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Posted on July 9, 2020, 6:54 p.m. by runelord
Hi everyone
I used to have a 60 card casual deck that centered around giving Tim cards Prodigal Sorcerer death touch and pinging stuff. I used to have a lot of fun with it, but now my playgroup only plays commander. The singleton rule, combined with 100 cards, is making it hard to find enough cards that have the ping effect. What are some good cards that either have or give that ability?
Edit: Here is the link for Kelsien, The Plague I will put cards I own in the main board and cards I need to obtain in the maybe board
If you've ever watched Game Knights Josh Lee Kwai has a Temur-colored Tim deck that I've always thought sounded interesting. He played it in a game fairly recently, too (Game Knights #35). It's not exactly cheap and focused somewhat on general tap abilities not just pinging but looking at the decklist could potentially give you some hints as to what direction you could take.
July 9, 2020 9:17 p.m.
There are a lot of extremely powerful timmy effects you can put in your 100 and dominate tables if not answered. Just go extreme style!
Fire Ants + Scythe of the Wretched + Basilisk Collar. Activate this once at any table for good times. It kills, at instant speed, every other creature in play, other than the Fire Ants, without flying. You gain life equal to 1 x number of creatures killed. Then all of the killed creatures are returned to play under your control with the last one returned getting equipped with the Scythe.
A more sedate, but powerful combination of cards is Spikeshot Goblin + Ring of Valkas or Forced Adaptation. Every turn for 1 mana you can deal the goblin's power to any target. And it keeps growing if equipped or enchanted with anything that grows it's power. Once it's bigger than your opponent's life total, you win for 1 red mana!
If you go black, then you can do something like this;
Crypt Rats + Eternal Thirst + Lashknife Barrier. Activate the crypt rats for 1, gain life equal to 1x total number of players and creatures, if anything dies the rats get +1/+1 counters for every creature that died. Lashknife Barrier means none of your creatures took damage. Let it resolve. Activate it again for 1, do it all over again. This will kill any number of creatures and players limited only by your Swamp count. If you have an Ogre Slumlord in play when you do this then your Crypt Rats now have deathtouch and you get 1/1 deathtouching rats for all the creatures that died.
Finally, my favorite timmy color, blue;
Horseshoe Crab + Hermetic Study is where it starts. Tap the crab, timmy for 1. Spend 1 blue to untap the crab and do it again! On your opponent's end step the crab makes all of your islands work like Hecatomb does for swamps! (Which you could also throw in a black deck for Timmy Lands!). But the crab gets better! Add Curiosity or Sigil of Sleep to the Horseshoe Crab + Hermetic Study setup leads to serious board states.
July 9, 2020 9:20 p.m.
I think I linked that with a funny timestamp so here's (an attempt) to link it right when JLK is explaining what his deck is tying to do: Hopefully better timestamp...
July 9, 2020 9:21 p.m.
Metachemist says... #6
There's also Walking Ballista + Heliod, Sun-Crowned for fun ways to ping down the entire table
July 10, 2020 2:19 p.m.
FormOverFunction says... #7
I’m generally bad at winning in magic, so take this with a grain of salt, but I would look to see if there was a way I could work Pestilence in for a world-wide ping effect. I’m a sucker for a Havoc Festival-style race to the bottom!
July 10, 2020 4:28 p.m.
These are all great suggestions. I love that because this deck is so janky, the cards are all pretty cheap. The best deck in my meta is about a seven on the power scale; most are about 5. So the deck doesn't need too much to have a chance at winning. I think I'm going to start making a decklist and piecing it all together.
July 10, 2020 6:47 p.m.
Metachemist says... #9
Please link it here once you have a prototype up, I for one would love to look it over :)
July 11, 2020 6:52 a.m.
Vessiliana says... #10
Here is the deck I built to scratch the pinger itch: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/torbrans-mount-doom/
I have occasionally tapped one guy to deal something like 20+ damage to each opponent. It's definitely fun.
July 11, 2020 10:21 a.m.
WizardOfTheNorthernCoast says... #11
I don't think I saw those cards in your list or the comments above, so here you are:
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that janky combo of Pestilent Spirit + any mass ping spell like Electrickery, Boiling Earth or Blazing Volley :)
They're in your colors and very casual, I hope this helped :)
July 12, 2020 2:09 p.m.
Thanks for the help everyone. I playtested the deck in a few 1v1 matches today and I think it's going to do very well in my playgroup. I'm looking forward to picking up a few of these suggested cards to improve it even more.
Gidgetimer says... #2
Goblin Sharpshooter is always a fun card to give deathtouch.
July 9, 2020 7:23 p.m.