Lightning Skelemental

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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
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Lightning Skelemental

Creature — Elemental Skeleton

Trample, haste

Whenever Lightning Skelemental deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice Lightning Skelemental.

Shorketh on $50 Sack of Elementals

2 months ago

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/lzmLKO7gs0mcqINQ5qLoXA

This is the version of the deck I'm workshopping currently, I bought all these awesome premise pieces from Mobizque and I'm just tinkering with it. Having 16 creatures when all the instants, sorceries and artifacts all revolve around them seems a bit janky, but in the end all you need is a Thunderkin Awakener and a Lightning Skelemental to cycle. Cards like Call of the Death-Dweller, Unearth, Lightning Bolt and Supernatural Stamina working to keep the thunderkin alive.

The early game is to establish your game plan using what you have in your hand and Flamekin Harbingers to get you there. Turn one Duress is always good but I didn't want to lean too hard into it. Getting a Skelemental by turn three is surprisingly consistent, and cycling it doesn't prove hard. From there you can begin raking in your benefits from damage and card draw. Incandescent Soulstroke allows you to do some fun Nova Chaser shenanigans. I'm still iffy and changing things around so I'm all ears for what people have to say.

Thank you Mobizque and assorted comments >:D

Azoth2099 on

6 months ago

toxicsunshine22

Hey dude! Gonna try to keep this brief and not go down a brewing rabbit hole lol.

Have you considered extra combat phases? Your Commander's strategy obviously hinges upon you being able to attack with it, so doing it multiple times a turn is the way to go imho.

Although I wouldn't go overboard with it, there are a few worth thinking over such as Aggravated Assault, Combat Celebrant, Breath of Fury (extra good if you're running creatures that want to be sacrificed on your way to drawing cards via your Commander, Cathodion for example), Seize the Day, Savage Beating & World at War.

Creatures that sacrifice themselves could also be great, stuff like Ball Lightning, Groundbreaker & Lightning Skelemental can do a lot of damage. Blood Pet, Goldhound, Reckless Barbarian, Generator Servant, Tinder Wall, Wild Cantor & Basal Thrull draw and ramp you at the same time, which is pretty neat. Eldrazi token generators like Sifter of Skulls, From Beyond & Awakening Zone can help you keep that engine running in longer games. Haywire Mite, Caustic Caterpillar &Cankerbloom draw, control the board and replace their presence on your own board for a great rate.

There are a few value pieces worth thinking about as well, like, Pitiless Plunderer & Korvold, Fae-Cursed King.

Lastly, you need a lot more mana dorks, my guy. As many as possible.

Sorry for being so long-winded! Cheers!

jarncards on Rakdos, Many Strike

7 months ago

Skullclamp feels like an auto-include when you can pump out sacrificial thulls.

Shadowspear is also pretty good, as usual. As is Basilisk Collar since it can push your trample damage through.

I don't think Raphael is very good. He's very expensive for +1/1 and lifelink. You happen to use some demons, which is incidentally useful, but I think your deck will be worse if you start excluding better creatures because they aren't demons. For instance.... Jeska loves Ball Lightning and Lightning Skelemental. And Hunted Horror can attack for 21 on the earliest turn that you could possibly play jeska. It doesn't even need haste.

If you use want to use sheoldred the apocalypse, play wheels. The only reason not to would be if you intentionally want to weaken your deck because it's overpowered. If so I'd cut sheoldred before I'd consider not using wheels in these colors.

Combat Celebrant is a good secondary source of extra combats.

Death's Shadow + lifelink and jeska is kinda silly when you get low.

Azoth2099 on Kresh of the savage horde

8 months ago

RockIV

Edicts! Mass Edicts! Fleshbag Marauder, Merciless Executioner, Demon's Disciple, Plaguecrafter & Gravelighter are all nuts in this build. I wouldn't recommend ones that cost more than 3, though. Soul Shatter, Vona's Hunger, Liliana's Triumph & Sheoldred's Edict do the same thing at Instant speed, with the tradeoff being less Counters on Kresh the Bloodbraided, as those are not Creature Spells.

Those cheap, 3-drop Elemental stompers are solid as well, like Ball Lightning & Lightning Skelemental.

I'd also recommend literally as many Dorks as possible, as they also pump Kresh when they die, they're utility at both the floor and the ceiling of your deck is undeniable.

Pestilence & Pyrohemia are also worth it for this Commander for the same reason mass Edicts are worth it: controlling the board and pumping your Commander at the same time is just a great thing to do.

More card draw couldn't hurt either, maybe a Beast Whisperer & a Dark Tutelage or something.

Cheers!

Brickhouse on Balls Lightning

10 months ago

This thing is fast, harsh, and hard to deal with. It deals a ton of damage early and it's consistent about it. Thunderkin Awakener does so much work. Especially so because it has haste. If that isn't enough, them discarding two cards at a time to Lightning Skelemental happens in most games. Usually, the reason this deck loses is because of mana issues.

My advice is to keep your mana curve low. This is a full-on aggro type of deck.

tangentbaker on Lightning Cajones

11 months ago

What do you think about this RB elemental deck, I like the Unearth, Lightning Skelemental, Fulminator Mage and Spark Elemental it has. Grixis would be too expensive for a budget I think, but the counterspells of your deck are also hard to pass on.

Zarthalius on Harsh Elements

1 year ago

I've been perfecting my elemental Mardu deck for a year or so now. My goal was budget, heavy hitting tramplers, and reanimation. I had many of the same ideas you have here except black gives me access to Unearth and hand discard with Lightning Skelemental.

Some key differences:

  • I use Stigma Lasher to stop lifegain decks by turn 3.
  • I just recently replaced Double Cleave with the newly reprinted Twinflame. It makes sense to also use Twinflame on Thunderkin Awakener where Double Cleave didn't. I figured 1 instant speed double strike 6/1 was weaker then 2 6/1s with lifegain and hand discard effects.
  • I also decided to protect Thunderkin Awakener with Infiltration Lens because he must attack for his ability to trigger; Him getting blocked is most likely how he'll die. So, why not make your opponent decide between 1 elemental from your graveyard or maybe 2 from your deck. Plus, I usually have an Unearth in hand. Or, maybe I'll draw into another Thunderkin Awakener.
  • Infiltration Lens can also be equipped to the 6/1s to encourage full damage throughput.
  • I find that the very persistant and constant barrage of 6/1s to be enough to overwhelm the opponent.

I do like a few of the elementals you have here like Incandescent Soulstoke. I'll have to see if they may work in my deck too.

Anyways, here is the link to my deck for reference. Tappedout thinks its 75% competitive.

The Elemental Paradox

legendofa on SKELETONS!

1 year ago

As far as color goes, black is vital. Green is probably the next best, for Skeletal Swarming if nothing else. Red isn't critical, but offers options like Flameskull, Lightning Skelemental, and the new Gut, True Soul Zealot. Blue is weak; Demilich is okay in a spell-heavy build, and Skeleton Ship and Mortus Strider have good art. White has virtually nothing for skeletons specifically, but Brave the Sands and Mark of Asylum and that sort of thing is useful if you have a lot of regenerators.

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