Rosheen's Math Test

Commander / EDH Burn Lands RG (Gruul) Spellslinger

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Other (13)

• 1x Dark Sphere
• 1x Holistic Wisdom
• 1x Hunter's Insight
• 1x Hunter's Prowess
• 1x Lich's Mirror
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Seasons Past
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Zuran Orb

Land Ramp, (8)

• 1x Animist's Awakening
• 1x Boundless Realms
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Journey of Discovery
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x New Frontiers
• 1x Nissa's Pilgrimage
• 1x Nissa's Renewal

Land Untapping (5)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Early Harvest
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Nature's Will
• 1x Rude Awakening

X Tribe (13)

• 1x Banefire
• 1x Clan Defiance
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Electrodominance
• 1x Fireball
• 1x Gelatinous Genesis
• 1x Heroes' Bane
• 1x Hurricane
• 1x Hydra Broodmaster
• 1x Jaya's Immolating Inferno
• 1x Lifeblood Hydra
• 1x Mistcutter Hydra
• 1x Molten Disaster

Land (42)

• 19x Forest
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 19x Mountain
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Mana Doublers (6)

• 1x Heartbeat of Spring
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Overabundance
• 1x Unbound Flourishing
• 1x Zhur-Taa Ancient

Commander (1)

Removal (9)

• 1x AEther Flash
• 1x Back to Nature
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Bonds of Mortality
• 1x Decimate
• 1x Guttural Response
• 1x Kill Switch
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Creatures (3)

• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Knollspine Dragon

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Maybeboard

Mana (18)

• 1x Awakening
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Domri, Chaos Bringer
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Traverse the Outlands
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

X Tribe (15)

• 1x Apocalypse Hydra
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Bonfire of the Damned
• 1x By Force
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Fall of the Titans
• 1x Fault Line
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Fury Storm
• 1x Reap the Past
• 1x Savage Twister
• 1x Squall Line
• 1x Strength of the Tajuru
• 1x Subterranean Tremors

Other (6)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Ground Seal
• 1x Mirari
• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• 1x Wort, the Raidmother

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Math tribal. Double, triple, quadruple, (or more) your mana, count your untapped lands, subtract the non-X mana from the mana cost, and determine how much damage your Comet Storm can deal to 3 targets. This deck is built for a metagame where Wrath of God and Vandalblast are standard picks, but Armageddon is taboo. It also has a few cards that dodge Counterspells as well.

You will easily 40+ damage with X spells. Most of the X spells are exponential or at least provide more value than the amount of mana you spend. For example, with Gelatinous Genesis, if you pay 11 mana, X is 5 and you get 5x 5/5 creatures, for a total of 25 power of creatures. 11 mana --> 25 damage. It's exponential!

It's usually wiser to hold onto your mana doublers and play them only when you're right about to cast something big, usually via Vedalken Orrery. However, you can play a bit more casually and do a group hug dynamic, setting the other players up with double their mana and seeing how the board state gets wacky, until finally ending it with your massive Hurricane.

AEther Flash is there to deal with token creatures. Back to Nature is there to deal with your own enchantments if things don't go according to plan. Kill Switch is another little-used choice that really shuts down mana rocks permanently.

Fun combo #1: using New Frontiers to get a dozen Mountains while Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle is in play. You get to deal significant damage with a land ramp spell, and follow it up the next turn with a lot more mana to pump into your finisher.

Fun combo #2: Using Hurricane or Earthquake to deal lethal damage to all players, while you have Dark Sphere, Lich's Mirror, or Zuran Orb to protect yourself. I used to run Ugin's Nexus to take advantage of someone playing Vandalblast.

The deck needs to stick to as many basic lands as possible to get them all into play. This inevitably brings the cost down, unless you stock it with foil full-art lands. Get creative with the Maybeboard. There are lots of good card choices, and Rosheen Meanderer is a much better card than it looks. Despite how it might seem at first, adding spells that Fork the X spells isn't as great. The reason is that you would have to take out some of the necessary land ramp or mana doublers. This reduces X by a larger margin than just the cost of the spell. Focus on the mana base of basic lands and mana doublers, and your version of this build will be good.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.23
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Hydra */* G, Ooze */* G