Quote Originally Posted by Antonius View Post
Punishing Fires is not nearly as good as Grim Lavamancer. Hell, I think you'd have a hard time convincing me that KotR is better than Grim Lavamancer. Dude is insane. I've won tons of games with just bob beats and lavamancer shocks its ridiculous. Lavamancer fills a unique roll within the deck, whereas KotR is distinguished by being not quite as good as Countryside Crusher. Stick to three colors, IMO. You don't gain that much from the fourth. STP is nice, but EE, Deed/Pulse and/or Edicts already do the same thing against big guys and Bolt is just straight better against little dudes.

If you really want to experiment with white, then try cutting black for it and abusing SFM. Don't just tack it on, because you're bound to have some color problems if you do.
I found Knight to be much better than Crusher. I really like the Lavamancer idea though. I don't know that he needs to be played instead of Punishing Fires though. The two can go together.

If you take Seismic out for Lavamancer, the mana requirements for everything become very easy. It's not like you're running any BB or GG cards at that point.

I like Deed a lot. But it seems to have a lot of anti-synergies with a lot of other cards. Mox, Chalice, Lavamancer, plus any other creatures you want to play. I'm not sure you need that much sweet when you could be playing more versatile ones like Lavamancer and Pulse.