Avalanche Riders

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Avalanche Riders

Creature — Human Nomad

Haste

Echo *(At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) *

When Avalanche Riders enters the battlefield, destroy target land.

DreadKhan on Acid (Moss) Dropping Lumberjacks

2 years ago

Well, if I find I end up with too much ramp too often, I can switch some ramp out for Avalanche Riders, Haste is a useful ability, and hitting a land is always a good thing here.

DreadKhan on Acid (Moss) Dropping Lumberjacks

2 years ago

Well, not sure it'll stay as is, but I'm willing to try out Wall of Roots over Avalanche Riders, it's way faster and better at slowing down stuff like Burn I guess. Riders is a questionable play I suppose, no potential to be a big trampler, and only able to hassle them 1 land, and I'm in very deep trouble if I'm paying it's echo I suspect.

zapyourtumor on Dry Eyes

3 years ago

I'm not sure about vexing devil. If your opponent knows you got something up your sleeve with blink spells, they might just let it stay in which case the spell would do nothing. Also, if they do let the devil do damage to them twice, the rebound from ephemerate is wasted which is also not great.

Inner-Flame Acolyte might be okay, but is better if you have another creature on the board (since targeting itself the first etb does nothing). Abbot of Keral Keep is one of my favorite monored cards and I think it could work pretty well here, taking the place of Light Up the Stage for a burn deck's card draw slot.

Ingot Chewer should be in the board. Maybe Wispmare as well.


lagotripha ( Akroma, Angel of Fury has protection from white so you can't blink her.) Nevermind I see what you're doing here, that's nice. I would second this suggestion, although the second blink from Ephemerate does nothing here.

Avalanche Riders + Blood moon mainboard seems like a different type of deck (land destruction flicker), also 5 mana is pretty slow. If only Faultgrinder wasn't utter trash ;o_o

Suppression Field fucks up Thermo-Alchemist big time - it could work if Balaam__ decides to run Electrostatic Field instead (which also happens to not die to bolt).

Balaam__ on Dry Eyes

3 years ago

Thanks for the interest lagotripha. I don’t usually play Boros colors, so my mind isn’t geared toward the color pair’s maximum potential—this deck was mostly a thought experiment to get my feet wet with Modern Horizons 2.

Your suggestions would definitely optimize it to peak performance (especially Blood Moon / Avalanche Riders ) but I don’t know what to remove to make room for them.

lagotripha on Dry Eyes

3 years ago

I really like this list, its already ticking a lot of boxes for me.

I'd consider the blood moon mainboard (depending on meta) as the creature matchup already has a lot of disruption, and disrupting land access for control/combo offers gains.

I'd love more targets for cloudshift/ephemeral. I remember the days of Akroma, Angel of Fury in mono white blink, and pitching it to fury while also being a second payoff feels rignt. Even the name is good.

I'd also give some thought to Avalanche Riders , who make people quit if you can hit them with blinks, especially alongside blood moon. High CMC though.

In terms of sideboard options, Suppression Field can work wonders alongside blood moon in aggressive strategies.

All that said, it all competes for slots, and its tough to say if that list would be strictly better than what is here - playing aggressive with a little disruption to hit meta threats is really good. I might swap the alchemists for two moons mainboard, slide in the fields sideboard and leave it there.

Caerwyn on None

3 years ago

Just doing a quick look at the MTG Wiki:

The mechanic Overload arose out of a mechanic designed by Ken Nagle in the first round of the Great Designer Search 1.

Ethan Fleischer's Evolve Mechanic from the Great Designer Search 2 found its way into the game.

Shawn Main created a mechanic in the Great Designer Search 2 that would be renamed and placed in the game as Battalion )

Looting becoming part of Red's Color Identity has its birth in the Great Designer Search 2.

You Make the Creature contest resulted in the creation of Spiritmonger .

You Make the Card contests resulted in the creation of: Forgotten Ancient , Crucible of Worlds , Vanish into Memory , and Waste Not .

The Winners of the Magic Invitational were allowed to design a card that would feature their likeness. From that, we got:

  1. Olle Råde's Sylvan Safekeeper ;
  2. Darwin Kastle's Avalanche Riders ;
  3. Mike Long's Rootwater Thief ;
  4. Chris Pikula's Meddling Mage ;
  5. Jon Finkel's Shadowmage Infiltrator ;
  6. Kai Budde's Voidmage Prodigy ;
  7. Jens Thoren's Solemn Simulacrum ;
  8. Bob Maher's Dark Confidant ;
  9. Terry Soh's Rakdos Augermage ;
  10. Antoine Ruel's Ranger of Eos ; and
  11. Tiago Chan's Snapcaster Mage .

The 2005 Magic Invitational had a vote for a fan-submitted card. Tsuyoshi Fujita's winning entry would eventually become Gemstone Caverns .

Magic 2015 had a number of cards created by famous Magic fans. These cards are:

  1. George Fan's (Plants vs. Zombies) Genesis Hydra ;
  2. Penny Arcade's (of the Penny Arcade webcomic and creator of PAX) Avarice Amulet ;
  3. Markus Persson's (creator of Minecraft) Aggressive Mining ;
  4. Richard Garriot's (creator of Ultimata) Shield of the Avatar ;
  5. David Sirlin's (designer on Street Fighter II) Master of Predicaments ;
  6. Rob Pardo's (lead designer for WoW) Xathrid Slyblade ;
  7. Isaiah Cartwright's (lead designer for Guild Wars 2) Warden of the Beyond ;
  8. Justin Gary's (winner 2003's National Team Championship in Worlds) Spirit Bonds ;
  9. Stone Librande's (lead designer Diablo III) Goblin Kaboomist ;
  10. Brian Fargo's (Founder of Interplay Entertainment, which made the original Fallout games) Yisan, the Wanderer Bard ;
  11. Mike Neumann's (creative director for Borderlands) Chasm Skulker ;
  12. James Ernest's (creator of Cheapass Games) Hot Soup ;
  13. Edmund McMillen's (indie game designer) Cruel Sadist ; and
  14. Brad Muir's (game designer of Double Fine, which made Psychonauts) Ob Nixilis, Unshackled .

I think that should answer your question. There also have been a number of players who were hired directly as a result of their play in tournaments or performances in things like the Great Designer Search, so, in a sense, could be considered fans turned card creators. However, once they become part of the design team, they are no longer merely fan creators, so I am not sure they would be responsive to your question.

EvilG on The End is just the middle

3 years ago

Have you thought about putting Cloudthresher in? Perhaps instead of Avalanche Riders

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