HELLSURGE
In theory:
Turn 1: Play land
Turn 2: Play land, Play sphere of the suns
Turn 3: Play land, play geosurge, play hellkite igniter or hellkite charger attack
Turn 4: Play land, PROBABLY some removal with Red Sun's Zenith, but if not I SHOULD be able to get another Hellkite into play.
What's nice is that I can put geosurge into the chalice for 3 or 4 (with five land) counters and more if I have the extra land.
As always, thanks for viewing and I would gladly hear any constructive comments or ideas you might have!
Bogardan Hellkite is awesome too, but not standard. Maybe they will reprint him.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I do like the Iron Myrs, because they draw hate and I'd rather have removal wasted on them, than an Igniter. I believe with what I have, there is more of an option to drop all this as early as possible.
I love the Battlesphere, there is no Contagion Clasp in my meta, except for me haha
Throwing out an Igniter when you already have 8+ Artifacts on the table is pretty nice.
I was considering Hellkite Charger. Would be cool to use it's ability once while attacking with everything.
I didn't really choose Bolts over Blasts. Until I get the Zenith's, I really just pulled out the first removal that came up and will end up switching things out eventually.
The reason I opted for dragons over battleshperes is primarily for the flying, and also the ability to pump them. Steel Hellkite is just a beast, I love him immensely for his ability to board wipe and the fact that he gets around colored protection (swords).
Battleshperes are great especially if you are running any myr already. Probably a worthy addition to the arsenal. Not sure if I would rather have a battlesphere or an igniter though. Haste has allowed me to do damage when I would otherwise not have been able to.
Chimeric mass is definitely something to consider. I don't like the fact that it takes 1 to turn it into a creature though. It does have pseudo haste though, which I like, and you can pour as little or as much mana as you want into it. However, it works A LOT better in a proliferate deck. It's immunity to sorceries is very noteworthy though... ultimately I think I'd have to playtest it to determine if I really want to use it.
I don't have any koth or titans, so I'm not using them yet, but they are good for this deck without a doubt.
Red Sun's Zenith or Fireball is very necessary for this deck to work well. If your creatures get countered or locked down again and again, you still have the ability to do direct damage with all that mana you've ramped up to. NOT too mention that "shuffle back into your library" thing. Crystal ball helps to dig them out. It shouldn't be uncommon to do two RSZ in a row, later in the game when you have more than one ball out. Not to mention the exile thing is useful for MANY creatures.
I'm curious why you chose bolts instead of galvanic blast, or actually why you're using them at all. I swapped my blasts for RSZ because of the scalability. Whipflare should deal with rush type decks quite nicely.
I wish we could do simulations with these decks... like battle it out to see which build works the best consistently.
4x Iron Myr
4x Palladium Myr
2x Hellkite Igniter
2x Inferno Titan
2x Myr Battlesphere
2x Kuldotha Phoenix
1x Urabrask the Hidden
4x Geosurge
4x Lightning Bolt
3x Crystal Ball
3x Pyretic Ritual
3x Sphere of the Suns
2x Chimeric Mass
1x Red Sun's Zenith
23x Mountain
I only have 1 RSZ available right now, but will up that when I get more.
Chimeric Mass can be pumped up to 7 counters with Geosurge, so you have a 7/7 attacker the next turn, which survives board wipes, etc.
Myr Battlesphere works well with Hellkite Igniter's activated ability (I attacked for +8/+8 with it one turn) and helps achieve metalcraft for the Phoenix.
Pyretic Ritual can actually make this go off turn 3:
Turn 1: Mountain
Turn 2: Mountain, Sphere/Myr
Turn 3: Mountain, Ritual to get RRR, tap mountain RRRR, Geosurge for RRRRRRR and still have an R left over.
Anyway, again, some stuff still needs working on. I just threw it together a bit and made a few substitutions based on what I have.