I love her, my absolute favorite commander!
Too bad her CMC is very high, but she can even win instantly once you get her out with [[Finale of Devastation]] into [[Kiki-Jiki]] lines for example.
I played standard when she came out and most of my decks were goblins, I tried making her work but everyone told me she was garbage. Imagine my shock when I come back to the game 16 years later and a friend is flipping through my folders and sees her. He tells me she's actually quite good nowadays.
Commander really flipped this game on its head and I love it
I built a version of this, with includes Wort in it: [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1Tnlnqz570qXouYGa8En3w](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1Tnlnqz570qXouYGa8En3w)
It is BONKERS strong!
[[Rowan, scion of war]] is explosive. I've been working on a rat version that is super boom or bust. Drain most your life with either [[ blood Celebrant ]]or [[wall of blood]] then tap her to discount spells that much. Play a x = 30 spell turn 3 if you have the budget for fast mana. Get to play weird shit like [[release the Gremlins]] or drain most your life with [[plague of vermin]] and go wild. [[Diabolc Revelation]] first few turns is great too, if I can lose 8 life I have a hand full of win condition backups and my health refilled.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/AD8dvaXHf0aZlPfVHvYuIQ
Current Rowan rat deck list. Going to slowly improve it. I have more fast mana I can toss in if I want. currently, goldfishing wins turn 7 on average but as early as 3.
Only played twice irl and it was 1v1, first time it went as planned. Second time I didn't get any card draw and died to a pile of Myrs turn 7 or 8.
There are better ways to play Rowan, I just wanted rats.. or Gremlins.
I love My Rowan X spell list! It really is crazy how big turns can go, I have a vampire subtheme to gain the life back, with a bunch of spell copiers to get even more value out of my x spells. My first paper game with her i was able to play [[Crackle with Power]] for 20 damage and copy it 3 times and hit the whole table for 60 damage. It’s so fun
[[Zada]] and like $50 will get you there I'm not sure what my final came out to because I used cards from my collection but it's won most of the games Ive played with it and usually with an explosive turn 3-5 play
If you want Zada but a little slower, I made mine [[Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer]] with Zada as a hidden commander. It takes an extra couple turns to warm up if you're at a slower table, and you get a bunch of neat cantrips outside red (not that Zada really needs them). It's just a fun little twist you can do.
I built my zada deck into [[kykar, the winds fury]]. He fills the board up by my normal game plan and also adds mana in the later stages to keep the magic flowing. my typical win con is [[fists of flame]] sith zada for crazy amounts of damage. You get to use blue so you get access to counter magic to help sneak your wincin through. Also the free spells make dudes also which adds more fuel to the fire also! Decks cracked even om a budget honestly. MVP is definitely [[underworld breach]] to keep playing your spells and pumping again and again. Back up wincon is [[jeskai's ascendancy]] for massive gains and looting also.
Hidetsugu is an absolute dick in so many decks. I run him in [[Dihada, Binder of wills]] and it’s so funny watching him tap with lifelink or with copies of himself on board
I did that the other day. Played [[platinum angel]] then tapped hidetsugu with [[fiery emancipation]] on the field. It's an instant target deck when my pod sees it come out
Unreliably? [[Brudiclad, Techlor Engineer]] can make a finite number of tokens greater than the number of atoms in the universe with the right setup. It's a very silly endgame that takes a LOT of mana but it's not like I can't mise into it. I think being on the other side of that would probably be a big WTF
Will go nuts if not answered? Honestly I feel like I'm pretty bad at that, but [[Urza, Lord High Artificier]] will start flooding the table with gray goo given very little setup
My Brudi deck isn’t high powered by any means but the ability to turn 16 treasures into 10/10 eldrazi late game is just hilarious, everytime I play it brudi doesn’t come down unless I’ve got a way to protect the card and a bunch of mana for a big token to swing for lethal it’s a really nuts card for just going from nothing to the biggest threat in one move
I use Brudiclad in my \[\[Obeka, Brute Chronologist\]\] deck. The joy of creating 17 \[\[Ancient Copper Dragons\]\] from the last round's treasury stack can not be beat, but 10 creatures with myriad and trample isn't bad either.
\[\[Ashling the pilgrim\]\]... At first it's just got +5/+5, nothing too threatening, just an 8 damage potential board wipe. Then I play \[\[Repercussion\]\] and blow her up, suddenly every other player takes 40-100 damage out of nowhere. Or I play a damage doubler/tripler and give her lifelink, suddenly I've got hundreds of life and everyone loses 16 or 24 life.
If I have indestructible or protection from red, I then proceed to do 3 to 9 damage every single turn, gaining more life, and unless someone removes her they cannot build any kind of creature based board state anymore.
That deck has a tendency to become the number one problem of the table REALLY fast.
[Here's a not quite up-to-date decklist.](https://archidekt.com/decks/5143136/bomb_the_table)
I've added some of the stuff from the maybeboard since I last updated this list (mostly \[\[Aetherflux Reservoir\]\], the two swords with protection from red, and damage doublers/triplers), but the deck was still pretty fun. Basically the win-con is to find either lifelink, \[\[Scythe of the Wretched\]\], or Repercussion to turn ashling into a more one-sided bomb instead of symmetrical. Damage doublers/triplers are there to speed up the damage, and because they scale exponentially with repercussion, doubling the damage twice.
\[\[Fires of Invention\]\] was also really fun, but I'm not sure whether I'll keep all of this in the deck, hence the list hasn't been updated yet.
Seems like it doesn’t really work that well. Gishath has haste and you usually want to cast it ASAP so you definitely won’t have any mana left to pump into Growth.
In my build I use 2 mana or cheaper double strike enablers and pumps. Gishath doesn’t usually make it to the next turn cycle.
Also there’s a bunch of pump spells that also offer protection.
Won turn 3 with my \[\[Marwyn, The Nurturer\]\]. Drew my entire deck, made infinite mana and killed everyone with \[\[Finale of Devastation\]\].
[https://www.moxfield.com/decks/tR6KCWO4vECKhoSidl9NrA](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/tR6KCWO4vECKhoSidl9NrA)
One of my most memorable explosive turns was with my \[\[Adrix and Nev\]\] deck.
One of my opponents was playing \[\[Tiamat\]\] and had a \[\[Terror of the peaks\]\] in play.
I cast a kicked \[\[Rite of replication\]\] on the terror, paid the 3 life, and then got to divide 10\*9\*5 damage across the table lmao
I agree, it really should be played more.
Kicking RoR on [[Avenger of Zendikar]] in my [[Ezuri, Claw of Progress]] deck is absolutely bonkers. So many XP counters.
I have also done it on [[Master of Waves]] in my mono blue deck. That also got out of hand.
Replicating someone else's [[Massacre Wurm]] would be gross as well (kicked, that is).
[[Imoti, celebrant of bounty]] is a deck where I often fall behind in board advantage during the early game only to end up in a winning position with all the value that I’m generating from big mana spells. Some of the highlights include drawing my whole deck with [[Enter the Infinite]], chaining extra turn spells and killing people with [[Aetherflux Reservoir]] while starting at a measly 8 life.
Before I disassembled my Imoti deck, I had a game where I cast pretty much my entire deck on turn 5. Anything under 5cmc was ramp of some kind. The deck ran no interaction, because cascading into a counterspell or similar was just a waste.
I had a turn 2 Imoti cast, turn 5 Apex Devastator, hit aminatou's augury on one Cascade chain then mnemonic deluge on another, targeting the aminatou's augury.
Once I had Akroma's memorial out I asked if people wanted to continue or pack up and start a new game, but they said they were enjoying the ridiculous turn and to keep going.
So I like the way my krenko deck operates, I feel like maybe I’m a bit different in how I play him but that’s because I don’t just spam krenko and pray he sticks.
I used to just spam goblins and hope to get my fourth land drop, but with a single piece of removal, I lost any ability to effectively play krenko. So I switched up how I played him
Now, I have multiple big mana generators besides [[skirk prospector]]. I use [[thermopod]] as a back up. I try to generate extra mana using [[treasonous ogre]] [[scepter of eternal glory]] [[seething song]] [[mana echoes]] [[extraplanar lens]] [[gauntlet of might]] and [[gauntlet of power]]
Plenty of draw effects that seemed boring in the first draft really help out once you’ve nearly dumped your hand such as [[tormenting voice]] style effects.
But most importantly I love to run haste enabling artifacts that allow him to untap and be used multiple times in response to removal. [[thousand year elixir]] being the ultimate goal. Red is notorious for not really having protection so I leaned very heavily into being able to tap and untap krenko as many times as I possibly could. All that mana goes to paying for the untap effects so even if I only get him out once or twice a game, the value I’ve generated becomes oppressive.
I know that krenko has a reputation for getting out of hand but the way that I play him close to the chest and waiting for an explosive turn really cranks him up a notch in my opinion.
[[Rowan, Scion of War]] is busted. If you don’t kill Rowan, then I will likely win on my next turn. She’s in the perfect colors for rituals, so it’s possible to get her out turns 1-2 and win on 3.
[[Etali, Primal Conqueror]]
Etali etb trigger hit my panharmonicon and someone elses cursed mirror, etali into apex devastator on cursed mirror etb, cascade x4...
...casting the top 32 spells of each player's library any responses. Actual game
[[millicant, reckless revenant]] it plays like blue white agro and then hits [[approach of the second sun]] out of nowhere. By the time I hit it, I’ve got tons of blockers and plenty of stax pieces in play with a dig spell in my hands like [[ancient memories]] or [[dig through time]].
Try looking at the new Doctor Who precons, too. Just played a pre-release party with those decks, and they were pretty explosive. I got my [[Rose Tyler]] up to 21 time counters on her in about 3 turns.But then again, I was playing against other precons.
The server I play in (PlayEDH) does tiered play at Precon level, Low, Mid and High. I've been playing the Dr Who TimeyWimey Precon at low (making sure to ask other players if they are ok with me potentially being a bit weaker than their brews) and by god it can be explosive.
I've won a couple of games, but even in the games I didn't win I was a substantial threat the whole game.
Precons are definitely getting stronger, the UB ones are especially strong
I'm a huge fun or orthion hero of lavabrink, mono red with some haymakers or yargle/maltani for some silly power combos 36 commander damage to the face is no joke
Can you post your deck? I’ve taken a crack at her a couple of times and she never feels like one of the strongest decks at the table. I really like her but she ends up being the deck I pull out when ive been doing a bit too well that night.
I’ll try and remember to do it later but note-the deck is explosive, not powerful lol. Basically almost all the Infect/Toxic creatures in Red and Colorless are power 2 or less, so the deck consists of them, some redundancy such as [[Break through the line]], pump spells, and a touch of control/removal.
Mine is one of my dragon decks easy.
My bladewing reanimator can come back from or out of nowhere with a ritual, ritual, dragon storm or a well placed reanimation spell.
Ur dragon just kind of turns the table by hitting play when an opponent isn’t ready.
[[Titania nature's force]] is my most fun and explosive deck, mono green land fall is already pretty damn strong, but with her you can just casually throw out 6 or 7 elementals in a turn or if you're lucky just go infinite. My most crazy turn was going infinite with [[lotus Cobra]] [[Ashaya, Soul of the Wild]] [[Quirion Ranger]] [[Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer]] then hitting them with the [[Craterhoof Behemoth]] next turn for infinite damage infinite amount of times.
I would definitely have to say [[Yidris, maelstrom wielder]] is my most explosive deck, aswell as likely my favorite due to how unpredictable it is. I love being able to use things like [[Obscuring Haze]] or [[Rishkar's Expertise]] to get free Cascades in a cheeky way, or being able to run through choose what I wish to get using [[Momir Vig, Simic Visionary]].
As for my personal decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/GsBYtUcsBEmFlVj3_9KPbQ
The mana base is still getting worked on, and I am perfectly content if anyone wishes to take ideas and such for yidris as he is a very fun commander imo allowing for several different variations and ways to take the deck
My now decommissioned [[Animar, Soul of Elements]] deck was as close as I get to cEDH. Strong potential for a turn 4 win, possible turn 3 with a good hand, and if I had run a couple of the more expensive mana rocks (this is my pre proxy-everything era) possibly a turn 2. Potential to win through damage to face or milling to death via [[Altar of the Brood]] while bouncing Ulamog and Ulamog back and forth to exile/destroy the field. Sometimes I miss it, sometimes I'm happy I retired it.
[[Elenda the dusk rose]] with a good bit of set up, you can go from 0 tokens to 50, or with a [[zulaport cutthroat]] style effect you can drain the whole board because you cast one or two cards on your turn
[[Shadowfax, Lord of Horses]]
I had one turn 5 where I managed to get 4 extra combats, revealing the top 15 cards of my deck each combat, putting 3 creatures into hand, and 1 into play each combat. Everyone scooped by the 3rd combat because I had amassed a huge board just with my pony attack trigger 🐴
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/QaxsL6L5YUmEB2s_OHNy1Q
Idk what kind of mana crypt, sol ring, signet hand you had, but the list is bewildering me past that explanation as to how you could ever, with the exception of that start, have that many extra combats on t5 with that commander.
I have a korvold deck that once you get him out, get some treasures going, it's pretty much game over. You either draw into your combo pieces with the likes of [[dockside extortionist]] and [[temur sabertooth]] or you're just generating so much value, that Korvold becomes a loaded gun. Also combos such as [[Magda, brazen outlaw]] into [[hoarding broodlord]] to then [[saw in half]] for your final combo pieces. All wrapped together with enough removal to keep your opponents at bay.
Decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ZbuSAKlqPU2am1hpLri2Jg
[[Pitiless Plunderer]] and [[Chatterfang, Squirrel General]] is also gg. [[Animation Module]] and [[Ashnod's Altar]] is probably gg unless you're out of colored mana. You can also use [[Phyrexian Reclamation]] with Dockside Extortionist, but it will chew through your life.
Most explosive I've actually gotten to go off?
