[C][22] Spellslinger - Veyran UR (EDH / Commander)

> TYPICAL GAME

• t1: land
• t2: mana rock or mv2 creature
• t3: veyran
• t4: damage tool

From this point you have two roads:
a) if you already have a mana-producer, play it
b) start the chain until you can tutor or draw a decent mana producer for next turn

• t6: start the chain of spells and win

Note: even if you don't have a finisher ready, don't be afraid of start the chain... you can draw it along the chain or pick a tutor and call Chandra's Ignition !

Let's analyze the deck....

> MANA PRODUCERS

Those cards are NOT mana sources or ramp, those cards are part of the mana-engine when you start the chain of spells.

The quartet of folies:

• Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty , this is the real MVP of the deck since it triggers with EVERY spell you cast
• Storm-Kiln Artist , this is literally the best producer we have, since it creates treasures we can cast literally everything
• Urabrask // The Great Work , mana producer + damage ping all in one card, simply lovable
• Runaway Steam-Kin , with veyran in play it translates as "I have RRR for two red spells in a row, then a pause"

> RAMP SECTION

• Seething Song , the best rite in red, epic enabler when is time to do something with past in flames
• Jeska's Will , it becomes nearly infinite if we have Underworld Breach and enough cards in graveyard
• Mana Geyser , not the best but neither bad: works perfectly as long we can produce at least 5 mana from it
• Path of the Pyromancer , edge card, works good only in combination with the graveyard-recycler cards (like Past in Flames)
• Big Score , Yes you read correctly, I consider this card ramp instead of card draw
• Pyromancer's goggles , anytime you can drop it T4/5 DO IT! You will only have benefits later...
• Fellwar Stone + Izzet Signet + Mind Stone + Talisman of Creativity + Arcane Signet , mandatory mana rocks
• Chrome Mox , I had it and I used it
• Mox Diamond , same as above
• Lotus Petal , same as above
• Sol Ring , on this deck might anticipate the victory of even 2 turns if you have the proper setup

> TECHS AND TOOLS

• Krark, the Thumbless , MVP alone, unless you trigger two times boomerang of the spell, you will ALWAYS have at least 1 copy of it and, even better, 75% of the times you will have your spell back in hand ready to cast it again and trigger more and more your damage dealers or mana producers
• Thousand-Year Storm , tremendous accellerator
• Chandra's Ignition , the strongest finisher of the deck as long you have a puffy pumped Veyran to target
• Fork , honestly speaking is more a pet card... I just wanted so hard to use it here since, as like as other high-prize cards, I have it since my early times in mtg; despite that, there are several times where it can be useful, expecially to increase the storm count or with some big-spells
• Creative Technique , little brother of...
• Mind's Desire (do I really need to explain it?) :)
• Epic Experiment , if you have pulled enough mana to cast it with 10+ in the X... it's almost auto-win
• Electrodominance , SUPER helpful to cast some blue spells while you're under a mana producer with only R
• Goblin Electromancer , the only one mana reducer I kept in the list

> RECYCLING ENGINE

With such redundancy is super easy to re-fuel your chain of spells in the same turn or in the next one if you failed it

• Past in flames
• Recoup
• Finale of Promise
• Invoke Calamity
• Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
• Underworld Breach
• Mizzix's Mastery

> TUTOR ENGINE

• Intuition , I had it and I used it.... and... I love it a lot! Its main purpose is to recall the mana producers when you don't have one ...OR... to recall Chandra's Ignition + a recycle engine piece when you're near to close the chain
• Gamble , use it ASAP when you have a large enough hand to recall Birgi... you won't regret it!
• Mystical Tutor , personally speaking I use it to recall Intuition or Chandra's Ignition most of the times, but might be helpful also for a recycling engine piece

> WHEELS

If you have enough mana and a mana producer, you won't ever regret it

• Wheel of Fortune , ehm... I had it and I used it
• Wheel of Misfortune (thanks secret lair!)
• Frantic Search (pulled out from a booster pack)

> DRAW ENGINE

Do not confuse those cards from cantrips (aka: each mv1 card that makes you draw cards). The draw engine is limited and concentrated more over the quantity. I gave priority to red cards and expecially the best ones it had to offer.

• Thrill of Possibility + Cathartic Reunion + Big Score , these three cards of the discard/draw theme are fueled with useless lands you drew with cantrips and can help digging in the deck for the pieces you search
• Expressive Iteration , simply "why not?"
• Archmage Emeritus , BEWARE! Despite you draw 2 cards at spell, there are some corner-cases where you might end your library VERY FAST ;)

> CANTRIPS

I won't list them all ofc, but I wan to focus on the special ones:

• Ancestral Anger + Crash Through , you give trample to a super bulky Veyran, pumped by a ton of spells? Yes please, you might end up obliterate an opponent with commander damage
• Slip Through Space , same as above but better!
• Rile , don't be afraid to target your veyran! It won't even notice it when is bulky enough (don't forget veyran doubles it's own pumping ability too! It gets +2/+2 just because you cast Rile )

note: the definition of cantrip is "mv1 spell that makes you draw"

> FINISHERS

• Kessig Flamebreather + Electrostatic Field + Exalted Flamer of Tzeentch + Urabrask // The Great Work , 1damage ping
• Guttersnipe + Fiery Inscription , 2 damage ping
• Sentinel Tower , incremental ping ;)
• Chandra's Ignition , big-damage in one shot, super synergy with veyran alone, tutorable and also mass removal... all in 1 card
• Aetherflux Reservoir , lifegain + finisher, yes please

> Final Words...

This deck started as a 4fun one: I had at a certain point to see how to develop the spellsling theme and bought a Prismari Performance precon (here a list: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3939023#paper )
From that I derived two decks: this one with Veyran at command, focused on pure damage... and another one, originally with Balmor, Battlemage Captain at command, focused only on tokens (here the list today, with Ovika at command: https://deckstats.net/decks/229236/3232185--c-38-tokens-ovika-ur )
Even since it was a simple precon, it surprised me for the speed of some edge games where it was able (with A LOT of luck) to end in turn 7/8 (very fast for a precon!).

Once I've finished to gather all the cards (the red cantrips + the mana producers) for the deck I got surprised for the second time: the stability of execution.
On every goldfish I perform it closes the game between Turn 5 and 7 with reliable stability.
On every live game where it played so far it was able to resist board wipes, few counters and take home the table (even if I don't use it very much since I won't annoy the table with super long turns of mine during the chain of spells).

Was at that point that I've decided to slowly upgrade it:

• at first with some foils
• then some 10-15eur card
• then I had the idea: let's put here all my old eternal cards unused! And here we go with the moxes, fork, intuition etc (that were stored for years in my binders)
• ...and now my mission is to make it full of foils (not 100%, but as much as I can)

I don't consider it a cEDH (since it have 0 control over the table) but, even if is really efficent and strong, I use it more as a 4fun exotic thing to bring at the table if everyone allows it, than a deck to bring into a casual pod.
Personally speaking I don't consider it "fun" for the rule-0 of a casual table: you force 3 other players to watch you for 10-15minutes play a lot of spells, count damage and even risk to fail... isn't that amusing ;)

So in the end it have cards of high prize simply for my personal amusement, "because I can" and because this is the only deck worth enough to have them.

I really wanted to tell you that, to deeply understand my approach to it: it's made for MY fun! ^^