Grixis Vial Smasher "Quick Game"

Commander / EDH*

tlampton

Land (34)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 7x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Spirebluff Canal
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Swiftwater Cliffs
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Creature (9)

• 1x Avatar of Fury
• 1x Deep-Sea Kraken
• 1x Greater Gargadon
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Illusory Ambusher
• 1x Metalwork Colossus
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Stunt Double
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk

Instant (13)

• 1x Breath of Malfegor
• 1x Capsize
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Dig Through Time
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Glimmer of Genius
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Prophetic Bolt
• 1x Steam Augury
• 1x Unlicensed Disintegration
• 1x Wipe Away

Artifact (13)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Consuming Vapors
• 1x Recurring Insight
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Treasure Cruise
• 1x Wash Out
• 1x Windfall

Commanders (2)

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Greed
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rain of Gore
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sulfuric Vortex
• 1x Tainted Remedy
• 1x Wound Reflection

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Sideboard

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Mindmoil
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x War's Toll

Instant (1)

• 1x Mystic Confluence

Artifact (1)

• 1x Gilded Lotus

Creature (3)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Magus of the Wheel

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Bond of Agony
• 1x Coastal Breach

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Pure Jank.

This is a deck that I built for paper recently, and have been really enjoying how it plays.

We all know the feeling. It's the end of the night, and your table just ended a two hour durdle match. The winning player's turn took 45 minutes. You look at your phone, it's not quite time to turn in. You can maybe fit another game in. Ahh, but you have a deck for times like this.

This deck is, in essence, a control deck but the beauty of Vial Smasher as a commander, is that it turns all of your control pieces into burn spells. The deck tries to play as many cards at instant speed as possible, for extra burn during each opponent's turn. It is a deck focused on keeping people honest, keeping the game moving. There are multiple pieces of life gain hate and extra turn hate. Cards like War's Toll and the wheels keep people doing things now, instead of waiting to respond.

The deck could reasonably play extra turns and counterspells/responses and lifegain itself, as many of its effects are one sided, but I felt as though it is against the spirit of the deck. The deck already has the pieces to take advantage of the chaos, without needing to access the things it is denying to your opponents. It is important to always appease the heart of the cards after all.

Deck Highlights:

Greater Gargadon: A huge, hasty beater for 1 mana, plus the ability to sac permanents for 10 burn damage out of nowhere.

Deep-Sea Kraken: Again, a huge hasty (unblockable!) beater, this time unblockable. Comes down really fast in a multiplayer game, burns for 10.

Illusory Ambusher: Refills your hand, instant speed burn damage, and blanks an attack, very important in a game where life totals spiral downward so quickly. Also fantastic with Blasphemous Act.

Metalwork Colossus: Huge beater, easily cheatable in due to large numbers of mana rocks. Recurrable for extra burn.

Mind's Dilation: Free spells! Free Burn! What's not to love?

Notion Thief: Flash speed combo disruption, and draws you gas to keep the fire burning.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 2 Mythic Rares 41 - 7 Rares 21 - 1 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	90
Avg. CMC	4.43