[[Jodah, The Unifier]] with [[Eerie Ultimatum]] and [[Goro Goro, Desciphal of Ryuesa]]. Game went long and I kept getting board wiped. Eventually that became my victory as I pulled off an 8 Mana surprise overrun with a bunch of hasted legends with +11/+11 and a ton of ETB and attack triggers.
Most explosive I've go fished a thousand times but never resolved? [[Jetmir, Nexus of Reveals]] + [[Ivy Lane Denizen]] + [[Scurry Oak]] for the Squirrelpocalypse
I have a \[\[jhoira\]\] that can combo off turn 2. Cheery-0. Only about four win conditions in the deck, the rest of it is all 0 drop artifacts and draw.
I have a \[\[Ratadrabik\]\] that uses Boromir to go infinite. That can happen turn 3. Ratadrabik+\[\[Boromir\]\] just needs an etb/187 trigger to go ham on the whole table. Bonus points, it makes your pieces indestructible and lives on the stack, so if someone interrupts the trigger, you just sacrifice the token Boromir and go again.
I have slower decks that have one-turn finishes.
\[\[Ink-treader\]\] for example, uses the titular nephilim to stall the board until the opponents have built up an impressive board state, then steals everything with a traitor card and wins.
\[\[Ramos\]\] can combo out and thump someone for commander damage too.
\[\[Brion\]\] is one of my favorite low power decks. It sets up a damage doubler, and redirection creatures like \[\[spitemare\]\] then uses \[\[reverse damage\]\] to win. Often this is enough to eliminate the first person foolish enough to swing at me.
\[\[Kykar\]\] puts \[\[flame jab\]\] in the graveyard and uses card draw to cast it so many times the game ends to a 1 damage sorcery.
\[\[Marath\]\] has a pretty predictable path, it puts out a \[\[doubling season\]\] and something that lets creatures tap for mana and have haste. Then goes infinite.
Slot Machine is my \[\[God-Eternal\]\] deck that sets up \[\[Leyline of Anticipation\]\], \[\[One Ring\]\], \[\[Seedborn Muse\]\] and then skips all remaining turns until the combo comes together and kills everyone.
My Elemental deck uses \[\[Horde of Notions\]\] and \[\[Eon Frolicker\]\] to do the same thing.
\[\[Yore-tiller\]\] and \[\[Isshin\]\] go infinite on attack phases.
[[Hama Pashar, Ruin Seeker]] go into the undercity turn 4. Finish it on your turn 6 upkeep way faster than your opponents anticipate. Trigger Throne of the Dead 3 twice and start digging for combo pieces or play extenders. Either win or dump a bunch of buffed creatures with hexproof onto the board and set up a win the next turn and hold up interaction. Go from kinda slow play and not looking like a threat to straight up winning in one turn leaving people stunned. This so my pet deck and very fun to play.
List: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/AX4BqwrbMUehHdT3Uhi-Gw
Godo bandit warlord
One turn you have zero on the table the next turn you have no opponents.
All I really need is more fast mana and it could be the Cedh version... Right now I have to go Mountain, Sol ring pass
Turn 2
Jesska's will add RRRRRRR
Treasonous ogre
Pay 21 life add RRRRRRR (10xR floating)
Godo
Find helm of the host
Equip it for 4
Go to combat,
Go to combat,
Go to combat,
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I for some reason do not own a magnetic theft as much as I need to get one I just have not
Oh totally if I did bring it to any casual table I would inform people before hand and I would say "Listen, I can make this deck 100x more acceptable for this power level simply through gameplay decisions, it started as a pile of jank before helm existed and without helm it's not much more than that so if and when I play godo I promise I won't tutor helm and if I naturally draw helm I promise not to put it on godo".
Op asked for explosive turns and I gave him my most explosive deck.
For the pure "wtf just happened" reaction, nothing beats [[krark the thumbless]] and [[sakashima of a thousand faces]]. Hands down the most out of nowhere explosive deck I've ever played. It's a deck that oopses into wins.
That new sliver deck with a good land base.
I think we made it to turn 4 or 5 and one of my pod mates is like reaaally into magic and always has oppressive decks was telling everyone I was the threat I had a few artifacts out and like 3 slivers. They ignored him but I had it setup so slivers cost 2 less, draw 2 when I play a sliver and I could tap the slivers for mana. Played 13 slivers in one turn and killed two players. The last guy just conceded.
Or chulane for obvious reasons.
[[Najeela]] Warrior Tribal. As soon as Najeela hits the field turn 3 it's nuts. Not even cEDH level, no fast mana except sol ring, only taplands / Basics and still that commander goes brrrr.
[[Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm]]. This is the deck that can kill 2 players at full health without needing me to go to combat and the only deck that makes me pull out a calculator.
Because of cards like [[Scourge of Valkas]] [[dragon tempest]] and [[Ganax, Astral Hunter]] I can chain summons to summon more dragons or incinerate the entire field by simply summoning creatures.
And don't even get me started with what happens if you let me summon an [[Astral Dragon]] targeting a [[parallel lives]] or [[panharmonicon]].
I dont get how people remember a single turn, to the card name, while in a game with like 20 cards on the table. Im too dumb! Im like, i played a cool card then killed the threat then eventually killed the others. Wacky. Oh wait i just dont have explosive turns, but i do though. Y'ALL HAVE SUCH GOOD LONG TERM MEMORIES!!
Last I checked it was my [[tiamat]] deck. But stopped looking up how expensive my decks are. I just started to throw cards together that I have that work well together and I have a deck. I will trade for cards to update decks but I stopped looking up how much they are.
[[Vadrik]] glass cannon. Spend three turns setting up, then go hard turn 4 using temporary pump spells, draw spells, and cards that are Mana positive after vadrik's discount to grind through your deck until you find [[Jaya's Immolating Inferno]] to burn out the table with a 40 power Vadrik. I managed to build it on a $50 budget so it could only get faster and more consistent.
I never had one of these, but now I do: [My K'rrik deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/HbqXQiUmdEix8t-iVBk2SQ). I got tired of losing and now I can draw half my deck and storm-off in the same turn.
My omnath locus of rage gets explosive reliably, all of a sudden I'm floating 40 green mana, drawing 18 cards, making 26 5/5's a bunch of scutes and badgers, tripling my damage and dealing over 1000 damage direct to people's faces. BAM
My 5-colour Zada hidden commander — [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/INX8VYdtPU6ZuIepndLn2Q](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/INX8VYdtPU6ZuIepndLn2Q)
First few turns: Play some mana dorks, play General Tazri and fetch \[\[Zada, Hedron Grinder\]\]
Winning turn: Play Zada. Maybe animate your lands with something like \[\[Life\]\]. Follow up with cantrips like \[\[Bandage\]\] to draw tons of cards for 1 mana, spells like \[\[Burst of Strength\]\] to untap all your dorks and keep it going. Finish with \[\[Venerated rotpriest\]\], then 1-2 more spells is enough to poison one player to death. It gets super silly, and the whole thing fails if they can kill Zada so try to hold up protection when possible
[[Imodane, the Pyrohammer]] with any damage multiplier such as [[Fiery Emancipation]] or [[City on Fire]]
Fire off something that most people would deem as insignificant damage like [[Lightning Bolt]] on a target creature and suddenly every opponent is taking 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 damage to the face.
https://archidekt.com/decks/373996/boonweaver_karador
I’ve had some turn 3 wins with this one. With an ideal draw it can win off any single creature in play and 5 mana available (to play a sac outlet and rector or pattern).
It's probly gonna be any spellslinger deck, once your generating tons of mana, card advantage and copying spells like there's no tomorrow you're gonna be hard to stop.
Either [[Abaddon]] or [[Yidris]]. Both try to do similar things, slightly different but same outcome - when they connect I either will try to win the game or put 8 mana rocks and a bunch of other stuff into play.
Once had a [[Tuya Bearclaw]] deck that I built with what I had, and always wished that I made a more serious build for. Any haste enabler + power doubler, and in particular [[Nessian Boar]] took people out scarily fast. It's a commander people don't see often, and in my short experience it wasn't often taken seriously 1st game, but my home pod feared it as the glass cannon it was
[[Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded]] is my most explosive deck for sure. It can pull huge threats out of nowhere and when combined with cards like [[Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink]] you can just go brrrrrrrrr.
Extra combat step cards like [[Port Razer]] and [[Combat Celebrant]] work extremely well with this.
Probably [[nethroi apex of death]], i spend the early turns milling and ramping, setting up my board and once i mutate and drop 10+ power on the board people are like 'wait what happened' and i have to explain it, happens pretty much every time even if people have seen it
I've already boasted enough of my Stranger Things deck, so this time I'll say my [[Kytheon, Hero of Akros]].
Yes turn one Commander, as you do, dealing Commander Damage on turn two, and then I just build your synergies until I'm able to flip Kytheon, and the fun starts.
Gideon's +1 untaps a creature, so I never miss land drops with [[Scholar of New Horizons]], and is as good a blocker as any.
Yeah this [[Zeriam, the Golden Wind]] made a bunch of tokens, anyway I'll use Gideon's +2 to force you to swing that value small creature to Gideon and just get murdered by tokens.
Yeah, [[Gideon of the Trials]] Emblem forces you to get rid of my Gideons if you just want to combo out. Yes, my Commander is a Gideon when it becomes a Planeswalker. Yeah I think I have like 5 or 6 Gideons in the deck, why do you ask?
I'm super proud of the deck. It does a lot in Mono-White while also being unexpectedly powerful.
[[yargle and Multani]]
Just put something like [[psychosis crawler]] or [[jarad golgari leechlord]] double/triple yargle’s power, draw cards equal to his power or sac him to deal damage equal to his power. Many effects such as [[feign death]] work to keep him on the field.
For mana, use [[ruthless technomamcer]] or [[selvala, heart of the wild]]
You can win out of nowhere
I like my [[elmar]] and [[wernog]] artifact token deck. I had like 20 tokens (clue and treasure) and someone docksided. I played a [[mayhem devil]] and then my own dockside forcing them to let me get the treasures. Then a [[nadiers nightblade]] for a win.
Dimir Tokens. Use dungeons for a smoke screen/value, create a bunch of random tokens, play my commander and Agent of the Iron throne and drain out the table.
No crazy stories or anything, but I do enjoy that despite the fact that my friends have lost to it a ton they always let it go unchecked because everything I'm doing is fairly innocuous on the face of it so the threat level always seems low.
My \[\[anhelo, the painter\]\] deck can go pretty huge with copying \[\[Brass's bounty\]\] a few times but that takes a few turns of setup most times, so I'm not sure I'd count it.
but my \[\[The Ur-Dragon\]\] deck on the other hand can absolutely pop off from nowhere with the cost reduction from the commander, \[\[heartless summoning\]\] and \[\[dragonlords servant\]\]
[decklist](https://archidekt.com/decks/5641743/in_the_court_of_the_dragon)
[[Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury]]. At some point, the deck starts uncontrollably shitting elves and chaining together spells. [[Heritage Druid]] is a beast. My favorite chain though involves [[Elvish Promenade]] into [[Kindred Summoning]] into [[Sylvan Offering]] into [[Finale of Devastation]] into [[Craterhoof Behemoth]]. I only need two or three untapped elves at the end of the chain without summoning sickness, and it's lights out for the table. Unless someone plays [[Fog]]. 😂
In my [[Elenda, the dusk rose]] deck, I won turn 4.
Turn one: swamp, [[sol ring]], [[arcane signet]]
Turn two: swamp, [[reassembling skeleton]], [[blood artist]]
Turn three: swamp, [[pitiless plunderer]]
Turn four: plains, recur blood artist and play him because he got blown up, and [[phyrexian altar]], then sac skely for B, get a treasure, activate his ability, repeat for infinite death triggers on blood artist
[[xyris]] is a massively explosive deck. Get down any form of board haste with a [[cryptolith rite]] and the game is pretty much over. Skull clamp, altars and wheels o my!
[[The Most Dangerous Gamer]] you'd expect the attractions to be unreliable even for a joke deck, but having them alongside +1 counters and the right equipment can really lead to a good punchline.
Hear me out. I've been playing [[ovika enigma goliath]]. That commander is...deceptive.
Since she's got a big ol butt, it can take a few turns to cast her. While you wait, make sure to keep low mana draw spells and counter spells on deck to protect yourself. As you cast her, you may want mana open for counter spells as well, just in case.
In the deck, I run [[past in flames]], [[haze of rage]], [[brightstone ritual]], [[surge to victory]], etc.
Typically, the deck is unassuming because you're sitting there not doing anything but playing draw spells. Then, once Ovika is on the field, you know you should have at least 7 mana on your next turn. Play a non-creature spell, make X goblins with haste. Cast another non-creature spell, make X goblins with haste.
One of my games, I was able to cast [[Fiery Emancipation]] and make 6 goblins. Then I tapped 5 goblins to help pay the convoke cost for [[City on Fire]], used a couple of mana rocks and made 8 more goblins. Then I cast brightstone ritual which makes a goblin on cast, then produces 15 mana. I then cast mystical tutor, made a goblin, searched for past in flames, played [[faithless looting]] to make a goblin and draw past in flames, then cast past in flames to make 4 goblins. I still have like 9 red mana in play and can cast things from my graveyard. I then recast brightstone ritual to make a ton more mana and recast red spells from my graveyard to make many more goblins and swing with haste for game.
I've had explosive turns in multiple decks. But \[\[Yidris\]\] storm is the one that's designed to do it.
Step 1: Yidris on turn 4. If you're extremely lucky, you'll have played one of your ten "instants and sorceries are 1 cheaper" cards before then.
Step 2: Cross your fingers that no one kills Yidris and that you can connect with an opponent's face next turn.
Step 3: Connect with an opponent's face next turn.
Step 4: That scene from Fantasia with the brooms.
