Lands:
13 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground
4 Terramorphic Expanse
2 Forest
Creatures:
4 Grinning Ignus
4 Centaur Omenreader
2 Lightning Serpent
Other Spells:
4 Gruul Signet
4 Utopia Vow
2 Browbeat
4 Rift Bolt
2 Chord of Calling
3 Molten Disaster
4 Empty the Warrens
3 Gauntlet of Power
1 Haze of Rage |
  Grinball.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
...I would've called him Philip Firefingers
myself. I guess I still can. While I don't know how Grinning Ignus got
its name (at least the Ignus part), I know what it is: a storm enabler
and the first cog in some kind of mana engine. Noel deCordova agrees
with me, or more accurately, I agree with him. After scouring the
spoiler and finding no inspiration from Future Sight's non-Legendary
rares, Noel wrote: "I guess I inhaled too much exhaust from Ben
Bleiweiss's evil rare-grubbing robot Boab that day, because not all
combos need rares, right?" That's right. Combos like this unlikely
tag-team certainly don't:
A snow creature teaming up with Philip Firefingers? This
will not end well...for your opponent. As Noel explains, "With those two
in play (the centaur tapped) pay and return ol' Iggy to your hand. You
make . The centaur lets you pay less for creatures, so pay (to play Iggy)
and you're back at the beginning! One red mana = two colourless mana."
With all of this mana, and with such a high spell count
for the turn, you can use any number of win conditions. Noel chose
Lightning Serpent (which also benefits from the Omenreader's
cost-reducing), Molten Disaster (which can also be used to sweep the board
in a pinch), and Empty the Warrens. Gauntlet of Power (set to red)
facilitates the replaying of the Ignus, powers up your Goblin tokens, and
puts your X spells in lethal-range in the absence of the Ignus engine.
Haze of Rage is another nice mana sink, especially if you have an army of
Goblins in play.
In this week's feature article, one of the many Magos
mentioned that you could use Ocular Halo to turn your centaur sideways
without risking it in an attack. Noel used Utopia Vow to similar ends. You
can also tap an Omenreader to convoke out one of the Chord of Callings.
Might I recommend searching for Grinning Ignus?
Finally, Noel takes care of perhaps the most important
detail of all: the deck's name: "Traditionally, a deck like this had a
Ball somewhere in its name (a nod to Fireball.) ElfBall. GoblinBall.
AtogBall (Don't ask.) So without further ado," here's the deck... |
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