Shatterskull Smashing

Sorcery

This deals X damage divided as you choose among up to two target creatures and/or planeswalkers. If X is 6 or more, this deals twice X damage divided as you choose among them instead.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	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
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

Jabber on Judith

7 months ago

Cards you might consider adding:

Festival of Embers: Good late game not so great early...

Electrickery: Instant speed board wipe...

Storm-Kiln Artist or Urabrask  ^Flip better than some of the rituals, mana and Urabrask does damage

Erebor Flamesmith

Return the Favor Another deflecting swat type effect

Valakut Awakening  ^Flip Replace a land with, free wheel if needed

Starstorm Good board wipe finish if you side is about to get exiled

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might  ^Flip good damage ramp option turn 1/2 into 4 damage

Wail of the Nim protection and board wipe...

Spikefield Hazard  ^Flip replace a basic land for

Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip protection for commander, could replace basic land for

Fell the Profane  ^Flip: Target remove or a land when you need it

Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip another land/spell you could add

Aetherflux Reservoir Finisher maybe?

Goblin Bombardment: consider in addition to or as a replacement for impact tremors

Vampiric Rites: More consistent card draw maybe?

lespaul977 on Gruul Stompy Challenger Upgrades

9 months ago

TheOfficialCreator, I’ve seen Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip in a couple midrange-type upgrade lists, but I’m not sure if it’s actually meta. Lava Coil and Collected Company are definitely good calls for this deck. Thank you for stopping by!

DeinoStinkus on Gruul Stompy Challenger Upgrades

9 months ago

Collected Company would be great in this deck, I think.

Is Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip meta? I mean, it's an MDFC so it's got that going for it, but I don't think it's very good.. a Lava Coil would do better in the majority of situations I think.

Optimator on Anarchy Burger

1 year ago

Urabrask  ^Flip - bit more mana and damage, eventually can recast all those great spells from the graveyard. Blocks

Blast Zone - a bit of removal in the land base

Geier Reach Sanitarium - maybe loot away extra lands?

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea - not ideal, but mono-Red

Valakut Awakening  ^Flip - could take a land slot

Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip - take a land slot and add more burn

Song-Mad Treachery  ^Flip - could take a land slot, could steal a big creature and get across the finish line. Expensive, but synergizes with all your instant- and sorcery-stuff

Imodane, the Pyrohammer - huge force multiplier! A win-con. Probably a must-include

Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might  ^Flip - another force-multiplier. Might be redundant though

Azoth2099 on The Lonely Loner (Seems to free his mind at night)

1 year ago

DatShepTho

Wuddup! Vadrik, Astral Archmage is so busted, man. Probably the best {U}{R} Commander p4p imo. I've been brewing him for a while now.

I see you're already running Seething Song, which is great. I'd highly recommend adding Desperate Ritual & Pyretic Ritual as well. Functionally having 2 copies of Dark Ritual in a {U}{R} deck is insane. Mana Geyser is pretty decent, but at Sorcery speed and at a minimum cost of {R}{R}, it's really not worth it compared to the others.

I would also recommend Mystic Retrieval & Mizzix's Mastery over Call to Mind & Finale of Promise respectively. As well as adding Past in Flames.

2 pieces of Equipment that I noticed shone very brightly with this Commander are Conqueror's Flail & Commander's Plate. The added bonus of cost reduction makes their power here difficult to overstate.

Buyback is a popular mechanic in typical Vadrik decks, but the only ones that are truly worth consideration are Capsize, Reiterate & Clockspinning. Haze of Rage & Seething Anger are obviously great, but they don't facilitate wins with the same frequency as those other ones. Sorcery speed sucks.

Never doubt that you need those Tutors, son! Solve the Equation, Reckless Handling, Merchant Scroll, Fabricate, Bribery & Acquire are all pretty much too good to pass up here. Reshape can also be great, depending on your Artifact list.

Free spells like Misdirection, Blazing Shoal & Commandeer can be pretty great here, given that they are likely still cheap to cast if you can't cast them for free.

Lastly, try to get yourself copies of Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip, Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip & Jeska's Will for this one if you can. Amazing!

Peace!

Optimator on Goblin Shenanigans (The Secret of Kiki Jiki)

1 year ago

Some cool lands to maybe think about for future upgrades:

Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip, Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip, Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip, Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip, Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip, Valakut Awakening  ^Flip, Castle Locthwain, Castle Embereth

Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip, Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip, Auntie's Hovel

I think your Reliquary Tower might be a bit ambitious; maybe replace it with Goblin Burrows or Den of the Bugbear for flavor? or Westvale Abbey  ^Flip!! No shortage of tokens to sacrifice!

Max_Hammer on Which Mass Destruction Spell(s) Should …

2 years ago

haha, that's fair. ave you thought about Jaya's Immolating Inferno? Can't be a board wipe but it can deal absolute absurd levels of damage with some decent mana.

Tat mdfc land, Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip is sick too.

DeinoStinkus on Izzet Prowess

2 years ago

Slip Through Space and Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip might have a place in this deck.