Meltdown

Sorcery

Destroy each artifact with converted mana cost/mana value x or less.

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
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (26)

Balaam__ on Dig Hard with a Vengeance

5 months ago

@kamarupa yeah that’s definitely the Achilles’ heel, once the graveyard gets tampered with it’s essentially game over. Then again, this isn’t a deck I’d want to play repeatedly, more that I wanted to build around a card I hadn’t come across before. No deck is perfect, and this one is…less perfect than most, ha.

@Andramalech thanks for the suggestions. I don’t think Meltdown is as good as it first seems. I thought about it and reason that people usually don’t have multiple copies of artifact graveyard hate cards in play simultaneously, so the multi-hit functionality is pretty useless outside of hindering otherwise artifact heavy builds. Plus that’s mana that could be used to move the gameplan forward. I do like Abrade and Flare of Cultivation though; the former has extra utility and I’ve never seen the latter before. It’s a new card to me and it might speed things up dramatically. I’ll maybeboard those.

Andramalech on Dig Hard with a Vengeance

5 months ago

Balaam__ it's nice to see you posting a list like this! Seems like something I could potentially use. Very cool, middle-of-the-road kinda deck mechanically, but the idea behind it? Incredible. I agree with capwner that something like Seasoned Pyromancer would be extra useful for you. kamarupa makes a really great point that a few cards like Meltdown, Abrade (can't remember if that's the artifact one), etc. that one-off target an artifact. Some instant-speed removal pieces would help defend against your worst matchups with Leyline of the Void, Tormod's Crypt, and other grave-hating decks. Speeding up your process with cards like Flare of Cultivation might really make that an unexpected victory!

Xica on Molten Opals

5 months ago

Thoughcast is a fine card. What i meant is that in the age when Meltdown and Wrath of the Skies are common in sideboards, cards that only work when you have lotsa artifacts on the field fall into the "now i win even harder" school of deckbuilding.
They work fine when you are ahead and unopposed, but they are a liability when opponents pack hate cards.

Sure they are explosive. Sadly that aint an important quality in durdly midrange-ish decks. Not accidentally folding to hate cards aimed at other decks is more important, when the deck is too slow to "win before hate card resolves".



And well i have to strongly disagree with your take on land destruction. I agree that ramping provided by Cleansing Wildfire and Geomancer's Gambit is great. But i cannot agree with the rest of what you wrote. Most modern decks rarely run much basic, typically they run less than 3. And to say the least most such decks cannot function on 2 or less lands. As such the Stone Rain impressio of the field cards is very relevant.
Sadly Ghost Quarter is inferior, due to leaving you with fewer lands when you activate it. As much as there is nostalgia for it, its still aint great.
And Leonin Arbiter is completely unnecessary, when people don't have basic to search for anyways.

capwner on 8-Reck

5 months ago

Boros Reckoner is classic stuff... this deck seems super fun. What do you think of Ocelot Pride to help accelerate into your blasphemous acts and provide a little bit of extra meat on the board for a more grindy game? Same with the MH3 Ajani. These would also serve to bait out removal and leave the path clear for your reckoning. These cards are what make Boros Energy so powerful and I don't see why you couldn't take advantage too. One more suggestion, I'm also a big fan of Surgical Extraction in the board as opposed to Soul-Guide Lantern because it's instant speed and much harder for reanimator to play around, plus it's valuable vs non-reanimator strategies to pick apart their deck. Meltdown is also very good right now I think better than Cast into the Fire for artifact hate, and I also like Ricochet Trap for anti-countermagic. 4 sideboard blood moon also seems like lot I think generally it's good to have a more diverse range of sideboard cards instead of going all in on 1 card.

wallisface on Affinity

1 year ago

Andramalech as the affinity list is currently among the top of the meta, it’s the best possible time to leverage the collective knowledge of all those people using it - the current competitive list looks like this

I am relatively certain that Kappa Cannoneer will make the list once MH3 is released, though it’s super hard to gauge what the list will look like without the full set reveal. Other cards being printed into MH3 like Meltdown might make it a lot harder for the deck to reliably compete - but again, time will tell.

EnbyGolem on Criminally Underplayed EDH Gems

3 years ago

It’s becoming more well known (as evidence by its rising price tag) but I still think Meltdown is definitely underrated. It is such a great way to punish the players who chain mana rocks in the first two turns or any deck that relies on populating their field with treasure tokens.

plakjekaas on What is your pet tech …

3 years ago

Primal Order when your meta is greedy 3-5 color decks, this card does massive damage.

Meltdown and Seeds of Innocence in decks that don't run many artifacts. Like an Armageddon for broken fast artifact mana and/or many treasures.

griffstick on Are there any old cards …

4 years ago

I love statistics though.

I'm picking up copies of all these cards now lol especially these

• Fanatical Devotion
• Homarid Spawning Bed
• Cadaverous Bloom
• Ghost Town
• Meltdown
• Argivian Find
• Paralyze

I just want to mention Gaea's Touch , this card is criminally underplayed.