Thermokarst
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Premodern Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Thermokarst

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If that land was a snow land, you gain 1 life.

TheoryCrafter on Scorched Jund

2 months ago

Thank you for your input, Sliverguy420. Some of what you posted about Cleansing Wildfire is how I described it in the Ramp & Draw section of my deck description. It's the primary reason why it's in there. However it can reduce the Opponent's mana if the opponent has no basic lands in their deck. Though I acknowledge that is as likely to happen about around as often as gaining life from Thermokarst.

Once I have two green producing lands, two red producing lands and a black producing land on the battlefield, there's other benefits to having Cleansing Wildfire the deck. Lands with activated abilities can be neutralized. Combined with Reclaiming Vines and Vandalize, it stops artifact lands from contributing to cards with Affinity for Artifacts. And, most importantly, it forces opponents to pull lands from their library to be targets of the next land destruction spell. Thus, like Vandalize, and to a much greater extent Destroy the Evidence, it feeds the graveyard.

However you do have a point about the mana curve and I will take lowering it in consideration each time I make changes.

Thank you again for your input, for reading me out, and May You Draw Well!

Sliverguy420 on Scorched Jund

2 months ago

4 and 5 mana is too expensive for land destruction. by the time you're able to cast those, the opponent will already have the lands they need and it'll be turn 8 before Roiling Terrain can even do the same damage as a Lightning Bolt. you'd want cards like Thermokarst, Sinkhole, Molten Rain, Pillage, and Choking Sands. Cleansing Wildfire doesn't reduce your opponents mana, and so it's usually used in combination with indestructible lands to ramp yourself, rather than destroy an opponent's lands.

Boza on Water World

5 years ago

The bonus of the LD spells are that they ramp you and thin the deck. So, playing big dudes as wincons is a good idea. -4 demolish + 4 Thermokarst - 3 Shock and -1 Rampant Growth + 4 Aurochs Herd as a big dude of choice.

Boza on Water World

5 years ago

Weirdly enough, red and black, in pauper, are not the best land destruction colors. Green takes the crown, with Mwonvuli Acid-Moss, Thermokarst, Drain the Well and Reap and Sow. I really recommend that you play green as your main color. You can then play mono-green and use the ramp your land destruction generates to play big dudes that finish the game; or pair green with red and win with Roiling Terrain to stay on theme; or pair with black for even more land destruction and efficient creatures like Putrid Leech and recursion.

zephramtripp on Card creation challenge

7 years ago

Cryokarst

Sorcery

Destroy target land. If that land was not a snow land, you gain 1 life.

Thermokarst, baby! See also: Acidic Slime, Creeping Mold, etc. Green has loads of land destruction, and more gets printed/reprinted in every few sets.

Make the blue land destruction spell or a White non-Armageddon LD spell.

Tyr_W on The Indomitable Pubstomper

8 years ago

This deck could use some haste. For both the big attackers and the manadorks.

And where IS that Force of Nature?

Others:

Cards you can do without:

OwnedbyCow on Terravore, The Land Devourer

9 years ago

Thanks for the input. And you are correct. Wasteland and Sinkhole cost a bit much for me. Stone Rain Winter's Grasp Thermokarst Ice Storm Argothian Wurm Plow Under and Raze will be considered. I already have Orcish Settlers in my deck and I'm just trying to figure out what to swap to get Strip Mine a place. I'm not really big on Dwarven Miner as it is limited to nonbasic lands, although it could be sideboarded.

Wizard_of_the_Broke on

9 years ago

Having had a few more minutes to actually look at your decklist, you totally have room for Thermokarst. You probably don't need so much enchantment hate (Edicts are fairly effective against Bogles anyway), and you might even be able to cut some of the Weenie hate.

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