Crater Elemental

Creature — Elemental

{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Crater Elemental: Crater Elemental deals 4 damage to target creature.

Formidable — {2}{R}: Crater Elemental has base power 8 until end of turn. Activate this ability only if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

Polaris on If I have bottled Cloister …

2 years ago

Yeah, stuff like Crater Elemental and Erratic Cyclops can still mess you up (from experience with my friend's Aurelia Mentor deck).

FormOverFunction on Need some advice on Gadrak, …

3 years ago

Akki Underminer looks to fit the bill, as does Crack the Earth . Crater Elemental could end up counting for two triggers, couldn’t it..?

dickinsm on Omnath, All You Can Eat Lands

4 years ago

I would strongly reccommend decreasing creatures/elementals in favor of more dedicated ramp like Khalni Heart Expedition , Harrow , Kodama's Reach , Sakura-Tribe Elder and Myriad Landscape . In my experience if you can cast Omnath and then focus on triggering landfall you'll assemble a board state quickly. In terms of card draw Elemental Bond , Life's Legacy and Greater Good are incredible with those 5/5 elementals. Because Omnath is such an expensive general playing Swiftfoot Boots would probably help.

I would recommend replacing high cmc creatures like Bloodpyre Elemental , Silverglade Elemental , and Hearthcage Giant to speed up the deck. I'd also look at replacing cards like Pilgrim's Eye , Crater Elemental , Fire Shrine Keeper , Cinder Elemental , and Catalyst Elemental as they don't really have payoff without lots of mana or omnath, in which case ramping into a 5/5 seems better

Darth_Savage on 4 Color Hollow One (Avg. CMC .517)

6 years ago

Hi Ol_man,

No worries. Sideboard wise I'd recommend Crater Elemental, Darkness and Rakdos Charm I've been fairly happy with them... The deck can be explosive and is probably the most fun I've had for a while.

Darth_Savage on RB-g Hollow One

6 years ago

Hi Dragos_Nickolae

Nice take on the Hollow One deck (have a +1), but I have to ask why only 2 Leyline of the Void? Wouldn't you be better with 3x of it instead of the 1x Nihil Spellbomb? Or for that matter just use Nihil Spellbomb as your graveyard removal.

I run a version of this deck myself Zombie Hollow one, I've added a few cards to my maybe board from your list, including Grafted Wargear and figured I could return the favour with a few cards you might not have seen.

• Crater Elemental, this creature can slip under Ensnaring Bridge and getting 8 power isn't much of a restriction in this deck.

• Traitor's Clutch, this grants Shadow, in terms of evasion there isn't much better.

• Edge of Autumn, I've had this in my deck, then removed it... I'm not sure if it is worth including or not, but it is an interesting option.

• Nim Devourer, I'm not going to say this is good, more a pet card, still it seems to work ok in my take on the deck, I guess its a little like you running Squee, Goblin Nabob.

Caerwyn on Can Crater Elemental slip under …

6 years ago

Yes.

In Magic, there is a distinction between "to Attack" and "Attacking."

To attack is the physical action of declaring something an attacker. A creature is "attacking" if it is in combat attacking an enemy.

Ensnaring bridge only prevents creatures from being declared as an attacker--it does not prohibit creatures attacking.

So, cards like Crater Elemental can be declared as an attacker, and then subsequently pumped. Because their power was less than or equal to the cards in-hand at the time of being declared an attacker, they would bypass Ensnaring Bridge.

You can also cheat in large creatures with cards like Kaalia of the Vast, since the larger creature was never declared an attacker--it skipped right to "attacking."

In the future, please try to link cards with double brackets when making posts, just to make things a tad easier!

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VincentVonVeltschmerz on Tribal Elemental

7 years ago

Cool elementals to consider: Ashling, the Extinguisher, Avenger of Zendikar, Brighthearth Banneret, Cloudthresher, Consuming Bonfire, Crater Elemental, Deepfire Elemental, Doomgape, Fertilid, Flamekin Harbinger, Flickerwisp, Grave Sifter, Grinning Ignus, Incandescent Soulstoke, Living Inferno (yes it's over costed I still like it), Mulldrifter!!! Nevermaker, Roil Elemental, Slithermuse, Soul of the Harvest, Thornling, Tyrant of Discord, Vigor (expensive but quite good), Whisperwood Elemental, Wilderness Elemental

Grandmasterdel on Rage Tendencies

7 years ago

Thanks for the tips MagicalHacker, I DO need Gruul Turf!!

Actually, I did remove Blessings of Nature a while ago but made a mistake editing.

As of today, I got rid of Crater Elemental and Lightning Bolt and replace them with Goblin Bombardment and Liege of the Tangle.