Volcanic Spite

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Alchemy 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
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Pioneer Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Pre-release Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Standard Legal
Standard Brawl Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Volcanic Spite

Instant

Volcanic Spite deals 3 damage to target creature, planeswalker, or battle. You may put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library. If you do, draw a card.

Icaruskid on Imagine Dragons | Budget Rosnakht [PRIMER]

4 months ago

khayoz Great questions!

So in the current "combo" build the priority is finding a Transmogrify spell as fast as possible. This means card draw, card draw, card draw, leaving very little room for interactive spells, in fact maybe only 2 or 3 slots total are optional. I even got rid of my hand fixers Into the Fire, Fire Prophecy, and Volcanic Spite for better card draw spells to avoid consistency issues/whiffing.

So putting in removal like Wild Magic Surge and others is probably prudent but here's the challenge: take away too many Heroic spells and the deck doesn't go off at all for lack of kobold token targets. Take away draw spells and you can't find Transmogrify spells. So adding more interaction may undermine the all-in combo build's winning chances.

With mono red I think leaning into the risk/reward style is the only way to play to win. That's why I run Zada in the list because even if you are a little behind on turn 8 or have to rebuild from scratch, a single Transmogrify targeting her can drop 10 dragons on the board out of nowhere. Yes that's great explosive potential but notice how it's about consistency too. I didn't get 2 dragons on turn 4 but I got 10 of them from a combo move on turn 8 = similar outcome.

As far as dealing with removal, single target isn't a threat at all because we can play our commander with tax, a Heroic spell, and likely have the deck velocity to land multiple threats a turn. As usual it's board wipes that are the critical test. The best way to play around this is not to go all in and play every Heroic spell so that the wipe leaves you creatureless and with no cards in hand. Pace yourself. Play two Heroic spells so you have 2-3 kobolds ready and wait for the right time to strike against the control player.

The best cards here are repeatable Transmog effects like Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast and Fireflux Squad so you can keep playing threats every turn. And because nearly half the deck is card draw, rebuilding your hand kind of built-in.

Power Level is tough. This list is tuned. If I spent $50 on a precon and added $50 of upgrades I'm not sure I would win as much as this deck does in my casual $100 budget pods. But it's not oppressive, unfun to play against, or impossible to disrupt either. In fact this build is a little more of a glass cannon than go wide aggro builds. Maybe 6 or 7?

When there is no perfect answer, I think it all really comes down to taste. Combo can whiff. Voltron is even more glass cannon than aggro or combo. Aggro can run out of steam, lack threat level altogether or may have the hardest time rebuilding after multiple board wipes. That's why for me, taking the win percentage out of the equation and focusing on whether the style I'm playing is fun is important. And for me the answer was very flavor focused on seeing tiny kobolds transform into deadly dragons. Win or lose its cool to pull off!

DrukenReaps on Issues with finding cards

9 months ago

Flywheel Racer Zoyowa's Justice Volcanic Spite Roaming Throne

All the mentioned cards seem to be fine? I even added them to one of my decks. I guess double check that you are entering the names correctly?

legendofa on Is WotC Being Inconsistent in …

9 months ago

I personally see a distinction between downsides and restrictions. Both are ways to limit the utility of the card, but downsides give you an outsized effect for the cost, but it actively hinders or harms you, while a restriction limits when or how the effect can be used.

Like, Volcanic Spite doesn't have a downside because it can't hurt players. That's a restriction. Similarly, the "activate only one per turn" clause isn't a downside because it doesn't actively hurt you or prevent you from playing. It simply limits how it can be used.

A couple of downside examples would be Steel Golem, which prevents you from casting any more creature spells, or Demonic Pact, which gives you lots of resources, but will cause you to straight up lose eventually.

Basically, if you would want to Donate it to an opponent, it's a downside. If you want to keep it but use it more often, it's a restriction. If it simply costs too much (Ember Shot) it's inefficient.

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