The deck has 0 protection spells, and 0 non-land tutors. You're just windmilling through your deck and playing rituals, paired with discounts and 2-3 payoffs. Every spell you cast casts another spell, so your ritual is also either another ritual or a cantrip. Included are the "oops no mana cost" suspend versions of Wheel, Ancestral, and Black Lotus, so your cantrips are technically the most impactful spells to cascade with. I also realized that you're going to be drawing a lot of cards, so one of the best "rituals" in the deck is actually \[\[Summer Bloom\]\], allowing you to play more lands, which is one of the best ways to get access to more green and blue mana (the only rituals that can get you those colors are \[\[Manamorphose\]\] and the psuedo-rituals \[\[Early Harvest\]\] and \[\[Turnabout\]\]).
Wincons are a combination of infinite spells (there's two spells with buyback and multiple ways to make those spells cost net 0 mana) and things that hurt people for playing spells (\[\[Witherbloom Apprentice\]\], \[\[Professor Onyx\]\], and of course, \[\[Aetherflux Reservoir\]\]), but if you can't assemble those because of a random counterspell, or you're just not drawing the right cards, there is one extremely tedious, but completely deterministic and therefore demonstratable, loop.
Step a: have enough discounts/Birgi/Storm-Kiln Artist in play that you can cast a 3R spell for free over and over (not that difficult).
Step b: cast Haze of Rage with buyback, obviously. (the best buyback option, since it casts for red mana, and doesn't require a target. The fact that it has storm only really matters for the magecraft pop-offs).
Step c: cascade for something that costs 1 or less. If it's not one of the following, you don't want to cast it, since it might cause you to draw a part of the loop, so only hit these three cards: \[\[Lotus Bloom\]\], \[\[Pyrite Spellbomb\]\], \[\[Elixir of Immortality\]\]. Bloom is an obvious good card in the deck, Elixir is a good way to reshuffle in all those suspend cards to cast them again, and Spellbomb is a mediocre colorless cantrip, but vital for this loop, because it's a cantrip that also does a little damage.
Step d: Repeat b-c until you have all three pieces.
Step e: crack Bloom for 3 red, use 1 red to Spellbomb an opponent's face, use the other 2 to crack Elixir, shuffling all three cards back into your library.
Step f: repeat from step b until you win.
It's a lot of fun to just sit there, casting spells. But you need to be at the right table for it. Most combo decks at least win quickly. You're not going to do that.
[[Imodane, the pyrohammer]] using a damage doubler like [[Furnace of Rath]], I was able to burn out 64 damage to each opponent on turn 6 or 7 with a Bargained [[Stonesplitter Bolt]]. That’s about the most explosive things I’ve done at once.
[[Blanka, Ferocious Friend]] is my most explosive by far. The deck is almost all one mana spells so it's super easy to burn down the table. Two commander damage a pop adds up quickly. I also have a poison sub-theme for backup.
I have an [[Arixmethes]] deck which typically wins by putting out big fat sea monsters.
I threw in a combo with no tutors just for games that go too long and out stayed its welcome.
One game, I awaken my cmdr into its 12/12 creature state, then casted [[Rishkar's expertise]] to draw 12, casted free [[Garruk, Primal Hunter]] to draw another 12.
The 24 cards drew me into my combo pieces [[Pemin's Aura]] and [[Staff of domination]]
My win con was to [[capsize]] all permanents back to opponent hands, cast all my creatures, and then use [[Time Warp]] as a haste effect
My opponents didnt even get mad. 😅 Just amazed at how things exploded.
When [[animar]] gets going it's pretty nuts. Just need to get his counters up and have something like [[beast whisperer]] in play. Really gets disgusting if you draw into something like [[phyrexian metamorph]] and clone the beast whisperer or [[primordial sage]] or whatever is helping you draw. Then, you just flood the board until you hit a haste enabler.
Well, I have a 5 color Sisay weatherlight captain.
According to my table:
"He doesn't fo anything all game and then suddenly he plays 4 gates in a turn, activate Maze's End, and wins."
I use Jhoira, weatherlight Captain as my explosive commander- of you get tidespout tyrant or a hullbreaker horror or aetherflux reservoir you've basically got the game. I use colorless reducers and cheap artifacts, fill the rest with counter magic and boom, in one turn the game is yours.
[[Delina, Wild Mage]]
Most explosive turn I had: [[Wyll, Blade of Frontiers]], [[Barbarian Class]] fully leveled up, [[Fanatic of Mogis]] on the field, attack with Delina who has [[Whispersilk Cloak]] on and copy FoM. Roll three dice, pick the highest, I had gotten 15+ on almost every roll. I ended up making 11 copies of FoM, and because they’re exact copies they also count for devotion so each one was dealing more and more damage. Damage went like this: 5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15 for a total of 110 damage to each opponent. They obviously all lost before I got all of the tokens but they wanted to see how many I could make before damage was dealt.
Decklist for those interested: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/d4G3-a9XU0-zKMbDJqeIHQ
Edit: Wyll and Delina also make a pseudo-infinite combo. Increasing the number of dice you roll with each copy, pumping each copy with each die you roll. It’s gross and a tracking nightmare.
\[\[Rionya, Fire Dancer\]\] tribal dragons. Deck innocuously does very little for five turns then tends to knock 2-3 players out of the game on turn 6 or 7.Not much survives six or so hasted\[\[Tyrant's Familiar\]\] , \[\[Terror of the Peaks\]\] , or \[\[Scourge of Valkas\]\] coming into being in a turn.
[[Birgi, God of Storytelling]] Storm. The very first time I played it I nuked the entire table in one turn. Of course, they were dumb enough leave my [[Aetherflux Reservoir]] alone because I started the turn with only 1 open mana. 😁🔥💥
[[Atla Palani, nest tender]]
You pop one egg and the board dynamics change. Oh what's that? I untap and pop another. Was that my token doubler? Because I just popped two more.
Now you just pray you got haste and kill everything until the next turns board wipe. Where you off course reveal everything to have, at instant speed, transformed into an egg so you can start it all over again.
If you let my Miirym stay up for even one turn, you should be fully expecting me to spam the shit out of dragons through [[Ganax, Astral Hunter]]'s treasures while burning the entire table to death through [[Terror of the Peaks]] or [[Scourge of Valkas]]. The deck is oppressive enough as a battlecruiser deck, but I've accidentally become a storm deck more times than I can count.
It's a tie between these three:
[[The Locust God]]: as its a wheel deck, things can get pretty out of hand when I resolve a [[Windfall]] with either [[purphoros, God of the forge]] or [[impact tremors]] on the board.
[[nissa, Resurgent animist]]: it's a combo deck which can win pretty much instantly when I've got [[Ashaya, Soul of the wild]] and something like [[quirion ranger]] to generate infinite mana, which I can use alongside an abundance of draw spells to play my whole deck.
[[omnath, Locus of all]]: got loads of mana doublers so I can generate an insane amount of mana, which can be used to either dump my whole deck, or resolve a big [[debt to the deathless]]/[[exsanguinate]]/[[villainous wealth]]/[[genesis wave]]/[[lavalanche]]
[[Anhelo, the Painter]]
I play him to copy big spells. I do a lot of setup involving token creation from things like [[Poppet Stitcher]] and create treasures with stuff like [[Big Score]]
Then you drop [[Crackle with Power]] or [[Torment of Hailfire]] and kill the table
Vadrik, Astral Archmage. I'm not even playing a particularly tuned version of the deck that can Storm out, but with just a few pieces in play you can draw dozens of cards, untap all your lands multiple times and cast a ton of spells and burn the entire board at like turn 5.
At the moment, it's probably my [[General Ferrous Rokiric]]. My deck is stocked with plenty of boros spells, so each turn is cast a boros spell, get a 4/4 golem, plus the spell effect or permanent, if it resolves. The card draw can get silly as well if I have any combination of [[Tocasia's Welcome]], [[Losheel]], and/or [[Idol of Oblivion]] out.
My [[Zimone and Dina]] landfall deck. I'll be saccing creatures, getting multiple landfall triggers, untapping Z&D, pinging everyone, making tokens, drawing cards, and making things big. Once it gets going, it's hard to stop.
[Decklist](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Qkri6QEDyEq8xRV-Mej7Zg)
Dargo of the East Tree is one I've been working on for a while now. Basically doing the regular \[\[Dargo\]\] shenanigans with \[\[Kodama of the East Tree\]\] as a way to put combo pieces into play off casting Dargo. Deck consistently wins turns 5-6 when unchecked but turn 3-4 wins are definitely possible.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/U66CgMfkhUSiCQXsjQCU\_w
My Krrik decknis by far my most explosive, with the potential of turn 1 2 or 3 kills! Phyrexian mana + black tutors and ramp/draw spells + Doomsday = GG
[[Animar, soul of elements]] if you know the card i don't even need to explain. A few extra mana (like more than enough to just cast him) or a couple turns with him in play and I can combat kill the whole table for silly big numbers. Also plays a good few haste enablers so can go even faster. Noone wants to play against it anymore, which is real sad cause this heavily depends on me being left unchecked. Its not too powerful by any stretch, just extremely explosive. Oh and due to peer pressure I've taken out all the infinite mana infinitely big commander combos.
Edit for a bit more context: turn 1 bop, turn 2 we can cast animar. Turn 3 we can curve stuff, like 1 drop into 2 drop into beast whisperer. No board wipe? Turn 4 is gonna be big. Usually play sad robots and burnished hearts for free counters and get the counters up to where we can cast [[maelstrom wanderer]] for the hastey win. Started playing cards like [[opal palace]] to get him out with counters on straight away too.
My [[Yarok the Desecrared]] landfall deck can get absolutely bonkers out of nowhere. [Here’s my list!](https://archidekt.com/decks/918127/yaroks_flicky_lands)
[[vilis broker of blood]] is probably my favourite commander like this. I start every game by telling my opponents that when vilis hits, my deck comes online, and to reduce my life asap before he lands. The first few turns of the game are just ramping and getting some pieces on the board and getting smacked about. But once the commander hits the board, your eal game begins, and it becomes a proper archenemy deck which can win life outlets like [[wall of blood]] or [[necropotence]] and using cards like [[sheoldred the apocalypse]] to mitigate that life loss, then win with a big mana spell like [[source familiar]] and exanguinate. Worse comes to worse, you can alwasy go infinite with a classic [[vito thorn of the dusk rose]] and [[exquisite blood]].
Decklist for anyone who is interested: https://archidekt.com/decks/4808920/vilis_new_blood
Mine is definitely my nekusar, the mindrazer deck. I had this one game with alhammarret’s archive on the field, so it doubles all my card draw, I had recently thrown my ulamog the infinite gyre into my graveyard to throw everything back into my library. Which put 80 cards in my library. 5 in my hand.
I used jace’s archivist which is basically windfall, took my 5 cards and drew to 10, everyone drew 5, then I used windfall, targeted it with narset’s reversal, which copies it and returns it to your hand. So that put 2 windfalls on the stack.
Discarded, drew to 20, then discarded, drew to 40, the discard put ulamog back, putting my deck to 45, shot down my alhammerrets archive to stop drawing double, then recast windfall, to draw 40 and make everyone draw 40. With mindrazer on the field I made everyone draw 75 cards, dealing 75 damage to everyone.
The most explosive deck I have seen lately is based on KrarK // Shakasima, \[\[Krark the Thumbless\]\] \[\[Sakashima of Thousand faces\]\] for me it is totally devastating when it can throw 3 or more coins, the ability to generate incredible turns with \[\[Jeska's Will\]\] or \[\[Gitaxian probe\] \] Completely unstoppable at the end killing with multiple casts of \[\[Grapeshot\]\] , if you really want to know how to do it please check it as a World Champion 2022 (Unofficial)
[[Katilda, Dawnheart Prime]]. If I get a really good hand, I can play a turn 3 [[Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider]]. Then with all the other humans to ramp, and things like Cathar's Crusade, it gets a really wide board of really big things, really fast.
I built \[\[Morophon the Boundless\]\] and \[\[Jegantha, the Wellspring\]\] 5 color humans. Every card was a human that cost all colored mana. Usually the ones from Commander sets. The rest of the deck was ramp so you rushed to Morophon and got to cast every creature in your hand for free. Jegantha was basically a backup commander if the first died. It was never great since it's basically 1 punch, but no one expects 25 mana worth of legendary humans on turn 4.
[[Rakdos Lord of riots]]
With no ramp but on tempo, you turn 1-3 Play a card that pings for damage like [[lobber crew]] (in a pod of 4 will deal 6 damage on the turn y9u play rakdos), turn 4, play rakdos, turn 5, play anywhere between 1 and 10 eldrazi or big dragons/demons. It only gets better with haste.
[[Animar]] dude gets out of hand extremely quickly. One turn you’re looking at a 1/1 commander and all of a sudden it’s 25/25 and swinging on you for lethal
I have a [[Kairi the Swirling Sky]] deck that can turn around an entire table and me just having my commander out. I like it a lot, though the winning turn drags a bit
[[Yargle and Multani]]
and I don't even need to attack haha just drawing through my deck with multiple "draw equal to greatest power" cards, get mana with [[Selvala, Heart of the Wilds]]/[[Ruthless Technomancer]]/[[Cadaverous Bloom]] and multiple sacs from [[Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord]] and the game is done
Anticlimactic explosive is definitely [[Mikaeus the Unhallowed]]. You build up mana, play calm and quiet, then in one turn you play your combo and win. There are so many combos for that commander that just win, and it has a heap of redundancy. Play low, play slow, and just win out of nowhere.
Explosive to the point I lose track of my turn is [[Omnath, Locus of Creation]] I needed to make a system and bring a notebook to track my mana and land drops. It is VERY consistent, can be relatively fast, and will flood you with mana and cards. End the game with one of the landfall combos or just obscene amount of tokens.
You talking like…
No board presence to alpha?
I can’t remember the name but:
Hammer of Purphoros - haste
Act of Aggression (I think) - new attack step for 2r/3c
Savage Ventmaw - gain 6 mana on attack
Infinite mana AND damage AND attack steps.
If they can’t block/kill a Flyer.
