Fireblade Artist
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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
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Fireblade Artist

Creature — Human Shaman

Haste

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice a creature. When you do, Fireblade Artist deals 2 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Metroid_Hybrid on Need help rebuilding an old …

2 years ago

Several years ago I put together a strictly Rakdos-themed Aggro deck built around Fists of the Demigod, Psychotic Fury, Ashenmoor Liege, and having a "transformative" sideboard. Many users on T/O at the time seemed to like it as much as I did. But unfortunately, one day I accidentally left it at an LGS shortly before it permanently closed, and was never able to get it back...

Now half a decade later, I'm looking to rebuild. However, over the past 5 years many new creatures have been printed that have rendered my old list, quite frankly, obsolete..

I'm probably going to keep all of the non-creature spells (except maybe Madcap Skills), but I'm likely to replace all of the creatures except the playsets of Rakdos Cackler & Spike Jester, and the singles of Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch and (of course) Ashenmoor Liege.

With so many new options, compounded by the fact that I haven't played any Modern in years, I find it difficult to settle on a particular direction...

Please advise...

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Rakdos Sligh Beats - RakdosDeckWins..

Modern Metroid_Hybrid

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(As far as the sideboard is concerned, I'm probably going to replace Blightning with Sovereign's Bite)

KongMing on Rakdos Demons

4 years ago

I see the way you are trying to dominate the board is through mass wipes, some general sacrifice and destroy effects, and big flying creatures who hit hard once the board is clear. It's a great strategy for something like Red/White or Red/Green. But you're playing Red/Black, which means you have ample sacrifice and graves games you can play. You just need to maybe be willing to cut a couple bigger demons for smaller creatures who act as sac fodder, and replace your targeted Instant removal with repeatible effects that have better longevity in a multiplayer game.

First, you want to benefit more from sacrificing creatures and having things die. Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos are incredibly oppressive cards whose forced sacrifice go through hexproof, shroud, and indestructible. Zulaport Cutthroat, Pawn of Ulamog, Smothering Abomination, and Grim Haruspex are a few examples of these.

Fleshbag Marauder, Merciless Executioner can force sacrifices all around the board.

Viscera Seer is an example of a good sac engine, but there are many more. Then all you really need is either token generators to produce zombies/imps/elementals to sac, or a recursion engine that puts things from grave to your field/hand.

Some cards that can help get Rakdos out and rack up damage on your turn: Festering Evil, Fireblade Artist, Ill-Gotten Inheritance, Lim-Dul's Hex, Magmatic Force, Palace Siege, Subversion.

oliveoilonyaasscureshemorrhoid on Rakdos Aristocrats

4 years ago

sweet deck. i'm still getting used to pioneer but have you considered Fireblade Artist / Thud for dreadhorde butcher/ Rekindling Phoenix / Theater of Horrors ?

Kogarashi on Can i sacrafice opponents creature …

4 years ago

No, this will not work, for one primary reason: Wrangle is a Sorcery.

Fireblade Artist triggers at the beginning of your upkeep. You can only play sorceries during your main phase when the stack is empty.

However, if we assume you also have a Vedalken Orrery or similar effect in play and can thus cast Wrangle at instant-speed, or use instant-speed control-changing spells like Act of Aggression , then you would be able to pull this off.

What happens is that at the start of your upkeep, Fireblade Artist triggers. You don't choose if you're sacrificing a creature or not until the ability starts resolving, so you can steal your opponent's creature with a spell or ability while the Fireblade trigger is still on the stack. Then, when the Fireblade trigger resolves, you can choose to sacrifice the stolen creature.

boc2001 on Can i sacrafice opponents creature …

4 years ago

If i play Wrangle to take control of an opponents creature can i sacrifice it with Fireblade Artist if he was already on the field ? My question here is does Fireblade Artist effect resolve first ?

F_ckmesideways on Rakdos aristocat food

4 years ago

Oh man, Fireblade Artist looks fun, definitely going to try that out next! Thank you!

chrclgry on Rakdos aristocat food

4 years ago

Fireblade Artist seems like a good sac outlet for the deck, it lets you sac footlight fiends for relevant damage in the mid to late game. I would personally cut 2x Spark Harvest , 1x Spawn of Mayhem and 1x Shock .

Paeldroth on Korvold & The Rats He Didn't Eat (Yet)

4 years ago

So when demolishing my Judith deck and going thru the Ghired precon, I did come across some gems that I thought might go well in here. Some of the cards in the list above, I don't actually own yet and are a bit pricey. So here goes.

Second Harvest Bloodhall Ooze Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Eliminate the Competition Liliana, Dreadhorde General Defiant Salvager Mayhem Devil Fireblade Artist Mastermind's Acquisition Mirror March Bloodcrazed Paladin Field of the Dead Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin Reassembling Skeleton Mortuary Mire Bolas's Citadel

Thoughts?

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