Dismissive Pyromancer

Creature — Human Wizard

{R}, {T}, Discard a card: Draw a card.

{2}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Dismissive Pyromancer: It deals 4 damage to target creature.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

RiotRunner789 on Deadshot

3 years ago

Looking at some party cards, the problem I'm coming across is lack of synergy but I'll recommend some anyway. You really want your commander out early with as many ETBs as you have and being how aggressive he is.

Grenzo, Dungeon Warden: Rogue. Gives you a decent body with repeatable card advantage.

Grenzo, Havoc Raiser: Rogue. Either card advantage or point the biggest (or weakest utility) creature at another player.

Rankle, Master of Pranks: Another rogue. Less synergistic but he has three modes and haste. Plus, you can choose as many modes as you like.

Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion: Warrior. Red ramp and card fixing.

Priest of Forgotten Gods: Cleric. Potential card advantage and removal plus ramp.

Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs: Warrior. Provides plenty of deathtouch chump blockers with your commander.

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed: Cleric. Allows all of your creatures to die once and come back. Plus, kills any human that gets through.

Gonti, Lord of Luxury: Rouge. Neat. Not the greatest in a vacuum but replaces himself, normally with something good.

Anarchist: Wizard. If you get more spells then maybe.

Cinder Seer: Wizard. Not the best pinger but a pinger nonetheless.

Coffin Queen: Wizard. Playable effect.

Dismissive Pyromancer: Wizard. Decent rummage affect and can take one guy out.

Embermage Goblin: Wizard. Not the best pinger but possibly playable. Hits any target.

Fervent Paincaster: Wizard. Hits creatures.

Fireslinger: Wizard. Best pinger so far at 2 cmc. Hits any target.

Nezumi Graverobber: Rogue/Wizard. Starts off as a graveyard hating rogue and turns into a grave stealing wizard.

Going through cards and the party subtheme seems a bit sad. Some of the above are decent but there isn't a ton to go on in my opinion.

On the first strke though, there are a million cheap red spells that grant first strike temporarily as an instant or as an enchantment. I would recommend running 1 or 2 of the instants to keep opponents on their toes when they think about blocking you.

As for creatures,

Soul of Shandalar: Mana wise, not the best. But can ping and has built in first strike.

Sparring Collar: Cheap first strike and can be attached instant speed to either dissuade blocks/attacks or murder something.

Sword of Vengeance: I don't think its as good as above due to not being able to move at instant speed, but it grants vigilance as well. It is nice to keep a first strike flying blocker up after it attacks.

Akki Coalflinger: Way to help out the team.

Legion Loyalist: Way to help out the team. (My favorite of the team helping bunch).

Bloodmark Mentor: Way to help out half of the team.

Akroma's Memorial. Expensive but a classic.

I think a couple or few first strike options would work out. As for cards that I think you could do better than,

Bloodgift Demon: Good card but his effect is a bit expensive for card advantage. Maybe try Theater of Horrors. Its essentially the same as phyrexian arena but for rakdos.

Endbringer: Potentially a great card but I wouldn't count on using his other effects with as little colorless mana sources that you have.

Master of Cruelties: Can be good but typically best if saved for kalia combos. He shuts down attacking with everyone else which limits you to dealing with one opponent at a time.

Rakdos Firewheeler: Not bad but repeatable effects may be better.

Ziusdra on Card creation challenge

4 years ago

Frost Troll

Snow Creature - Skyrim Troll

Trample

Whenever a white or blue source would do damage to Frost Troll, it does 1 less damage to it.

3 / 3

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Maybe Skyrim wasn't the right crossover (I'm glad I didn't choose Myst...).

For next challenge, let's have a nonblue creature that taps for card advantage. Something great for draft and also still good in constructed (like Dismissive Pyromancer for example).

Argy on Sarkhan's Dragon Den

5 years ago

Panda I can't see that Deface will offer me the flexibility that Shock does.

At best it would be a Sideboard card, but there aren't enough Artifacts or Creature being played in my local meta to justify it over the other Sideboard cards I have.

feedingjungler I'm glad that going suits your playstyle but that's not how I play this deck.

It's all Mountains to give me extra cards to discard to Sarkhan, Fireblood and Dismissive Pyromancer . All also facilitates an early Shock .

feedingjungler on Sarkhan's Dragon Den

5 years ago

Hey. I really enjoy playing this deck, but I primarily play MTG Arena where bo1 is the most popular format. It seems like it kinda struggles into decks like mono white aggro and mono blue tempo (and midrange golgari as previously mentioned) without swapping from the side deck. I came up with a Rakdos version with the new Ravnica Allegiance cards and was wondering what you thought of it. I swapped Dismissive Pyromancer for Rix Maadi Reveler to smooth your draws because I feel like the mana sink and tapping your defender is too slow; and you also can sometimes pull off a sneaky draw 2 or 3 with the spectacle. And threw in a few Ritual of Soot s to deal with buffed tokens and even big cards like Hydroid Krasis and Gatebreaker Ram

Rakdos Dragons

gywthblueshrt on

5 years ago

After playtesting I realized how crippling the lack of cheaper creatures is, so I added Tattered Mummy for some damage and Dismissive Pyromancer for more milling, also to get creature cards into the graveyard for the use of Lotleth Giant late game

Gattison on Flamio Hotman

5 years ago

Maybe use Insolent Neonate in place of Dismissive Pyromancer ?

UTNova on Flamio Hotman

5 years ago

Cereal_Killer Thanks for the suggestions.

Yeah Demanding Dragon was just a cheap alternative to Lightning Bolt . My main goal for this deck was to make it as cheap as possible, and I picked DD as it seemed like a decent filler.

I agree about Dismissive Pyromancer . It's very niche but it comes in handy for poor draws every now and then.

Vexing Devil would be amazing in this deck, but it costs more than the entire thing. Will put in the maybeboard for sure though.

madcap and Bonesplitter seem like great alternatives. Originally this was a standard deck is why I have the others. Will try them out though. (Sometimes the extra +1 to toughness can make all the difference though.)

Fatal Frenzy could be a kill card, but so far the creatures do fine on their own. Could be very powerful though and I'll test it out some for sure.

Thank you for your suggestions!

Cereal_Killer on Flamio Hotman

5 years ago

I like the deck's idea, but, since you need to be very fast, why don't you replace Frenzied Rage with Madcap Skills and Short Sword with Bonesplitter ?

Then, I do not understand why Demanding Dragon should be usefull, I mean, it's true that's a 5/5 flying creature, but it's effect is not worth the mana you spend on him, in my opinion. Remember that is the opponent who chooses whether sacrifice a creature or lose 5. Basically you cast it and if you are lucky its effect would sort in something, but most of the times it won't and you've spent 5 mana on an easily removable creature. That's why I'd suggest some Lightning Bolt or, if you really like things that make your opponent decide something, Vexing Devil or Browbeat

Similar story for Dismissive Pyromancer : basically you have an easily destroyable creature, that let's you discard a card in order to draw one (and, since you don't have ways to draw cards, sometimes would not be so usefull) or, for the cost of 3 mana, deals 4 damage to an opponent and then dies. Is it worth?

Could Fatal Frenzy be usefull here?