We take a quick look at a deck featuring the latest additions from March of the Machine every workday throughout the rest of April. Pyromancer has been competing with Arclight Phoenix for the position of the dominant Izzet deck in Pioneer. With even more token makers and card draw, it will solidify its position!
The main premise behind the deck is to deploy a token maker and flood the board with pesky, replaceable creatures. Originally it was only , but very recently we have received a second specimen in . It gave the shell the critical mass to enact its game plan consistently. With March of the Machine we get , which further increases the number of incoming tokens. While the Seedshark is more expensive compared to the others, it is a flier and much harder to kill thanks to toughness 4 and . Its tokens are more expensive too but may well be 3/3s, 4/4s, or even 8/8s!
To trigger our two-drops and Seedshark we need spells. If you like slinging spells, you're going to enjoy this deck as literally half of it is instants or sorceries. The main goal is to cast cheap cards that replace themselves so that you can keep casting more and more of them while generating more and more tokens. This is where and truly shine. Not to be overwhelmed in the early game, we also run an interaction suite of and —to thwart the opponent's plan regardless of whether they play on the stack or on the battlefield.
At some point though we'd like to pull ahead by drawing multiple cards, ideally without tapping multiple lands. fits the bill as it can cost a mere one mana later in the game. is even easier to cast for a single mana as Iconoclast and Pyromancer are both Humans, but the tokens they create are not. A single two-drop with its token is enough to turn it on. Finally we have the newest member of the club in . Thanks to convoke, we can now draw two for as little as zero mana!
With all of these tools, the spells are guaranteed to flow the whole game through. Let's make a ton of tokens and draw ahead!
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