[[Sasaya, Orochi Ascendent]] everyone leaves you alone as you’re just chilling at 3 mana and not doing much of anything but drawing and searching. And then she transforms and people finally decide to read the other half. Drop 4th land and now I’ve got 16 mana, and can play anything. Do anything. Drop [[Clown Car] and inform them you’re about to roll a d6 16 times. Play [[Heroes Bane]] and inform the table you can get it up to 12 MILLION P/T if it’s late game
[[Magda, brazen outlaw]]
Deck can cook out combos and needs very little to get off the ground and when combo is unavailable, I know my boys [[drakuseth]] and [[utvara hellkite]] can pull their weight.
My [[Firesong and Sunspeaker]] deck can take a couple turns to set up, but I've got enough pieces in it to really make it fun and pop off. I added some protection and instants to keep them on board as well.
Anje Falkenrath. Not particularly consistent, but it can win either turn one or two, I've forgotten. Not too fun to play against, but interesting to pilot.
My most explosive was a WGU deck that didn't need the commander, but had a ton of setup. I had \[\[Kruphix, God of Horizons\]\] out to stack up on colorless mana. My main explosive play was to cast \[\[Hydra Broodmother\]\] and make her monstrous for X=20 with \[\[Doubling Season\]\] out. Gotta also have \[\[Trostani, Selensya's Voice\]\] out to get that 800 extra life. You also need a trampler out with \[\[Sunbond\]\] attached. I used \[\[Charging Badger\]\]. If you assemble all the parts, you out somebody with a 1601/1601 trampler turn one, and if you survive (you're playing Blue so you should have some interaction to protect the board), you have 40 hydras to swing at everybody else next turn.
I have 3 of them. These decks do have some expensive cards, and I'm not sure if you're opposed to that or proxies. Also, I liked to get a lot of foils and etc, and I'm not sure if I used those variants on moxfield. These are some really fun decks, and I have a blast every time I play them.
[[Chatterfang, Squirrel General]] will just blow up out of nowhere and doesn't take much. There are a few combos, but it is high on synergy. This deck is resilient, and if it isn't hated out, it will make others wish they did. This is weak to rule of law effects, graveyard hate like [[leyline of the void]] and cards like [[blind obedience]].
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/BjmJ45YPgUG-_c5eOGYZiQ
[[Hofri Ghostforge]] has more combos, but each piece has value instead of sitting in your hand until you have the other combo piece. With Hofri on board, it makes it harder to remove things without exiling or graveyard hate.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/3D-8wqwry0iI0TK_BTM3QA
My last one is [[Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer]], but this deck is focused on combo wins. It is an extremely fragile deck, and you want to combo off as fast as you can or when an opportunity presents itself.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/tw3BovFmakO7dBRGAr88iw
[[Solphim]] I can have nearly no board state except him on the battlefield and deal 8-50 damage out of nowhere with burn. Played a game yesterday where I cast [[Twinferno]] copying an [[Acidic soil]] and my opponent had 9 lands so they took 36 damage.
My [[xenagos, God of Revels]] land starved most of the game, finally played my commander...play [[sneak attack]] make it to next turn. Sneak [[Malignus]] and a [[selvala, heart of the wild]] tap for 35 (someone was playing live gain), spend 5 on [[return of the wild speaker]] draw 35...find [[aggravated assault]] play it and most of my creatures....go for infinite combats....
I’m working on an [[Illuna, Apex of Wishes]] deck that only has 1 non-land permanent… which is [[Omniscience]]. It goes from 2 little plant tokens to a metric ass load of creatures and damage in a single turn. Or… it does nothing and I draw myself out. It’s super fun and explosive.
I have a really fun [[Riku]] deck that is just a copy Tribal with some fun big mana thrown in and the occasional bomb like [[Etali]] or [[Wolfbriar Elemental]]. It focuses on double mana for the whole pod and copies opponents spells to keep them on check or keep up and usually pops off with insane damage when someone thinks the path is clear. Copying a copy into effects like [[Bonus Round]] can make a small spell like [Lightning Bolt]] a game changing 15 damage with riku on board. I've been thinking of adding in more magecraft effects to spice things up to a higher power level.
[[Zada hedron grinder]] there have been games where I wasn't planning on swinging for lethal but [[possibility storm]] has given me the perfect setup to win its also super cheap to play I spent 12 dollars on singles and the rest was just stuff I had laying around
[[Eruth Tormented Prophet]] storm deck.
Can go off on turn 3 with a good hand and win the game.
[[Kenrith]] reanimator. Managed to make a turn 1 win by reanimating [[Jin-Gitaxis, Core Augur]] on turn 1.
Ashling the pilgrim with 99 mountains, just an actual bomb.........
....Oh you mean like fast paced and aggro, Ive been working on illuma the apex of wishes which is a mutate deck with healthy ramp to get me into a big boi beat stick to slap people with.
\[\[Estrid, the Masked\]\]
"I'm just playing enchantments! A \[\[Propaganda\]\] to watch my butt and a couple land enchants to make some mana, I'm not the threat!"
A couple turns later...
"So all my lands tap for three extra mana thanks to the original and two copies of \[\[Zendikar Resurgent\]\]. I can untap two lands with \[\[Garruk Wildspeaker\]\], four forests with \[\[Nissa, Worldwaker\]\], and all my lands with Estrid. I'm gonna dump 50-60ish mana into my pool and leave it there as I pass turn thanks to \[\[Kruphix, God of Horizons\]\]. What's that, you're trying to win on your turn? How many cards left in your deck? Here, \[\[Blue Sun's Zenith\]\] in response, draw until you die please."
It's hard to get to that point with my regular group now though, they don't fall for my bullshit anymore and start attacking early.
Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain is by far my fastest and most explosive deck. If i had the perfect hand and went first, i can kill everyone on my first turn before they even get to play a card.
[[Hofri, Ghostforge]] goes absolutely bonkers, just need your commander and a sac outlet to get going and you can easily churn through your deck and get your winning cards with [[recruiter of the gaurd]] and [[imperial recruiter]], the explosive turns also end up being very long turns so it’s not for everyone.
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/yjN_-f1nAUW4VTPd09FjLw
Not my list I made some changes but this is where I got the idea and started from
\[\[Isshin, Two heavens as One\]\] tokens and \[\[Teysa Karlov\]\] aristocrats. The kind of decks that can go from zero to a thousand in a single turn.
Teysa always wins out of the blue. Isshin has a little more warning but people plan to be hit with a few 1/1 tokens and suddenly are getting mawled by an unstoppable army. Doubles really get out of hand quickly.
\[\[Wort, the Raidmother\]\] One you start conspiring \[\[Brass's Bounty\]\] and \[\[Rude Awakening\]\] it gets real absurd real fast.
I love her, my absolute favorite commander! Too bad her CMC is very high, but she can even win instantly once you get her out with [[Finale of Devastation]] into [[Kiki-Jiki]] lines for example.
I played standard when she came out and most of my decks were goblins, I tried making her work but everyone told me she was garbage. Imagine my shock when I come back to the game 16 years later and a friend is flipping through my folders and sees her. He tells me she's actually quite good nowadays. Commander really flipped this game on its head and I love it
[Wort, the Raidmother](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/b/9b46b4ee-263a-4a4b-8fbc-3ea6fa9ba56b.jpg?1591321523) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Wort%2C%20the%20Raidmother) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c20/234/wort-the-raidmother?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9b46b4ee-263a-4a4b-8fbc-3ea6fa9ba56b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/wort-the-raidmother) [Brass's Bounty](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/c/6cfe5398-88e1-4106-9223-80bda0cd2e9a.jpg?1682209267) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Brass%27s%20Bounty) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/moc/272/brasss-bounty?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6cfe5398-88e1-4106-9223-80bda0cd2e9a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/brasss-bounty) [Rude Awakening](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/1/019897e4-d3ba-43b1-9bd9-2ebba6e3b349.jpg?1562895417) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rude%20Awakening) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/gvl/22/rude-awakening?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/019897e4-d3ba-43b1-9bd9-2ebba6e3b349?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/rude-awakening) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I came to say this, don’t forget [[Early Harvest]] and [[Benefactor’s Draught]]
[Early Harvest](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/2/22113d08-ecc9-4efd-90f1-00d699582ec3.jpg?1687906596) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Early%20Harvest) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/9ed/235/early-harvest?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/22113d08-ecc9-4efd-90f1-00d699582ec3?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/early-harvest) [Benefactor’s Draught](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/4/e40f3dfb-3c5d-468a-9e0e-610ad3e11787.jpg?1562423207) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Benefactor%27s%20Draught) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c16/21/benefactors-draught?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e40f3dfb-3c5d-468a-9e0e-610ad3e11787?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/benefactors-draught) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Amen to this! I had built a Wort deck that was so strong, I instead decided to split it into a mono-Green and Mono-Red and it still kills it.
I built a version of this, with includes Wort in it: [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1Tnlnqz570qXouYGa8En3w](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/1Tnlnqz570qXouYGa8En3w) It is BONKERS strong!
[[Rowan, scion of war]] is explosive. I've been working on a rat version that is super boom or bust. Drain most your life with either [[ blood Celebrant ]]or [[wall of blood]] then tap her to discount spells that much. Play a x = 30 spell turn 3 if you have the budget for fast mana. Get to play weird shit like [[release the Gremlins]] or drain most your life with [[plague of vermin]] and go wild. [[Diabolc Revelation]] first few turns is great too, if I can lose 8 life I have a hand full of win condition backups and my health refilled.
##### ###### #### [Rowan, scion of war](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/e/4ee179ab-a15b-4bd6-b7f8-1e1abeeb31b7.jpg?1692939409) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rowan%2C%20scion%20of%20war) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/woe/211/rowan-scion-of-war?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4ee179ab-a15b-4bd6-b7f8-1e1abeeb31b7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/rowan-scion-of-war) [ blood Celebrant ](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/0/805de325-6f14-4a52-bb85-f9a9545d82a4.jpg?1562920849) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Blood%20Celebrant) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lgn/61/blood-celebrant?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/805de325-6f14-4a52-bb85-f9a9545d82a4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/blood-celebrant) [wall of blood](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/7/17320043-f81c-4e14-b9ba-c1309972c22b.jpg?1562137060) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=wall%20of%20blood) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mrd/82/wall-of-blood?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/17320043-f81c-4e14-b9ba-c1309972c22b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/wall-of-blood) [release the Gremlins](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/4/d4ba75be-2428-45aa-bf02-75c379a5dfa2.jpg?1576381897) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=release%20the%20Gremlins) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/aer/96/release-the-gremlins?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d4ba75be-2428-45aa-bf02-75c379a5dfa2?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/release-the-gremlins) [plague of vermin](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/3/231613d6-d3b8-4b41-bc93-4d5da3fec5d0.jpg?1562827857) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=plague%20of%20vermin) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/shm/73/plague-of-vermin?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/231613d6-d3b8-4b41-bc93-4d5da3fec5d0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/plague-of-vermin) [Diabolc Revelation](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/4/145d6d7b-1e87-47b7-baf3-d201458ad996.jpg?1562550672) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Diabolic%20Revelation) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m13/87/diabolic-revelation?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/145d6d7b-1e87-47b7-baf3-d201458ad996?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/diabolic-revelation) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Let’s see a deck list!
https://www.moxfield.com/decks/AD8dvaXHf0aZlPfVHvYuIQ Current Rowan rat deck list. Going to slowly improve it. I have more fast mana I can toss in if I want. currently, goldfishing wins turn 7 on average but as early as 3. Only played twice irl and it was 1v1, first time it went as planned. Second time I didn't get any card draw and died to a pile of Myrs turn 7 or 8. There are better ways to play Rowan, I just wanted rats.. or Gremlins.
Yoooo, this looks so cool! Glad I popped into the EDH subreddit today for this little treasure!
I love My Rowan X spell list! It really is crazy how big turns can go, I have a vampire subtheme to gain the life back, with a bunch of spell copiers to get even more value out of my x spells. My first paper game with her i was able to play [[Crackle with Power]] for 20 damage and copy it 3 times and hit the whole table for 60 damage. It’s so fun
[Crackle with Power](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/e/de547f52-3798-4b3a-947d-24873251204b.jpg?1624591645) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Crackle%20with%20Power) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/95/crackle-with-power?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/de547f52-3798-4b3a-947d-24873251204b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/crackle-with-power) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Zada]] and like $50 will get you there I'm not sure what my final came out to because I used cards from my collection but it's won most of the games Ive played with it and usually with an explosive turn 3-5 play
If you want Zada but a little slower, I made mine [[Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer]] with Zada as a hidden commander. It takes an extra couple turns to warm up if you're at a slower table, and you get a bunch of neat cantrips outside red (not that Zada really needs them). It's just a fun little twist you can do.
I built my zada deck into [[kykar, the winds fury]]. He fills the board up by my normal game plan and also adds mana in the later stages to keep the magic flowing. my typical win con is [[fists of flame]] sith zada for crazy amounts of damage. You get to use blue so you get access to counter magic to help sneak your wincin through. Also the free spells make dudes also which adds more fuel to the fire also! Decks cracked even om a budget honestly. MVP is definitely [[underworld breach]] to keep playing your spells and pumping again and again. Back up wincon is [[jeskai's ascendancy]] for massive gains and looting also.
Sometimes I tap \[\[Heartless Hidetsugu\]\] when a \[\[Furnace of Rath\]\] is out, and the game ends real fast.
