The B of the Bang

Commander / EDH

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Instant (1)

• 1x Into the Core

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Recoup
• 1x Sudden Demise
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Warp World

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Goblin Bombardment

Artifact (24)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Cranial Archive
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Howling Mine
• 1x Infiltration Lens
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loreseeker's Stone
• 1x Mycosynth Wellspring
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Seer's Lantern
• 1x Serum Tank
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Storage Matrix
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Sword of the Paruns
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Creature (28)

• 1x Anarchist
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Bearer of the Heavens
• 1x Bloodfire Colossus
• 1x Bloodshot Cyclops
• 1x Breaker of Armies
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Conquering Manticore
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Molten Primordial
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Myr Welder
• 1x Ogre Battledriver
• 1x Rummaging Goblin
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stalking Vengeance
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Viashino Heretic
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Warchief Giant

Land (36)

• 1x Blighted Gorge
• 1x Blinkmoth Well
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dormant Volcano
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Looming Spires
• 24x Mountain
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Spawning Bed
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of the False God

Commander (1)

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Urabrask the Hidden, he's fast, so fast it looks like everyone else is going in slow motion. If you know anyone faster I'd like to hear about it.

The idea of this deck is to play on that theme of speed and being quicker off the mark than your opponents, going on the B of the Bang, as the great Linford Christie once said.

So you double down on the speed theme, building plenty of haste redundancy into the deck - Hammer of Purphoros, Ogre Battledriver and a bunch of more local hasty effects. Then throw in a couple of effects to exaggerate your opponents' slowness - Barl's Cage and Storage Matrix.

Then you go out to guarantee that damage gets through even if you cannot attack - Stalking Vengeance, Bloodshot Cyclops and of course the inimitable Heartless Hidetsugu. And throw in a couple of tap abilities that can take advantage of the speed - Rummaging Goblin, Feldon of the Third Path (not bad together BTW) and the mercurial Goblin Welder.

Finally, you throw in a few tricks to multiply up your threat - in particular the Sundial of the Infinite for abusing Feldon, Flameshadow Conjuring or Warchief Giant for multiplication madness. Basilisk Collar can make your direct damage effects super-dangerous, and provides the one pseudo-infinite combo in the deck when combined with Heartless Hidetsugu, Sword of the Paruns and Treasonous Ogre. You on loads of life and everyone else on 1. If you can't win from there you are very unlucky!

But the ultimate fun of the deck is "the Big Bang", Warp World. The chaos of this spell is always super-fun even if it screws you, but the setup of this deck provides a great chance of hurting your opponents badly, maybe even killing them outright.

Obviously, the Big Bang is an ETB bumfight, possibly followed by a bit of attacking if anyone is still alive. So you have a few ETBs to throw into the mix, the most nasty being Molten Primordial. But these, as you may know, go on the stack first and therefore resolve last, so by the time you get your shot you may have been battered into oblivion.

But if you are really lucky you might get to run a pre-ETB (or "B of the Bang") operation that can turn the process decisively in your favour - for instance Heartless Hidetsugu with Hammer of Purphoros (the "Heartless Hammer").

The chance of the Heartless Hammer and Dictate of the Twin Gods popping up makes it a good idea to try to fix life totals before playing the Big Bang. Ideally everyone else should have even life totals and you should have an odd one. Treasonous Ogre is amazing for this kind of life fixing to ensure that you do not die. Then any kind of direct damage - Endbringer or Goblin Bombardment for instance - will suffice to finish the job (regardless of life totals) before any ETBs actually resolve.

Overall, hella fun and very dangerous. Obviously it's red so don't expect to win very often, but when you do what a blow out!

Suggestions welcome!

Combos

• Storage Matrix and Blinkmoth Well to make everyone else fight with one hand tied behind their backs.

• Sundial of the Infinite with Warchief Giant - 3, 9, 27, etc

• Bloodshot Cyclops + Nim Deathmantle + for direct damage on tap (as long as you have haste). Throw in Flameshadow Conjuring for extra pain.

• Bloodfire Colossus + Basilisk Collar for a dirty wipe. Throw in Nim Deathmantle and Treasonous Ogre + Darksteel Plate for a sorcery speed kill 'em all operation.

Big Bang (Warp World) Stars...

Bloodshot Cyclops, Stalking Vengeance, Goblin Bombardment, Bloodfire Colossus, Nim Deathmantle, Void Winnower...

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 31 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.12
Tokens	Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Goat 0/1 W, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Myr 1/1 C
Folders	Precon Price-Range