The H Bomb

Commander / EDH Budget Counters Kicker RG (Gruul)

orcopollo

Land (36)

• 1x Bristling Backwoods
• 1x Captivating Cave
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 10x Forest
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Hall of Oracles
• 1x Kazandu Refuge
• 1x Kazuul's Cliffs  ^Flip
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nesting Grounds
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rockfall Vale
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Spikefield Cave  ^Flip
• 1x Tangled Vale  ^Flip
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Throne of Makindi
• 1x Vastwood Thicket  ^Flip
• 1x War Room

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Branching Evolution
• 1x Evolutionary Escalation
• 1x Fiery Emancipation
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Hydra's Growth
• 1x Keen Sense
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

Instant (20)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cinderclasm
• 1x Colossal Growth
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Falling Timber
• 1x Gaea's Gift
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Inscription of Abundance
• 1x Inspiring Call
• 1x Invigorating Surge
• 1x Overload
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Return the Favor
• 1x Ruinous Intrusion
• 1x Scorching Lava
• 1x Snakeskin Veil
• 1x Solidarity of Heroes
• 1x Strength of the Tajuru
• 1x Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1x Vines of Vastwood

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Breath of Darigaaz
• 1x Canopy Surge
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Grow from the Ashes
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Ignite the Future
• 1x Increasing Savagery
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Reap the Past
• 1x Visions of Dominance

Commander (1)

Creature (18)

• 1x Chandra's Incinerator
• 1x Elfhame Druid
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Flametongue Yearling
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Halana and Alena, Partners
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1x Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Murasa Sproutling
• 1x Ornery Tumblewagg
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Skitter of Lizards
• 1x Sprouting Goblin
• 1x Wren's Run Hydra

Artifact (4)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 1x Strionic Resonator

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Creature (5)

• 1x Agitator Ant
• 1x Citanul Woodreaders
• 1x Immaculate Magistrate
• 1x Slippery Bogbonder
• 1x Yavimaya Iconoclast

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Colossal Majesty

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Welcome to my kicker deck, led, in my opinion, by one of the most interesting but underrated commanders out there, Hallar, the Firefletcher. This deck brings together some of the things that red and green do better: putting +1/+1 counters and dealing burn damage! Playing this deck is very simple, but to make the most of it and set the H(allar) Bomb on fire you need a few ingredients:

Ramp

The first thing you need to do is to ramp like there's no tomorrow - you'll really need all that mana to cast multiple kicked spells. Classic mana dorks and ramp spells like Cultivate and Llanowar Elves, as well as more synergistic ones like Incubation Druid and Grow from the Ashes will do the job. You may notice the absence of a staple like Sol Ring. This is because Sol Ring only produces noncoloured mana. Kicked spells and other cards in the deck really rely on coloured mana to work, so the advantage that the ring brings is contained to its explosiveness in the first few turns (but the probabilities of drawing it then is quite minimal). In this respect, I think Skyclave Relic does a better job because, though more expesnive, not only it produces coloured mana, but it also counts as a kicked spell, triggering Hallar and keeping its usefulness even in the late game.

+1/+1 Counters

Now you need to put as many +1/+1 counters on Hallar as you can. Cards like Evolutionary Escalation, Forgotten Ancient, and Increasing Savagery are among the best cards to do this, but the deck is full of effects that provide counters. Doublers like Ornery Tumblewagg, Branching Evolution, and Solidarity of Heroes will ensure that Hallar gets big and strong much quicker.

Kick Spells to Kick Arse

Now you're ready to detonate the H(allar) Bomb and reduce your opponents to dust with burn damage. This can be doubled or even tripled with Gratuitous Violence and Fiery Emancipation. Chandra's Incinerator exploits the damage to get rid of your opponents' nastiest creatures, while Guttersnipe and Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar make sure that all your instants and sorceries and all your combat damage are turned into burn that is equally distributed to all your opponents' faces. To ignite this inferno, all you need to do is cast and kick spells. The deck is filled with the cheapest and most effective kicker spells in Gruul, such as Molten Disaster, Vines of Vastwood, Primal Growth. Their effects, while useful, are often secondary and really serve the purpose of triggering Hallar.

Protection

It's pretty clear, then, that Hallar is vital to the gameplan and needs to be kept in play at all costs. Luckily, the deck is filled with protection, both in green and in red. Cards like Snakeskin Veil, Vines of Vastwood, and Gaea's Gift give Hallar indestructible or hexproof and synergise with the deck by providing counters or triggering Hallar's ability. Return the Favor is doubly useful because it can change the target of a removal spell or it can be used to copy Hallar's triggered ability.

Starting Hand and Subsequent Turns

These are the ingredients necessary for the H Bomb to do its magic. Now moving to the more practical side of how to play this deck, the ideal starting hand should consist of: 3 lands, 1 or 2 ramp spells, 1 or 2 kicker spells, and 1 or 2 spells that gives counters (depending on what cards you drew). This should give you a perfect start. Realistically, as long as you have enough lands, some form of early ramp and at least one kicker spell you should be able to, well, kick in. The deck runs mostly on instants and sorceries, rather than creatures (admittedly unusual for my decks), so you want to play a lot of these. Ideally, you should play the kicker instants during your opponents' turns and dedicate your turn to putting counters on and casting kicked sorceries. Wilderness Reclamation can help in making that optimal.

In conclusion, this is one of the decks I had the most fun building and playing with, and it's perfect if you're looking for something a bit unusual and at the same time extremely destructive which will likely surprise people at your table.The spellslinger focus makes it a bit different from most Green-heavy decks, giving it a very fun spin to it! Let me know what you think of it and don't forget to upvote it if you liked it! Cheers!

Date added	3 weeks
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 34 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.59
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone