Galvanic Blast

Instant

Galvanic Blast deals 2 damage to target creature, player or planeswalker.

Metalcraft — Galvanic Blast deals 4 damage to that creature, player or planeswalker instead if you control three or more artifacts.

Discussion (50)

Adversarial on Me Smash You Dead

1 month ago

Thanks for all the suggestions Apollo, no offense taken at all, I'm glad to get feedback.

Truthfully this deck had all but one of your suggested cards in it at one point or another during the crafting phase, and they're all very effective. The thing I was going for though with this deck was a more early-game focused blitz style of deck as opposed to a more balanced and long-haul strategy. Mostly focusing on getting Colossus Hammer onto the cheaper goblins ASAP to try to finish by turn 3/4.

I felt that the Puresteel Paladin wasn't really pulling it's weight until around turn 4 or 5 when the metalcraft really comes online, with the more simple and straightforward approach only needing 1-2 artifacts in play to inflict lethal in the early stages. Thus I felt like he was slowing things down, despite being very powerful. Same story for Sram, Senior Edificer.

The aim here is to go full agro early and less to play into a more safe Boros playstyle. Honestly this deck would be mono-red if it didn't rely so much on Steelshaper's Gift for tutoring the Colossus Hammer early. I get that the deck maybe isn't optimized, and your version would be more consistent, but I've always been a Johnny at heart.

Infiltration Lens may be worth consideration though, since you're definitely right about card-draw being a massive plus in leu of the bigger mana-base that I have currently. So that may help to even speed the deck up more than the Bonesplitters do. The aim with them was to hopefully create a health enough assault team while I wait for the right cards to initiate the desired Hammer combo, but drawing cards would likely expedite this, so I wouldn't have to worry about just dealing some damage in the meantime while I wait for something better.

The problem I had with Kor Duelist was that he frequently lacked trample and could easily be blocked by fodder early, while the Cathar's Shield didn't play well into the full-offensive aesthetic (but maybe I should focus less on what doesn't feel right and more on what works). Something else I had in the vein of 0-drop equipments was Bone Saw, but also felt it lacked punch or any utility without the metalcraft of card draw from Puresteel Paladin and Sram, Senior Edificer.

I'll definitely play around with re-tuning the mana-base and adding in the Infiltration Lenses though, since that would help with speeding things up, as I mentioned.

Another thought I had was something like Faithless Looting, Crash Through or Renegade Tactics in order to get a little bit of card-draw going, while also neutralising blockers. I'll look more into those perhaps.

Adding in 4X Ancient Den and 4X Great Furnace would also make it more likely to trigger Puresteel Paladin's metalcraft as an easy way to equip Colossus Hammer, and opens the deck up to something like Galvanic Blast or Dispatch for some early utility spells that would also have their metalcraft triggered. That was what I was considering for the more-well-rounded and more white-oriented version of the deck, though as I said before; what I'm really trying to do is maximize efficiency and speed rather than play the long-game.

I appreciate the help, really, and I'll look into how I can make the deck better with your suggestions. Thank you.

DBCooper on Enlightened Equipments (Budget)

3 months ago

Galvanic Blast would be a good addition, I think, given how many artifacts you're running.

RNR_Gaming on Oblivion Engine

4 months ago

I still don't think it was the mechanic so much as the cards in that environment it existed in. If you look at Mirrodin Standard affinity Frogmite and Thoughtcast were the only cards in the meta breaking deck with affinity for artifacts. If you look at affinity prior to Mox Opal ban most players either used Thoughtcast or Galvanic Blast the rest of the deck leaned heavily on Cranial Plating and efficient robots. Though Maro is an actual game design and I'm just some scrub who cannot wait for another game warping card :)

Icbrgr on Mono-Red answer for Stony silence?

5 months ago

@DragonSliver9001 I think you may be confusing colors with archetypes/strategies. Skred Red isn't a Burn/RDW deck running 16-18 mountain using Lightning Bolt/Goblin Guide to get the opponents life total to 0 ASAP.

Although its a Mono-Red deck that likes Lightning Bolt; Skred is more on the Control/Prison spectrum of Magic. They have 22 or more lands as well as mana rocks/accelerators and have 5 drop finishers like Batterskull/Stormbreath Dragon + Planswalkers. To achieve this endgame strategy Skred decks focus on restricting and denying the opponent's resources or actions via removal and mana deprivation. Scrying Sheets/Artifacts used at End of the opponents turn to dig deeper into the deck for answers/finishers are certainly welcome.

@MagicMarc I do not have the intention to remove any of the artifacts at this time. T2 Mind Stone sets up a T3 Koth of the Hammer as well as help pay for other generic costs so my untapped mountains can be used to pay for other spells, and then replaces itself in the late game if needed... Relic of Progenitus is great against so many different decks having any graveyard synergies/values and at its worst replaces itself... Pyrite Spellbomb is the least exciting IMO however; the options for an additional 2 damage here and there is nice and if needed replaces itself.

As far as Metalcraft in this deck is concerned; its honestly more of a gimmick than anything.... Galvanic Blast vs Burst Lightning or Kuldotha Phoenix vs Stormbreath Dragon... there are arguments to be made either way in both cases but I personally just found the metalcraft skred sub-theme to just be my own personal touch to an otherwise known/solved/tried and true deck.

MagicMarc on Mono-Red answer for Stony silence?

5 months ago

The bomb and relic are for metalcraft counts. If you plan on replacing them, you would need new artifacts to replace them. If you replace them with burn spells then you should probably replace Galvanic Blast as well if there is a better burn card than it without the metalcraft. Stuff like Burst Lightning or Skewer the Critics, etc.

Darkshadow9 on $5 Cheerio Improv

6 months ago

Love this deck, it’s so fast and simple. How about Galvanic Blast? Might be a good addition here. And maybe Frogmite, Cranial Plating, Memnite, Welding Jar? (Not budget)

Flooremoji on Burn baby burn

7 months ago

In your maybe board Galvanic Blast looks a bit strange. Did you know it can't target players?

rdean14 on Card creation challenge

7 months ago

That seems very well balanced, I really like that a lot!

Chandra's Sprites

Creature - Elemental

Haste

At the beginning of your endstep, sacrifice Chandra's Sprites, when you do, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token with "Sacrifice this creature at the beginning of your endstep."

1/1

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I want a narrow spell that's better than a staple, like Galvanic Blast