Firestorm

Instant

As an additional cost to play Firestorm, discard X cards.

Firestorm deals X damage to each of X target creatures and/or players.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	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
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

DadHumanPraetor on Visions of Niv-Mizzet

5 months ago

Firestorm Chandra's Ignition Acidic Soil Manabarbs Pyrohemia

I use life blockers in my build- Sunspine Lynx Rampaging Ferocidon Sulfuric Vortex

I love this card it’s really fun to play

Megalomania on Flubs Ate All My Cards

11 months ago

Breakthrough and Firestorm are some autoincludes I have in my Flubs deck.

BEDECK on

3 years ago

Hmmmm. Are you really ok with all the life loss? If you happen to need to go Fetch Land > Blood Crypt > Faithless Looting > Lotus Petal > Reanimate you lose a ton of life...

I was thinking you could build the "traditional" BR Reanimator but with Emrakul (without Street Wraith, Bauble, Cabal Ritual and Simian Spirit Guide). The traditional version has a 60-80% consistency of a turn1/2 combo already.

If you choose to do so you would have 16 free slots. You could go with 4 Exhume, 4 Collective Brutality for some counterspell protection, 4 other creatures of choice that you like and 4 Thoughtseize.

I'm speaking from the veteran BR Reanimate player perspective that the opponent will usually have something to deal with you. Usually it is Karakas, Innocent Blood, Sudden Edict, Liliana of the Veil or a counterspell or something. Sometimes you can even lose because their creatures alone are faster than you (if you lose 16 life reanimating stuff).

So adding some other options as a "toolbox" could be good. Big beater creatures that mess up their plans are nice.

Sideboard

About the sideboard I was thinking the Wastelands may not be too effective.

If you are worried facing against troublesome Lands deck, I would recommend Magus of the Moon (since you can tutor and reanimate it). For creatures, usually a simple Pyroclasm does the trick. If you want to be fancy there is also Firestorm that may enable your combo.

For interaction you'll usually be worried about opposing Grafdigger's Cage, Leyline of the Void, Rest in Peace, etc. So to counter that you can either splash another color (white/green) or deal with it the same way Mono Black Reanimator deals with it: Ratchet Bomb and Feed the Swarm.

If you see too many counterspells it is always nice to have cheap good old Duress.

I think Engineered explosives was a nice touch. Just as By Force.

I think you can have a more effective 'change the target' effect with Ricochet Trap with all the blue in Legacy.

Blast Zone is interesting, but with so much Wasteland in the format it becomes unusable quite often.

I don't know what decks you are playing against and maybe it already works just fine in your meta/playgroup...

But I'm a BR Reanimator player of 6-8 years with it and I wanted to give some insights :V

Efreet_ on Handjob (Big Hand Rielle Build)

4 years ago

Firestorm is an allstar card in Rielle deck.

The_Blue_Dragon_God on Post-Paradox Locust God cEDH

4 years ago

IKavalier. I think the point of Firestorm is when you draw your deck with The Locust God out, you will in turn make infinite tokens (depending on the combo) to use as legal targets.

jconeil1988 on Love Affair of Ramirez and Jeska

4 years ago

Ares666 that one slipped by me. I'll take a look at it. Removal good. Is it better than Knollspine Invocation though? Typically I can only recover one spell per turn with this current build. If the deck was extra combat driven Firestorm is in instantly.

I could test it in place of Turbulent Dreams . The instant speed makes it more desirable, however dreams doesn't need to worry about damage for removal. Hmm. Great suggestion. Thank you.

Ares666 on Love Affair of Ramirez and Jeska

4 years ago

Have you thought about running Firestorm ? Very solid removal and fits with your discard syngery

RambIe on How Can I Build Kenrith/Artifact …

4 years ago

little over kill
but you could add another layer of protection by adding
Pull from Eternity to get Riftsweeper back if it gets exiled
and
Firestorm so that you can reset your deck at instant speed in case someone tries to make you draw while your deck is empty
that should be enough layers to answer anything