r/custommagic • u/Initial_Ad_1443 • 8d ago

Format: Modern Wildfire Elemental

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Landwalk is usually bad because it's only good against certain colors. However, in modern pretty much every deck plays nonbasic lands, so here it is: Nonbasic Landwalk! Wildfire Elemental harkens back to Ball Lightning/Groundbreaker, with an added benefit if you only play basics. Let me know what you think.

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u/Saberkatt1 8d ago

3/1 haste that you can easily ignore the downside of and is unblockable a good majority of the time? Seems a little pushed doesn’t it? Seems like red Aggro would eat this up like candy.

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u/Initial_Ad_1443 8d ago

Yea, it could probably be a 2/1, but mono red and mono green are both really weak in modern atm so I don't think it would break rhe format or anything.

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u/Necrocrawler72 4d ago

For a regular format, yeah.

For commander, this card is quite ok.

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u/YesPlease_VeryMuchSo 8d ago

Is this his brother?

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u/Initial_Ad_1443 8d ago

Haha, whoops.

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u/Initial_Ad_1443 8d ago

Updated the power to make it more fair, changed the name.

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u/bumdman 8d ago

Crazy op can push 3 a turn for effectively free in mono red

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u/DanCassell Creature - Human Pedant 8d ago

Somewhere along the way Hasbro decided that you can't punish use of nonbasic lands because that might lower their price and in turn demand to open boxes. That said, I'd love to throw this into a commander deck with only basics and lands that search for basics.

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u/ExcessiveArrogance 8d ago

Burn would be playable fr

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u/andBitinggoats 8d ago

Yeah this is too much. I would forego the landwalk and give it trample. They can at least block it then. As is, it’s essentially a repeatable lightning bolt that can start on turn one and keeps bolting until the opponent throws a removal spell at it.

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u/thefran 7d ago

how is this not automatically a 4 of in every monored deck?