$25 Turn 3.5 Soulflayer

Casual BR (Rakdos) Budget Combo

AncientToaster

Targets (16)

• 1x Ascended Lawmage
• 4x Nightveil Predator
• 1x Rakdos Ragemutt
• 2x Samut, Voice of Dissent
• 4x Spark Trooper
• 4x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

SOULFLAYER 🤘 (4)

• 4x Soulflayer

Engine (17)

• 3x Call to the Netherworld
• 4x Cathartic Reunion
• 3x Discovery / Dispersal
• 4x Faithless Looting
• 3x Stinkweed Imp

Land (23)

• 8x Mountain
• 4x Nomad Outpost
• 2x Savage Lands
• 9x Swamp

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Sideboard

Other (15)

• 3x Doomfall
• 3x Duress
• 3x Lightning Axe
• 3x Murderous Cut
• 3x Pyroclasm

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Maybeboard

Mainboard (10)

• 2x Golgari Thug
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Recoup
• 1x Seize the Day
• 1x Serum Powder
• 1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1x Tormenting Voice

Sideboard (5)

• 1x Boil
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Scald
• 1x Smelt
• 1x Terminate

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A combo deck, essentially. The goal is to try to power out a Soulflayer with max keywords as soon as possible---as the title indicates, this deck can pretty reliably land a Soulflayer on turn 3 or 4 with flying, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, trample, and vigilance. Needless to say, unless your opponent has a board wipe you're favored at that point to win the game.

If you're interested in how quickly the deck can typically goldfish out a super-souflayer, I have a bunch of data ---the headline stats are that we can Soulflayer by turn 4 (fast enough for this budget format) about 55% of the time on average.

Filtering is key to success---a hand without at least one (preferable more) of Faithless Looting and/or Cathartic Reunion is almost always a mulligan. Stinkweed Imp pulls double-duty in the deck. He's great at filling the yard with Soulflayer targets like Zetalpa, Primal Dawn s and Spark Trooper . But he can also help find Soulflayer; as long as we have a Call to the Netherworld in hand, we can dredge aggressively to dig out our win condition.

Other ~$20 Decks

This deck is part of a collection of ultra-budget decks:

• 5C Elemental Tribal Beats
• Golgari Combo
• Mono-Black ETB Closet Control
• Mono-Blue Control
• Mystery Machine: Mechanized Production Clues
• Rakdos “Goldfish Eater”
• Selesnya Tokens Populate
• Tatyova Ramp
• Werewolf Aggro

Changelog

December 30, 2018:

• -1 Wild Guess
• -4 Tormenting Voice
• +1 Stinkweed Imp
• +3 Discovery / Dispersal
• +1 Call to the Netherworld

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WUG
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 12 - 0 Rares 15 - 12 Uncommons 14 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	4.11
Folders	Favorite Decks, Others' ideas