Brightstone Ritual

Instant

Add (Red) to your mana pool for each Goblin in play.

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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

wallisface on Pauper Storm Update Help

8 months ago

PauperPower I goldfished 10 games to get an idea of what the deck is doing. to also get a gauge of deck consistency, I didn't mulligan (which is obviously not realistic to real gameplay, but also in the real world you'd have an opponent interacting with the deck). I played until the end of turn 4 to see how reliably the deck could goldfish a win by that stage.

• Game 1: 15 damage
• Game 2: 9 damage
• Game 3: 12 damage
• Game 4: 6 damage
• Game 5: 15 damage
• Game 6: 20 damage!!
• Game 7: 0 damage (it was a bad hand, all land and mana-gain effects)
• Game 8: 10 damage
• Game 9: 4 damage
• Game 10: 15 damage

Things I noticed from these games:

• Distant Melody was almost always a very awkward/bad card to have in hand. Most of the time this was a dead-card in hand, and every time I drew more than 1 of these the game was disastrously bad.

• The deck felt like it needed a TON of things to go right to actually start making progress. It needed cards that made goblins, and also cards that provided mana, and also something to actually turn all that momentum into damage (i.e. Goblin Bushwhacker or Goblin War Strike). It felt like there was a lot of pieces required to get any progress, and in a LOT of the games I only drew into two of those 3 required components.

• The general lack of turn 1 plays made it very hard to establish a board that could present lethal by turn 4.

• both Seat of the Synod and Silverbluff Bridge felt terrible to be playing as the land for turn. Seat of the Synod because the deck is sooo-reliant on red-mana-pips, and any attempt to "storm off" was usually hampered by it not providing red. Silverbluff Bridge just felt terrible in that it was sooo slow for a deck trying to do things quickly.

• It almost never felt viable to blow up your own lands to Kuldotha Rebirth. I was very lucky that most of the games I also had a Experimental Synthesizer in hand - but I can't imagine ever wanting to sacrifice a land unless it's part of the winning turn of the game.

• The best cards in the deck felt a LOT like Experimental Synthesizer, Kuldotha Rebirth, Goblin Bushwhacker, Goblin War Strike, and Brightstone Ritual.

• Battle Hymn felt kindof bad in that a lot of the time it's only gaining you 1-2 mana. But also the 2-mana cost was actually a lot more awkward than i'd expected, as far as trying to cast this while also having a board state.

I think overall the deck felt too slow, and far too inconsistent. I would be removing Distant Melody, Battle Hymn, and the blue lands.

PauperPower on Pauper Storm Update Help

8 months ago

sergiodelrio haha fair point, I'm very minimalist with my deck descriptions. I've updated it now, posting it here as well incase it hasn't updated on my page yet.

What I'm looking for help with is potential card upgrades and where to slot then for a bit more consistency. I'd like more resilience, but Im not sure that's possible with this list.

I've seen people in newer versions that no longer run Shared Discovery using "Name Sticker" Goblin but that card has since been banned, so I'm just looking for newer cards that I've missed or just haven't consideree that could help this run a tiny bit smoother.

Thanks!

The Plan:

So part one of the plan is to get a bunch of goblin tokens on to the board with effects like Dragon Fodder, Krenko's Command, and Kuldotha Rebirth.

Part two of the plan is casting Brightstone Ritual / Battle Hymn into Distant Melody / Shared Discovery. You do this as many times as you can to fill your board with goblins, and draw into your wincons.

The wincons in the deck are either a "storm" kill with Goblin War Strike, a combat damage kill with a kicked Goblin Bushwhacker, or some combination of the two.

Cards Not Previously Mentioned:

The artifact lands and Springleaf Drum are targets for Kuldotha Rebirth they also fix our mana to get the much needed blue mana to start our storm plan.

Faithless Looting helps turn through our deck(potentially letting us dig 4 cards deep depending on mana reserve) Manamorphose also helps us get through our deck a bit and mana fix.

Sideboard Plan:

Under Construction

GorramScoundrel on Krark/Sakashima Shenanigans

1 year ago

I’d definitely recommend all the rituals, Desperate Ritual, Brightstone Ritual, and Pyretic Ritual (and Seething Song. Also might benefit from spells like Rite of Replication and Twinflame.

Made_Compleat on

2 years ago

You seem to make a lot of goblins, so Brightstone Ritual might be a good card. I'd also recommend March of Swirling Mist to set up an alpha strike, protect your creatures, and make more goblins. Nice deck!

Barbarian_Sun_Pope on Red Goblins

2 years ago

Nice deck (+1), Legion Loyalist and Rundvelt Hordemaster are definitely good inclusions. Have you considered cards in the 8-whack style decks such as Goblin Bushwhacker, Reckless Bushwhacker, and Battle Cry Goblin? Battle Hymn might be a decent substitute for Brightstone Ritual. Hope this helps.

patricklvanduyse on Zada Storm

2 years ago

Could I recommend adding in Reiterate? It's (if anything) a more powerful infinite combo piece than Dualcaster Mage + Twinflame or Dualcaster Mage + Heat Shimmer . Given enough mana to pay its buyback cost, it typically results in both infinite mana and infinite cast triggers with Inner Fire, Battle Hymn or Brightstone Ritual. It can even feed off of Seething Song if you have at least 2 or 3 of Runaway Steam-Kin, Helm of Awakening and Ruby Medallion on the field.

Goblinette on is muxus bald?

3 years ago

Nice!

Brightstone Ritual > Battle Hymn

KBK7101 on The Fine Art of Cruelty

3 years ago

Are Skirk Prospector and Brightstone Ritual really worth it with only eight goblins? I know Krenko can make stupid amounts of them, but the payoff seems a bit low with so few of them. I'd consider dropping them and maybe a land or two. Maybe add Chaos Warp and/or something like Enchanter's Bane for some protection from enchantments, Pariah's Shield for more defense from Hidetsugu's tap ability, Knollspine Dragon to draw massive amount of cards after Hidetsugu levels everyone and maybe Hellkite Courser to cheat out Hidetsugu out of nowhere.

Love the deck, though. Kamigawa is such a cool plane and I love the new Kamigawa Ink Secret Lair arts.