MTG Salvation

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Status: Due to the high-threat nature of this General and most of the deck, I don't think it will go over well in my meta. Especially not in what I want to accomplish. This deck is on pause, quite possibly for a fair amount of time. Sorry.

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Currently a WIP as a place to drop my thoughts and cards I want to keep track of.

Theory: Build a deck that wins through damage, preferably without the need of combat.

I'm going to try building a heavy punishment/burn deck. Here goes:





I do not currently have an urborg tomb, and will probably finally pick one up for this deck. Urborg Coffers -> Fanning the flames seems cool to me.

Still on the fence of No mercy, but it fits in style with dread/pharaoh. Subversion i still like for now since it returns life to me, I may cut though as I feel it will also make me a taget.
Tutors had not been added yet.
Dreams/Box may indeed fit in here quite well. I'll need to take a look at the punishment cards I pulled aside for my Grixis deck I was planning.
Stranglehold will probably make it in, I'll pass on insurrection for now, I'm trying to avoid combat wins for this deck. A silly restriction I know, but its one I'm going to stick with for now, at least in design. Some concessions will be made (Godo as a tutor), but not many, hopefully.
mass removal simply hasn't been added yet. I'll probably go with some of the black suite of Damnation, Decree of pain, Dregs of srrow, Plague winds, Rain of Daggers, hellfire, etc.
Fanning the flames does take a lot of mana, but its a repeatable answer, and a killcon if I put the urborg/coffers in.
Painful Quandary is in.

Quote from ISBPathfinder

Gratuitous Violence 4 the lulz of hitting twice as hard.

Furnace of Rath similar to above with a slight draw back of giving it to opponents as well. Still if you just have this sledge hammer to kill people with who cares.

Bloodchief Ascension it seems like a good way to just leach people to death.

Manabarbs just to be a dick lol.

Fault Line / Inferno big boom boom spells that hit players too.

Crawlspace make it hard to get to you.

Aftershock is sorcery... you might consider moving it to a Go for the Throat or perhaps even Chaos Warp.

Batterskull??? this gives you a body to block with, it gives you some lifegain and if you strap this to your commander... just win...

P.S. sry bout all the ninja edits

You know, I never noticed Gratuitous Violence went beyond combat damage, that is awesome. Furnace seems a bit risky though. I'll try the one and then decide if I want a second.

BCA, I'm always a bit skeptical of the ascensions, but I think this is the right deck for it. Initially I wanted to put it in a Sygg punishment deck, but I should stop kidding myself that I'm going to build that.

Manabarbs was an initial consideration for this, but then I forgot about it later. Thanks for reminding me.

Crawl Space is good, it will go well with the other thing in the deck thats kind of like it but worse.

Aftershock... Darn it! I keep forgetting that! I'll need to change that back in my Tariel deck too. And Fissure is just too much to keep open.

Ah... Batterskull. Yeah, I need one of those. Looks like I'll put this deck together next month then, when I get some money back into my paypal account... Well, that's when I was planning to put this together anyways. In it goes!


Fault Line // inferno I'm still looking at, especially considering other red ground wipe options (especially paired with repercussion).

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Neko-te looks like it could also be used, its one of the few equipments that triggers on damage rather than combat. Anyone have any experience with it?

Yeah, I just copy-pasted the mana rocks list from my Tariel list and forgot to edit it, thanks for the catch guys, that would have been... awkward.

Changed the three offending rocks with
3 Spectral Searchlight
3 Bloodstone Cameo
3 Worn Powerstone

Added No Mercy
Changed PiF with Yawgmoth's Will. I dont have enough instants/sorceries yet.

I'd like to add more of a life leech feel to this deck. I don't think polluted bonds/BCA/Subversion is enough. The lifelink goes a long way on Kaervek/Iguanar/Rage Thrower/zo-zu/ignus, but I want more.

Yeah, I was thinking that, but I'm starting to add more shooters in, like kumano, and I may add spikeshot elder.

The swipe will probably end up getting removed, I jsut want to remember it in case. Onyx will probably be one of the first cuts when this gets to the elimination stage, but again, just keeping tabs on him for now.

I'm wondering if i should add a protection suite of equipment for Kaerveck: Lightning Greeves, Swiftfoot Boots, darksteel plate, etc.

Champions helm, Mask of avacyn for worse choices.


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I think I've hit the cut phase now. I think I'm going to let this sit for a bit and think a bit harder which direction I want this to go.