Why was Beatrice not afraid to leave Heaven? Because God is protecting her. What is a nickname for Beatrice? Nicknames for Beatrice: Bea. What are Virgil's special powers? Who is the father of Sylvius? How does ugolino spend all eternity what is his food? What makes Inferno an allegory? Who is Charon in Inferno? What are the 12 gates of Heaven? Does Dante make it to heaven? How many levels of heaven are there?
How long is a Canto? What is the plot of Inferno? How many Cantos are in Inferno? What is the Dante? Where does Dante meet Beatrice? How is Dante? Why was Dante exiled? Who is Lucia in Dante's Inferno? Sorry for reanimating this old post, but i only just found it and got into Commander Psychotic Fury! Hey, thanks and don't be sorry. This post has the most comments by far of any other post on my blog, so keep 'em coming!
Angelic Overseer is great, my buddy uses her in his Kaalia deck. Avacyn is obviously even better! In fact Avacyn Restored was pretty much a Kaalia player's wet dream. Let's hope we get a dragon-themed set soon, too! Good luck with Riku, and lemme throw some advice out there. Your opponents - if they're smart - will never, EVER let you untap with Riku in play if they can at all help it. Finding a way to reliably cast and then protect Riku is pretty key if you want him to be more than a do-nothing.
Fortunately, most Riku decks I've seen play such powerful spells and creatures already, that even if they have to give up trying to utilize Riku whatsoever, they are still capable of winning.
In addition to protecting Riku, look for ways to build in a little redundancy - add in some additional ways to copy stuff, so that if no one will let you keep Riku in play, maybe to can stick a Mirarie or something instead.
What are your thoughts on Slayer's Stronghold in this deck? A card that performs amazingly well in this deck is Moat. All the creatures I run are flying, with the exception or Solemn and Rector, so it really has no drawback.
Sure it's a bit intense, but our playgroup is pretty cutthroat, so Moat is fair game. It is, in the end, quite easy to deal with when not played in conjunction with Sterling Grove or Privileged Position-ish effects. Sure it's quite expensive, but if you own one, I think that's a perfect deck to play it! Stronghold is a great pick for the deck, I think.
Haste is super-important with Kaalia, the rest is just icing on the cake. It seeing it I would like to know Thanks for your time Zoldrich.
Led by Kaalia of the Vast , the deck revolves around large creatures of the Angel, Dragon and Demon types. Kaalia has the ability to drop a creature of one of those types into play, for free, just by attacking an opponent. She needs ample support to be worth casting or attacking with. So, we need to build around her along two axes.
First we need a strong Tribal theme with plenty of Angels, Dragons and Demons for her to summon. The appeal of a deck like this is, of course, getting to play with big giant creatures, and sneaking them into play early makes this Timmy-est of strategies actually viable. Before we get started, I will toss up the original Heavenly Inferno decklist, unmodified, as I want to use the original deck as a starting point, rather than build from scratch.
As you can see, the list is already pretty well stocked for Angels, Demons and Dragons, though perhaps the non-Angel tribes are a bit under-represented. Furthermore, we have some anti-synergy between some cards. Cacodemon makes that difficult, if not impossible because he taps all of your other creatures too. The first thing I want to do is explore some ways to protect Kaalia, so that we can attack early and often, gaining as much value from her as we possibly can. In playtesting the deck, I took note of the fact that usually, if I cast her by or before turn 4, I was all but guaranteed one safe attack to drop something big in, but after that, even something as innocuous as a Mulldrifter made it difficult to attack further.
The simplest and most direct route is spot removal. Early game, most opponents are likely to only have 1 Flyer out to block, so a Terminate or a Path to Exile will do just fine. Luckily both of those cards were included in the deck up front, along with Wrecking Ball and even Mortify. Later in the game, though, pinpoint removal is not going to cut it. Many opponents will be capable of having multiple flyers on the board, and plenty of mana open for their own spot removal. Also, making her unblockable seems like a solid plan.
Shroud helps us dodge removal, but not blockers. Most of us know well by now that Auras have built-in card disadvantage. Lightning Greaves is a great start, but we need more. Four to cast, but only two to equip, the Kabuto is a fine piece of gear to help us keep Kaalia alive and attacking — it give her Shroud to protect her from spot removal, and it prevents all combat damage to her, making blockers irrelevant.
Whispersilk Cloak does much the same thing, offering Shroud and making her completely unblockable. Angelic Benediction is another great addition. Finally, Dolmen Gate , while narrow, is a very cheap investment to help protect Kaalia and the rest of your host, Heavenly or otherwise. Now, remember how we also need a bunch of Angels, Dragons and Demons too? Well, there are a few options within those tribes okay, mostly Angels that can perform double-duty of being a fatty to drop with Kaalia and offering protection to her in the process.