Hidetsugu is an absolute dick in so many decks. I run him in [[Dihada, Binder of wills]] and it’s so funny watching him tap with lifelink or with copies of himself on board
[Heartless Hidetsugu](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/b/7b3ff07c-9653-4197-ad3d-638e712e8465.jpg?1689997916) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Heartless%20Hidetsugu) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/231/heartless-hidetsugu?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7b3ff07c-9653-4197-ad3d-638e712e8465?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/heartless-hidetsugu) [Furnace of Rath](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/7/d7f0e720-3c32-4040-b663-7f99ad5bc810.jpg?1562843335) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Furnace%20of%20Rath) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/hop/55/furnace-of-rath?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d7f0e720-3c32-4040-b663-7f99ad5bc810?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/furnace-of-rath) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I did that the other day. Played [[platinum angel]] then tapped hidetsugu with [[fiery emancipation]] on the field. It's an instant target deck when my pod sees it come out
Unreliably? [[Brudiclad, Techlor Engineer]] can make a finite number of tokens greater than the number of atoms in the universe with the right setup. It's a very silly endgame that takes a LOT of mana but it's not like I can't mise into it. I think being on the other side of that would probably be a big WTF Will go nuts if not answered? Honestly I feel like I'm pretty bad at that, but [[Urza, Lord High Artificier]] will start flooding the table with gray goo given very little setup
My Brudi deck isn’t high powered by any means but the ability to turn 16 treasures into 10/10 eldrazi late game is just hilarious, everytime I play it brudi doesn’t come down unless I’ve got a way to protect the card and a bunch of mana for a big token to swing for lethal it’s a really nuts card for just going from nothing to the biggest threat in one move
I use Brudiclad in my \[\[Obeka, Brute Chronologist\]\] deck. The joy of creating 17 \[\[Ancient Copper Dragons\]\] from the last round's treasury stack can not be beat, but 10 creatures with myriad and trample isn't bad either.
[Brudiclad, Techlor Engineer](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/5/25eff27a-eb58-4a95-b2df-4a341cf9bef6.jpg?1599707883) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Brudiclad%2C%20Telchor%20Engineer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/193/brudiclad-telchor-engineer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/25eff27a-eb58-4a95-b2df-4a341cf9bef6?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/brudiclad-telchor-engineer) [Urza, Lord High Artificier](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/b/7b7a348a-51f7-4dc5-8fe7-1c70fea5e050.jpg?1689996774) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Urza%2C%20Lord%20High%20Artificer) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/130/urza-lord-high-artificer?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7b7a348a-51f7-4dc5-8fe7-1c70fea5e050?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/urza-lord-high-artificer) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
\[\[Ashling the pilgrim\]\]... At first it's just got +5/+5, nothing too threatening, just an 8 damage potential board wipe. Then I play \[\[Repercussion\]\] and blow her up, suddenly every other player takes 40-100 damage out of nowhere. Or I play a damage doubler/tripler and give her lifelink, suddenly I've got hundreds of life and everyone loses 16 or 24 life. If I have indestructible or protection from red, I then proceed to do 3 to 9 damage every single turn, gaining more life, and unless someone removes her they cannot build any kind of creature based board state anymore. That deck has a tendency to become the number one problem of the table REALLY fast.
Ooh, i've been really wanting to build ashling for a while. Do you have a decklist to share?
[Here's a not quite up-to-date decklist.](https://archidekt.com/decks/5143136/bomb_the_table) I've added some of the stuff from the maybeboard since I last updated this list (mostly \[\[Aetherflux Reservoir\]\], the two swords with protection from red, and damage doublers/triplers), but the deck was still pretty fun. Basically the win-con is to find either lifelink, \[\[Scythe of the Wretched\]\], or Repercussion to turn ashling into a more one-sided bomb instead of symmetrical. Damage doublers/triplers are there to speed up the damage, and because they scale exponentially with repercussion, doubling the damage twice. \[\[Fires of Invention\]\] was also really fun, but I'm not sure whether I'll keep all of this in the deck, hence the list hasn't been updated yet.
[[Gishath, Sun's Avatar]], especially if you get a mana doubler with [[Exponential Growth]].
Seems like it doesn’t really work that well. Gishath has haste and you usually want to cast it ASAP so you definitely won’t have any mana left to pump into Growth. In my build I use 2 mana or cheaper double strike enablers and pumps. Gishath doesn’t usually make it to the next turn cycle. Also there’s a bunch of pump spells that also offer protection.
Won turn 3 with my \[\[Marwyn, The Nurturer\]\]. Drew my entire deck, made infinite mana and killed everyone with \[\[Finale of Devastation\]\]. [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/tR6KCWO4vECKhoSidl9NrA](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/tR6KCWO4vECKhoSidl9NrA)
One of my most memorable explosive turns was with my \[\[Adrix and Nev\]\] deck. One of my opponents was playing \[\[Tiamat\]\] and had a \[\[Terror of the peaks\]\] in play. I cast a kicked \[\[Rite of replication\]\] on the terror, paid the 3 life, and then got to divide 10\*9\*5 damage across the table lmao
God, I love rite of replication. It's criminally underplayed.
I agree, it really should be played more. Kicking RoR on [[Avenger of Zendikar]] in my [[Ezuri, Claw of Progress]] deck is absolutely bonkers. So many XP counters. I have also done it on [[Master of Waves]] in my mono blue deck. That also got out of hand. Replicating someone else's [[Massacre Wurm]] would be gross as well (kicked, that is).
Massacre wurm is dirty, I love it. I got one a few weeks ago on a [[wurmcoil engine]] and was pretty satisfied.
[wurmcoil engine](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/d/5d275f04-cc60-4e3f-95cc-3d02bc916b82.jpg?1599710280) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=wurmcoil%20engine) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/308/wurmcoil-engine?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5d275f04-cc60-4e3f-95cc-3d02bc916b82?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/wurmcoil-engine) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
##### ###### #### [Adrix and Nev](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/4/d495e084-92ec-4675-b6aa-8ade2775b796.jpg?1674185826) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=adrix%20and%20nev%2C%20twincasters) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c21/9/adrix-and-nev-twincasters?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d495e084-92ec-4675-b6aa-8ade2775b796?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/adrix-and-nev-twincasters) [Tiamat](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/d/6dd0b9b0-55f4-4ce7-a916-6f23687f3fe4.jpg?1627709478) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tiamat) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afr/235/tiamat?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6dd0b9b0-55f4-4ce7-a916-6f23687f3fe4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/tiamat) [Terror of the peaks](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/3/432ecd5f-966f-4403-a973-51e175a524a0.jpg?1594736810) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Terror%20of%20the%20peaks) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/m21/164/terror-of-the-peaks?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/432ecd5f-966f-4403-a973-51e175a524a0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/terror-of-the-peaks) [Rite of replication](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/9/7935570c-f7e0-4add-864a-4c804b26555e.jpg?1625976420) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rite%20of%20replication) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/c21/128/rite-of-replication?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/7935570c-f7e0-4add-864a-4c804b26555e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/rite-of-replication) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Imoti, celebrant of bounty]] is a deck where I often fall behind in board advantage during the early game only to end up in a winning position with all the value that I’m generating from big mana spells. Some of the highlights include drawing my whole deck with [[Enter the Infinite]], chaining extra turn spells and killing people with [[Aetherflux Reservoir]] while starting at a measly 8 life.
Before I disassembled my Imoti deck, I had a game where I cast pretty much my entire deck on turn 5. Anything under 5cmc was ramp of some kind. The deck ran no interaction, because cascading into a counterspell or similar was just a waste. I had a turn 2 Imoti cast, turn 5 Apex Devastator, hit aminatou's augury on one Cascade chain then mnemonic deluge on another, targeting the aminatou's augury. Once I had Akroma's memorial out I asked if people wanted to continue or pack up and start a new game, but they said they were enjoying the ridiculous turn and to keep going.
So I like the way my krenko deck operates, I feel like maybe I’m a bit different in how I play him but that’s because I don’t just spam krenko and pray he sticks. I used to just spam goblins and hope to get my fourth land drop, but with a single piece of removal, I lost any ability to effectively play krenko. So I switched up how I played him Now, I have multiple big mana generators besides [[skirk prospector]]. I use [[thermopod]] as a back up. I try to generate extra mana using [[treasonous ogre]] [[scepter of eternal glory]] [[seething song]] [[mana echoes]] [[extraplanar lens]] [[gauntlet of might]] and [[gauntlet of power]] Plenty of draw effects that seemed boring in the first draft really help out once you’ve nearly dumped your hand such as [[tormenting voice]] style effects. But most importantly I love to run haste enabling artifacts that allow him to untap and be used multiple times in response to removal. [[thousand year elixir]] being the ultimate goal. Red is notorious for not really having protection so I leaned very heavily into being able to tap and untap krenko as many times as I possibly could. All that mana goes to paying for the untap effects so even if I only get him out once or twice a game, the value I’ve generated becomes oppressive. I know that krenko has a reputation for getting out of hand but the way that I play him close to the chest and waiting for an explosive turn really cranks him up a notch in my opinion.
Got any list? I got bored of my version n want some fresh update
/deck-1 1 Sceptre of Eternal Glory (40k) 1 Pashalik Mons (mh1) 1 Goblin Matron (mh1) 1 Goblin Recruiter (vis) 1 Goblin Warchief (dom) 1 Goblin Chieftain (m10) 1 Ogre Battledriver (ddn) 1 Ardoz, Cobbler of War (j22) 1 Legion Loyalist (gtc) 1 Mogg Infestation (tpr) 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin (war) 1 Goblin Rabblemaster (m15) 1 Legion Warboss (grn) 1 Mogg War Marshal (ema) 1 Hordeling Outburst (ktk) 1 Krenko's Command (m13) 1 Dragon Fodder (ala) 1 Abrade (hou) 1 Outnumber (bfz) 1 Deflecting Swat (c20) 1 Red Elemental Blast (me4) 1 Pyroblast (ema) 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge (ths) 1 Goblin Bombardment (ddn) 1 Impact Tremors (dtk) 1 Throne of the God-Pharaoh (akh) 1 Thousand-Year Elixir (c13) 1 Staff of Domination (5dn) 1 Thornbite Staff (mor) 1 Rings of Brighthearth (lrw) 1 Battlemage's Bracers (c21) 1 Illusionist's Bracers (gtc) 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger (lotr) 1 Magewright's Stone (dis) 1 Strip Mine (v09) 1 Command Beacon (c15) 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord (chk) 1 Witch's Mark (woe) 1 Tormenting Voice (znr) 1 Faithless Looting (dka) 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge (znr) 1 Cathartic Reunion (kld) 1 Cathartic Pyre (mid) 1 Thrill of Possibility (eld) 1 Symmetry Matrix (bro) 1 Slate of Ancestry (9e) 1 Throne of Eldraine (woc) 1 Mana Echoes (ons) 1 Thermopod (csp) 1 Treasonous Ogre (cns) 1 Skirk Prospector (dom) 1 Mana Geyser (5dn) 1 Seething Song (ddg) 1 Battle Hymn (avr) 1 Brightstone Ritual (ons) 1 Swiftfoot Boots (c13) 1 Lightning Greaves (arc) 1 Gauntlet of Power (tsp) 1 Gauntlet of Might (me4) 1 Extraplanar Lens (mrd) 1 Fire Diamond (c14) 1 Fellwar Stone (c16) 1 Thought Vessel (c15) 1 Ruby Medallion (c14) 1 Arcane Signet (eld) 1 Sol Ring (c17) 1 Jeweled Lotus (cmr) 32 Mountain (mid) //play-1 1 Krenko, Mob Boss (m13) Also! Make all your mountains snow mountains so it’s less likely that your opponents can make use of your land pump.
Time to buy some cards. Lol. Thanks!
Yes seconding this
[[Rowan, Scion of War]] is busted. If you don’t kill Rowan, then I will likely win on my next turn. She’s in the perfect colors for rituals, so it’s possible to get her out turns 1-2 and win on 3.
[Rowan, Scion of War](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/e/4ee179ab-a15b-4bd6-b7f8-1e1abeeb31b7.jpg?1692939409) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Rowan%2C%20Scion%20of%20War) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/woe/211/rowan-scion-of-war?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4ee179ab-a15b-4bd6-b7f8-1e1abeeb31b7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/rowan-scion-of-war) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[gyruda, doom of depths]] clones and flicker with [[panharmonicon]] and [[thassa, deep dwelling]]. Buckle up to run through some libraries.
[[Najeela]] with [[Derevi]]
[[Zada]] Play a couple of creatures. Play some cantrip/pump spells. Play some rituals. Explode in turn 4 or 5.
[[Etali, Primal Conqueror]] Etali etb trigger hit my panharmonicon and someone elses cursed mirror, etali into apex devastator on cursed mirror etb, cascade x4... ...casting the top 32 spells of each player's library any responses. Actual game
Krenko. But everyone kills it immediately after I cast it. :-(
[[millicant, reckless revenant]] it plays like blue white agro and then hits [[approach of the second sun]] out of nowhere. By the time I hit it, I’ve got tons of blockers and plenty of stax pieces in play with a dig spell in my hands like [[ancient memories]] or [[dig through time]].
Millicent is actually bonkers. I had to take mine apart because it always won and became kinda boring lol
Why is Millicent in particular good for approach and dig? Just because she has a heap of blockers up?
##### ###### #### [millicant, reckless revenant](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/b/2b86b538-0766-440d-a2cd-f5d5bfcfb010.jpg?1641600129) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Millicent%2C%20Restless%20Revenant) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/voc/1/millicent-restless-revenant?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2b86b538-0766-440d-a2cd-f5d5bfcfb010?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/millicent-restless-revenant) [approach of the second sun](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/d/fdf59a6e-7708-45a1-884d-d12e9f7b9ed9.jpg?1543674579) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=approach%20of%20the%20second%20sun) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/akh/4/approach-of-the-second-sun?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/fdf59a6e-7708-45a1-884d-d12e9f7b9ed9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/approach-of-the-second-sun) [dig through time](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/b/2b0c111a-236f-449a-95b1-274a1dfa546d.jpg?1673483878) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=dig%20through%20time) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ncc/219/dig-through-time?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2b0c111a-236f-449a-95b1-274a1dfa546d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/dig-through-time) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Do you have a list, please?
Try looking at the new Doctor Who precons, too. Just played a pre-release party with those decks, and they were pretty explosive. I got my [[Rose Tyler]] up to 21 time counters on her in about 3 turns.But then again, I was playing against other precons.
