Boil

Instant

Destroy all Islands.

Legality

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

Discussion (50)

capwner on Kamarupa’s Challenge

4 months ago

wallisface Indeed that was the idea, so that they end up with islands to Boil and we don't!

Balaam__ on Kamarupa’s Challenge

4 months ago

Thanks for posting capwner. I did look at a Ponza-ish strategy but I wanted to build in Modern and a lot of the biggest payoffs and supporting cards weren’t legal. It would be pretty fun watching that little bead of sweat trickle down the other guy’s forehead after you play that first Boil though, ha

capwner on Kamarupa’s Challenge

4 months ago

If it were me I would be playing this with 4 Boil, and a whole lot of fetchlands to put my own flood counters on >:)

Balaam__ on Kamarupa’s Challenge

4 months ago

Glad you approve, kamarupa!

This was a lot of fun. Some of your suggestions I’ve already considered, but some I overlooked and I think they’d be great additions.

I passed on Contagion Clasp and Thrummingbird during the build—one is too slow and the other too weak/unreliable. I haven’t seen Ichormoon Gauntlet before now, but I didn’t want to incorporate too many {U} costed cards (an earlier draft tried it, leaning heavily into countermagic, but just didn’t work well).

It’s funny you mention Bioshift—one of my favorite builds was a {GU} counter heavy deck with Simic Ascendancy as the Wincon where Bioshift is worth its weight in gold. It was the first thing I thought of here, but misremembered the card as being able to move any old counters instead of only +1/+1’s. I also looked at The Ozolith but you’re right, it’s junk here.

As for Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth…that one completely escaped my notice. Initially I got super excited, but on second thought it might not work. It itself being a land would mean if it ever got the Flood Counter then its other text would be redacted. If we could have two of them in play simultaneously then it would fix the problem, except…we can’t. It’s Legendary :/ There are ways around that of course, but that’s too much deck real estate devoted to something that we don’t really need anyway. Great idea though.

Lastly, I considered a Ponza-ish combo deck featuring Choke, Boil etc as primary pieces but took the low road of depravity and went with the mess you see here instead. It’s not a bad idea though, just ‘too good’ for my gutter deck building sensibilities.

DreadKhan on Mishra's attackers

2 years ago

Berserkers' Onslaught is pretty handy if you've got big attackers, double power and first strike is sweet for 5 mana. Rite of the Raging Storm can help by giving you a 5/1 every turn to swing with, while also giving everyone else one to swing at anyone but you, which helps create some chaos as long as people don't run big blockers, and even if most people do, just someone not having a blocker will make that 5/1 a slow, steady source of damage, and people must hold back a blocker for it or take the 5. I like Onslaught with Rite, and if I can get a Mask of Griselbrand and Exquisite Blood you can do a tremendous amount of work with a 5/1, including drawing 5 cards when it dies. Mask is good in general in my experience, evasion is helpful in Rakdos, as is Lifelink for various 'pay life' effects that you might want to run. Some of those include Phyrexian Purge and Fire Covenant, both very strong old cards in many metas, but they work best with some life gain. 2 more cards that cost life and tend to feel pretty good in EDH are Ashes to Ashes and Reckless Spite, hitting 2 bodies is pretty helpful, and black Exile isn't super-common.

Kyren Negotiations are an interesting option if you have lots of goblins but can't swing through a Propaganda. Make an Example is very good value, you choose what dies (not targeted), and each player loses at least their best creature, maybe more). Volcanic Offering is a really solid card that can deal with 4 things that are bothering you if someone else is feeling helpful, but it can never directly hurt you, this can shut down an archenemy with one spell. If you find yourself troubled by Blue decks, there are Boil, Boiling Seas, Omen of Fire, and Citadel of Pain that are pretty helpful vs Blue and 2 colour Blue decks.

DreadKhan on Generously Hellbent

2 years ago

You might look at Rite of the Raging Storm and Exquisite Blood, maybe Berserkers' Onslaught, even a Mask of Griselbrand as a backup to your Skullcap idea, paying 3 to draw 5 always feels great in my Pavel build, and the Evasion/Lifelink are often relevant. I run a ton of wipes and removal, perhaps the best of which is Make an Example, which is just backbreaking to any deck reliant on having a specific creature on the board, and it hits each opponent in such a way that it's almost impossible to protect against short of countering it. As my deck hates being interacted with itself (it's full of chonky spells/effects just begging to get countered) I run Boiling Seas and Omen of Fire, alongside a Citadel of Pain, Pavel can soak up a lot of spare mana anyways. Pyroblast and Red Elemental Blast might be more reasonable than adding Boil, but the deck loves hosing Islands for some reason. Since I run lots of board wipes, I tossed in Tyrite Sanctum and Daring Fiendbonder to give stuff Indestructible. I mostly run utility creatures like Agitator Ant or token generators like Ophiomancer and Ogre Slumlord, I'm presently at 16 creatures in the 99, so it doesn't usually matter if I'm wiping the board 3 or 4 times in a game. It's not unusual to win off of a timely Thieves' Auction, it's funny when you have a deck full of questionable permanents, some people will just scoop to it as well, it's a salty card to some. I mean if you're already running Omen of Fire, why not throw in Thieves' Auction?

Hope some of these ideas can synergize with your build, Pavel is a great under-utilized Commander, I built him more janky, but the deck is truly a blast to play.

plakjekaas on Dual Land Cycles that You …

2 years ago

Especially the red one is questionable if it ever gets printed, because of its silly combo potential with Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle. For the modern Primeval Titan decks, Dryad of the Ilysian Grove already does the same, I know, but that one can't actually be found by Primeval Titan itself.

The blue one too, would have way too heavy implications on modern, with Boil and Choke being modern legal cards, and the same goes for the white one with Flashfires also being a modern legal card. Seeing how Armageddon was never in Modern either, I suppose it might take a while until they might ever show up, and if they do, it will probably be in a commander product.

Stardragon on Card creation challenge

2 years ago

Deforestation {3}{R}{R}

Scorcery

Destroy all forests on the battlefield gain {X} for each forest destroyed if X is 8 or more add two mana of any color combination for each forest destroyed

Bringing back old land hoses like Acid Rain or Boil. Plus took some inspiration from Orcish Lumberjack (which I'm sad he's not in plaid)

Create a legendary a card based off the last villain you watched or beaten