My brain is mush and I can't construct the right search query for Gatherer or Magiccards in my head.
What I'm looking for are cards in Blue, Black, and Red (only) that allow my creatures to damage other creatures. Cards like Fire Whip and Flame Fusillade are perfect, cards like Arena are ok (although there's more of a danger to my own creatures if they take damage in return), and cards like Warstorm Surge are even better. What I'm not looking for are cards like Pandemonium (give the ability to my opponents creatures as well), Goblin Bombardment (sac's the creature), or Soul's Fire (it's not the creature dealing the damage).
On a related note, what's with Gatherer lately? The colour restriction search options appear to be flat-out not working :-\
Cheers
Viperion
EDIT: It turns out for Soul's Fire the creature does do the damage.... RTFC, chum(p)
If you are looking for pingers you'll find them in Red and/or Blue...But It's really hard to do more advice if you don't elaborate your intentions with these cards.
Heh. Time to come clean; what I'm actually looking for is ways for Vampires to kill creatures outside of the combat phase so they can grow themselves (Sengir Vampire, Garza Zol, et al). So creatures that do it themselves - with the notable exception of Olivia Voldaren and Mephidross Vampire - don't help me much. I'd prefer either cards that hang around (Auras/Equipment/Enchantments) or something that affects all my creatures at once (Flame Fusillade/Furystoke Giant).
You guys have definitely suggested some cards I hadn't thought of though so thanks for that!
Sword of Kaldra is a nonbo with what I'm trying to do - I want the creatures to die, not get exiled. Having said that, putting it on a "natural" pinger to exile indestructible stuff seems pretty good.
Basilisk Collar/Gorgon Flail/Quietus Spike; all good suggestions, and they'll all probably go in, but I want to avoid putting too many things on one creature, if possible.
There's not too many in those colors, if you want artifacts/enchantments. These are the search requirements I used (ruling: "deals" "damage to" "target creature", Enchantments and Artifacts).
So the ones I've found: Psionic Gift, Lavamancer's Skill, Power of Fire, Krovikan Plague, Hypervolt Grasp, Hermetic Study, Dizzying Gaze, and Arcane Teachings. These are the permanent options I can find, but you can play around with the search options using these parameters.
If you just want creatures there are a lot more (my favorite is Vampiric Dragon).
My brain is mush and I can't construct the right search query for Gatherer or Magiccards in my head.
What I'm looking for are cards in Blue, Black, and Red (only) that allow my creatures to damage other creatures. Cards like Fire Whip and Flame Fusillade are perfect, cards like Arena are ok (although there's more of a danger to my own creatures if they take damage in return), and cards like Warstorm Surge are even better. What I'm not looking for are cards like Pandemonium (give the ability to my opponents creatures as well), Goblin Bombardment (sac's the creature), or Soul's Fire (it's not the creature dealing the damage).
On a related note, what's with Gatherer lately? The colour restriction search options appear to be flat-out not working :-\
Cheers
Viperion
EDIT: It turns out for Soul's Fire the creature does do the damage.... RTFC, chum(p)
Thornbite Staff as well has the creature deal the damage and can machine gun stuff off the board if it's on a creature with deathtouch.
If you are running equipment, Spikeshot Goblin or Spikeshot Elder can be fun. Spikeshot Elder requires a higher concentration of red in your deck but they're both better then Cunning Sparkmage unless you simply aren't running any way to buff your creatures. I just put Spikeshot Elder in my mono red deck that runs Loxodon Warhammer, Argentum Armor, Tatsumasa, the Dragon's Fang, and Basilisk Collar but haven't been able to play with it yet.
PS: I think you were thinking Fling when you were talking about Soul's Fire.
If you are looking for pingers you'll find them in Red and/or Blue...But It's really hard to do more advice if you don't elaborate your intentions with these cards.
You guys have definitely suggested some cards I hadn't thought of though so thanks for that!
I just sort of peeked at some equipment but some of it can be quite good for Olivia and friends.
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Basilisk Collar/Gorgon Flail/Quietus Spike; all good suggestions, and they'll all probably go in, but I want to avoid putting too many things on one creature, if possible.
Scythe of the Wretched is already in my list
Hankyu, Heavy Arbalest, Thornbite Staff, Viridian Longbow: Hankyu and Arbalest are too slow; Thornbite Staff and Longbow will find a home here I think
Cheers!
http://magiccards.info/query?q=o%3A%22deals%22+o%3A%22damage+to%22+o%3A%22target+creature%22+c%21ubr+%28t%3A%22artifact%22+or+t%3A%22enchantment+aura%22+or+t%3A%22legendary+enchantment+aura%22+or+t%3A%22enchant+creature%22+or+t%3A%22tribal+artifact%22+or+t%3A%22tribal+enchantment%22%29&v=card&s=cname
So the ones I've found: Psionic Gift, Lavamancer's Skill, Power of Fire, Krovikan Plague, Hypervolt Grasp, Hermetic Study, Dizzying Gaze, and Arcane Teachings. These are the permanent options I can find, but you can play around with the search options using these parameters.
If you just want creatures there are a lot more (my favorite is Vampiric Dragon).