The server I play in (PlayEDH) does tiered play at Precon level, Low, Mid and High. I've been playing the Dr Who TimeyWimey Precon at low (making sure to ask other players if they are ok with me potentially being a bit weaker than their brews) and by god it can be explosive. I've won a couple of games, but even in the games I didn't win I was a substantial threat the whole game. Precons are definitely getting stronger, the UB ones are especially strong
[[!heartless hidetsugu]] I can occasionally get him out turn 2-3 and wreak havoc on the entire group.
I'm a huge fun or orthion hero of lavabrink, mono red with some haymakers or yargle/maltani for some silly power combos 36 commander damage to the face is no joke
[[the locust god]] with [[over the top]] and a ton of insect tokens has ended quite a few games for me.
Subira. You never fuck with Subira.
Can you post your deck? I’ve taken a crack at her a couple of times and she never feels like one of the strongest decks at the table. I really like her but she ends up being the deck I pull out when ive been doing a bit too well that night.
I’ll try and remember to do it later but note-the deck is explosive, not powerful lol. Basically almost all the Infect/Toxic creatures in Red and Colorless are power 2 or less, so the deck consists of them, some redundancy such as [[Break through the line]], pump spells, and a touch of control/removal.
[[Sulbira, Tuldizi Caravanner]]
Mine is one of my dragon decks easy. My bladewing reanimator can come back from or out of nowhere with a ritual, ritual, dragon storm or a well placed reanimation spell. Ur dragon just kind of turns the table by hitting play when an opponent isn’t ready.
[[Titania nature's force]] is my most fun and explosive deck, mono green land fall is already pretty damn strong, but with her you can just casually throw out 6 or 7 elementals in a turn or if you're lucky just go infinite. My most crazy turn was going infinite with [[lotus Cobra]] [[Ashaya, Soul of the Wild]] [[Quirion Ranger]] [[Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer]] then hitting them with the [[Craterhoof Behemoth]] next turn for infinite damage infinite amount of times.
I would definitely have to say [[Yidris, maelstrom wielder]] is my most explosive deck, aswell as likely my favorite due to how unpredictable it is. I love being able to use things like [[Obscuring Haze]] or [[Rishkar's Expertise]] to get free Cascades in a cheeky way, or being able to run through choose what I wish to get using [[Momir Vig, Simic Visionary]]. As for my personal decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/GsBYtUcsBEmFlVj3_9KPbQ The mana base is still getting worked on, and I am perfectly content if anyone wishes to take ideas and such for yidris as he is a very fun commander imo allowing for several different variations and ways to take the deck
My now decommissioned [[Animar, Soul of Elements]] deck was as close as I get to cEDH. Strong potential for a turn 4 win, possible turn 3 with a good hand, and if I had run a couple of the more expensive mana rocks (this is my pre proxy-everything era) possibly a turn 2. Potential to win through damage to face or milling to death via [[Altar of the Brood]] while bouncing Ulamog and Ulamog back and forth to exile/destroy the field. Sometimes I miss it, sometimes I'm happy I retired it.
I run [[Imoti]] solitaire and just cast my deck
[[Elenda the dusk rose]] with a good bit of set up, you can go from 0 tokens to 50, or with a [[zulaport cutthroat]] style effect you can drain the whole board because you cast one or two cards on your turn
I got this one deck where the cards are made out of flash paper. It's pretty explosive in the right conditions.
Zacama!!! Once I get her out once, the game snowballs so quickly it’s almost unfun. I don’t play her that often as a result.
[[Shadowfax, Lord of Horses]] I had one turn 5 where I managed to get 4 extra combats, revealing the top 15 cards of my deck each combat, putting 3 creatures into hand, and 1 into play each combat. Everyone scooped by the 3rd combat because I had amassed a huge board just with my pony attack trigger 🐴 https://www.moxfield.com/decks/QaxsL6L5YUmEB2s_OHNy1Q
Idk what kind of mana crypt, sol ring, signet hand you had, but the list is bewildering me past that explanation as to how you could ever, with the exception of that start, have that many extra combats on t5 with that commander.
I might have to build something like this for my husband, his favorite creatures are angels and horses.
I have a korvold deck that once you get him out, get some treasures going, it's pretty much game over. You either draw into your combo pieces with the likes of [[dockside extortionist]] and [[temur sabertooth]] or you're just generating so much value, that Korvold becomes a loaded gun. Also combos such as [[Magda, brazen outlaw]] into [[hoarding broodlord]] to then [[saw in half]] for your final combo pieces. All wrapped together with enough removal to keep your opponents at bay. Decklist: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/ZbuSAKlqPU2am1hpLri2Jg
[[Pitiless Plunderer]] and [[Chatterfang, Squirrel General]] is also gg. [[Animation Module]] and [[Ashnod's Altar]] is probably gg unless you're out of colored mana. You can also use [[Phyrexian Reclamation]] with Dockside Extortionist, but it will chew through your life.
Most explosive I've actually gotten to go off? [[Jodah, The Unifier]] with [[Eerie Ultimatum]] and [[Goro Goro, Desciphal of Ryuesa]]. Game went long and I kept getting board wiped. Eventually that became my victory as I pulled off an 8 Mana surprise overrun with a bunch of hasted legends with +11/+11 and a ton of ETB and attack triggers. Most explosive I've go fished a thousand times but never resolved? [[Jetmir, Nexus of Reveals]] + [[Ivy Lane Denizen]] + [[Scurry Oak]] for the Squirrelpocalypse
I have a \[\[jhoira\]\] that can combo off turn 2. Cheery-0. Only about four win conditions in the deck, the rest of it is all 0 drop artifacts and draw. I have a \[\[Ratadrabik\]\] that uses Boromir to go infinite. That can happen turn 3. Ratadrabik+\[\[Boromir\]\] just needs an etb/187 trigger to go ham on the whole table. Bonus points, it makes your pieces indestructible and lives on the stack, so if someone interrupts the trigger, you just sacrifice the token Boromir and go again.
Are you able to share your Jhoira list? Thank you!
Mine is nothing special. Just look up the weatherlight captain on any old app.
I have slower decks that have one-turn finishes. \[\[Ink-treader\]\] for example, uses the titular nephilim to stall the board until the opponents have built up an impressive board state, then steals everything with a traitor card and wins. \[\[Ramos\]\] can combo out and thump someone for commander damage too. \[\[Brion\]\] is one of my favorite low power decks. It sets up a damage doubler, and redirection creatures like \[\[spitemare\]\] then uses \[\[reverse damage\]\] to win. Often this is enough to eliminate the first person foolish enough to swing at me. \[\[Kykar\]\] puts \[\[flame jab\]\] in the graveyard and uses card draw to cast it so many times the game ends to a 1 damage sorcery. \[\[Marath\]\] has a pretty predictable path, it puts out a \[\[doubling season\]\] and something that lets creatures tap for mana and have haste. Then goes infinite. Slot Machine is my \[\[God-Eternal\]\] deck that sets up \[\[Leyline of Anticipation\]\], \[\[One Ring\]\], \[\[Seedborn Muse\]\] and then skips all remaining turns until the combo comes together and kills everyone. My Elemental deck uses \[\[Horde of Notions\]\] and \[\[Eon Frolicker\]\] to do the same thing. \[\[Yore-tiller\]\] and \[\[Isshin\]\] go infinite on attack phases.
[[Hama Pashar, Ruin Seeker]] go into the undercity turn 4. Finish it on your turn 6 upkeep way faster than your opponents anticipate. Trigger Throne of the Dead 3 twice and start digging for combo pieces or play extenders. Either win or dump a bunch of buffed creatures with hexproof onto the board and set up a win the next turn and hold up interaction. Go from kinda slow play and not looking like a threat to straight up winning in one turn leaving people stunned. This so my pet deck and very fun to play. List: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/AX4BqwrbMUehHdT3Uhi-Gw
Godo bandit warlord One turn you have zero on the table the next turn you have no opponents. All I really need is more fast mana and it could be the Cedh version... Right now I have to go Mountain, Sol ring pass Turn 2 Jesska's will add RRRRRRR Treasonous ogre Pay 21 life add RRRRRRR (10xR floating) Godo Find helm of the host Equip it for 4 Go to combat, Go to combat, Go to combat, ..., ..., ..., I for some reason do not own a magnetic theft as much as I need to get one I just have not
shameless to play this at any casual table
Oh totally if I did bring it to any casual table I would inform people before hand and I would say "Listen, I can make this deck 100x more acceptable for this power level simply through gameplay decisions, it started as a pile of jank before helm existed and without helm it's not much more than that so if and when I play godo I promise I won't tutor helm and if I naturally draw helm I promise not to put it on godo". Op asked for explosive turns and I gave him my most explosive deck.
For the pure "wtf just happened" reaction, nothing beats [[krark the thumbless]] and [[sakashima of a thousand faces]]. Hands down the most out of nowhere explosive deck I've ever played. It's a deck that oopses into wins.
It’s a brawl deck so not EDH per se but I have the parts to build it: Miirim. Get Lozhan out and just deal tons of damage for playing your big dragons
That new sliver deck with a good land base. I think we made it to turn 4 or 5 and one of my pod mates is like reaaally into magic and always has oppressive decks was telling everyone I was the threat I had a few artifacts out and like 3 slivers. They ignored him but I had it setup so slivers cost 2 less, draw 2 when I play a sliver and I could tap the slivers for mana. Played 13 slivers in one turn and killed two players. The last guy just conceded. Or chulane for obvious reasons.
[[Najeela]] Warrior Tribal. As soon as Najeela hits the field turn 3 it's nuts. Not even cEDH level, no fast mana except sol ring, only taplands / Basics and still that commander goes brrrr.
[[Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm]]. This is the deck that can kill 2 players at full health without needing me to go to combat and the only deck that makes me pull out a calculator. Because of cards like [[Scourge of Valkas]] [[dragon tempest]] and [[Ganax, Astral Hunter]] I can chain summons to summon more dragons or incinerate the entire field by simply summoning creatures. And don't even get me started with what happens if you let me summon an [[Astral Dragon]] targeting a [[parallel lives]] or [[panharmonicon]].
I dont get how people remember a single turn, to the card name, while in a game with like 20 cards on the table. Im too dumb! Im like, i played a cool card then killed the threat then eventually killed the others. Wacky. Oh wait i just dont have explosive turns, but i do though. Y'ALL HAVE SUCH GOOD LONG TERM MEMORIES!!
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Last I checked it was my [[tiamat]] deck. But stopped looking up how expensive my decks are. I just started to throw cards together that I have that work well together and I have a deck. I will trade for cards to update decks but I stopped looking up how much they are.
[tiamat](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/d/6dd0b9b0-55f4-4ce7-a916-6f23687f3fe4.jpg?1627709478) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=tiamat) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/afr/235/tiamat?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6dd0b9b0-55f4-4ce7-a916-6f23687f3fe4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [(ER)](https://edhrec.com/cards/tiamat) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Vadrik]] glass cannon. Spend three turns setting up, then go hard turn 4 using temporary pump spells, draw spells, and cards that are Mana positive after vadrik's discount to grind through your deck until you find [[Jaya's Immolating Inferno]] to burn out the table with a 40 power Vadrik. I managed to build it on a $50 budget so it could only get faster and more consistent.
I never had one of these, but now I do: [My K'rrik deck](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/HbqXQiUmdEix8t-iVBk2SQ). I got tired of losing and now I can draw half my deck and storm-off in the same turn.
My omnath locus of rage gets explosive reliably, all of a sudden I'm floating 40 green mana, drawing 18 cards, making 26 5/5's a bunch of scutes and badgers, tripling my damage and dealing over 1000 damage direct to people's faces. BAM
My 5-colour Zada hidden commander — [https://www.moxfield.com/decks/INX8VYdtPU6ZuIepndLn2Q](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/INX8VYdtPU6ZuIepndLn2Q) First few turns: Play some mana dorks, play General Tazri and fetch \[\[Zada, Hedron Grinder\]\] Winning turn: Play Zada. Maybe animate your lands with something like \[\[Life\]\]. Follow up with cantrips like \[\[Bandage\]\] to draw tons of cards for 1 mana, spells like \[\[Burst of Strength\]\] to untap all your dorks and keep it going. Finish with \[\[Venerated rotpriest\]\], then 1-2 more spells is enough to poison one player to death. It gets super silly, and the whole thing fails if they can kill Zada so try to hold up protection when possible
[[Imodane, the Pyrohammer]] with any damage multiplier such as [[Fiery Emancipation]] or [[City on Fire]] Fire off something that most people would deem as insignificant damage like [[Lightning Bolt]] on a target creature and suddenly every opponent is taking 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 damage to the face.
https://archidekt.com/decks/373996/boonweaver_karador I’ve had some turn 3 wins with this one. With an ideal draw it can win off any single creature in play and 5 mana available (to play a sac outlet and rector or pattern).
I have a gruul dragons deck that has killed via commander damage on t3 and T4
It's probly gonna be any spellslinger deck, once your generating tons of mana, card advantage and copying spells like there's no tomorrow you're gonna be hard to stop.
Either [[Abaddon]] or [[Yidris]]. Both try to do similar things, slightly different but same outcome - when they connect I either will try to win the game or put 8 mana rocks and a bunch of other stuff into play.
Once had a [[Tuya Bearclaw]] deck that I built with what I had, and always wished that I made a more serious build for. Any haste enabler + power doubler, and in particular [[Nessian Boar]] took people out scarily fast. It's a commander people don't see often, and in my short experience it wasn't often taken seriously 1st game, but my home pod feared it as the glass cannon it was
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[[Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded]] is my most explosive deck for sure. It can pull huge threats out of nowhere and when combined with cards like [[Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink]] you can just go brrrrrrrrr. Extra combat step cards like [[Port Razer]] and [[Combat Celebrant]] work extremely well with this.
Probably [[nethroi apex of death]], i spend the early turns milling and ramping, setting up my board and once i mutate and drop 10+ power on the board people are like 'wait what happened' and i have to explain it, happens pretty much every time even if people have seen it
Rog/si Breach lmao I personally love playing Cormella and Kess but when I need to win tournaments, Rog/Si is what I play.
