Blazing Volley x Flame Slash is pretty versatile. Blazing Volley is situationally very powerful when you need it, especially against Ocelot Pride / Orcish Bowmasters, or just a fast start of a bunch of X/1s. More Flame Slash effects are always welcome since red can struggle with 4 toughness creatures. I've always wanted something more flexible than Mizzium Mortars, and this fits the bill quite nicely. Great supplement / replacement to things like Fire Magic / Fear, Fire, Foes! / Fuel the Flames to help keep things like Boros Aggro in check.
I think this really needs to be instant speed to be worth consideration.
What's important is the cube's threats / meta. Boros Aggro is often very dominant in a lot of high powered cubes due to power creep and most people probably not packing enough checks to it. This is one of the better checks to it that isn't too narrow. Sorcery speed hurts, but it's not a dealbreaker for something that can potentially provide card advantage like the Blazing Volley mode. This card is very respectable in any cube running things that go wide like Ocelot Pride / Orcish Bowmasters or key 4 toughness creatures like Adeline / Seasoned Dungeoneers / Undermountain Adventurer / Urza / etc.
The closest comparison to this would probably be Fear, Fire, Foes! since that's also a sorcery and only sweeps for 1 damage. FFF has a higher upside, but the mana efficiency of Iroh's Demonstration killing big creatures makes it more preferable in a lot of scenarios.
I really like this. My cube is low curve and being able to nuke all x/1s is huge but most things that do that are too narrow and modal versions that have the option of killing a big creature are too expensive. I run Fear, Fire, Foes! which I like since you can double dip at a cost, but I might replace it with this based on the cheaper cost.
It's interesting, but I think Fear, Fire, Foes! seems a bit better since it can match the 1st 2 CMC mode while scaling to the combination of both modes, and I'm not even playing that at 360 powered since slots are so tight. So pass for me.
As someone who cubes neither Flame Slash nor Blazing Volley (nor any of their variants), a single card that gives access to both is pretty appealing. Still, I don't know if I want to make more room for purely reactive cards in my R section.
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StaffBlazing Volley x Flame Slash is pretty versatile. Blazing Volley is situationally very powerful when you need it, especially against Ocelot Pride / Orcish Bowmasters, or just a fast start of a bunch of X/1s. More Flame Slash effects are always welcome since red can struggle with 4 toughness creatures. I've always wanted something more flexible than Mizzium Mortars, and this fits the bill quite nicely. Great supplement / replacement to things like Fire Magic / Fear, Fire, Foes! / Fuel the Flames to help keep things like Boros Aggro in check.
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StaffWhat's important is the cube's threats / meta. Boros Aggro is often very dominant in a lot of high powered cubes due to power creep and most people probably not packing enough checks to it. This is one of the better checks to it that isn't too narrow. Sorcery speed hurts, but it's not a dealbreaker for something that can potentially provide card advantage like the Blazing Volley mode. This card is very respectable in any cube running things that go wide like Ocelot Pride / Orcish Bowmasters or key 4 toughness creatures like Adeline / Seasoned Dungeoneers / Undermountain Adventurer / Urza / etc.
The closest comparison to this would probably be Fear, Fire, Foes! since that's also a sorcery and only sweeps for 1 damage. FFF has a higher upside, but the mana efficiency of Iroh's Demonstration killing big creatures makes it more preferable in a lot of scenarios.
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