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Runaway Steam-Kin
Creature — Elemental
Whenever you cast a red spell, if Runaway Steam-Kin has fewer than three +1/+1 counters on it, put a +1/+1 counter on Runaway Steam-Kin.
Remove 3 +1/+1 counters from Runaway Steam-Kin: Add .
Noxid05 on
Feather Duster
3 weeks ago
Have you thought about running Birgi, God of Storytelling Flip, Storm-Kiln Artist, or Runaway Steam-Kin? I find these cards allow me to make the most of being able to cast spells every turn in my feather deck
Xarabas on
Chandras Cavalcade
9 months ago
i’m not convinced that either Experimental Frenzy or Footfall Crater do anything useful for you here.
Well the problem of this deck is, that it is a bit slow and can't do much against control. Experimental Frenzy especially when paired with Runaway Steam-Kin gives me a lot of card advantage. I had a lot of games where I waited until my enemy was tapped out and couldn't counter Experimental Frenzy and it helped me get back in the game.
I am absolutely not sure about Footfall Crater as well. Another Problem of this Deck is when I keep getting jump blocked by tiny creatures. Fling helps against that but sometimes I just want to have trample and keep my creature alive.
your land count is super-low considering your mana curve and your requirement to hit at least 3 lands - i’d go up to 22-23. it’ll be better just to run a mountain instead of Kazuul's Fury
Okay sure I'll give it a try when playtesting :)
where’s Lightning Bolt!!
In the Mail I hope :D This was once a standard Deck and it's very low budget. I'll keep updating it with better cards from time to time tho.
king-saproling on
Davros, Dragon's Approach
1 year ago
Cool deck! You might like these: Runaway Steam-Kin, Syr Carah, the Bold, Jin-Gitaxias Flip
Quickspell on Does this Dragon‘s Approach combo …
1 year ago
While playtesting I discovered this combo, allowing me to exile my whole deck and play all Dragon's Approach cards in it. Does it work?
Cards on the battlefield:
- Locket of Yesterdays
- Birgi, God of Storytelling
Flip or Runaway Steam-Kin
- Virtue of Courage
Cards in graveyard:
- Dragon's Approach
- Dragon's Approach
Cards in hand:
- Dragon's Approach
I cast Dragon's Approach for because of the Locket of Yesterdays‘ cost reduction. This causes Birgi, God of Storytelling Flip to produce and Virtue of Courage to exile nine cards. From among those I can play any Dragon’s Approach practically for free as Birgi reimburses any spent. At the end I have my whole library exiled with Virtue, but I only die if I would have to draw a card. So, at the beginning of my next upkeep or instantly to a Ancestral Recall.
But as long as I don’t draw a card, I can cast all Dragon‘s Approaches in my deck.
With Runaway Steam-Kin this should work too, as long as I can repeatedly cast three Dragon‘s Approaches.
Am I missing something?
Azoth2099 on
Narset's Work Out Plan
1 year ago
This version of Narset looks so fun, man!
One thing that I feel is fundamental when remembering Narset, Enlightened Exile's function as a Commander is that her ability gives you Graveyard hate as well as pseudo card draw by giving you access to your opponent's Graveyards as well as your own, meaning that you will always have card advantage as long as you protect your Commander.
That being said, I would definitely find room for Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Mother of Runes, Giver of Runes, & an abundance of Counterspells. Personally, I don't like spending more than 1 Mana for a Counterspell these days. Red Elemental Blast, Pyroblast, Dispel, Swan Song & An Offer You Can't Refuse provide a crazy ceiling of value for a single Mana. If you wanted to roll with 2-drops for budget reasons, though, Delay, Arcane Denial, Dovin's Veto & Negate are all easy to cast, & throw a wide net. Misdirection & Bolt Bend are also options here.
Secondly, Narset, Enlightened Exile can only trigger on your own turn, & you need to ensure that everything is going to go as planned. Grand Abolisher & Conqueror's Flail will lock your opponents out of your turn without giving your opponents the same utility like cards like Teferi, Time Raveler & Defense Grid notoriously do. Silence, Revel in Silence Flip, Abeyance & Orim's Chant can do something similar for 1-2 Mana.
Speaking of Stax, there are a few concise, utilitarian pieces that you may want to consider. Drannith Magistrate, Sanctum Prelate, Archon of Emeria, Lavinia, Azorious Renegade, Boromir, Warden of the Tower, Aven Mindcensor & Containment Priest shut down a LOT of strategies. You'd be surprised how little most decks can do once you take away their ability to cheat stuff in, Tutor and/or cast things for free. Personally, every deck I have is heavily handicapped by all of those pieces. I wouldn't even be able to target them with removal if you played your cards right.
