Crackleblitz

by Bohemian on 16 June 2023

Main Deck (64 cards)

Sideboard (12 cards)

Sorceries (4)

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Deck Description

An exceptionally fast deck that gets out of hand quickly. Cast your spells to empower your creatures and steamroll. Heavy use of Cipher and Rebound.

How to Play

Get any creature out and cast spells. Use Hidden Strings to reuse your mana and cast multiple spells each turn. Cipher and Rebound trigger each creature's abilities multiple times. It's easy to pump creature stats into double digits by turn 4 or 5. Feed ciphered copies, rebounds, and Gigadrowse replications to Nivmagus Elemental for crazy amounts of counters.

Crackleburr gives control and options when you're out of spells, but is generally unnecessary. This is a T4 win deck. Its just a fun card with great synergy. Combos ridiculously with Hidden Strings on a creature.

Some interesting sideboard options. Erayo, Soratami Ascendant can be flipped Turn 3 with the right hand. Replace Crackleburr with it. Thud or Fling can also be added for decisive wins.

Deck Tags

  • Cipher
  • Rebound
  • Aggro

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Crackleblitz

How should Hidden Strings help you with casting spells multiple times? The only thing would be Gigadrowse and untaping some lands.

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Posted 19 June 2023 at 07:42

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It doesn't let you cast spell multiple times. It lets you cast more spells per turn by untapping your mana. As it resolves, you can have it untap the mana used to cast it. When its cast and then ciphered to a creature, it can be cast a second time when that creature scores combat damage. Spells ciphered to a creature at cast from exile, not copied. Consider the following:

T1: Island, Nivmagus Elemental
T2: Island, Mountain, Sprite Dragon 1/1
T3: Island, Hidden Strings (1,U), Hands of Binding (1,U), Clout of the Dominus (U/R)
Sprite Dragon is now a 6/6 with haste, flying, and shroud. If you attack and deal combat damage with it, the ciphered Hidden Strings and Hands of Binding are cast from exile. Sprite Dragon is now 8/8. You also now have two more mana to cast with on your second main phase. OR you can exile those two ciphered spells to Nivmagus Elemental, making it a 5/6.

This is a common occurrence for this deck. Electrostatic Infantry benefits in the same way. Rebound is also a major contributor, since spells are cast. All of these can be exiled to give Nivmagus Elemental +2/2 for each spell. Even copies from Gigadrowse can pump it. If you have Erayo in your opening hand, it can be reliably flipped T3 or T4, which is basically GG.

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Posted 19 June 2023 at 23:37

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"... to reuse your mana..." is a way better description for this :)

Most of my suggestions are from the pauper format (commons only) but you can extend the search on your own.
Spells with flashback, like Artful Dodge or Defy Gravity could also be worth a look as it would allow you to re-cast them when you don`t have any cards left on your hand.

Some non-pauper suggestions: Guttersnipe, Young Pyromancer

Last, as you will need a stable mana-base I would also add some dual-lands: Swiftwater Cliffs, Wind-Scarred Crag, Cascade Bluffs, Izzet Boilerworks

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Posted 20 June 2023 at 15:03

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Thanks for the suggestions. They are all very solid. I have Young Pyromancer and Guttersnipe in another deck, but it would work pretty well in this one. I had considered Third Path Iconoclast for similar utility to take full advantage of Clout of the Dominus. The lands are super expensive, and I try to remain cost conscious. Flashback is a really good idea though. I will checkout more of those. I have Risk Factor in another deck. Jump-Start would work well here too.

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Posted 21 June 2023 at 01:02

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