The Temur Mentals Are Back!

Historic Aggro Arena Competitive Elementals Kaheera, the Orphanguard Landfall Midrange RUG (Temur)

MrBoombastic

Land (26)

• 3x Breeding Pool
• 4x Fabled Passage
• 2x Forest
• 1x Island
• 4x Ketria Triome
• 2x Mountain
• 4x Rootbound Crag
• 2x Steam Vents
• 4x Stomping Ground

Planeswalker (4)

• 2x Chandra, Awakened Inferno
• 2x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

Creature (30)

• 4x Akoum Hellhound
• 4x Brushfire Elemental
• 4x Cavalier of Thorns
• 4x Creeping Trailblazer
• 4x Leafkin Druid
• 2x Living Twister
• 4x Omnath, Locus of the Roil
• 4x Risen Reef

Companion (1)

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Sideboard

Instant (6)

• 3x Abrade
• 3x Negate

Artifact (2)

• 2x Grafdigger's Cage

Creature (1)

• 1x Kaheera, the Orphanguard

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 2x Vivien Reid

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Anger of the Gods

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Temur Elementals with absolutely (well, almost) no improvements to the deck since its time in Standard.

Watching Jim Davis taking a similar list to a tournament not long ago, I got inspired to dust off the old stack of Hellementals. Being completely new to Historic, I took the deck for a spin in the Shakeup event. To my surprise it performed really well. Now I know that many of the best cards in the format are banned in the weekly Shakeups, so obviously I expected a savage ass-whooping in the ranked ladder...

Nope! Still good! With a 75%+ winrate in the first 25 Bo3's The (ele)Mentals flew me straight from Diamond 4 to Mythic in an afternoon without ever looking back - as cool guys do.

How does the deck fare in the current meta? No clue. These were more or less my first ever Historic games, so I don't know what the meta is. I managed to beat decks like Bant Midrange/Control, Temur Adventures, Gruul Stompy, Dimir Control, Jund Sacrifice, Golgari Ramp and Goblins. You tell me, are they noteworthy accomplishments or have I been lucky with the matchups?

The deck is a lot of fun with a lot of nice little synergies. There's both potential for explosive aggro starts as well as long-game grinding. Only thing that might need a little shaking is the sideboard. Negate and planeswalkers have been doing well so far, but I'm sure we could optimize.

Any suggestions?

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Historic legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 3 Mythic Rares 23 - 3 Rares 12 - 3 Uncommons 8 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Emblem Chandra, Awakened Inferno, Emblem Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Emblem Vivien Reid