Lands:
4 Battlefield Forge
7 Mountain
6 Plains
4 Terramorphic Expanse
3 Vivid Crag
Creatures:
3 Amrou Scout
2 Brion Stoutarm
4 Ceaseless Searblades
1 Changeling Berserker
1 Defiant Vanguard
2 Flamekin Brawler
4 Flamekin Harbinger
1 Mirror Entity
2 Nova Chaser
3 Outrider en-Kor
4 Soulbright Flamekin
1 Steamflogger Boss
Other Spells:
4 Blades of Velis Vel
4 Runed Stalactite |
  Element(als)
of Surprise.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
In the forums for my article last week,
eaterofgnomes shared a pair of nifty Ceaseless Searblades combos. The
first used Mirror Entity (a sneaky Elemental) and some stack trickiness
to make your Searblades arbitrarily powerful. You have to activate
Mirror Entity paying 0, let Ceaseless Searblades' triggered ability
resolve, and then activate the Mirror Entity, again paying 0. You end up
with a very powerful Elemental and a series of Mirror Entity activations
itching to turn all of your guys into 0/0s. You don't want this to
happen, of course, but you can't go into your combat step with all of
this junk on the stack, either. What you have to do is dodge the need
for the combat step altogether by using Brion Stoutarm to "fling" your
arbitrarily powerful Elemental.
The other combo was Ceaseless Searblades + Outrider
en-Kor + some way to turn Outrider en-Kor into an Elemental.
Eaterofgnomes suggested Blades of Velis Vel or Shields of Velis Vel.
McDugan and Robby B. (by email) brought up the fact that Runed
Stalactite could also fill this role. Robby also sent along a deck that
employed all of these combos, as well as a few others.
The deck is a tribal hybrid: Elementals and Rebels
(with a tiny Rigger splash). The Elementals are comprised of the usual
suspects—Flamekin Harbinger, Soulbright Flamekin (Ceaseless Searblades
is woefully under-trampled), and Nova Chaser—as well as a few unusual
ones—Flamekin Brawler, Changeling Berserker, Mirror Entity. The Brawlers
go well with Soulbright Flamekin and give Ceaseless Searblades a sort of
firebreathing-by-proxy. The Rebel contingent is made up of Outrider en-Kor,
Amrou Scout (which fetches the Outrider, as well as Mirror Entity, other
copies of itself, or Defiant Vanguard). The Vanguard fetches those cards
as well as the Changeling Berserker, whose champion ability, Robby
notes, recalls the utility of Whitemane Lion when you can search it out
as an instant with a Rebel searcher.
Runed Stalactite is deceptively useful common that I
predict will be a workhorse in weird decks for a long, long time (in the
manner of Freed from the Real). Its main role in this deck is to turn
your Outrider en-Kor into an Elemental, but it can also be used to turn
Brion Stoutarm into a Rigger so he'll have haste if you also control
Steamflogger Boss. Nova Chaser also makes an excellent Rigger, fighting
alongside the Boss. The 10/2 is also a fine choice of fling-ee for Mr.
Stoutarm. This is an especially good plan if you can champion a
Harbinger. That way, when you fling your Nova Chaser, you'll get your
Harbinger back and be able to go find another Nova Chaser. That's a cool
20 damage right there. Here's a modified version of the deck Robby sent
me... |
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