Adam Haggerty's Showdown
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍) modModern
Approx. Value:
$135.23

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Avg. CMC 3.68
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Main Deck - 94 cards, 32 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (11)
4 Baral, Chief of Compliance
$1.86 Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
4 Nimble Obstructionist
$0.45 Creature - Bird Wizard
3 Torrential Gearhulk
$1.02 Artifact Creature - Construct
Instant (41)
2 Abrade
$0.17 Instant
3 Censor
$0.15 Instant
2 Commit // Memory
$0.48 Instant // Sorcery //
4 Depths of Desire
$0.06 Instant
4 Fatal Push
$1.87 Instant
2 Fateful Showdown
$0.20 Instant
4 Hieroglyphic Illumination
$0.07 Instant
4 Lightning Strike
$0.14 Instant
4 Opt
$0.09 Instant
3 Pull from Tomorrow
$0.36 Instant
2 Spell Swindle
$1.08 Instant
3 Supreme Will
$0.05 Instant
4 Unlicensed Disintegration
$0.06 Instant
Sorcery (10)
2 Baral's Expertise
$0.32 Sorcery
3 Hour of Devastation
$0.42 Sorcery
3 Inferno Jet
$0.02 Sorcery
1 River's Rebuke
$0.70 Sorcery
1 Torment of Hailfire
$16.07 Sorcery
Artifact (6)
4 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
$9.63 Artifact // Land
2 Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca
$2.59 Artifact // Land
Enchantment (1)
1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
$2.23 Legendary Enchantment // Legendary Land
Planeswalker (1)
1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
$2.70 Legendary Planeswalker - Bolas
Land (24)
4 Canyon Slough
$0.42 Land - Swamp Mountain
4 Dragonskull Summit
$1.21 Land
4 Drowned Catacomb
$2.00 Land
4 Fetid Pools
$0.59 Land - Island Swamp
2 Island
$0.12 Basic Land - Island
2 Mountain
$0.09 Basic Land - Mountain
4 Spirebluff Canal
$2.51 Land
Sideboard - 10 cards, 8 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (2)
1 Hollow One
$0.88 Artifact Creature - Golem
1 Kefnet the Mindful
$0.84 Legendary Creature - God
Instant (5)
3 Countervailing Winds
$0.09 Instant
1 Insidious Will
$0.43 Instant
1 Magma Spray
$0.03 Instant
Sorcery (2)
1 Bontu's Last Reckoning
$0.60 Sorcery
1 Yahenni's Expertise
$0.32 Sorcery
Artifact (1)
1 Aetherflux Reservoir
$10.16 Artifact

Notes
 
This is similar to the sunbird's invocation deck but more focused on the spell side of it. Primal Amulet is pretty bustable if dedicated to it. It's a crit mass of spell's in hand deck I think, like kefnet, showdown as a finisher, and new perspectives for all the value. Lot's of cantrips and card draw makes flipping the amulet much easier. Once flipped the amulet is real interesting. Double inferno jet, expertise, distengration's, showdown's, supreme will, Hours of devastation, and even lightning strikes offer really good value, likely to just crush anybody. And the best part is that it isn't legendary. That's right, you could potentially get multiple of these into play, and chain right off. How many inferno Jet's win you the game? 3 if I can stick 2 incidental damage. Fateful Showdown on a full boat is three out right. Perhaps the most interesting is torment of hailfire. Say x=5 (which, if cast with amulet is likely the floor amount, much higher ceiling). That's 10 triggers. X=7 is 14, and that's regularly the amount to cast for. 20 life= 7 triggers. Assuming they are not overflowing in resources, X=5-7 should kill a reasonable amount of the time. I think X=9 is the highest ceiling, and that's just cray.

I thought it might be possible to go infinite with insidious will, but it doesn't double each time, so it only loops infinitely. Would be great with a grapeshot. I guess you could also play aetherflux resevoir, which might be worth it for the lifegain anyway. FYI, just checked, copied spells are not cast. So that's a no go.
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