Modern Storm Combo
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Posted on Aug. 16, 2012, 2:01 p.m. by doinitwrong
I'm trying to make a Modern-legal Storm Combo deck, using Dragonstorm .
Check the deck's description for a basic overview. Any and all tips, comments, and ideas are more than welcome. Thank you in advance!
Also, I think I remember once seeing a red equivalent to High Tide , which would be very useful here. Has anyone else seen this, or has the madness finally descended?
doinitwrong says... #3
I'm running Desperate Ritual , Pyretic Ritual , and Seething Song . Rite of Flame is unfortunately banned in Modern. The only creatures I run besides Simian Spirit Guide and the Dragons themselves are 2x Priest of Urabrask , which isn't enough for Battle Hymn and Infernal Plunge to be effective. Mana Geyser is too reliant on my opponent, plus it won't net me any mana until at least turn 6-7. Inner Fire costs too much to be effective, plus it's useless if my opponent runs discard. As for Geosurge , it's restrictions make it not work well, unless if I was to use cards like Priest of Urabrask and Chromatic Star to filter the mana, but it'd be useless without those cards.
Can you think of any low cost red/colorless cards that let me draw a card or two? I'm already running Faithless Looting and Manamorphose , but can you think of any others?
P.S. Thanks for the tip about link prefixes.
August 16, 2012 7:17 p.m.
gheridarigaaz says... #4
Wild Guess ? maybe you could combo off a miracle'd Reforge the Soul . personally i think Grapeshot is the way forward with storm. you wouldn't have creatures to stifle your combo, but still... i guess you could put in Gitaxian Probe and Pyromancer Ascension to increase the gain from each draw. and you wouldn't have to pay the additional cost per copy so with something like Wild Guess which basically cantrips itself with 2 cards you'd be drawing an additional 2 cards to support your continued spell chain
August 17, 2012 1:32 a.m.
doinitwrong says... #6
Wild Guess looks plausible, and Reforge the Soul might work. Grapeshot is a pretty bad storm wincon because it requires a storm count of 20. If I did decide to change wincons, I'd go with Empty the Warrens . Gitaxian Probe might be useful, but I'm not sure I'd be able to charge up Pyromancer Ascension quick enough for it to be effective, although it would definitely help the deck once it does charge up. Past in Flames may be a bit too costly mana-wise.
August 17, 2012 2:47 a.m.
gheridarigaaz says... #7
You'd be surprised how much of your deck you burn through using cantrips like Manamorphose , which help out reaching that stormcount and putting counters on Pyromancer Ascension . And you wont be entirely reliant on the stormcount. card:Pyromancer's Swath reduces the required stormcount from 19 down to 7
Faithless Looting definitely helps the ascension get all the counters needed
August 17, 2012 1:06 p.m.
doinitwrong says... #8
Hm, I never knew about card:Pyromancer's Swath before, It could make a Grapeshot /Pyromancer Ascension deck viable. It would need Faithless Looting , Wild Guess , Manamorphose and maybe Gitaxian Probe and Chromatic Star . I'd have Lotus Bloom , Simian Spirit Guide , and Mountain /Fetch Lands for initial mana, with Desperate Ritual , Pyretic Ritual , and Seething Song to supplement... that could work.
fireteam says... #2
There's Geosurge , Desperate Ritual , Infernal Plunge , Inner Fire , Mana Geyser , Pyretic Ritual , Rite of Flame , Seething Song , Seismic Spike , and Battle Hymn
I tried :D I don't see it.
August 16, 2012 5:57 p.m.