A Swift Kick to the Ballards

Standard Aggro Budget Burn Ramp RG (Gruul)

Rayze_Darr

Creature (19)

• 3x Dire Fleet Daredevil
• 3x Elfhame Druid
• 3x Ghitu Chronicler
• 4x Ghitu Lavarunner
• 3x Llanowar Elves
• 2x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Verix Bladewing

Sorcery (9)

• 3x Enter the Unknown
• 3x Grow from the Ashes
• 3x Insult / Injury

Instant (7)

• 4x Lightning Strike
• 3x Wizard's Lightning

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Jaya Ballard

Land (20)

• 4x Forest
• 12x Mountain
• 4x Rootbound Crag

Artifact (3)

• 3x Primal Amulet  ^Flip

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Burning-Fist Minotaur
• 1x Resilient Khenra
• 1x Untamed Kavu
• 1x Wildfire Eternal

Instant (2)

• 1x Life Goes On
• 1x Shock

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Work in progress. Full description coming soon!

For now, though, the basic gist: plays like an Izzit, runs like a Gruul. The various Instants and Sorceries provide burn damage, creature damage, and land searching. See: Lightning Strike, Fight with Fire, and Grow from the Ashes. With the ramping potential of Llanowar Elves and Elfhame Druid, these spells all end up being fairly cheap and easy to pull off. Insult to Injury is used to amplify them, and Primal Amulet   is used to cheapen them further, and after turning into Primal Wellspring, duplicate them. In fact, Primal Wellspring combo'd with a kicked Fight with Fire is 20 damage right there.

With the Instants and Sorceries in the grave, Ghitu Lavarunner and Ghitu Chronicler can do what any good Izzit mage does best: use them. The former buffs itself into a solid mid-game draw, and the latter brings them back to reak havoc once more.

I've not done much with Standard, so any and all suggestions of good options are greatly appreciated! Thanks for taking the time to look at my deck!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WUB
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 10 - 0 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.70
Tokens	Emblem Jaya Ballard, Karox Bladewing 4/4 R
Folders	Good Ideas