For noncreature Stax, you've got Chalice of the Void, Cursed Totem, Thorn of Amethyst, Deafening Silence, Grafdigger's Cage (which your Commander's ability gets around btw, very strong here), & Rule of Law as a few solid options.
You do need quite a bit more card draw, though. Scroll Rack & Sensei's Divining Top are obviously great, but the level of toolbox utility they actually give you in practice is even better than it seems! Archivist of Oghma, Faerie Mastermind & Ledger Shredder all give you card draw that scales with what your opponents are doing, which is fantastic. Other things like Deep Gnome Terramancer & Wandering Archaic Flip do the same thing, though they technically aren't card draw. Hell, might as well throw Monologue Tax out there too since I'm talking about scaling.
There's also Careful Study, Frantic Search, Tolarian Winds, Faithless Looting, Cathartic Reunion, Burning Inquiry, Thrill of Possibility & Dragon's Rage Channeler, which are great synergy here!
Speaking of synergy, let's get into that! The foremost synergies for Narset, Enlightened Exile imho is Underworld Breach + Lion's Eye Diamond + Brain Freeze & Intuition, and much of the deck should be geared towards maximizing on that. They're all very easy to Tutor up via cards like Enlightened Tutor, Mystical Tutor, Idyllic Tutor, Solve the Equation, Fabricate, Reshape, Transmute Artifact, Reckless Handling, Goblin Engineer & Gamble, in addition to being easy to recur via your Commander's ability. It's actually absurd, truly busted. I wouldn't recommend throwing Wheels like Wheel of Fortune or Windfall into the mix, though. They're very overrated, & you can just run Brain Freeze for the combo instead. No need to give all of your opponents a bunch of cards for free if you don't have to! Queen Kayla bin-Kroog is for sure worth consideration, though, if you choose to run Artifact Stax.
Maximizing on Underworld Breach, however, means running Storm. I'd recommend Birgi, God of Storytelling Flip, Storm-Kiln Artist, Urabrask Flip, Desperate Ritual, Pyretic Ritual & Seething Song to keep your Storm engine from shutting off. I personally don't condone Runaway Steam-Kin, as it's just too freaking slow & conditional compared to other options.
Additional Combat Phases would also be of great use here as opposed to trigger doublers like Strionic Resonator or something. Aggravated Assault, Waves of Aggression, World at War & Seize the Day are the only ones I'd consider running, though. You don't wanna load up on too many synergy effects when you can just Tutor for the best of them when the time's right, ya know?
Since you're running Dockside Extortionist, I'd also consider Cloudstone Curio. With one other Creature (like Spellseeker for example), you can produce infinite Treasures & ETBs with little effort, which is usually more than enough to get you to the finish line.
Your ramp package is looking solid enough, but I'd include 2 more Rocks as well as the rituals I named previously. Fellwar Stone is, functionally, a 5-color Rock for 2 Mana, which is absurd. I tend to not condone 3-drop rocks, with the exception of Chromatic Lantern, which was just reprinted recently and is currently super cheap.
Oh man, now that I think of it Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal gives your whole team infinite power and toughness via your Commander, as well as giving you infinite Mana if you have enough Rocks on the field. Maybe consider it lol.
Monastery Mentor seems to fit like glove here as well, offering some much needed redundancy and a surprising amount of board presence. It's kind of like Deep Gnome Terramancer or Wandering Archaic Flip in the sense that it just provides waaaay more value while playtesting than you thought it was going to!
Also, consider giving yourself Hexproof with stuff like Witchbane Orb to protect your own Graveyard.
To summarize, I really think your best bet with this one is building a system that gets to either an Underworld Breach + Lion's Eye Diamond + Brain Freeze combo win or an Intuition win as quickly as possible, with other combos like Dramatic Reversal + Isochron Scepter being strong potentialities on the way.
Cheers!
Tic12 on
Turn 5 - Darth Vadrik strikes back
1 year ago
Next Update (thanks to myden)
Out: Misdirection, Commander's Sphere and Fuel for the Cause
In: Runaway Steam-Kin, Searing Touch and Seething Anger
So i have more options to go into combo :D
wallisface on March of the Machine
1 year ago
Delphen7 if you’ve ever been beaten down turn-3 by a tuned Runaway Steam-Kin deck, that will explain the power going on with Urabrask. It’s not as aggro as the Steam-Kin, but potentially fits a much more dangerous role in a midrange deck suited to run it.
I’m confident it’ll be abused in some way across multiple formats. It’s hard to gauge if it’ll ever be a relevant meta-card in any eternal format, but it feels close-enough to be worth trialling.
I don’t think anyone playing the card wants to be doing anything with the back-side of it (the game shouldn’t go that long) - it’s just some extra “nice to have”, but i’d just be evaluating it off that front side personally