Adam Haggerty's Izzet Machine Gun
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍) modModern
Approx. Value:
$69.51

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Avg. CMC 2.08
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Main Deck - 60 cards, 15 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (13)
1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
$1.81 Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
4 Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader
$0.25 Creature - Homunculus // Creature - Eldrazi Homunculus
4 Soul-Scar Mage
$1.32 Creature - Human Wizard
4 Thermo-Alchemist
$0.19 Creature - Human Shaman
Instant (4)
4 Shock
$0.06 Instant
Sorcery (21)
2 Cathartic Reunion
$0.10 Sorcery
4 Incendiary Flow
$0.06 Sorcery
3 Insult // Injury
$0.65 Sorcery // Sorcery //
4 Kari Zev's Expertise
$0.58 Sorcery
2 Renegade Tactics
$0.05 Sorcery
2 Slip Through Space
$0.21 Sorcery
4 Take Inventory
$0.11 Sorcery
Land (22)
6 Island
$0.10 Basic Land - Island
12 Mountain
$0.09 Basic Land - Mountain
4 Spirebluff Canal
$2.83 Land
Sideboard - 123 cards, 49 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (49)
2 Bedlam Reveler
$0.24 Creature - Devil Horror
4 Bloodrage Brawler
$0.10 Creature - Minotaur Warrior
4 Bomat Courier
$0.06 Artifact Creature - Construct
1 Combat Celebrant
$1.65 Creature - Human Warrior
2 Cryptic Serpent
$0.24 Creature - Serpent
1 Elder Deep-Fiend
$0.26 Creature - Eldrazi Octopus
4 Enigma Drake
$0.09 Creature - Drake
4 Flameblade Adept
$0.18 Creature - Jackal Warrior
1 Hazoret the Fervent
$1.22 Legendary Creature - God
4 Hope of Ghirapur
$1.02 Legendary Artifact Creature - Thopter
4 Insolent Neonate
$0.13 Creature - Vampire
4 Mausoleum Wanderer
$1.17 Creature - Spirit
1 Prized Amalgam
$0.34 Creature - Zombie
4 Reckless Bushwhacker
$0.29 Creature - Goblin Warrior Ally
1 Scrapheap Scrounger
$0.17 Artifact Creature - Construct
4 Slither Blade
$0.26 Creature - Naga Rogue
4 Stormchaser Mage
$0.22 Creature - Human Wizard
Instant (36)
4 Built to Smash
$0.07 Instant
3 Censor
$0.17 Instant
1 Expedite
$0.15 Instant
1 Fall of the Titans
$0.25 Instant
4 Fiery Temper
$0.18 Instant
1 Fling
$0.09 Instant
4 Galvanic Bombardment
$0.03 Instant
1 Glorious End
$1.32 Instant
2 Grip of the Roil
$0.04 Instant
1 Invasive Surgery
$0.08 Instant
1 Kozilek's Return
$3.80 Instant
4 Lightning Axe
$0.21 Instant
1 Overwhelming Denial
$0.15 Instant
1 Pursue Glory
$0.02 Instant
2 Rush of Adrenaline
$0.06 Instant
1 Supernatural Stamina
$0.06 Instant
3 Turn Aside
$0.14 Instant
1 Unlicensed Disintegration
$0.07 Instant
Sorcery (15)
1 Alms of the Vein
$0.55 Sorcery
1 Collective Brutality
$0.90 Sorcery
1 Crush of Tentacles
$0.99 Sorcery
4 Cut // Ribbons
$0.38 Sorcery // Sorcery //
4 Painful Truths
$0.19 Sorcery
4 Tormenting Voice
$0.08 Sorcery
Artifact (1)
1 Implement of Combustion
$0.22 Artifact
Enchantment (20)
4 Cartouche of Knowledge
$0.06 Enchantment - Aura Cartouche
4 Cartouche of Zeal
$0.03 Enchantment - Aura Cartouche
4 Consuming Fervor
$0.07 Enchantment - Aura
4 Fevered Visions
$1.25 Enchantment
4 Trial of Zeal
$0.04 Enchantment
Planeswalker (1)
1 Saheeli Rai
$1.50 Legendary Planeswalker - Saheeli
Land (1)
1 Sanctum of Ugin
$1.43 Land

Notes
 
U/R Thermo-Alchemist
Jason Bennett
9th Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 4/29/2017

Creatures (12)
2 Bedlam Reveler
2 Glorybringer
4 Stormchaser Mage
4 Thermo-Alchemist
Planeswalkers (2)

2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Lands (23)
4 Island
10 Mountain
4 Spirebluff Canal
4 Wandering Fumarole
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium

Spells (23)
4 Fevered Visions
4 Fiery Temper
2 Lightning Axe
3 Shock
4 Collective Defiance
4 Incendiary Flow
2 Tormenting Voice

Sideboard
2 Glorybringer
3 Weaver of Lightning
1 Dispel
3 Magma Spray
2 Release the Gremlins
2 Sweltering Suns

Here's a list for comparison. There is some excellent stuff to explore here. This pile is the aggressive trimmings from my slither blade obsession. I started to pull the prowess deck I played against at Eldritch Moon regionals. Soul-scar mage adds nice depth to the deck, and curious humunculous has unexplored potential. If I overload them on must answer low threats, I can evade removal and turn things like built to smash into 3+ burn spells.

Pulling this list lead me to a discovery though. Thermo-alchemist and Insult-injury. These cards may have been discussed at spoiler season, but not really brewed. Izzet machine gun ruled the tables when pyromancer's goggles was legal. Insult/Injury is a fine substitute that works even better with the engine. It get's out of hand very quickly. Imagine having a flipped voracious reader in play with a thermo-alchemist and four mana. With just these cards you ping 1, cast insult, ping 2, cast injury killing a 4 creature and dealing 4, ping another 2, and then swing with a reader worth 10 damage, after doing 9 direct! This doesn't even factor other cards. Like, what if instead of casting injury, you cast slip through space and incendiary command to the face? That's 15 direct, plus and unblockable 12! On T4, without effort! This deck has legs!
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