Voltage Surge

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice an artifact.

This deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If this spell's additional cost was paid, this deals 4 damage instead.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (7)

GoldenAgeBatman on Blood Token Sacrifice (Budget)

10 months ago

Love the deck idea!

In keeping with the budget and theme I would recommend Anje, Maid of Dishonor as a blood generation/sac outlet with payoffs as well as the card Voltage Surge if you need more removal based on saccing blood tokens.

legendofa on Brothers PreRelease

1 year ago

Welcome to the club, tconway!

If you're trying to build around Great Desert Prospector and Penregon Strongbull, you'll need a lot of creatures. A few cards that can help push damage through are Pyre-Sledge Arsonist, which deals damage based on the number of permanents you've sacrificed; Dragonspark Reactor, which deals more damage as you get more artifacts, and simple burn spells like Lightning Strike and Voltage Surge. Use white spells to keep yourself and your key cards alive and active; getting to five mana for GDP will be important. (I'm just eyeballing cards that you might find interesting here, so if you see something better, go for it.)

Pick the cards you most want build around and get four copies of those; this will ensure you see them as often as possible. Look for cards that create creature and artifact tokens. Adeline, Resplendent Cathar seems like a good set up for GDP. Make sure you have a good land balance. And above all, have fun!

Chasmolinker on Standard Jund Midrange

1 year ago

Thanks IXALAN_Crazy! Not sure about Voltage Surge. I prefer the unconditional removal of Hero's Downfall. It's pretty good for 1 mana though... As for Tracker I'll see if I have any in my collection.

IXALAN_Crazy on Standard Jund Midrange

1 year ago

Briarbridge Tracker is great, and I would also definitely add Voltage Surge over Hero's Downfall. Cool deck!

CNG_Stream on Construct Rush

1 year ago

If you are trying to make this more competitive then there is a bit I would cut from your deck. Here are some of my thoughts about some of the cards you are running that may need to more consideration to how your deck is crafted. You can see suggested cards towards the bottom.

Automated Artificer - Not that impactful of a card for your deck as most your artifacts that it could help you ramp are already cheap to cast, it doesn't have a good place here.

Jaxis, the Troublemaker - I'm honestly not sure what you are trying to copy here for value. Card feels like you want to get a Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip.

Kami of Terrible Secrets - The size of the body for cost situational card draw would make this a cut. Better cards to be running that can give you better value.

Karn, Living Legacy - While your welcome to run the card, this is more a meme then a serious play card I would imagine. It doesn't do anything impactful to the board and the mana rocks it generates are that useful to your build. Trying to go the keep +1 to get to ult seems like a hard reason to want to keep.

Jodah's Codex - This is expensive card draw to be playing and would not trying running this card unless you are trying a domain build where the draw becomes free.

Dragonspark Reactor - is a cool card, but I don't think you are using enough cards that are artifacts to warrant this in deck unless you make changes.

Ghoulish Procession - seems interesting, but you may want to trim this to make room for more artifact based cards to get better synergies.

Patchwork Automaton - If you wish to run this, then I would suggest adjusting your deck to run at least 20 artifacts that you can cast for the trigger.

Cards you may be interested in using are that are seem as "staples" to the rakdos artifact deck are: Experimental Synthesizer, Bloodtithe Harvester, & Voltage Surge. These offer you card advantages that work well with the anvil and also have some flexibility in their use.

From the new set I would say check out Garna, Bloodfist of Keld. This lets you get some extra burn to your opponent if you creatures die outside of combat, but you get extra card draw bonus for each creature that dies in combat. Please note that you could sacrifice your artifact creatures to Oni-Cult Anvil after damage step if they survive before leaving combat if you need that draw.

Last note I would have is you would likely want to be running 4 Oni-Cult Anvil if you plan on building around them. More of them in play is always better as long as you don't get hit by a Farewell.

If you have any questions about the suggestions or comments please let me know and I will try to help.

Sorin_Markov_1947 on Hellkite Casualty

1 year ago

There are better removal options in Standard than Roil Eruption and Baleful Mastery. Infernal Grasp and Voltage Surge are probably the two best options, though Soul Shatter does well against Jeskai and Play with Fire isn't bad. Additionally, you need to be running 4x Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip simply because you are in red. Manabase could use some work too, but I think you just hadn't gotten that far yet. Hive of the Eye Tyrant is an obvious choice, Field of Ruin (especially multiple copies) can punish tri-color decks that forget to include basics and help you remove troublesome manlands. A sacrifice-like deck like this will always benefit from Immersturm Predator, which is very strong. Probably trim on removal and/or sacrifice targets for him.

Alookeva on Pleasures and Treasures

1 year ago

I think narrowing some focus on what you're going after for a win-con is something to fix up here.

I would suggest looking at current Rakdos Artifact decks and Mono-Red Goblins for some ideas.

Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip is expected to be a red staple and has been in the last week. Oni-Cult Anvil can turn your treasures into pingers that come back as 2/2 cats that will also get you full value out of Gala Greeters. Additionally, this allows you to sac those tapped treasures and get that value instantly. If you do go this route Experimental Synthesizer will allow you to dig faster.

Probably need some one-drops as well such as Goblin Javelineer or Voltage Surge. Voltage Surge will help against Yasharn, Implacable Earth which shuts down sac what I'm suggesting as well as those with Casualty... Ob Nilixis, the Adversary is my main concern. He looks like he's taking out not only the 5 families but going for the Emperor too.

Jetmir is nasty and I would put him over Ziatora or vice versa. Just so we're not running only one of each.

Honestly, this is a great concept and I might build a version of this myself! Thanks for sharing!