Blazing Shoal
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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
Freeform Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
PreDH Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Blazing Shoal

Instant — Arcane

You may exile a red card with converted mana cost/mana value X from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Flarhoon13 on Wolverine, Snikt!!

6 months ago

Roast-O-Matic 9000 The "Best There Is" (At Getting Board Wiped) Oh, look. You built Wolverine, Best There Is. How daring. How original. I bet you also have a Punisher logo on your truck and think "Logan" is the only good movie ever made.

You’ve managed to build a deck that is the MTG equivalent of a guy at the gym who only does bicep curls—huge arms, but the second someone asks him to do a squat (or play a game that lasts past turn six), his entire system collapses.

The "I Hope They Don't Have a Removal Spell" Strategy Your entire game plan is:

Cast Logan. Rub your two brain cells together to cast a fight spell. Get a single +1/1 counter. Get absolutely blown out by a 1-mana Swords to Plowshares. You’re running Regenerate as your primary protection. Regenerate. What year is it, 1998? "Oh no, don't destroy my Wolverine!" says the opponent as they casually exile him, bounce him, or just cast Toxic Deluge for -3/-3 and watch your Canadian superhero turn into a puddle of maple syrup.

Notable Inclusions (Or: "I Found These in a Shoebox") Blazing Shoal: You’re playing a two-color deck with like... three high-CMC red cards. What are you exiling to this? A Blasphemous Act? Congratulations, you just 2-for-1'd yourself to make Wolverine a 15/15 that still gets blocked by a 1/1 Goat token. Belt of Giant Strength: You spent a card slot on an equipment that costs TEN MANA to equip unless your commander is already big. If he’s already big, why do you need the belt? It’s like buying a ladder that you can only reach if you’re already standing on the roof.

Inquisitor's Flail: "Double the damage dealt to Wolverine." In a deck where your commander has to survive damage to get counters. You’re literally handing your opponents a Murders-at-Karlov-Manor-themed suicide vest and asking them to pull the pin.

The "Oops, All Sorceries" Interaction You have about twenty "Target creature deals damage" spells. That’s great, except 80% of them are sorcery speed. Your deck is so telegraphed that an opponent could go take a shit, come back, and still have time to realize they should probably hold up mana for a counterspell.

And let's talk about Burning Anger. Five mana for an aura? In a format where everyone and their mother is running Nature's Claim? You’re paying five mana to give your opponents a chance to get a 2-for-1 and a laugh at your expense.

Final Thoughts This deck is a glass cannon made of actual, fragile glass. You’ve got The Ozolith and Hardened Scales, which are the only things keeping this pile from being a Draft chaff leftovers salad. You’re playing Kediss to try and kill the whole table, but let’s be real: you’re going to spend four turns putting counters on Logan, swing once, get him Aetherized, and then spend the rest of the night complaining about "blue players."

It’s a Gruul deck for people who think "strategy" is a word used by nerds who don't have adamantium claws. Go buy some actual protection spells before your playgroup realizes that a single Fog makes you forfeit the game out of pure embarrassment.

jethstriker on Pre Pioneer

1 year ago

legendofa nicely covers the specifics of this theoretical format. Although we may need to add the following cards to truly match the Modern ban list at the time these exact same list of card pool are legal:

Blazing Shoal

Cloudpost

Green Sun's Zenith

Ponder

Preordain

Rite of Flame

Punishing Fire

Wild Nacatl

wallisface on Could Uro come back to …

1 year ago

For what its worth, i went through the modern banlist and made a list of cards i’d rather see unbanned because they’d be less toxic than Uro (note this doesn’t mean i actually want any of these unbanned, just that i think they’d be less broken).

SufferFromEDHD on Zirilan Toolbox

2 years ago

I run a single planeswalker (Sarkhan, Fireblood) in my build. How is your playset of non-dragon oriented planeswalkers performing?

Blazing Shoal wins games.

Final Fortune when timed correctly wins games. Plus it's from the same set!

thijmnesoy on Blazing Pain

2 years ago

do you get Blazing Shoal in your hand consistently enough? otherwise maybe Eerie Procession might be a nice tutor for it

SufferFromEDHD on Fiery Death by Dragons

2 years ago

Tel-Jilad Stylus fixes your Sneak Attack issue while feeding Zirilan.

Blazing Shoal is crucial for this deck to pull surprising early wins. We both run Dragon Tyrant and Greater Gargadon because they actual fit Zirilan strategy. The added bonus of a free +10 is insane.

Fury of the Horde I think this, like Blazing Shoal, is a quintessential card for a proper Zirilan shell. We only need to attack with a few dragons a few times. Being free allows you to go all in on Zirilan activations.

Is Cursed Mirror working out for you? A temporary red clone/permanent mana rock seems really good on paper.

Ignawesome on Zirilan of the Claw: Dragon Chompy, Dragon Stompy

2 years ago

Hi! Fellow Zirilan of the claw enjoyer here.

I like your version, it's pretty different from mine. Love that Mudslide and Blazing Shoal :)

I was looking at your version and I have a couple questions:

1) Does Minion of the Mighty trigger often? I feel it would be pinged immediately.

2) What is Goblin Welder for exactly? What do you send to the graveyard in the best scenarios?

3) Do you get much juice out of Thornbite Staff, Rings of Brighthearth and Thousand-Year Elixir?? I've playtested them but paying for Zirilan's ability twice is rarely optimal/possible for me.

4) I'm confused by Madblind Mountain... What's the shuffle for? And is Lotus Vale also worth it? I feel like a regular snow mountain would be better for synergy effects.

5) How often can you use Crucible of Worlds without fetchlands?

That's it for the questions... But I have a recommendation too.

Try changing Mind's Eye for Dragon's Hoard. It worked for me since it's cheaper and more flexible, despite not drawing as much.

I'll check your angel and demon decks too. Super cool tribes and decks :)

Azoth2099 on The Lonely Loner (Seems to free his mind at night)

3 years ago

DatShepTho

Wuddup! Vadrik, Astral Archmage is so busted, man. Probably the best Commander p4p imo. I've been brewing him for a while now.

I see you're already running Seething Song, which is great. I'd highly recommend adding Desperate Ritual & Pyretic Ritual as well. Functionally having 2 copies of Dark Ritual in a deck is insane. Mana Geyser is pretty decent, but at Sorcery speed and at a minimum cost of , it's really not worth it compared to the others.

I would also recommend Mystic Retrieval & Mizzix's Mastery over Call to Mind & Finale of Promise respectively. As well as adding Past in Flames.

2 pieces of Equipment that I noticed shone very brightly with this Commander are Conqueror's Flail & Commander's Plate. The added bonus of cost reduction makes their power here difficult to overstate.

Buyback is a popular mechanic in typical Vadrik decks, but the only ones that are truly worth consideration are Capsize, Reiterate & Clockspinning. Haze of Rage & Seething Anger are obviously great, but they don't facilitate wins with the same frequency as those other ones. Sorcery speed sucks.

Never doubt that you need those Tutors, son! Solve the Equation, Reckless Handling, Merchant Scroll, Fabricate, Bribery & Acquire are all pretty much too good to pass up here. Reshape can also be great, depending on your Artifact list.

Free spells like Misdirection, Blazing Shoal & Commandeer can be pretty great here, given that they are likely still cheap to cast if you can't cast them for free.

Lastly, try to get yourself copies of Sea Gate Restoration  Flip, Shatterskull Smashing  Flip & Jeska's Will for this one if you can. Amazing!

Peace!

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