https://deckstats.net/decks/160540/1794357--3-land-destruction-90-semi-bu´
As I saw many land theft and land destruction decks around here in the past days, I thought to myself: I also want to try that out.
At first I wanted to destroy lands with cards like
Ghost Quarter and stop the enemies from searching their libraries with
Leonin Arbiter like cards.
But I found it cooler to turn the lands my opponent controls into artifacts with
Liquimetal Coating and then kill them with super cheap and efficient removal like
Smelt. Then I added ways to untap my Liquimetal to turn multiple lands into artifacts each turn. I thought this deck would maybe be more consistent with more blue stuff for more artifact interaction, but as I wanted to create a budget to semi-budget deck an efficient manabase with fetches and shocks wasn't what I wanted to do as I was already running on Boros colors.
Then I figured that
Karn, the Great Creator is just a perfect fit as it tutors Liquimetal Coatings out of my Sideboard and he also solved my problem of not having a real win-condition which we now can just store in our sideboard and get when the time has come.
At first that version was Boros, with my only white cards being
Wrath of God and
Ghostly Prison for stalling out the game but red also has some semi-board wipes with
Pyroclasm and
Storm's Wrath and my goal of creating a budget deck has a high priority so I was happy to cut several Euros with a mono-colored manabase.
My remaining questions are:
-Am I safe with 18 land destruction cards? Four of them being
Abrade which I can use for creature removal and four being Karn, who can repeatetly destroy lands and is a necessity for my
game plan and
Shattering Spree is also able to kill multiple lands at once. Should I increase or decrease the number of those cards?
-Are there more efficient ways to stall out the game in red than mass removal like
Storm's Wrath or just targeted removal?
-Is there a better alternative to my current win-condition
Darksteel Colossus? At first I only wanted to include 23 lands but as I need to get to 11 mana for
Darksteel Colossus I now run 24 which I don't like to much, so I am not sure if there is a cheaper game-ending threat for me in my colors.
-My ways to untap
Liquimetal Coating only being
Voltaic Servant, I feel kind of inefficient in that regard. But I didn't find anything more efficient on Scryfall and
Voltaic Key is also only able to untap Coating once per turn and costs me one mana every time. Do you know what I could include instead of
Voltaic Servant?