Hazoret Indestructible Burn

Commander / EDH shixzo

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April 18, 2022

Although this update has been a long time coming, I've been tinkering with this deck with each new set, up to and including the technically yet-to-be released Streets of New Capenna. As that would imply, the updates have not undergone any significant testing (I don't have much time to play anymore), so the deck may be getting less and less functional over time. Still, there have been a lot of great cards printed for this strategy in recent sets (treasure support is through the roof), so I hope some of the cards I've included will inspire those interested in this kind of deck. Let me know if I've missed anything obvious from recent sets. There are several cards that might have briefly been considered, included and replaced for reasons I no longer remember!

I won't do a detailed breakdown of the changes (see the changelog for specifics). Most of the changes are like-for-like within the core mechanics of the deck, and mainly to test new interesting versions of burn/ramp/copy/removal printed in new sets (often because they somehow combine two or more of those functions). As flagged, there are now a lot of cards that make treasures as a secondary effect, which seems very handy. For example, there are now a bunch of loot effects along the lines of Pirate's Pillage which work great with copying, although I'm hesitant to go all in on those that cost four or more mana. I've tentatively put in Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip because it does a whole bunch of useful things - looting, maybe ramping, blockers and/or attackers for Howl of the Horde, a means of possibly copying Dockside Extortionist - but it might be a bit clunky in practice (and can't be copied), in which case Seize the Spoils will probably go back in.

There have been no major functional changes, other than that I went in on the Brash Taunter/Blazing Sunsteel combo foreshadowed in my last update, even though it does dilute the Shifting Shadow roulette a little more. Wheel of Fortune finally came out of the deck due to its (actual) cost, although Wheel of Misfortune is a very fun and potentially even more useful replacement. The New Capenna cards obviously need some testing - I'm a bit iffy on Structural Assault (particularly as the deck now has very little targeted artifact removal), so it might come out for Vandalblast if it doesn't perform. I also definitely want to make room for Spiteful Repossession, to see how well it works in practice.