Valakut Borealis

Modern* Aggro Ramp RGW (Naya)

psykemonni

Instant (4)

• 4x Lightning Bolt

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Banefire
• 4x Explore
• 2x Scapeshift

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Prismatic Omen

Artifact (2)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nissa, Sage Animist  ^Flip

Creature (17)

• 1x Baloth Woodcrasher
• 2x Blitz Hellion
• 2x Knight of the Reliquary
• 2x Lotus Cobra
• 4x Plated Geopede
• 2x Primeval Titan
• 4x Steppe Lynx

Land (24)

• 3x Forest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 3x Sacred Foundry
• 3x Stomping Ground
• 3x Temple Garden
• 3x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 3x Windswept Heath
• 4x Wooded Foothills

---

My take on aggro-type Valakut ramp deck. This deck just goes aggressive in your face with "small creature" beatdowns and accelerates fast into big finishers. This deck doesn't run that many basic mountains for Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle but rather the Prismatic Omen combo which I like very much as you can surprise your opponent big time.

Idea is to play fast big threats like Steppe Lynx and Plated Geopede which can really swing hard in just 2nd and 3rd turns and can actually grow to do lethal damage in 4th easily. Main goal is just to get couple swings in bringing opponent into lethal zone for big fast finishers.

You ramp up mana playing multiple lands same turn using cards like Explore + Lotus Cobra + Scapeshift . You get to 6+ mana quite fast and you can start to work on killing blow using Banefire , Blitz Hellion and ofcourse the Scapeshift + Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle . Lightning Bolt just handy good card to kill off opponent or nuke creature etc. Also thinking Exquisite Firecraft would be good on finisher side but then again, Banefire is just pretty straight up good in the deck.

Crucible of Worlds + Knight of the Reliquary these cards are just huge with some fetchlands in play. Even alone Knight of the Reliquary can tutor up your Valakut or fetchlands to trigger more landfall.

I use Nissa, Sage Animist   as a card draw engine. Nissa, Sage Animist   fits the decks theme and is new addition in my collection so I decided to try her out. Draw you get out of her is nice + if you draw into lands you just get more landfall triggers. This deck is also pretty good at flipping her.

Lightning Greaves haste on these guys is just darn good.

All comments and suggestions are welcome as this is my 1st modern deck I've put together myself. Thank you for your advice in advance.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Scapeshift + Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle Explore + Lotus Cobra + Scapeshift Crucible of Worlds + Knight of the Reliquary
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 6 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.43
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World