NEHEB: Eternal Destruction (Neheb, the Eternal)

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#1 Jun 21, 2017

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NEHEB: Eternal Destruction

- STARRING NEHEB, THE ETERNAL -

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DECK ORIGINS

A few years ago, I designed a series of decks based on The Battle of the Five Armies, as portrayed in The Hobbit, one for each army plus a bonus deck for Smaug. The dwarf deck was mono-red and its wins typically came from being ignored after casting one of the pitiful dwarves available to it. While good for laughs, I was curious what a serious mono-red mass land removal deck would look like. However, aside from Zo-Zu the Punisher, which wasn't the direction I wanted to go, no commanders jumped out at me.

Until now.

DECK CREATION

Similar to A Very, Very Mad(vacyn) World, the deck looks to take advantage of mass land removal. Whereas Madvacyn's flash makes it easy to cast at end of turn before nuking the lands, Neheb, the Eternal helps produce mana to use both before and after a land wipe. To that end, the deck's sorceries are largely used as rituals, with cards like Acidic Soil and Volcanic Fallout providing bursts of mana with Neheb on the battlefield. Also, many of the deck's creatures, like Lobber Crew, act as mana dorks. The deck's planeswalkers are largely for removal, though most double as sources of damage.

DECK ARCHETYPE

This is an aggro-control deck with lots of mass land removal effects. It wins via combat damage and direct damage.

DECK THEMES

mass (land) removal
additional combat phases
direct damage
planeswalker wincons

DECK STRATEGY

Cast mana rocks to ramp into commander, then wipe the board, using Neheb's ability to break the parity of land destruction.

"NEHEB: Eternal Destruction"Magic Online OCTGN2 Apprentice Buy These Cards
COMMANDER 1x Neheb, the Eternal Sorcery (24) 1x Acidic Soil 1x Aftershock 1x All Is Dust 1x Blasphemous Act 1x Boom/Bust 1x Decree of Annihilation 1x Devastation 1x Faithless Looting 1x Fiery Confluence 1x Flamebreak 1x Gamble 1x Jokulhaups 1x Mogg Infestation 1x Obliterate 1x Reforge the Soul 1x Relentless Assault 1x Ruination 1x Seize the Day 1x Slagstorm 1x Tormenting Voice 1x Vandalblast 1x Wheel of Fate 1x Wheel of Fortune 1x World at War Creature (12) 1x Ashling the Pilgrim 1x Combat Celebrant 1x Guttersnipe 1x Heartless Hidetsugu 1x Lobber Crew 1x Magus of the Moon 1x Malignus 1x Nettle Drone 1x Reckless Fireweaver 1x Spireside Infiltrator 1x Thermo-Alchemist 1x Tunneling Geopede	Enchantment (3) 1x Aggravated Assault 1x Blood Moon 1x Stranglehold Planeswalker (4) 1x Chandra, Flamecaller 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance 1x Karn Liberated 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon Instant (4) 1x Chaos Warp 1x Comet Storm 1x Price of Progress 1x Volcanic Fallout Artifact (16) 1x Chrome Mox 1x Crucible of Worlds 1x Darksteel Ingot 1x Darksteel Plate 1x Everflowing Chalice 1x Gilded Lotus 1x Grim Monolith 1x Lightning Greaves 1x Mana Crypt 1x Mana Vault 1x Oblivion Stone 1x Sol Ring 1x Swiftfoot Boots 1x Sword of Feast and Famine 1x Thought Vessel 1x Thran Dynamo	Land (36) 1x Ancient Tomb 1x Arid Mesa 1x Bloodstained Mire 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All 1x Buried Ruin 1x Cavern of Souls 1x Darksteel Citadel 1x Flamekin Village 1x Ghost Quarter 20x Mountain 1x Myriad Landscape 1x Reliquary Tower 1x Scalding Tarn 1x Shivan Gorge 1x Strip Mine 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle 1x Wooded Foothills