Death By Scry

by AimlessWarlord on 29 June 2014

Main Deck (62 cards)

Sideboard (10 cards)

Creatures (1)


Sorceries (4)

Instants (5)

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Deck Description

It was built to be a laugh that might work once or twice, turned out to be one of my strongest builds.

How to Play

Aqueous and Flamespeaker together are a lethal combo, so use the scry to get them, if you can get and keep out chemicaster then he can pull two extra cards a turn to pull magma jet and spark jolt through.

Remembering to use scryfish at the end of your opponents turn to scry before you draw or tap it after you declare a block with it, least then if it has to die you still get the extra scry in.

I think I've managed to pump flamespeaker to 18 unblockable in one turn.

Deck Tags

  • Blue
  • Red
  • Izzet
  • scry

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Death By Scry

I like to use this format for my RU decks as well, and I've been messing around with the Flamespeaker in various ways. The Sigiled Starfish is amazing, as is the Aqueous Form, all in combination with Flamespeaker, of course. Have you considered using Titan's Strength? (R) for +3/+1 and Scry 1 at Instant speed on the FS is insane, especially if you add the bonus from (hopefully) having Aqueous AND the Scryfish out. The biggest issue I find in running a Sniper deck is often the card disadvantage, since you often want to focus more on the "pump up in one go to decimate your surprised enemy" approach, which means if it doesn't take 'em out in the first run, you'll have to have a game plan for the next round. Dragon Mantle could help in this situation, as it lets you basically fish for a card you already know, or expect (Scry is amazing), as is the simple yet effective Divination. Sometimes you just have to have the cards. Also, in case you need more firepower, Spellheart Chimera is low cost and powerful in a spell-driven deck.

Just a little food for thought for you.

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Posted 29 June 2014 at 14:32

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I went with a more burn approach to maintain some kind of control on numbers, and they scry too :).
I would like to stick a forth staticaster (in place of the 1/5 weird) and a second chemist in (in place of the dragon maybe). Multiple static casters are sweet to have on the field, and I like the chemist, I know it's a 5 drop to get out, but the return of 2 cards a turn or essentially fling effect are nice.

As you said the titan instant is a nice option to couple with aqueous hmmm, maybe I may add that to sideboard and give it a go in a few games it's not something I'd though of, kind of forgot it had the scry effect too. May experiment with that instead of spark jolt?

Also wouldn't mind three more scry lands ;)

All in all though I was incredibly surprised how well this turned out, was only meant to be a little bit of fun. I thank you for your feedback and the suggestion of titan strength may have just made this even worse hahahaha

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Posted 29 June 2014 at 17:06

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