Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief help
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Posted on July 6, 2019, 12:58 a.m. by Life_autonomous
I am working on a Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief deck and I am trying to make it more competitive. It stands up pretty well currently, but it could be much better. I am just looking for advice on how to gas this deck up a bit. I am aware there are more powerful commanders in black, but I like Drana and I think it is good to save casting her until late game so you can punch through threats and deal sizeable (if not lethal) damage.
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/16-06-19-big-mana-drana/
Defile can probably replace Go for the Throat since it is a good piece of removal that gets better as the game goes on.
Dead of Winter will act as a new Toxic Deluge since you are running snow covered swamps.
Fireshrieker is something that will give her the punch to take a player out if she isn’t blocked while Loxodon Warhammer will give her Lifelink to keep you in the game and Trample to take people out.
Kaya's Ghostform can act as a bit of a one time insurance policy for your commander or a valuable creature.
I also personally like to run Burnished Hart for ramp in mono colored decks that aren’t green.
July 6, 2019 1:15 a.m.
Also Lashwrithe , Hammer of Nazahn , and Basilisk Collar are other equipments that will help a bunch.
July 6, 2019 1:22 a.m.
You have a lot of ramp spells which are competing with your big bomb spells mana wise, however you don't have a huge amount of low end mana ramp.
I would recommend increasing the amount of 2 and 3 mana ramp options to help get that early game ramp so you can drop your fatties earlier.
July 6, 2019 7:15 p.m.
Life_autonomous says... #7
enpc thank you for the input! Which would you recommend?
July 6, 2019 7:54 p.m.
Fellwar Stone is good (and gives you black with urborg), Charcoal Diamond , Wayfarer's Bauble (which works well with your swamp tech), Thought Vessel are all good and cheap.
If you have the budget for it, Mana Crypt , Mana Vault , Grim Monolith are all good.
Basalt Monolith can be good too but I would only include it if you're also adding Rings of Brighthearth , which does work well with your commander.
July 6, 2019 8:26 p.m.
Life_autonomous says... #9
enpc I will have to get my hands on some of those. In time I'm going to save up for Rings of Brighthearth and Basalt Monolith . Those rings are expensive!
Joe_Ken_ says... #2
Here is the link to your deck. I’ll check it out in a sec
Big Mana Drana
July 6, 2019 1:03 a.m.