I have never seen this card before: Fire Snake. But I saw it, and was immediately inspired by the famous 2006 Snakes On A Plane movie starring Samuel L. Jackson. But instead of Snakes On A Plane, we are doing it MTG style and it is now Snakes On The Plains!
This deck has been built to showcase the abuse you can create using the Fire Snake.
By itself, the Fire Snake does not seem too bad. Once you combine it with an infinite recursion shell it suddenly becomes extremely abusive.
The deck uses a card combination to go infinite and destroy any number of lands controlled by your opponents in one turn. Ashnod's Altar, Molten Echoes, and Nim Deathmantle combine with Fire Snake to destroy all of your opponent's lands in one turn. Here is how it works:
Have the following cards in play:
Ashnod's Altar,
Molten Echoes with creature type Snake selected,
Nim Deathmantle and a copy of
Fire Snake. The
Fire Snake does not need to be equipped to the
Nim Deathmantle. Also have
colorless mana available. Then sacrifice your
Fire Snake to
Ashnod's Altar getting
more colorless mana. Your
Fire Snake goes to the graveyard triggering itself to destroy any target land and triggering your
Nim Deathmantle. You then pay
colorless mana to return your
Fire Snake to play and attach your
Nim Deathmantle to it. When the
Fire Snake returns to play, this triggers
Molten Echoes creating a token copy of your
Fire Snake. Once this sequence of events happens, you will have destroyed any one target land, have a
Fire Snake in play equipped with your
Nim Deathmantle as well as a token copy of your
Fire Snake in play that has haste and will get exiled at end of turn.
Since you now have two creatures in play, you then sacrifice both the token and the equipped Fire Snake to your Ashnod's Altar netting colorless mana and triggering everything all over again but destroying two target lands this time and returning the Fire Snake to play with the Nim Deathmantle attached to it and creating another token copy of the snake. You then repeat this combination over and over again until all of your opponents' lands have been destroyed.
The rest of the deck provides support and another way to win once you have destroyed all of your opponents' lands. Here is the card breakdown:
Ashnod's Altar: The main sacrifice outlet for your combo. It gets you the colorless mana needed to feed to the Nim Deathmantle to keep returning your Fire Snake to play.
Boros Cluestone: A mana rock that can be later sacrificed for a card when the mana is no longer needed.
Nim Deathmantle: Another element of your land destruction engine. It will keep returning a creature to play over and over again for colorless mana per activation.
Molten Echoes: The final piece of the recursion engine. Creates a token copy of any creature entering the battlefield with the same creature type as the one chosen when the enchantment was played.
Fire Snake: This is the Snake On The Plains! It will burn down every land your opponents' control once you initiate your engine. You could replace this with any other creature with a powerful death trigger or ETB trigger but this deck uses the Fire Snake since it is a parody of the movie Snakes On A Plane.
Fireblade Charger: This creature can provide an alternate win condition to the deck. First, if equipped with the Nim Deathmantle it becomes a 3/3 hasted creature with intimidate. So if you have cleared the field either with Lightning Bolt or destroying all of their lands you can then just run them over with this creature. If the field is choked with blockers, you just initiate the recursion engine using this creature instead of the Fire Snake because it's death trigger will let you shoot people in the face with direct damage. Replacing the Fire Snake with this creature gives you an infinite direct damage combo.
Footlight Fiend: This is just a backup creature for the Fireblade Charger. You can easily replace this with a copy of something like Goblin Gardener or Goblin Settler as a backup for your Fire Snakes.
Lightning Bolt: Shoot stuff in the face with basically the best direct damage card ever printed. Four copies in the deck because Lightning Bolt.
Risk Factor: Secondary direct damage card after your bolts. Sometimes, silly opponents will even let you draw cards with it. Sarcasm aside, having eight copies of more burn or card advantage for four slots is awesome.
Koth of the Hammer: This is the deck's version of Samuel L. Jackson. Someone has to be in there yelling "I have had it with these motherfing snakes on this motherfing plains!"
And Koth of the Hammer adds early turn aggro, mana ramp and another alternate win condition to the deck.
That is it for the deck!
Any suggestions or opinions are welcome!
