Black Flame - Need Help with!

by HeroAble on 06 September 2010

Main Deck (62 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (4)


Instants (7)

Enchantments (4)

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Deck Description

Here it is!
My beloved first deck, built up better and better after years of treatment.
Basically it's a Let's-Clean-The-Battlefield Deck: a lot of quick destroying or damaginig spells (the amazing Blazing Salvo!), and reusable creatures with Kicker, which I can take back after first turns with Lava Zombie and SkullSnatcher to boost them up. Many cards are put in to remove the enemy cemetery, making it not reusable.
Lim-Dul is my last weapon. It feeds cards in my cemetery for FrightCrawler, and tramples over everything if I boost him up with SStrenght.

Please, help me suggesting cards that will fit best with this kinda deck.

Deck Tags

  • Casual

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

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

Deck discussion for Black Flame - Need Help with!

Hello - I'm not a big fan of enchantments as you lose two for one - there is much better equipment out there that remains in play even if a creature doesn't and can be transferred between creatures.
Or the slots can be used for card dawing - 2 life for two cards is a bargain especially if need to get a creature or removal spell in hand versus holding an enchantment.
See if you can get your deck closer to 60 cards - it is at 62.
I like Dread Return with a dredge deck where you can get a nasty into play from your graveyard with it which is impossible to cast from your hand before you lose the game! Your deck's creatures aren't nasty enough for it. So I would look for options there as well and perhaps remove one of the burn spell types to add 4 Duress or some other hand manipulation. A turn one Duress can be huge and most of your creatures cost 2 and the creatures that cast for only one mana you don't really want to play for only one mana.

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Posted 06 September 2010 at 23:18

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I think the deck size and enchants are fine myself. Definitely like the Dread Return (or Zombify) to bring a big guy from your graveyard. Grab one of the 8-11 cost eldrazi (for instance) or some other big creatures (I'm sure there are better ones than those eldrazi) if you want to do that. I'd probably drop Ghastly Demise in favor of Duress.
Vamps are always nice, if not overused.
Sorin Markov if you're interested in a planeswalker, but you can probably get better bang for your buck from other cards.
Finally lands: Dragonskull Summit, perhaps Bojuka Bog, Lavaclaw Reaches, Akoum Refuge, and maybe Crypt of Agadeem. Hope this helps and fair warning, I have no idea about what legacy format is like.

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Posted 06 September 2010 at 23:46

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Hey, and thank you for your comment :)

My brother has a black/red destro-deck quite similar to yours. It's really annoying, since he combines creature-destruction with a spark of land-destruction.

He has - like you - been changing this deck for more than 7 years. It startet as a manaflare-dragon-x-damage thing with Vampiric Dragon amongst others, but changed, since it was too slow, into the destro deck it is today.

We play two-headed dragon, and his deck is always nice to be with. Smacking your opponents and buying you time to your combos into broad daylight.

He got
Mogg Fanatic - which is really annoying.
Diabolic Edict to get immunes.
He got Orcish Settlers for land-d.
Dark Rituals, to kickstart stuff.
For dual-mana, he got Dragonskull Summit and a couple of Badlands
A couple of Mindtwists. With the ritual.. so anoying.
Animate Dead's
Some big creatures like Helldozer and Two-headed Dragon.
X-damages. The one that gives to each creature is really annoying

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Posted 14 September 2010 at 17:44

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Thank you (and everyone else!) for the help. You're right, it's always nice to see true costructive comments :). The land-destruction thing is something I was thinking about adding to my deck, but I only can find costly spells or creatures, and I pretty think it's someway useless at turn 6-7 to destroy lands...
Anyway, many cards you suggested are incredible! I didn't know Animate Dead, I can even steal enemy's creatures after I destroyed them... definitely gonna buy some, I think. But I'll keep some Dread Return in since it isn't an enchantment. Diabolic Edict, I could add it to the side deck removing Coffin Purge or Rain of Gore. It's extremely useful when you fight annoingly counter Tinker-Darksteel Colossus decks, like my friend's one. Definitely like the Two-Headed guy. I'll seriously think about adding him, since it will mean to change my mana curve. Mogg Fanatic can be an interesting replacement for Duskwalker or similar.
Thank you all so much!

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Posted 15 September 2010 at 06:14

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