It's a bad idea, but the Mississippi River combo deck thread (https://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/...chnique-Combo)) has me wondering about whether there's a "go fast" version of the cascade combo deck possible. I'm putting this here in the hopes that I'll stop thinking about it.

The lists I've been coming up with are something like:

3 Tibalt's Trickery
4 Hazoret's Undying Fury

4 Violent Outburst
4 Throes of Chaos
4 Creative Technique
4 Invoke Calamity
4 Noise Marine
4 Seething Song
4 Mizzix's Mastery

4 Gemstone Caverns
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Sandstone Needle
4 City of Traitors
4 Tinder Farm
4 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Forest


The idea here is to fire off Throes of Chaos or Violent Outburst into Tibalt's Trickery and then chain off free casting or copying to make lethal damage with Noise Marines. That said, there are several different challenges with making this work: It's very hard to find a 23 card lands-only mana base that can support firing off Outburst or Throes of Chaos reliably on turn two, but the deck needs to have a high spell density to make Undying Fury credible so it can't play many more lands. Having a large number of copies of Tibalt's Trickery makes for high fizzle rates early in the combo, but having a small number makes the copies of Throes and Outburst dead ends later. There's a limited number of ways to chain "cast without paying" so the list uses some less-than-ideal cards -- Invoke Calamity needs cards in the graveyard while resolving, Mizzix's Mastery needs cards in the graveyard while being cast, and Seething Song needs cards in hand to be useful as part of the combo. Undying Fury will get worse and worse as the various cascade effects thin the deck.