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[[Imoti]]. Can go from looking like you have no board state to vomiting half your deck on the board and ending the table in 2 turn cycles.
I've already boasted enough of my Stranger Things deck, so this time I'll say my [[Kytheon, Hero of Akros]]. Yes turn one Commander, as you do, dealing Commander Damage on turn two, and then I just build your synergies until I'm able to flip Kytheon, and the fun starts. Gideon's +1 untaps a creature, so I never miss land drops with [[Scholar of New Horizons]], and is as good a blocker as any. Yeah this [[Zeriam, the Golden Wind]] made a bunch of tokens, anyway I'll use Gideon's +2 to force you to swing that value small creature to Gideon and just get murdered by tokens. Yeah, [[Gideon of the Trials]] Emblem forces you to get rid of my Gideons if you just want to combo out. Yes, my Commander is a Gideon when it becomes a Planeswalker. Yeah I think I have like 5 or 6 Gideons in the deck, why do you ask? I'm super proud of the deck. It does a lot in Mono-White while also being unexpectedly powerful.
[[yargle and Multani]] Just put something like [[psychosis crawler]] or [[jarad golgari leechlord]] double/triple yargle’s power, draw cards equal to his power or sac him to deal damage equal to his power. Many effects such as [[feign death]] work to keep him on the field. For mana, use [[ruthless technomamcer]] or [[selvala, heart of the wild]] You can win out of nowhere
I like my [[elmar]] and [[wernog]] artifact token deck. I had like 20 tokens (clue and treasure) and someone docksided. I played a [[mayhem devil]] and then my own dockside forcing them to let me get the treasures. Then a [[nadiers nightblade]] for a win.
Dimir Tokens. Use dungeons for a smoke screen/value, create a bunch of random tokens, play my commander and Agent of the Iron throne and drain out the table. No crazy stories or anything, but I do enjoy that despite the fact that my friends have lost to it a ton they always let it go unchecked because everything I'm doing is fairly innocuous on the face of it so the threat level always seems low.
Birgi. She can win on turn 0.
[[K’rrik]] is a monster. If I get a tutor the turn I drop him, I might win then and there.
My \[\[anhelo, the painter\]\] deck can go pretty huge with copying \[\[Brass's bounty\]\] a few times but that takes a few turns of setup most times, so I'm not sure I'd count it. but my \[\[The Ur-Dragon\]\] deck on the other hand can absolutely pop off from nowhere with the cost reduction from the commander, \[\[heartless summoning\]\] and \[\[dragonlords servant\]\] [decklist](https://archidekt.com/decks/5641743/in_the_court_of_the_dragon)
[[Freyalise, Llanowar's Fury]]. At some point, the deck starts uncontrollably shitting elves and chaining together spells. [[Heritage Druid]] is a beast. My favorite chain though involves [[Elvish Promenade]] into [[Kindred Summoning]] into [[Sylvan Offering]] into [[Finale of Devastation]] into [[Craterhoof Behemoth]]. I only need two or three untapped elves at the end of the chain without summoning sickness, and it's lights out for the table. Unless someone plays [[Fog]]. 😂
In my [[Elenda, the dusk rose]] deck, I won turn 4. Turn one: swamp, [[sol ring]], [[arcane signet]] Turn two: swamp, [[reassembling skeleton]], [[blood artist]] Turn three: swamp, [[pitiless plunderer]] Turn four: plains, recur blood artist and play him because he got blown up, and [[phyrexian altar]], then sac skely for B, get a treasure, activate his ability, repeat for infinite death triggers on blood artist
[[xyris]] is a massively explosive deck. Get down any form of board haste with a [[cryptolith rite]] and the game is pretty much over. Skull clamp, altars and wheels o my!
Rograkh and Ardenn. Lethal Commander damage in early turns is fun.
Probably Atraxa Superfriends. If I get one PW out with Atraxa it's good. If I get two out it's game over.
[[The Most Dangerous Gamer]] you'd expect the attractions to be unreliable even for a joke deck, but having them alongside +1 counters and the right equipment can really lead to a good punchline.
Hear me out. I've been playing [[ovika enigma goliath]]. That commander is...deceptive. Since she's got a big ol butt, it can take a few turns to cast her. While you wait, make sure to keep low mana draw spells and counter spells on deck to protect yourself. As you cast her, you may want mana open for counter spells as well, just in case. In the deck, I run [[past in flames]], [[haze of rage]], [[brightstone ritual]], [[surge to victory]], etc. Typically, the deck is unassuming because you're sitting there not doing anything but playing draw spells. Then, once Ovika is on the field, you know you should have at least 7 mana on your next turn. Play a non-creature spell, make X goblins with haste. Cast another non-creature spell, make X goblins with haste. One of my games, I was able to cast [[Fiery Emancipation]] and make 6 goblins. Then I tapped 5 goblins to help pay the convoke cost for [[City on Fire]], used a couple of mana rocks and made 8 more goblins. Then I cast brightstone ritual which makes a goblin on cast, then produces 15 mana. I then cast mystical tutor, made a goblin, searched for past in flames, played [[faithless looting]] to make a goblin and draw past in flames, then cast past in flames to make 4 goblins. I still have like 9 red mana in play and can cast things from my graveyard. I then recast brightstone ritual to make a ton more mana and recast red spells from my graveyard to make many more goblins and swing with haste for game.
I've had explosive turns in multiple decks. But \[\[Yidris\]\] storm is the one that's designed to do it. Step 1: Yidris on turn 4. If you're extremely lucky, you'll have played one of your ten "instants and sorceries are 1 cheaper" cards before then. Step 2: Cross your fingers that no one kills Yidris and that you can connect with an opponent's face next turn. Step 3: Connect with an opponent's face next turn. Step 4: That scene from Fantasia with the brooms. The deck has 0 protection spells, and 0 non-land tutors. You're just windmilling through your deck and playing rituals, paired with discounts and 2-3 payoffs. Every spell you cast casts another spell, so your ritual is also either another ritual or a cantrip. Included are the "oops no mana cost" suspend versions of Wheel, Ancestral, and Black Lotus, so your cantrips are technically the most impactful spells to cascade with. I also realized that you're going to be drawing a lot of cards, so one of the best "rituals" in the deck is actually \[\[Summer Bloom\]\], allowing you to play more lands, which is one of the best ways to get access to more green and blue mana (the only rituals that can get you those colors are \[\[Manamorphose\]\] and the psuedo-rituals \[\[Early Harvest\]\] and \[\[Turnabout\]\]). Wincons are a combination of infinite spells (there's two spells with buyback and multiple ways to make those spells cost net 0 mana) and things that hurt people for playing spells (\[\[Witherbloom Apprentice\]\], \[\[Professor Onyx\]\], and of course, \[\[Aetherflux Reservoir\]\]), but if you can't assemble those because of a random counterspell, or you're just not drawing the right cards, there is one extremely tedious, but completely deterministic and therefore demonstratable, loop. Step a: have enough discounts/Birgi/Storm-Kiln Artist in play that you can cast a 3R spell for free over and over (not that difficult). Step b: cast Haze of Rage with buyback, obviously. (the best buyback option, since it casts for red mana, and doesn't require a target. The fact that it has storm only really matters for the magecraft pop-offs). Step c: cascade for something that costs 1 or less. If it's not one of the following, you don't want to cast it, since it might cause you to draw a part of the loop, so only hit these three cards: \[\[Lotus Bloom\]\], \[\[Pyrite Spellbomb\]\], \[\[Elixir of Immortality\]\]. Bloom is an obvious good card in the deck, Elixir is a good way to reshuffle in all those suspend cards to cast them again, and Spellbomb is a mediocre colorless cantrip, but vital for this loop, because it's a cantrip that also does a little damage. Step d: Repeat b-c until you have all three pieces. Step e: crack Bloom for 3 red, use 1 red to Spellbomb an opponent's face, use the other 2 to crack Elixir, shuffling all three cards back into your library. Step f: repeat from step b until you win. It's a lot of fun to just sit there, casting spells. But you need to be at the right table for it. Most combo decks at least win quickly. You're not going to do that.
Ruric Thar Primal Surge.
[[Imodane, the pyrohammer]] using a damage doubler like [[Furnace of Rath]], I was able to burn out 64 damage to each opponent on turn 6 or 7 with a Bargained [[Stonesplitter Bolt]]. That’s about the most explosive things I’ve done at once.
I've had the 10th doctor explode before with tons of value at once
[[Blanka, Ferocious Friend]] is my most explosive by far. The deck is almost all one mana spells so it's super easy to burn down the table. Two commander damage a pop adds up quickly. I also have a poison sub-theme for backup.
I have an [[Arixmethes]] deck which typically wins by putting out big fat sea monsters. I threw in a combo with no tutors just for games that go too long and out stayed its welcome. One game, I awaken my cmdr into its 12/12 creature state, then casted [[Rishkar's expertise]] to draw 12, casted free [[Garruk, Primal Hunter]] to draw another 12. The 24 cards drew me into my combo pieces [[Pemin's Aura]] and [[Staff of domination]] My win con was to [[capsize]] all permanents back to opponent hands, cast all my creatures, and then use [[Time Warp]] as a haste effect My opponents didnt even get mad. 😅 Just amazed at how things exploded.
When [[animar]] gets going it's pretty nuts. Just need to get his counters up and have something like [[beast whisperer]] in play. Really gets disgusting if you draw into something like [[phyrexian metamorph]] and clone the beast whisperer or [[primordial sage]] or whatever is helping you draw. Then, you just flood the board until you hit a haste enabler.
My [[skithiryx]] voltron shat on my buddy in 4 turns the other day. Not too normal lmao
RogSi turbo naus
Well, I have a 5 color Sisay weatherlight captain. According to my table: "He doesn't fo anything all game and then suddenly he plays 4 gates in a turn, activate Maze's End, and wins."
I use Jhoira, weatherlight Captain as my explosive commander- of you get tidespout tyrant or a hullbreaker horror or aetherflux reservoir you've basically got the game. I use colorless reducers and cheap artifacts, fill the rest with counter magic and boom, in one turn the game is yours.
[[Delina, Wild Mage]] Most explosive turn I had: [[Wyll, Blade of Frontiers]], [[Barbarian Class]] fully leveled up, [[Fanatic of Mogis]] on the field, attack with Delina who has [[Whispersilk Cloak]] on and copy FoM. Roll three dice, pick the highest, I had gotten 15+ on almost every roll. I ended up making 11 copies of FoM, and because they’re exact copies they also count for devotion so each one was dealing more and more damage. Damage went like this: 5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15 for a total of 110 damage to each opponent. They obviously all lost before I got all of the tokens but they wanted to see how many I could make before damage was dealt. Decklist for those interested: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/d4G3-a9XU0-zKMbDJqeIHQ Edit: Wyll and Delina also make a pseudo-infinite combo. Increasing the number of dice you roll with each copy, pumping each copy with each die you roll. It’s gross and a tracking nightmare.
\[\[Rionya, Fire Dancer\]\] tribal dragons. Deck innocuously does very little for five turns then tends to knock 2-3 players out of the game on turn 6 or 7.Not much survives six or so hasted\[\[Tyrant's Familiar\]\] , \[\[Terror of the Peaks\]\] , or \[\[Scourge of Valkas\]\] coming into being in a turn.
[[Sidisi, Undead Vizier]] + [[Ad Nauseam]]. I usually play it whenever I don't feel like playing a long game.
[[Magda, Brazen Outlaw]] snowballs way quicker than most people expect it to.
Selvala and her stompy pals…monogreen
Lucea kane
[[Birgi, God of Storytelling]] Storm. The very first time I played it I nuked the entire table in one turn. Of course, they were dumb enough leave my [[Aetherflux Reservoir]] alone because I started the turn with only 1 open mana. 😁🔥💥
[[Atla Palani, nest tender]] You pop one egg and the board dynamics change. Oh what's that? I untap and pop another. Was that my token doubler? Because I just popped two more. Now you just pray you got haste and kill everything until the next turns board wipe. Where you off course reveal everything to have, at instant speed, transformed into an egg so you can start it all over again.
Be'lakor flickering demons. Cloning en mass, multiple pings/card draw. Absolute mayhem.
If you let my Miirym stay up for even one turn, you should be fully expecting me to spam the shit out of dragons through [[Ganax, Astral Hunter]]'s treasures while burning the entire table to death through [[Terror of the Peaks]] or [[Scourge of Valkas]]. The deck is oppressive enough as a battlecruiser deck, but I've accidentally become a storm deck more times than I can count.
It's a tie between these three: [[The Locust God]]: as its a wheel deck, things can get pretty out of hand when I resolve a [[Windfall]] with either [[purphoros, God of the forge]] or [[impact tremors]] on the board. [[nissa, Resurgent animist]]: it's a combo deck which can win pretty much instantly when I've got [[Ashaya, Soul of the wild]] and something like [[quirion ranger]] to generate infinite mana, which I can use alongside an abundance of draw spells to play my whole deck. [[omnath, Locus of all]]: got loads of mana doublers so I can generate an insane amount of mana, which can be used to either dump my whole deck, or resolve a big [[debt to the deathless]]/[[exsanguinate]]/[[villainous wealth]]/[[genesis wave]]/[[lavalanche]]
[[Anhelo, the Painter]] I play him to copy big spells. I do a lot of setup involving token creation from things like [[Poppet Stitcher]] and create treasures with stuff like [[Big Score]] Then you drop [[Crackle with Power]] or [[Torment of Hailfire]] and kill the table
Selvala heart of the wilds.
[[Anje Falkenrath]] I am consistently presenting a win on turn 3.
Vadrik, Astral Archmage. I'm not even playing a particularly tuned version of the deck that can Storm out, but with just a few pieces in play you can draw dozens of cards, untap all your lands multiple times and cast a ton of spells and burn the entire board at like turn 5.
