The idea of the deck is that it is burn style deck that have an infinite combo using the new planeswalker Ral, Storm Conduit and Expansion // Explosion. How the combo works:
Cast 1cmc spell and hold priority
Cast Expansion copying that spell
Cast another Expansion copying the first Expansion
With the copy of the 2nd Expansion, copy the original Expansion
This with create another copy of Expansion and will create an infinite loop of Expansions as long as you copy the original Expansion. Ral, Storm Conduit's static ability triggers on copies as well as spells, hence infinite damage.
Things I like about this idea for Modern:
1. No use of graveyard. Most combo decks require graveyards and dodging potential hate like Surgical Extraction or even Rest in Peace is just huge, especially in the current meta
2. The combo doesn't ask much out of the deck. Requiring only Ral, Storm Conduit and Expansion // Explosion means the way we can approach deck building could be very flexible.
Things I don't like about this idea for Modern:
Reliance on a 4cmc planeswalker. This is a pretty big con for the deck. Most likely we would need to untap after resolving Ral since we need 5 mana to go off. Unlike something like KCI where u can just slam a permanent and not worry about it dying to creatures, Planewalkers have this big downside.
Why a singleton Doublecast instead of Reverberate?
The original post was a Standard deck. I was just showing where I got the inspiration for
also worth mentioning that Reverberate needs a target to be cast, so int would work like Expansion. Double cast doesn't require a target and combos off Ral's -2.
I love the deck and I'm building it for standard. in modern I play storm and taking turns...I could see slotting him in either of those decks.
That's cool... but this is modern. What are you looking for in this thread?
he's trying to port the deck from standard to modern
Have you thought about a storm shell?
if you take out 4 gifts ungiven, 2 past in flames, empty the warrens and noxious revival, taht gives you 8 slots to jam in ral and expansion//exlposion. looking at something along these lines:
Huey, Dewey and Louie are always dressed in RUG. it is CLEARLY going to be the wedges block Pioneer: WURFaerie fires BRGDragons ModernBGElves WRBurn UR Fires Turns URGift Storm UG Twiddle Storm
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3 Chemister's Insight
1 Doublecast
4 Expansion // Explosion
3 Ionize
8 Island
4 Lightning Strike
7 Mountain
2 Negate
4 Opt
1 Ral's Outburst
4 Ral, Storm Conduit
2 Search for Azcanta
4 Shock
1 Skewer the Critics
4 Steam Vents
4 Sulfur Falls
2 Fiery Cannonade
2 Lava Coil
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
1 Negate
2 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
2 Rekindling Phoenix
3 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
The idea of the deck is that it is burn style deck that have an infinite combo using the new planeswalker Ral, Storm Conduit and Expansion // Explosion. How the combo works:
Cast 1cmc spell and hold priority
Cast Expansion copying that spell
Cast another Expansion copying the first Expansion
With the copy of the 2nd Expansion, copy the original Expansion
This with create another copy of Expansion and will create an infinite loop of Expansions as long as you copy the original Expansion.
Ral, Storm Conduit's static ability triggers on copies as well as spells, hence infinite damage.
Things I like about this idea for Modern:
1. No use of graveyard. Most combo decks require graveyards and dodging potential hate like Surgical Extraction or even Rest in Peace is just huge, especially in the current meta
2. The combo doesn't ask much out of the deck. Requiring only Ral, Storm Conduit and Expansion // Explosion means the way we can approach deck building could be very flexible.
Things I don't like about this idea for Modern:
Reliance on a 4cmc planeswalker. This is a pretty big con for the deck. Most likely we would need to untap after resolving Ral since we need 5 mana to go off. Unlike something like KCI where u can just slam a permanent and not worry about it dying to creatures, Planewalkers have this big downside.
So how I see it, we can have multiple ideas for the deck. We can be more like a Blue Moon style deck, playing a control deck utilizing Remand. We can play a midrangy deck with the combo build in, using Young Pyromancer or Saheeli, Sublime Artificer. We could do a Phoenix style deck using Archlight Phoenix, Faithless Looting and/or Pyromancer Ascension. Or a glass cannon style with a bunch of cantrips and rituals and even Simian Spirit Guide. Maybe even with Grapeshot or even Pyromancer's Swath like a storm style deck, I'm not sure yet, just throwing out ideas.
What do you guys think?
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The original post was a Standard deck. I was just showing where I got the inspiration for
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also worth mentioning that Reverberate needs a target to be cast, so int would work like Expansion. Double cast doesn't require a target and combos off Ral's -2.
I love the deck and I'm building it for standard. in modern I play storm and taking turns...I could see slotting him in either of those decks.
he's trying to port the deck from standard to modern
Have you thought about a storm shell?
if you take out 4 gifts ungiven, 2 past in flames, empty the warrens and noxious revival, taht gives you 8 slots to jam in ral and expansion//exlposion. looking at something along these lines:
2 Goblin electromancer
4 opt
4 manamorphose
4 desperate ritual
4 pyretic ritual
1 remand
1 unsubstantiate
1 repeal
4 expansion//explosion
4 sleight of hand
2 grapeshot
4 ral, storm conduit
4 spirebluff canal
4 steam vents
4 shivan reef
4 island
1 mountain
Pioneer: WURFaerie fires BRGDragons
ModernBGElves WRBurn UR Fires Turns URGift Storm UG Twiddle Storm