MTG Salvation

Since common cards are typically lower impact, winning a PDH game often comes down to playing several spells per turn for many turns in a row. This deck attempts to shut down everyone else's ability to play that game by putting constant pressure on their mana.



The plan is to ramp like crazy and force everyone to sacrifice a land every turn by playing and bouncing Razing Snidd. This is an expensive plan that will likely take a while to implement, so the removal is heavily biased toward sweepers. I want to keep things from getting out of hand and then create the most fun game-state: one where most players can't cast their spells.

So, it turns out that Thornscape Familiar? It's green. You mean Thunderscape Familiar.

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So, it turns out that Thornscape Familiar? It's green. You mean Thunderscape Familiar.

Indeed I do. Thanks.

So, how many friends have you made while playing the deck?

The point of this deck (which I haven't actually put together yet) is to try to explore part of the gamespace that Pauper doesn't usually have access to: Stax. It is well known that Stax strategies can be very oppressive in EDH, but what about in a format without all the rares? or even the uncommons? I'm not convinced that the all-in on getting an emblem with "6: Each player sacrifices a land." plan is all that great. Consider how it matches up against Cultivate or Yavimaya Elder, for example.

Two cards you might have interest in: Akki Blizzard-Herder and Crack the Earth. If you can get ahead on lands/mana rocks you can Disturbed Burial ABH up and sac it to say Ashnod's Altar. Maybe not an ideal situation but it is an option.

Yawning Fissure is a common, and it's great because it doesn't force you to sacrifice a land. Tremble is the same as casting a Snidd for 2 mana.

I have won too many EDH games 1-on-1 off of Capsize after hitting 6 mana, so Capsizing an entire table every time, all the time, after you hit 6 mana doesn't sound like an unreasonable plan in itself. How does it goldfish? As in, how easy is it to keep casting Snidd each round after you hit 6 mana, as it entails landing a mana source every round?

Also, what room is there to cast stuff like eldrazi and Terrus Wurm in this deck? It looks to me like just keeping 6 mana up while constantly hitting yourself with LD is challenge enough. I'd look at threats in the 5-6 CMC category that you can sneak in when people are getting low on land.

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Also, what room is there to cast stuff like eldrazi and Terrus Wurm in this deck? It looks to me like just keeping 6 mana up while constantly hitting yourself with LD is challenge enough. I'd look at threats in the 5-6 CMC category that you can sneak in when people are getting low on land.

The idea was to have a bunch of huge monsters who can close out the game all by themselves. So much of the deck is dedicated to ramping, a.k.a. playing around the Snidd, that I expect to have relatively few cards available in a given game for actually killing the oponents. Those cards have to count, hence the fatty boom-booms. I can see going a little smaller though, with Gathan Raiders, Skittering Horror, and the like. I need to dig out the ol' Sisters of the Flame and fire this bad boy up.