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Crash of Rhino Beetles
Creature — Insect
Trample
Crash of Rhino Beetles gets +10/+10 as long as you control ten or more lands.
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Snowmain Ephemerate
2 weeks ago
amarthaler Thanks for the upvote and comment!
So the deck does occasionally get to 10+ lands, but not consistently enough by late-game that I feel comfortable running Crash of Rhino Beetles. It is a pretty sweet card though, so I'll definitely keep it in mind for future updates.
Landfall has me thinking similar -- I just don't think the payoffs are worth it, since the brew is focused on ramping early game to turn on domain. By mid-game, I generally have enough lands (7-8) to pursue the deck's different strategies, so I often hold back on ramping to use the mana on other things.
Honestly, I'm not confident the deck can withstand heavy aggro, but that's what sideboarding is for :P there's a large Pauper event this Thursday I'm heading to where I'll have the opportunity to test the current list.
amarthaler on
Snowmain Ephemerate
2 weeks ago
Very nice, original deck list. I appreciate the game match up debriefs to hear how it played out.
Does it ramp well enough for something like Crash of Rhino Beetles to work? Or any landfall creatures? Looking at the faerie match up, my initial thought was this deck needs a way to withstand heavy aggro decks or fend off against burn.
I do think the fog effects in the deck will be nice sideboards.
GameofFame on
Carrion, My Wayward Swarm (Grist Insects + Song)
1 year ago
Hey man I love the deck. I wanna build something like this to be a fun way to get around my friends decks, which are mostly big creature/control decks. What do you think about Virus Beetle/Blightbeetle for some control, or maybe even Giant Ankheg/Crash of Rhino Beetles/Vorapede for some damage? I know Grist Ult is the main win con, but I was thinking it would be a nice challenge to get 100% insect tribal deck with some win cons of their own. Circuit Mender and Triumph of the Hordes might also be fun. Awesome build tho, you've definitely given me some ideas!
mx439 on
Volo's Legion
4 years ago
Update 10/29/21:
Major changes have been made.
Out: Snow-Covered Island, Beast Whisperer, Crash of Rhino Beetles, Dungrove Elder, Neverwinter Hydra, Omnath, Locus of Mana, Reclamation Sage, Seedborn Muse, Deepglow Skate, Icebreaker Kraken, Rite of Replication.
In: Halimar Depths, Rampant Growth, Migratory Greathorn, Majestic Myriarch, Gemrazer, Sky Diamond, Simic Signet, Clone, Serum Visions, Telling Time, Whelming Wave.
legendofa on Why does rarity matter?
4 years ago
This has been gnawing at the back of my mind for a while now. Why are Commander-exclusive cards given rarities at all? The point of rarity is to show how often that card will show up in a randomized pack, but most Commander products are completely predictable, down to the order that you see the cards. Loyal Subordinate, Crash of Rhino Beetles, and Tuvasa the Sunlit all show up with identical frequency in C18 products. Is there any functional reason to have them be different rarities, or is it just to show off the relative awesomeness of the cards?
Shaffe_House on
This Land is my Land
4 years ago
Part 2
Other Cards that you could consider cutting
- Ondu Giant => Seedguide Ash this card is one more mana expsive and has to die inorder to get the lands, but could be such a good upside. This dieing with your commander reads ramp 3 draw 3 cards and gain 3 life
- Soratami Mirror-Guard I get what you are doing here, but I feel like there are better payoffs for this
- Timbermaw Larva => Rampaging Brontodon trample is 1,000% better on this card
- Wakeroot Elemental 5 greens for a 5/5? way overcosted
- Wave-Wing Elemental again similar argument to Windrider Eel not that big of an impact
- Wild Wanderer good but could have better options
- Aetherflux Reservoir I know this is good in commander but why? No synergy at all, there has to be a better card slot here
- Elixir of Immortality I used to put this in all of my decks too, but it is counter productive to your stragay with cards like Splendid Reclamation and The Mending of Dominaria
- Wayfarer's Bauble There is better ramp than this in green
- I see why you have Jiang Yanggu but I feel like there is stronger cards than that. I cut the card to tutor Journey for the Elixir for him sorry :(
- There are a bunch of other better than Ranger's Path you could add, I'll show them in the recommendations
- Future Sight and Ominous Seas both seem strange here. I get future sight can draw cards, BUT I feel you should use mana sinks rather than off the top of your library draw
- Ghostly Flicker is on thin ice, like yes you have all the etb creatures but sometimes it is a dead card. meh at best?