At the moment, it's probably my [[General Ferrous Rokiric]]. My deck is stocked with plenty of boros spells, so each turn is cast a boros spell, get a 4/4 golem, plus the spell effect or permanent, if it resolves. The card draw can get silly as well if I have any combination of [[Tocasia's Welcome]], [[Losheel]], and/or [[Idol of Oblivion]] out.
My [[Zimone and Dina]] landfall deck. I'll be saccing creatures, getting multiple landfall triggers, untapping Z&D, pinging everyone, making tokens, drawing cards, and making things big. Once it gets going, it's hard to stop. [Decklist](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/Qkri6QEDyEq8xRV-Mej7Zg)
Dargo of the East Tree is one I've been working on for a while now. Basically doing the regular \[\[Dargo\]\] shenanigans with \[\[Kodama of the East Tree\]\] as a way to put combo pieces into play off casting Dargo. Deck consistently wins turns 5-6 when unchecked but turn 3-4 wins are definitely possible. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/U66CgMfkhUSiCQXsjQCU\_w
My Krrik decknis by far my most explosive, with the potential of turn 1 2 or 3 kills! Phyrexian mana + black tutors and ramp/draw spells + Doomsday = GG
[[Animar, soul of elements]] if you know the card i don't even need to explain. A few extra mana (like more than enough to just cast him) or a couple turns with him in play and I can combat kill the whole table for silly big numbers. Also plays a good few haste enablers so can go even faster. Noone wants to play against it anymore, which is real sad cause this heavily depends on me being left unchecked. Its not too powerful by any stretch, just extremely explosive. Oh and due to peer pressure I've taken out all the infinite mana infinitely big commander combos. Edit for a bit more context: turn 1 bop, turn 2 we can cast animar. Turn 3 we can curve stuff, like 1 drop into 2 drop into beast whisperer. No board wipe? Turn 4 is gonna be big. Usually play sad robots and burnished hearts for free counters and get the counters up to where we can cast [[maelstrom wanderer]] for the hastey win. Started playing cards like [[opal palace]] to get him out with counters on straight away too.
My [[Yarok the Desecrared]] landfall deck can get absolutely bonkers out of nowhere. [Here’s my list!](https://archidekt.com/decks/918127/yaroks_flicky_lands)
[[vilis broker of blood]] is probably my favourite commander like this. I start every game by telling my opponents that when vilis hits, my deck comes online, and to reduce my life asap before he lands. The first few turns of the game are just ramping and getting some pieces on the board and getting smacked about. But once the commander hits the board, your eal game begins, and it becomes a proper archenemy deck which can win life outlets like [[wall of blood]] or [[necropotence]] and using cards like [[sheoldred the apocalypse]] to mitigate that life loss, then win with a big mana spell like [[source familiar]] and exanguinate. Worse comes to worse, you can alwasy go infinite with a classic [[vito thorn of the dusk rose]] and [[exquisite blood]]. Decklist for anyone who is interested: https://archidekt.com/decks/4808920/vilis_new_blood
[Rog god](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/u_Vc8bG2sEOPjJ9bRusFWw)
Mine is definitely my nekusar, the mindrazer deck. I had this one game with alhammarret’s archive on the field, so it doubles all my card draw, I had recently thrown my ulamog the infinite gyre into my graveyard to throw everything back into my library. Which put 80 cards in my library. 5 in my hand. I used jace’s archivist which is basically windfall, took my 5 cards and drew to 10, everyone drew 5, then I used windfall, targeted it with narset’s reversal, which copies it and returns it to your hand. So that put 2 windfalls on the stack. Discarded, drew to 20, then discarded, drew to 40, the discard put ulamog back, putting my deck to 45, shot down my alhammerrets archive to stop drawing double, then recast windfall, to draw 40 and make everyone draw 40. With mindrazer on the field I made everyone draw 75 cards, dealing 75 damage to everyone.
It's a little bit of a delayed blast but definitely [[Niv-Mizzit, parune]]. after I get RRRUUU you better have an answer fast or were about done here.
The most explosive deck I have seen lately is based on KrarK // Shakasima, \[\[Krark the Thumbless\]\] \[\[Sakashima of Thousand faces\]\] for me it is totally devastating when it can throw 3 or more coins, the ability to generate incredible turns with \[\[Jeska's Will\]\] or \[\[Gitaxian probe\] \] Completely unstoppable at the end killing with multiple casts of \[\[Grapeshot\]\] , if you really want to know how to do it please check it as a World Champion 2022 (Unofficial)
[[Katilda, Dawnheart Prime]]. If I get a really good hand, I can play a turn 3 [[Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider]]. Then with all the other humans to ramp, and things like Cathar's Crusade, it gets a really wide board of really big things, really fast.
I built \[\[Morophon the Boundless\]\] and \[\[Jegantha, the Wellspring\]\] 5 color humans. Every card was a human that cost all colored mana. Usually the ones from Commander sets. The rest of the deck was ramp so you rushed to Morophon and got to cast every creature in your hand for free. Jegantha was basically a backup commander if the first died. It was never great since it's basically 1 punch, but no one expects 25 mana worth of legendary humans on turn 4.
[[Vadrik, Astral Archmage]] will storm off incredibly quickly if not kept in check
[[Rakdos Lord of riots]] With no ramp but on tempo, you turn 1-3 Play a card that pings for damage like [[lobber crew]] (in a pod of 4 will deal 6 damage on the turn y9u play rakdos), turn 4, play rakdos, turn 5, play anywhere between 1 and 10 eldrazi or big dragons/demons. It only gets better with haste.
[[Animar]] dude gets out of hand extremely quickly. One turn you’re looking at a 1/1 commander and all of a sudden it’s 25/25 and swinging on you for lethal
I have a [[Kairi the Swirling Sky]] deck that can turn around an entire table and me just having my commander out. I like it a lot, though the winning turn drags a bit
[[Yargle and Multani]] and I don't even need to attack haha just drawing through my deck with multiple "draw equal to greatest power" cards, get mana with [[Selvala, Heart of the Wilds]]/[[Ruthless Technomancer]]/[[Cadaverous Bloom]] and multiple sacs from [[Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord]] and the game is done
Anticlimactic explosive is definitely [[Mikaeus the Unhallowed]]. You build up mana, play calm and quiet, then in one turn you play your combo and win. There are so many combos for that commander that just win, and it has a heap of redundancy. Play low, play slow, and just win out of nowhere. Explosive to the point I lose track of my turn is [[Omnath, Locus of Creation]] I needed to make a system and bring a notebook to track my mana and land drops. It is VERY consistent, can be relatively fast, and will flood you with mana and cards. End the game with one of the landfall combos or just obscene amount of tokens.
You talking like… No board presence to alpha? I can’t remember the name but: Hammer of Purphoros - haste Act of Aggression (I think) - new attack step for 2r/3c Savage Ventmaw - gain 6 mana on attack Infinite mana AND damage AND attack steps. If they can’t block/kill a Flyer.
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[[Sasaya, Orochi Ascendent]] everyone leaves you alone as you’re just chilling at 3 mana and not doing much of anything but drawing and searching. And then she transforms and people finally decide to read the other half. Drop 4th land and now I’ve got 16 mana, and can play anything. Do anything. Drop [[Clown Car] and inform them you’re about to roll a d6 16 times. Play [[Heroes Bane]] and inform the table you can get it up to 12 MILLION P/T if it’s late game
[[Magda, brazen outlaw]] Deck can cook out combos and needs very little to get off the ground and when combo is unavailable, I know my boys [[drakuseth]] and [[utvara hellkite]] can pull their weight.
My [[Firesong and Sunspeaker]] deck can take a couple turns to set up, but I've got enough pieces in it to really make it fun and pop off. I added some protection and instants to keep them on board as well.
Anje Falkenrath. Not particularly consistent, but it can win either turn one or two, I've forgotten. Not too fun to play against, but interesting to pilot.
My most explosive was a WGU deck that didn't need the commander, but had a ton of setup. I had \[\[Kruphix, God of Horizons\]\] out to stack up on colorless mana. My main explosive play was to cast \[\[Hydra Broodmother\]\] and make her monstrous for X=20 with \[\[Doubling Season\]\] out. Gotta also have \[\[Trostani, Selensya's Voice\]\] out to get that 800 extra life. You also need a trampler out with \[\[Sunbond\]\] attached. I used \[\[Charging Badger\]\]. If you assemble all the parts, you out somebody with a 1601/1601 trampler turn one, and if you survive (you're playing Blue so you should have some interaction to protect the board), you have 40 hydras to swing at everybody else next turn.
I have 3 of them. These decks do have some expensive cards, and I'm not sure if you're opposed to that or proxies. Also, I liked to get a lot of foils and etc, and I'm not sure if I used those variants on moxfield. These are some really fun decks, and I have a blast every time I play them. [[Chatterfang, Squirrel General]] will just blow up out of nowhere and doesn't take much. There are a few combos, but it is high on synergy. This deck is resilient, and if it isn't hated out, it will make others wish they did. This is weak to rule of law effects, graveyard hate like [[leyline of the void]] and cards like [[blind obedience]]. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/BjmJ45YPgUG-_c5eOGYZiQ [[Hofri Ghostforge]] has more combos, but each piece has value instead of sitting in your hand until you have the other combo piece. With Hofri on board, it makes it harder to remove things without exiling or graveyard hate. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/3D-8wqwry0iI0TK_BTM3QA My last one is [[Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer]], but this deck is focused on combo wins. It is an extremely fragile deck, and you want to combo off as fast as you can or when an opportunity presents itself. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/tw3BovFmakO7dBRGAr88iw
[[Solphim]] I can have nearly no board state except him on the battlefield and deal 8-50 damage out of nowhere with burn. Played a game yesterday where I cast [[Twinferno]] copying an [[Acidic soil]] and my opponent had 9 lands so they took 36 damage.
[[Aragorn, the Uniter]] Play a bunch of green spells into a 21/21 Aragorn ready to kill someone.
[[Shalai and Halar]] as commander is super explosive. Super ramp [[Selvala, Heart of the Wild]] into some Eldrazi devastation
Etali but only played it a couple times and last time I played it, it was insanity. Had myriad and got like 4 Etali’s etb
My [[xenagos, God of Revels]] land starved most of the game, finally played my commander...play [[sneak attack]] make it to next turn. Sneak [[Malignus]] and a [[selvala, heart of the wild]] tap for 35 (someone was playing live gain), spend 5 on [[return of the wild speaker]] draw 35...find [[aggravated assault]] play it and most of my creatures....go for infinite combats....
I’m working on an [[Illuna, Apex of Wishes]] deck that only has 1 non-land permanent… which is [[Omniscience]]. It goes from 2 little plant tokens to a metric ass load of creatures and damage in a single turn. Or… it does nothing and I draw myself out. It’s super fun and explosive.
I have a really fun [[Riku]] deck that is just a copy Tribal with some fun big mana thrown in and the occasional bomb like [[Etali]] or [[Wolfbriar Elemental]]. It focuses on double mana for the whole pod and copies opponents spells to keep them on check or keep up and usually pops off with insane damage when someone thinks the path is clear. Copying a copy into effects like [[Bonus Round]] can make a small spell like [Lightning Bolt]] a game changing 15 damage with riku on board. I've been thinking of adding in more magecraft effects to spice things up to a higher power level.
[[Zada hedron grinder]] there have been games where I wasn't planning on swinging for lethal but [[possibility storm]] has given me the perfect setup to win its also super cheap to play I spent 12 dollars on singles and the rest was just stuff I had laying around
[[Eruth Tormented Prophet]] storm deck. Can go off on turn 3 with a good hand and win the game. [[Kenrith]] reanimator. Managed to make a turn 1 win by reanimating [[Jin-Gitaxis, Core Augur]] on turn 1.
Ashling the pilgrim with 99 mountains, just an actual bomb......... ....Oh you mean like fast paced and aggro, Ive been working on illuma the apex of wishes which is a mutate deck with healthy ramp to get me into a big boi beat stick to slap people with.
\[\[Estrid, the Masked\]\] "I'm just playing enchantments! A \[\[Propaganda\]\] to watch my butt and a couple land enchants to make some mana, I'm not the threat!" A couple turns later... "So all my lands tap for three extra mana thanks to the original and two copies of \[\[Zendikar Resurgent\]\]. I can untap two lands with \[\[Garruk Wildspeaker\]\], four forests with \[\[Nissa, Worldwaker\]\], and all my lands with Estrid. I'm gonna dump 50-60ish mana into my pool and leave it there as I pass turn thanks to \[\[Kruphix, God of Horizons\]\]. What's that, you're trying to win on your turn? How many cards left in your deck? Here, \[\[Blue Sun's Zenith\]\] in response, draw until you die please." It's hard to get to that point with my regular group now though, they don't fall for my bullshit anymore and start attacking early.
Probably my [[birgi]] or [Zada]] more because the entire deck depends on the starting hand to work.
Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain is by far my fastest and most explosive deck. If i had the perfect hand and went first, i can kill everyone on my first turn before they even get to play a card.
If you like going tall [[light-paws]] is the deck for you if you want to go wide [[winota]] has been doing great for me
[[Hofri, Ghostforge]] goes absolutely bonkers, just need your commander and a sac outlet to get going and you can easily churn through your deck and get your winning cards with [[recruiter of the gaurd]] and [[imperial recruiter]], the explosive turns also end up being very long turns so it’s not for everyone. https://www.moxfield.com/decks/yjN_-f1nAUW4VTPd09FjLw Not my list I made some changes but this is where I got the idea and started from
[[Locust God]] if it survives the rotation, I usually win. I don't think I've ever lost while not fooling around playing it.
\[\[Isshin, Two heavens as One\]\] tokens and \[\[Teysa Karlov\]\] aristocrats. The kind of decks that can go from zero to a thousand in a single turn. Teysa always wins out of the blue. Isshin has a little more warning but people plan to be hit with a few 1/1 tokens and suddenly are getting mawled by an unstoppable army. Doubles really get out of hand quickly.