Volcanic Island

Land — Island Mountain

({T}: Gain {U} or {R}.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	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
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

sylvannos on Hoax Storm v2

3 months ago

To start with, there's a few cards that have better Vintage equivalents. Overmaster and Spell Pierce should be the 3rd. and 4th. copies of Force of Will. Leftover space from cutting those can be Red Elemental Blast, Pyroblast, or Flusterstorm. You don't need Faithless Looting because we have Paradoxical Outcome, Sensei's Divining Top, Gush, Dig Through Time, Treasure Cruise, and Brainstorm to choose from. Merchant Scroll also belongs in here, because you can use it to grab Ancestral Recall at the very least. Usually you want it to make sure you have protection in hand by grabbing countermagic.

Library of Alexandria isn't good in this deck. And you're not the type that needs 8x {UR} sources, so Steam Vents can go, along with a few copies of Volcanic Island (1 or 2). Replace all of these with four copies of Scalding Tarn and basic lands. Or even just play 6x fetches. You need to be able to shuffle after using Brainstorm, Ponder,and Sensei's Divining Top.

From here, you have a solid U/R Storm shell. However, I wouldn't play straight "Modern U/R Storm, but Power 9" dot dec. 2 mana is a lot for Goblin Electromancer, there are easier ways of winning than Grapeshot, and so on. The question then becomes "Where to go from here?"

• Paradoxical Outcome is just the nuts. By bouncing moxen and cheap artifacts, it's a ritual (since you can replay everything for {0}, untapping it all) and it's a draw spell. However, Paradoxical Outcome requires Mox Opals, Lotus Petal, Lion's Eye Diamond, etc. so you'll have to cut rituals (likely Seething Song). The upside is you get an extremely powerful engine that can often end the game with a single Paradoxical Outcome.
• Thassa's Oracle is the new hotness for Vintage combo cards. You can win the game by casting Brain Freeze on yourself, then casting Thassa's Oracle. It also opens up more combos using Demonic Consultation and Doomsday. Sometimes you've just drawn a bunch of cards and have ~3 cards left in your deck.
• Tinker is too good in Storm not to play it. You're either getting Memory Jar, Bolas's Citadel, Time Vault (Voltaic Key is already good in Storm when combined with Mana Vault and friends), or a random wincon like Sphinx of the Steel Wind boarded in for game 2. Bolas's Citadel will essentially flip the top half of your deck into play.
• You can also play draw 7s (Wheel of Fortune, Timetwister, Memory Jar, Diminishing Returns) in combination with Narset, Parter of Veils and Hullbreacher.
• Mana Drain is good, but you may find it too slow if you make any of the above changes. It definitely does more work in a more control-oriented Storm deck with Narset, Parter of Veils, Dack Fayden, Grim Tutor, etc.
• Lastly, there's the question of Underworld Breach, Yawgmoth's Will, Monastery Mentor, or some combination of these. Underworld Breach will mean you can stay in two colors. Playing black for Yawgmoth's Will allows you to play Dark Ritual, Cabal Ritual, Yawgmoth's Bargain, Necropotence, Doomsday, Tendrils of Agony, and hardcasting Bolas's Citadel. Monastery Mentor both scales up and goes sideways. A single token is enough to kill someone combined with Paradoxical Outcome or a draw 7. Monastery Mentor is like casting Tarmogoyf and Empty the Warrens for three mana and one card.

Hope this helps! Welcome to MtG's oldest and greatest format.

kookoo on Card creation challenge

5 months ago

Niv-Mizzet, Ravnica's Conqueror {U}{B}{R}{BG}{WB}

Legendary Creature - Dragon Wizard

Flying

All permanents are red and blue, and no other color. All nonbasic lands are Volcanic Islands.

Whenever you draw a card, if it was the fourth card you drew this turn, destroy up to one target creature.

4/4

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While everyone on Ravnica was rebuilding it because of Bolas's attack, Niv-Mizzet made them all part of the Izzet League by killing the other guild leaders.

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Easy mode: Make a card that represents an umbrella.

Moderately Difficult mode: It can't be an equipment.

Hard mode: It must be a red and black creature.

Fluggleshmuggits on Cube Eternal

5 months ago

Changelog 12/10/22

Original Dual lands are in
2 color man lands are in
upgrades in every color and almost every guild pair

IN

• Cathar Commando
• Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
• Gideon Jura
• Parallax Wave
• Haughty Djinn
• Thirst for Discovery
• Hullbreaker Horror
• Baral, Chief of Compliance
• Liliana, the Last Hope
• Liliana, Waker of the Dead
• Cryptbreaker
• Rotting Regisaur
• Massacre Wurm
• Legion Warboss
• Guttersnipe
• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• Firebolt
• Tooth and Nail
• Biogenic Ooze
• Niv-Mizzet, Parun
• Sin Collector
• Nahiri, the Harbinger
• Grist, the Hunger Tide
• Escape to the Wilds
• Trostani Discordant
• Natural Order
• Celestial Colonnade
• Creeping Tar Pit
• Lavaclaw Reaches
• Raging Ravine
• Stirring Wildwood
• Shambling Vent
• Wandering Fumarole
• Hissing Quagmire
• Needle Spires
• Lumbering Falls
• Tundra
• Scrubland
• Plateau
• Savannah
• Underground Sea
• Volcanic Island
• Tropical Island
• Badlands
• Taiga
• Bayou

