Comments on: Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

By: Five With Flores » Primeval Titan Changes Everything

Five With Flores » Primeval Titan Changes Everything — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:37:10 +0000

[...] is acceleration, why not add a kind of acceleration that not only can they not interact with (the Valakut decks are going to take out their Lightning Bolts, which don’t do anything), but that can [...]

By: Five With Flores » Another Good Use for Umezawa’s Jitte

Five With Flores » Another Good Use for Umezawa’s Jitte — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:43:32 +0000

[...] 4 Grove of the Burnwillows 6 Snow-Covered Forest 6 Snow-Covered Mountain 1 Snow-Covered Swamp 4 Stomping Ground 2 Treetop Village 2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle [...]

By: Diario de WKR » Valakut Combo

Diario de WKR » Valakut Combo — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:07:11 +0000

[...] así que os voy a hablar de mi último experimento. Se trata de Valakut Combo, un mazo que comentó hace unas semanas Mike Flores (uno de mis gurus favoritos de magic) en su blog “Five with [...]

By: icarus_descending

icarus_descending — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:53:03 +0000

@ Alfrebaut, re: Aggro Matchups

I was excited to sleeve up something different for standard testing and local tourneys this weekend…this deck is DOA game 1 against aggro decks such as Vampires, Boros, and soldiers. I haven’t played it yet against Eldrazi Green, but I assume the matchup game 1 is equally terrible. They typically killed me 1-2 turns faster than I could really get Valakut online.

As for changes to improve aggro matchup, the Hat-suggested + 4x Earthquake -4 BBE makes such a huge difference. I had them in my board this weekend and was pretty quickly convinced that it’s essential maindeck material in my local metagame.

As for the SB, I’ve been considering going transformational into either (a) creatureless (+/- Ruinblaster depending on matchup) to blank removal or (b) transformational…ramping into Warp World combo w/ hasty mega-dragons and such.

Anyone else have a little experience with the deck want to discuss tweaks/changes to the MD and SB?

By: Five With Flores » Five With Goblin Guide

Five With Flores » Five With Goblin Guide — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:45:45 +0000

[...] wanted to play the one deck all the time. This week I have played a variety of decks, obviously the Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle decks (primarily the R/W version), and now Red Deck [...]

By: MTGBattlefield

MTGBattlefield — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:32:41 +0000

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle…

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By: TattooedOni

TattooedOni — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:29:19 +0000

I am pleased to see that we have our old MichaelJ back, no more of this 3 weeks between posts about the SAME deck. Now we get near daily posts about all of the tons of different decks being played, and how they should work and why that is awesome. I am really happy to see it.

By: Alfrebaut

Alfrebaut — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:15:27 +0000

I like Valakut, and even made a deck with it(and 4 Expedition Map AND 4 Armillary Sphere), and I feel like playing it in this deck would be the stones. I don’t like BB much in this deck, either, though. Also, I really feel like you’re missing the versatile Acidic Slime. I love the Lavaball Traps… I think that card is sick, just as an 8. I’ve played like 3-4 Lavaball Trap decks so far, and I don’t think I’ve ever gotten to cheat it. Also, though I’ve played it in many a deck, I really hate Demolish. Demolish always just reminds me that Wizards R&D HATES land destruction these days. Sure, they give us a morsel once in a while, but would it hurt them to print a sick 3-mana land destruction spell? Even if it were just a reprint of Molten Rain or something like that.

Anyhow, it looks pretty sharp. How does it do against extremely aggressive decks like Boros or Vampires? Or, do you just expect to dodge them in the early rounds and hope that the mid-range-y decks pick them off?

By: removablefriend

removablefriend — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:26:07 +0000

I playtested this deck for a few hours when I first read this article since the idea of playing Valakut, land destruction, and Lavaball Trap in standard got me very excited. But I kept having speed problems and dying one turn before I could stabilize against faster decks. Then today I saw my friend playing Realm Razer in his landfall deck with Emeria Angel and Rampaging Baloth. Then suddenly it hit me.
Just by splashing for one Plains we can play Realm Razer in our deck. Killing Realm Razer when we have Valakut online is minimum 18 damage (3×6 mountains that all come into play at the same time), speeding up the kill significantly.
I hope that you guys consider this option seriously as I didn’t see Realm Razer as necessary to the combo initially but playing 2 Realm Razers has really improved the overall clock of the deck.

By: RidiculousHat

RidiculousHat — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:01:55 +0000

i haven’t had as much trouble with jund– ruinblasters in the main really help, and demolishes in the side are icing on the cake. the main way you lose to that deck is leech->blightning, and i’m not sure if there’s a good way to counter that other than attacking their terrible mana, especially on the play with rampant growth.

oracle of mul daya is an intriguing development and i may try it in my list– there have been some lists online that have done well with it.

as for mulliganing, you absolutely need access to green mana. the only hand i would keep without green mana is if i was matched up against rw and i had, like, a bolt and two pyroclasms. even then it would be close.