Metal Sligh

[kicks_422]

The new Metalcraft cards are getting attention from one deck - Affinity. However, I think there's room for more creativity. I present to you - METAL SLIGH.

// Lands
4 [UNH] Island
4 [UNH] Mountain
4 [MR] Seat of the Synod
4 [DS] Darksteel Citadel
4 [MR] Great Furnace

// Creatures
4 [ROE] Kiln Fiend
4 [ALA] Master of Etherium
4 [SOM] Memnite
4 [SOM] Etched Champion
4 [TO] Grim Lavamancer

// Spells
4 [AP] Fire/Ice
4 [MR] Thoughtcast
4 [M11] Lightning Bolt
4 [SOM] Galvanic Blast
4 [MR] Shrapnel Blast

The numbers are very preliminary, as it is just in development stages. However, early testing has shown promise.

Some thoughts:

1. While Master of Etherium and Etched Champion are powerful cards on their own, having a 3cc cost might slow the deck down too much. I'd love to see some more good Metalcraft creatures come out in blue and red, however...
2. Can I possibly splash a 3rd color here? With a manabase of 3 each of the artifact lands, plus a combination of 3+3+2 basics? (btw, I'm trying to keep the manabase as cheap as possible, though running duals are of course your option). For that 3rd color, I'm looking at Green and Carapace Forger, primarily. With Krosan Grip out of the board.
3. Mox Opal? I'm not too keen on running conditional mana in a deck that seeks to squeeze everything out of all the mana available to it. However, as a 2-of, it might be a good fit.

Oh, and the obligatory "Why play this over deck X". Well, Zoo can only dream of running burn spells at 4 for R and 5 for 1R. Goyf Sligh/Mono-Red Sligh's creatures easily get outcalssed if dragged into midgame.Affinity has no reach aside from Disciple+Ravager. So why not play this deck? Apart from that it's untested, the deck now has all the problems of a Sligh deck and an Affinity deck.

Like I said, very preliminary draft. The optimized decklist could very well be much, much different from how it stands right now, but I just wanted to throw the Metalcraft Sligh idea out here.

[Vacrix]

Sligh usually plays offensive creatures. Etched Champion isn't best suited for that role unless you are also going to run equipment. I think Fire//Ice would be better as a few Jittes.

Memnite looks extremely weak in Legacy unless you are also rocking Cranial Plating. It doesn't trade with anything except a few things in Goblins and thats not too impressive when you have to deal with plays like turn 1 Nacatl or turn 2 Goyf.

In general this list can play better burn spells, ie. Galvanic Blast and Shrapnel Blast, but at the expensive of running weaker creatures than Zoo runs.

If you want to play a more sligh-esque list, I suggest going for more Berserk focused tactics to take advantage of Kiln Fiends explosiveness, possibly with other creatures like Painsmith. A black splash also opens up the possibilities of Glaze Fiend though I think its weak with so few artifacts and post-board discard to compete with combo.

[kicks_422]

Yeah, I was just thinking of dropping Blue altogether to run Green instead. However, I think I'd wait until the entire set is spoiled first beforeI get back to this.

[Darkenslight]

I'd be more inclined to go BUr and use Painsmith as an added power-boost.

Also, consider Cloudstone Curio for ultimate shenanigans. :p

[Brennender_Drache]

But the Curio says Non-Artifact?
Maybe make some slots free for Brainstorm + Force of will? Or no good idea?
Or 2 - 3 Jitte what would be good with the etched champion.

[rufus]

So, it seems that in order to get metalcraft online consistently, the deck really wants to play about half artifacts. Roughly speaking, that means playing artifact lands, and artifact mana. Not a bad thing in and of itself, but it means that it's trading in Fireblast and Grim Lavamancer for Galvanic Arc and Carapace Forger.

There are some pretty obvious artifact choices:

Great Furnace
Tree of Tales
Chrome Mox
Mox Opal

Naively, that can be rounded out with

Lotus Petal
Urza's Bauble
Mirsha's Bauble

And then we have damage sources...

Galvanic Arc
Lightning Bolt
Chain Lightning
Shrapnel Blast
Carapace Forger
Tarmogoyf
Kiln Fiend
Storm Entity

[Gocho]

Please, if you make a list with a non-published card, write the spoiled text.

I know memnite, but don't know Etched Champion, so I can't argument about your list. Card Tags, helps too...

And I agree with Vacrix:


Memnite looks extremely weak in Legacy unless you are also rocking Cranial Plating. It doesn't trade with anything except a few things in Goblins and thats not too impressive when you have to deal with plays like turn 1 Nacatl or turn 2 Goyf.


I like the Galvanic Blast, but we must forget Fireblast to play it, and I love FB.
If you want to go that way, you must try Ankh of Mishra in the Price of Progress slot, that grants 4 damage for every Fetchland