OUT

• Quirion Ranger
• Frost Titan
• Crystal Vein
• Cave of Temptation
• Talisman of Creativity
• Talisman of Curiosity
• Talisman of Conviction
• Talisman of Resilience
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Strionic Resonator
• Sunken Hollow
• Cinder Glade
• Canopy Vista
• Prairie Stream
• Smoldering Marsh
• Irrigated Farmland
• Scattered Groves
• Canyon Slough
• Fetid Pools
• Sheltered Thicket
• Seal of Cleansing
• Battle Screech
• Eidolon of Rhetoric
• Spirit Link
• Shoreline Ranger
• Deep Analysis
• Attunement
• Rewind
• Fate Unraveler
• Visara the Dreadful
• Ultimate Price
• Ruinous Path
• Bloodsoaked Champion
• Scab-Clan Berserker
• Sin Prodder
• Slice and Dice
• Starstorm
• Firebrand Archer
• Vessel of Nascency
• Seal of Primordium
• Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• Abrupt Decay
• Appeal / Authority
• Wear / Tear
• Rhythm of the Wild
• Unburial Rites
• Enigma Drake

legendofa on Baby's First Deck

8 months ago

Welcome to the club, TimeKitsune! And yeah, there's a lot going on in this game. Confusion is normal. Work with the fundamentals, and the rest will follow.

So this deck doesn't seem to have any particular focus. The Volcanic Islands and Tropical Islands are valuable cards, but out of place here, since none of your cards use {R} or {G} mana. Similarly, this deck doesn't have enough artifacts to use Academy Ruins fully.

My first question is, how do you want to win a game? Do you want to defeat your opponent before they get set up, or attack with big creatures, or lock them down and prevent them from doing anything? Do you want to win through speed, brute strength, technical and tactical maneuvering, or surprise your opponents with a win out of nowhere? And all of these can be combined, if you want to win through brute force out of nowhere, or with speed and technical skill, or anything else.

If you need any help with color philosophy and mechanics, or deckbuilding tips, or anything at all, please ask. This is a pretty good community, and very knowledgeable.

And above all, have fun!

QuestionMarc on Vadrik's Discount Spell Emporium

1 year ago

Looking over the deck and playtesting it a few times I have what I consider a pretty exhaustive maybe list with some cards being worth considering and discussing and a few being real treasures! Here is the full list and if I did it right hopefully all the cards are links.

1. Call the Skybreaker
2. Capsize
3. Cascade Bluffs
4. Champion's Helm
5. Clockspinning
6. Coalition Relic
7. Commander's Plate
8. Contagion Clasp
9. Darksteel Plate
10. Deflecting Swat
11. Door of Destinies
12. Drown in Dreams
13. Elementalist's Palette
14. Expanded Anatomy
15. Expansion / Explosion
16. Fanning the Flames
17. Fatespinner
18. Fierce Guardianship
19. Finale of Revelation
20. Fists of Flame
21. Flux Channeler
22. Force of Will
23. Galazeth Prismari
24. Haze of Rage
25. Illuminate
26. Insurrection
27. Izzet Boilerworks
28. Jaya's Immolating Inferno
29. Jeska's Will
30. Leyline of Anticipation
31. Lonely Sandbar
32. Lunar Frenzy
33. Mana Drain
34. Mana Geyser
35. Metallic Mimic
36. Midnight Clock
37. Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
38. Mystic Remora
39. Mystic Sanctuary
40. Oona's Grace
41. Opal Palace
42. Prismari Campus
43. Reality Ripple
44. Reality Shift
45. Reiterate
46. Rhystic Study
47. Ring of Evos Isle
48. Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
49. Runechanter's Pike
50. Sage of Fables
51. Scour from Existence
52. Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
53. Seething Anger
54. Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
55. Spark Double
56. Storm-Kiln Artist
57. Swiftfoot Boots
58. Sword of Truth and Justice
59. Temple of Epiphany
60. Tezzeret's Gambit
61. Tyrite Sanctum
62. Unleash Fury
63. Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
64. Vandalblast
65. Vedalken Orrery
66. Volcanic Island
67. Volcanic Vision
68. Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
69. Whispers of the Muse
70. Zaffai, Thunder Conductor

rshistorysmuf on Proxies, yay or nay?

1 year ago

As someone has previously mentioned. Unless I can trade up, and up, and up, I would like to have a Mishra's Workshop around 2K but there are reprints in Vintage Masters and Master edition IV (haven't seen them), Candelabra of Tawnos - 900 reprinted Vintage masters (have not seen it), Underground Sea 400 reprint, Volcanic Island 400, Plateau 150, Gaea's Cradle around 500.

It's a shame but when you see IHYD playing such uber stuff, you wish why can't I play these in commander. Do we go and buy knock off versions?

VinDiesel9999 on Help with land distribution

2 years ago

Edit: Just looked at the price for Volcanic Island , for whatever reason assumed that it would way cheaper. These suggestions look good, thanks.

wallisface on Help with land distribution

2 years ago

Volcanic Island is about the most expensive way you could possibly do this.

Have a look at the land list here and puck out the ones that fit your price range. General rule of thumb is to avoid lands that’ll enter tapped where possible