Thrasios/Vial Smasher Combo

Commander / EDH Four Color UBRG

GunstarHero16

Land (36)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 5x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shimmering Grotto
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Unknown Shores

TargetRemoval (7)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Unravel the Aether

Recursion (5)

• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Volcanic Vision

Ramp (14)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Zhur-Taa Druid

BigSpells (11)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Brass's Bounty
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Elder Deep-Fiend
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Part the Waterveil
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Torrential Gearhulk
• 1x Treasure Cruise

Synergy (6)

• 1x Biomancer's Familiar
• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Mind's Dilation
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation

BoardWipes (4)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Plague Wind

Commanders (2)

CardDraw (10)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Impulse
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Windfall

BurnItDown (3)

• 1x Guttersnipe
• 1x Leyline of Combustion
• 1x Sulfuric Vortex

InfiniteMana (2)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

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This is a fun take on the Thrasios and Vial Smasher combination, toned down to better match the power level of my playgroup. Includes Dictate of Karametra over Zendikar Resurgent to benefit everyone at the table, Alchemist's Refuge over Leyline of Anticipation to make sure I don't instantly become a target for removal spells, and Sulfuric Vortex to wear everyone down over time, including me. At least Vial Smasher helps me wear everyone else down a little faster.

There's an infinite mana combo with Animate Dead + Worldgorger Dragon , where your lands are repeatedly cycled between the field and the yard. Use that mana for big finishers like Exsanguinate or Comet Storm , or even just move Sunscorched Desert back and forth to ping for 1 each time. However, I took the tutors I had originally out of the deck, because those are no fun for me at least. If you draw the combo, which you will because Thrasios is a value machine, be sure to target whoever's playing Infect at the table.

Some cards like Cyclonic Rift are expensive, but too good to pass up since you can clear everyone's board AND have Vial Smasher smack someone for 7. Leyline of Combustion is here to punish those people who will recognize Vial Smasher as a monster and come for you. Don't be afraid to cast spells with X for only a few mana just to get some damage off, because you can just bring those cards back with Torrential Gearhulk , Volcanic Vision , and Eternal Witness . Bring TWO spells back by doubling the trigger with Strionic Resonator !

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Animate Dead + Worldgorger Dragon
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 27 - 0 Rares 29 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Treasure