Other Cards that you could consider adding
This is where the fun begins and your wallet cries
- You want Nissa, Who Shakes the World great card, it is a mana doubler ramp, and also you just win with the ultimate
- I heard you like ramp try Tireless Provisioner and pick up one for me while you are at it please
- Here is a gaint list of green ramp Harrow , Growth Spiral , Explore , Khalni Heart Expedition , Roiling Regrowth , Grow from the Ashes , Urban Evolution , Migration Path , Natural Connection , Nissa's Renewal , Nylea's Intervention , Spring / Mind , Animist's Awakening , Omen of the Hunt
- Keeping your life total at a high level Kazandu Nectarpot , Grazing Gladehart , Retreat to Kazandu , Jaddi Offshoot
- Mana Sinks, you are going to have a lot of mana, might as well do something with it Kamahl's Druidic Vow ummm.... yes? Kefnet the Mindful one of my favorite Gods, that doesn't have a place. I look forward to getting attacked by him Sprout Swarm it is really easy for this card to be "free"
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Win Cons Blackblade Reforged yes, all the yes Kamahl’s Will All the lands become creatures lol Crash of Rhino Beetles oh crap a 15/15 oh no Oran-Rief Hydra meh, but it could be good?
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Other just good cards Frilled Mystic , Trygon Predator , Plasm Capture Gush , Tragic Lesson , Simic Charm , Rampage of the Clans
That is all I can think of at the moment. I'm sure I'll have more la
golgarigirl on
5 years ago
I think one thing to pay a little closer attention to is not 'what is the card' but 'what does it do for the deck'. Example: Blackblade Reforged is and equipement. But what does it do? It makes a creature bigger based on land. It cares about number of land in play. I would put it with other cards that care about land such as Bountiful Harvest, Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar, and Crash of Rhino Beetles. That gives you an idea of how many lands you want to have out.
Cards like Sakura-Tribe Elder and Yavimaya Elder I would put with your 'Land Tutors'. I tend to separate cards like Budoka Gardener Flip into 'Land Drop'...cards that allow you to 'drop' or play more lands per turn. We're definitely going to be looking for more of those in the future! Plummet and Reclamation Sage are definitely 'Destruction' cards.
A few of the cards, like Wings of Hubris and Poison-Tip Archer, don't seem to have an answer...at least not a good one...for 'what does this do for the deck'. Archer likes lots of creatures to die. Does your deck want that? Not really. Wings wants to allow a big giant thing to hit someone really hard. Does your deck need help with that? Not really...most of your big things already trample.
On the bright side, this gives us more room for more goodies for the deck!
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Locus of angry jellybeans
5 years ago
Hey, looks good for a budget version of Omnath, but you forgot Command Tower and Sol Ring :)
Sol could replace Anger because without having a consistent way to discard Anger it's lackluster for a four drop. Battledriver/Crasher are better four drops for giving haste. Because of so many Forests consider Orcish Lumberjack replacing Tornado Elemental? By sacing one Forest after tapping it for mana with Lumberjack that Forest makes four mana. It's a fast way to ramp into Omnath. Tornado is the least good of the high CMC creatures and there's a lot of high CMC creatures here.
Consider Fierce Empath replacing Rubblehulk? Budget tutor for Avenger, Multani, Ulvenwald or any other 6 CMC or higher creature. Consider Primal Command replacing Crash of Rhino Beetles? Ten lands is a lot of lands to make Beetles worth five mana. Solemn Simulacrum is the lowest price it's been in a long time; it was reprinted in the Mystery Booster Cards set.
Good luck with your deck.