage from combat, then cast any spell then tap to flip her. Equipment helps with this.

Or Chandra's Ignition has the CREATURE do the damage not the spell, so that will trigger her damage then just tap and flip her. I haven't found her that hard to flip in my experience. I have another thread I posted 2 days ago on a Chandra vorthos style EDH deck in here if you want to check it out.