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☭Equal Share For Everyone☭ - Zada's Red Army

Commander / EDH* hfvalenz

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Reworking the Army —Feb. 14, 2018

I removed Panic and Chaotic Strike, mainly because the built-in restriction to cast made them hard to do so. Also, the drawing was too slow. Replaced them with Boiling Blood and Rile. Sorcery speed and pinging is not ideal but I'll give Rile a try. Also the cost on Boiling Blood is higher than perfect but I think that casting it whenever I need to and not whenever I'm able to is worth it.

While Distemper of the Blood is good, I needed to cut somehing to squeeze Blazing Shoal in there. The cool thing about the latter is the Arcane subtype it shares with Overblaze and especially with Desperate Ritual, making it possible to splice Ritual on the other two, producing huge ammounts of mana.

Warping Wail was initially put as a countermeasure for wrath effects, but I ended up needing more wrath effects to cast myself, so I switched it for Hour of Devastation. The hate on planeswalkers is great too.

I'm not yet quite sure about the change with Mirrorwing Dragon. Trading a bunch of 1/1 goblins for 4/4 flying dragons is sweet. I guess the perfect scenario would be casting it right after resolving an Otherworldly Outburst. Same goes with Mogg Infestation.

I added Young Pyromancer and Hanweir Garrison  Meld as a repeatable way to put tokens, and also the possibility to meld the Garrison into Hanweir, the Writhing Township  Meld  Meld.

I found that while Skullclamp is awesome, it does consumes tokens quite fast, which my opponents keep helping on doing as well. So I hope The Immortal Sun extra draw helps to cover that (also, pump, planeswalker hate, and cost reduction).

Rivenor says... #1

Oooh I love Zada, such great value out of tiny spells and creatures.

I know space can be a bit tight with this kind of deck but I feel that she is especially vulnerable to targeted removal so I would double down on the hexproofing:Champion's Helm and/or Glaring Spotlight I think are your cheapest options mana wise for this.

September 22, 2017 1:18 p.m.

Philoctetes says... #2

Nice deck! I used to run Zada and she was great fun.

If you aren't opposed to going infinite, Dualcaster Mage goes infinite with both Heat Shimmer and Twinflame.

September 22, 2017 3:18 p.m.

hfvalenz says... #3

@Rivenor: I like the helm, but I don't own one at the moment. Nevertheless, the problem is, as you stated, what to cut in order to make room for that. The other one didn't feel as good to me, specially since the first ability does nothing in this deck and the second one can only be activated once. Still, if I see a copy of the helm in a binder I'll get it for sure.

@Philoctetes: I am opposed to go infinite, it goes against my own taste and also against LGS league rules.

Thank you both for the inputs!

September 25, 2017 1:39 a.m.