Arclight Izzet - Decklist and In-Depth Primer

Modern molok

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Changes to the List —Dec. 31, 2018

I’ve been sideboarding in Crackling Drakes so often decided to try 1 in the main. Also trying 1 Lightning Axe in place of a Thought Scour, and added a third Steam Vents by cutting 1 fetch.

FranzW1990 says... #1

Nice Primer <3 It´s so good! Is Gut Shot good for this deck?

November 8, 2018 5:50 a.m.

Spazik008 says... #2

I like this deck overall. I think it needs some maindeck Blood Moon in this build. Also since you have Faithless Looting and Serum Visions the Madcap Experiment + Platinum Emperion combo would be good in here. You can use the looting and scrying to dig away the Emperion or extra copies of Madcap or get to it faster. I've seen other UR lists trying it here and there. You're already free of artifacts except for the Dragon's Claw on the side, which could easily be something else since the Emperion combo stops burn anyways.

November 13, 2018 11:22 p.m.

molok says... #3

FranzW1990 Gut Shot does seem like a neat idea, but I'm not sure that 1 damage kills enough stuff we care about. I've seen other lists that use Noxious Revival as another free spell, or alternately extra burn with Burst Lightning and I'd probably be trying out copies of those before Gut Shot.

Spazik008 thank you for the suggestions.

Blood Moon I don't think is a good fit for this archetype because

  • The manabase doesn't support it - we'd need more basic islands and fetchlands to go find them, when most of our spells are heavily red

  • it doesn't do that much - Blood Moon in general doesn't feel all that strong to me because it's so easy to play around, and which would you rather be doing on Turn 3- gumming up their mana a little, or attacking for 10+ damage? T3 is the critical turn to flip TiTi and recur Arclight Phoenix and I don't want clunky spells.

The Madcap + Emperion combo is pretty interesting and I could maybe see it as a sideboard "gotcha" plan. However I don't think it belongs in the main. Emperion is non-bo with TiTi and it's not like they're going to board out all their removal against us... If someone would care to do testing with this and report back results I'd be interested to see it, but my intuition is that it waters down the main gameplan too much to use.

November 14, 2018 3:48 a.m.

Have you considered the Crackling Drake variation on this deck? I think that Bedlam Reveler is too awkward with cantrips to be played in this deck. I also like that Crackling Drake plays around any graveyard hate your opponents might have, and can often one-shot them.

December 17, 2018 9:06 p.m.