Flame-Kin Zealot

Creature — Elemental Berserker

When Flame-Kin Zealot enters the battlefield, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste until end of turn.

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
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

3n3rgy2 on Monster Codex [Primer]

2 years ago

So yeah. This is a very sweet deck! After play testing it a few times, it feels really good getting a Craterhoof Behemoth in the bin alongside a Flame-Kin Zealot! If I could make a suggestion, I feel like Pathbreaker Ibex would be a phenomenal include as it kinda does what crater hoof does! Very sweet list though!

thitev on Manaless Dredge

3 years ago

The discard Pharaoh tricks and discarding dredgers with Unmask was new to me, so thanks for this guide! But I disagree on some points:

According to my calculation the likelihood of having at least one dredge card in the 7 card starting hand is

for 13 dredgers in deck: 1-(60-13)!(60-7)!/(60!(60-13-7)!)= 83,7%

for 14 dredgers in deck: 1-(60-14)!(60-7)!/(60!(60-14-7)!)= 86,1%

for 15 dredgers in deck: 1-(60-15)!(60-7)!/(60!(60-15-7)!)= 88,2%

So maybe you can get away with running only 13 dredgers ??

Also I think that Balustrade Spy (or Whirlpool Drake) is as good or better than Ashen Rider in almost all situations:

-fair blue matchups: winning anyway without Dread Return

-Stompy: if they have Trinisphere, no dread return anyway; if they dont have it and aggro us spy wins the game

-dark depths: spy = win

-show and tell: put spy into play; if we have Progenitus/Worldspine Wurm/... in deck we win. If Whirlpool Drake is used, those "shuffle back" cards are not needed, so no slot gets used up by it. If they put Progenitus into play, Ashen Rider doesn't kill it.

-Elephant Grass: Lotleth Giant doesn't care, spy wins

-Glacial Chasm: Ashen Rider is better unless the wincon is Thassa's Oracle

In all of these cases Balustrade Spy wins on the spot, not giving your opponent more turns to draw cards. Only drawback is you have to put a finisher like Lotleth Giant/Thassa's Oracle/Flame-Kin Zealot/... into your deck for the immediate kill, but without that you still get lots of Narcomoebas, zombies, etc and don't lose the game next turn as long as Progenitus is in deck or Golgari Thug is reanimated and sacced, so still enough time to attack with all the zombies.

gingerthewritingdog on

4 years ago

After playing this deck for quite a bit I have found that one of the most effective gameplans is to fill up your graveyard with creatures that you can get onto the battlefield for free, then sack them to Dread Return a Balustrade Spy , which mills your entire deck. Next, use the other Dread Return s and some more expendable creatures to get back Flayer of the Hatebound as well as Flame-Kin Zealot to buff the army of zombies you made from your Bridge from Below s and swing for game. If that attack doesn't instantly win you the game, all of the creatures returning from your graveyard on your upkeep, which trigger flayer, should do the trick.

Game_of_Cones on Shambling Toward Victory

4 years ago

Thanks to you, KylerStar, for much appreciated suggestions- don’t think I own any of the ones on your list except maybe a couple? The two creatures you suggested seem like especially good adds...

Also thanks to YouveBeen0wned for upvoting- I did same for your Sliver EDH!

Just removed these 5: Harmonize , Trollhide , Spider Climb , Flame-Kin Zealot , and Frenzied Tilling in favor of “better, cheaper stuff”.

Ziusdra on Mardu Attack/Token

5 years ago

I love Alesha, I run a budget Alesha deck. Just a few notes I'd like to share from my experience: Ankle Shanker doesn't work in combination with Alesha's ability, due to trigger timing, so you have to count on getting Ankle Shanker 's ability to trigger the turn after you resurrect him (the same would technically be true with Mardu Strike Leader ). If you want to run tokens as a sub-theme, I recommend Ponyback Brigade and Noosegraf Mob , since you can resurrect both with Alesha and their abilities trigger when they enter the battlefield. Flame-Kin Zealot also benefits you for going wide with lots of tokens. And if you want Alesha's ability to work without her dying all the time, whether due to blockers or removal, make sure to give her some kick@$$ gear: I run Cloak and Dagger , Swiftfoot Boots , Whispersilk Cloak , and Sunforger . Oh, and Hero's Blade , which I think is greedy but she has first strike, so it's pretty good. I think those will work better for you than the auras, especially since they cost colorless mana and allow you a little more flexibility. Relentless Assault would be a fun sorcery for you to run with all your tokens. As you play this, you may find that you need more card draw & more creatures in your graveyard for Alesha to resurrect for you, so I would be remiss to not mention Faithless Looting , Wild Guess , and Tormenting Voice ( Cathartic Reunion and Dangerous Wager also works). Put your expensive creatures with 2 power from your hand into your graveyard so that they only cost 2 mana to put onto the battlefield when you trigger Alesha. So Noosegraf Mob and Ponyback Brigade become instead of their normal mana costs, which is such a bargain. Have fun! Alesha is amazing.

Ziusdra on

5 years ago

Re:Leverd01 Thanks, I have been considering Archetype of Courage , but its effect is almost redundant with my commander (the only most-likely card on the board when Archetype is played) and First Strike doesn't go very far when you consider there are only going to be a couple of creatures out at a time, as many of them are easy to pick off. It doesn't go as wide as you think it should, but it could if you draw well and your opponents leave you unchecked. The strategy is to cheat out Sewer Nemesis or Nighthowler for the kill (especially if you can trigger Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion in the same attack), which should be an easy kill if Impact Tremors , Gray Merchant of Asphodel , and Kambal, Consul of Allocation have been chipping away at your opponent(s), not to mention any damage going through from Alesha and various other attackers you've brought back along the way. Cathars' Crusade and Flame-Kin Zealot help you to go wide, but First Strike doesn't help go for the throat the same way that even Menace or Deathtouch do. He's a great thought... but what ought go out to replace him?

SenseiRamen on

5 years ago

Anger doesn't work without a mountain, which is hard to come by in a deck without lands. Most other manaless dredge decks run Flame-Kin Zealot instead.

Pheardemons on All My Friends Are Dead.

6 years ago

Hammer of Purphoros, Fervor, Fires of Yavimaya, Emblem of the Warmind, Anger

Mass Hysteria, Concordant Crossroads

Sarkhan Vol,Flame-Kin Zealot, Burst of Speed

Urabrask the Hidden, Legion Loyalist

Bananastormcount20, I've got you on the tags. Heads up, (not sure if you know and there was just some error) but to tag something you need to put brackets at the beginning and end of the card name. Example: [ [ Mass Hysteria ] ] (without the space between the word and brackets) becomes Mass Hysteria. Also, you can double check yourself when you go to preview comment. You should be able to check if the tags show up there.