The Candle & The Crow Mage Page - Deck Designs - The Land Smasher
Deck Concept:
Land is crucial to the game of Magic as a player's primary mana source. The Land Smasher is very good at denying its opponent's of land, with the idea that if a player can not amass any land he or she will have a very difficult time getting out any of his cards. Once it gets a comfortable lead on land, it can start its attack with direct damage and beefy artifact creatures to finish off a reeling foe.
THE LAND SMASHER
This deck is 61 cards in size, with a 15 card sideboard. It is listed as Type One.
RED SPELLS
17 Cards Total
- 3 Chain Lightings (replace if playing against Red from Sideboard)
- 3 Conquers (take your opponents lands, rather than destroy them)
- 3 Lava Bursts (good damage)
- 4 Lightning Bolts (ouch)
- 4 Stone Rains (required)
BLACK SPELLS
8 Cards Total
- 3 Icequakes (required)
- 4 Sinkholes (also required)
- 1 Worms of the Earth (Make your opponent pay 4 life to put out a land.)
ARTIFACTS
12 Cards Total
- 2 Ankhs of Mishra (When you have a nice lead, make opponent pay 2 life to put out a land)
- 1 Black Vise (With no land, your opponent's hand tends to fill up.)
- 4 Juggernauts (5/3 attackers - cheap, can't be terrored, and are immune to the Abysses.)
- 1 Sol Ring (Always handy)
- 4 Urza's Baubles ("Pads" the deck and gets you two cards next turn for free)
LANDS
24 Cards Total
- 4 Badlands (Red/Black mana source)
- 1 Hammerheim (Stops swamp/mountain-walking)
- 1 Lava Tubes (Red/Black mana source)
- 5 Mountains (Required)
- 4 Strip Mines (Destroys a land when it comes out)
- 1 Sulpherous Springs (Red/Black mana source)
- 7 Swamps (Required)
- 1 Urborg (Removes first strike or swamp-walking
SIDEBOARD
15 Cards Total
- 3 The Abysses (Opponent must bury a creature during upkeep)
- 3 Detonates (Destroys an artifact, and causes damage)
- 1 Earthquake (kill all those pesky non-flying weenies)
- 1 Flashfires (Goodbye to all plains!)
- 3 Glooms (Can stop a white deck cold)
- 1 Shatter (Destroys a target artifact)
- 1 Shatterstorm (Destroys all artifacts)
- 1 Stench of Evil (Destroy all plains, and deals damage)
- 1 Tabernacle of Pendrall Vale(All creatures gain upkeep of 1 - hard to pay with no land.)
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