The Best Way to Cheat 5+ Mana T1 (The Toasty One)

Modern* BR (Rakdos)

Lowenstein

Land (18)

• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 4x Blood Crypt
• 4x Bloodstained Mire
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 3x Wooded Foothills

Creature (23)

• 4x Bloodghast
• 3x Detective's Phoenix
• 4x Flameblade Adept
• 4x Gurmag Angler
• 4x Hollow One
• 4x Street Wraith

Sorcery (11)

• 4x Burning Inquiry
• 4x Faithless Looting
• 3x Goblin Lore

Instant (8)

• 4x Fiery Temper
• 4x Lightning Bolt

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 2x Ancient Grudge
• 2x Fatal Push
• 2x Lightning Axe

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise

Creature (2)

• 2x Big Game Hunter

Artifact (2)

• 2x Dragon's Claw

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Leyline of the Void

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Maybeboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Murderous Cut

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Collective Brutality

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One of the only Modern useful cards from all of Hour of Devastation is Hollow One! When you first see this card you may think, "That's kind of neat." You're right, but it's more than that. Imagine getting this out turn 1, pretty nice. Or two of them. Or four. (Pretty unlikely, but hey it could happen).

Here's how it works:

Your main goal is to get a bunch of big dudes out early game and go from there. T1 and easily T2 you can get out a Hollow One with either Burning Inquiry or Faithless Looting. Street Wraith also comes in handy here. When you discard, it is super sweet to hit a Bloodghast into the graveyard or Flamewake Phoenix.

Another good T1 play is Flameblade Adept. The Menace actually comes in pretty nicely too.

Here are a few sweet plays you could have:

T1: Land + Burning Inquiry + Hollow One (you could get more than one but we'll just say one for this)

T2: Faithless Looting (discard a Bloodghast) + Land + Gurmag Angler

T3: Continue breaking face.

Another:

T1: Land + Flameblade Adept

T2: Land + cycle Street Wraith + Cathartic Reunion (discard Flamewake Phoenix) + Hollow One

T3: Land + reanimate Flamewake Phoenix

So pretty fun. This is just in early stages, sideboard is a WIP. Any suggestions totally welcome!

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	1 month
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 5 Rares 19 - 10 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.83
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