Folks, I give you: Deathless Angel. This underplayed rare from Rise of the Eldrazi is perfect for a Kaalia deck; likely the first legitimately good use for this card ever! Angel of Salvation prevents damage, so she can help protect Kaalia. Among the Demons, only one comes to mind: Malfegor. The big one that everyone is buzzing about, Rakdos the Defiler , is a good place to start.
But his combat-damage trigger does still happen if he hits, which is very good. For you, at least. Fortunately the deck does have Oni of Wild Places to help you return Rakdos to your hand each turn, so that you can just keep sneaking him out turn after turn, never having to suffer the indignity of sacrificing half your non-Demon permanents.
The Dragon tribe lends a hand with Dragon Mage , offering a Wheel of Fortune effect every time he connects. Heavenly Inferno includes a multitude of sub-par Angels that can easily be upgraded. Sacrificing the intended target of a Treachery or Rite of Replication is good. Sac-ing everything in response to a Living Death or Insurrection both included in the other pre-cons can literally mean the difference between winning a game and losing it. Further, the lack of good card draw options means the deck can run out of gas easily.
Bladewing the Risen is a cute trick, and fine to leave in, but we need more than that, especially since Bladewing can only reanimate dragons and he might be the only dragon you see in a given game. Both are great options, and easily recommendable for this deck. Sounds good. Stronghold Overseer — Shadow is basically Unblockable in this format, expecially when combined with Flying. Xathrid Demon — Can help you win through a stalled board. Some are obvious, but others might not be.
Ob-Nixilis, the Fallen — This guy is fine in any deck with Green, but without access to some good ramp, he tends to underperform. Xathrid is basically the same, but at least he gives you value out of the sacrificed creatures.
He belongs in a Control deck with lots of draw. This is not that deck. Eternal Dragon — Comes back to your hand. Fetches land. Seems okay. Giving someone a few tokens is probably not going to backfire on you too badly, and it might win you an ally for a turn or two. Mordant Dragon — Hit an opponent and one of his creatures? Anyway, I played three games with this deck at the Commander release, and I found it a little underwhelming. The first game I had Kaalia but nothing to put into play, so that was disappointing.
The third game I used Tariel as the general and never saw Kaalia, and Tariel died to a seven-point Disaster Radius before I could activate her, so that was sort of a bust. High point was playing a face-down Zoetic Caverns in the first game, then surprising everyone in the second game by flipping up Akroma when they thought it was the Caverns again.
That made me laugh. Also, the art on Tariel is sweet. Waves of Aggression would be great here, for example. Eternal Dragon would have been awesome, since it can basically occupy a land slot.
At first, this was the deck I was going to get when we knew nothing, but I flipped to Political Puppets. Mainly due to it being at MSRP for preorder, and this at well over it. Can always use more angels! Honestly, all the decks are fixer-uppers, but they offer a great start for newbies to the format, and offer cool new cards and interesting evolution options right now I think Mimeoplasm general damage might be the way to go.
For example, this deck lacks a strong dragon prescence, Devour for Power has too few reanimation, and too much mill riddlekeeper has me confused, although there are hits here, like Extractor Demon and Shared Trauma.
Sadly I think they forgot this is about having fun, not only smashing their opponent under overwhelming decks. Same case here. Lots of very interesting cards, and so many rares. This tells me how popular it is and potentially how hard they would be to get if I waited. One of the things that is so intimidating to me about Commander is that, as a relatively new player, I have no idea what any of these cards are.
I suppose only by reading more of these articles will I ever get over this hump. I imagine this is the difficulty faced by brand new players just being exposed to Magic: The Gathering as well. The write-up was very well written given how daunting a prospect it is for me to learn all those cards.
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Who We Are. Ertai's Lament. June 18, First here is the mana curve you may need to click on it to see it in full size due to size compression : The Angels are your most populous tribe, with numbers greater than the other two combined.
I Grant You Blades The noncreature support afforded Heavenly Inferno is unsurprisingly heavily weighted on the removal side- the overwhelming majority of these cards manage threats in some manner or another.
Every World is an Organism Supporting all this must be a manabase that is at the same time both consistent and flexible, and each of the five Commander decks have enough nonbasic lands to fit the bill. Rate this:. Want to share this article? Twitter Facebook Email Reddit. Like this: Like Loading Read more from Commander. Jonathan W. I wouldnt mind getting this deck. Honestly, all the decks are fixer-uppers, but they offer a great start for newbies to the format, and offer cool new cards and interesting evolution options right now I think Mimeoplasm general damage might be the way to go For example, this deck lacks a strong dragon prescence, Devour for Power has too few reanimation, and too much mill riddlekeeper has me confused, although there are hits here, like Extractor Demon and Shared Trauma Overall though, this is an amazing product, so glad wizards put it out.
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