Tamanoa

[red_to_the_core]

So, my buddies and I have decided that Tamanoa is too cool not to use as a build-around me general. Being that I have decided to pursue this deck, how would you, the community, go about building it? Suggestions?

I'd like to build around the general if I can, but I also have a competitive drive in EDH, and like to build powerful, efficient decks.

Thanks for any help at all that I receive!

[spetznaz]

searing meditation

[Divisionbyzer0]

mass life-gain-burn-control is a favorite underplayed archetype of mine, so i have a few suggestions

repercussion (this card will send all their attacks your way lol, so either have moat or glacial chasm in play)
brightflame (puts you so far ahead its not funny)
inferno
boon reflection
mana barbs
rolling thunder
comet storm
chandra the firebrand
mirari
earthquake
hurricane
doubling cube (for your comet storms etc)
gisela, blade of goldnight (in actuality this is the commander legal general you will end up using if you play mass gain-burn)
vicious shadows (burn kills stuff so why not kill them for having cards in their hand as well)


also tamanoa is, unfourtunately, not legendary and can't be used as a general, unless you guys have some house rules.

[tinvision]

Citadel of Pain
Overabundance
Planeswalker's Fury
Pyrohemia

Blasphemous Act
Brightflame
Chain Reaction
Firespout
Molten Disaster
Rolling Earthquake
Savage Twister
Starstorm

Shivan Gorge

[Target Player]

I wish I had more suggestions for you; I actually just wanted to mention that I hadn't even noticed Tamanoa wasn't a legend! It feels like one, doesn't it?

[Divisionbyzer0]

Originally Posted by tinvision

Citadel of Pain
Overabundance
Planeswalker's Fury
Pyrohemia

Blasphemous Act
Brightflame
Chain Reaction
Firespout
Molten Disaster
Rolling Earthquake
Savage Twister
Starstorm

Shivan Gorge

Lets hope he isnt playing paper, so that he can get the rolling earthquake for 80c instead of $120 lol

[tinvision]

Originally Posted by Divisionbyzer0

Lets hope he isnt playing paper, so that he can get the rolling earthquake for 80c instead of $120 lol

Yeah I play MTGO so I just make the assumption sometimes. It's not even playable in Eternal, wai so expensive?

[chaos_redefined]

If you're gaining all that life, may as well put it to use. Well of Lost Dreams seems like a good idea, as does some of the Ajani-based cards.

And Rolling Earthquake is one of those annoying Portal cards. Anything from portal is ridiculously expensive.

[Divisionbyzer0]

Originally Posted by tinvision

Yeah I play MTGO so I just make the assumption sometimes. It's not even playable in Eternal, wai so expensive?

After MTGO I don't really look back on playing paper. Tho I can see why some people don't get into MTGO.

EDIT: Combo fire servant with brightflame. Just went from 2 to 58. Imagine if tamanoa was in play.

[Serpens]

Fiery Justice! Sure, it's a pretty crappy card, but it seems to fit thematically.

[welle]

Tamanoa seems to be based on burn, one auto include should be Sunforger and all the good instants that belong to that package.
Burn decks are quite hard to play in EDH, has very good enchantments and enchantresses, perhaps an enchantment theme could be worth playing.
Pyrohemia and Æther Flash for example.
Looking forward to a decklist...
She really should be a general, its a unique ability!

[luminum can]

Tamanoa is at the very top of my list of non-legendary creatures I wish were legendary. I have a somewhat irrational love of lifegain (when it's efficient enough to be justified) and I definitely love cards that can convert one resource or action into another.

If I were building around Tamanoa, I'd definitely want to include big, sweeping damage effects as others have mentioned. Pyrohemia, Brightflame, Bonfire of the Damned, etc. To complement that theme I'd also want to try and take advantage of the fact that my own side of the board will be taking collateral damage, with things like Vigor, Rite of Passage, Phytohydra, Sprouting Phytohydra, Spitemare, anything that helps me turn that self-inflicted damage into a positive. Gisela, the new RW Angel legend, also fits exceptionally well here.

[Divisionbyzer0]

^^ Yeah, you can't do pure burn. I mean, maybe you can but I'd expect it to suck. It ends up using a fair amount of enchantments. Like you'd be silly to not run stuff like vicious shadows. Over the game it does way more damage than any X point spell. Aether flash is one that I used to run in a casual multiplayer mass burn deck before edh existed. It's pretty good. Kills a lot of the utility creatures lickety split, and a lot of the generals. I've thought of adding mana flare, but its probably too dangerous considering it lets the blue players draw more cards. Here is my rw gisela list, which is as I said, the legal commander for this deck style:

Deck

1 Sun Titan 8 Snow-Covered Plains 1 Day of Judgment 1 Chandra, the Firebrand 1 Pursuit of Knowledge 1 Temple Bell 1 Boros Signet 1 Dispeller's Capsule 1 Elspeth Tirel 1 Mystifying Maze 1 Clifftop Retreat 1 Ghost Quarter 1 Bloodfire Colossus 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Reliquary Tower 1 Marsh Flats 1 Moat 1 Armillary Sphere 1 Mirari 1 Luminarch Ascension 1 Eldrazi Temple 1 Return to Dust 1 Blasphemous Act 1 Thawing Glaciers 1 Candles of Leng 1 Sol Ring 1 Secluded Steppe 1 Tectonic Edge 1 Celestial Force 1 Ancient Amphitheater 1 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Academy Rector 1 Battlefield Forge 1 Auramancer 1 All Is Dust 1 Volcanic Fallout 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth 1 Buried Ruin 1 Fork 1 Swords to Plowshares 1 Crucible of Worlds 1 Gilded Lotus 1 Wheel of Fortune 1 Vicious Shadows 1 Rolling Earthquake 1 Glacial Chasm 1 Wild Ricochet 1 Petrified Field 1 Comet Storm 1 Fissure 1 Plateau 1 Relic of Progenitus 1 Idyllic Tutor 1 Mana Crypt 1 Ghostly Prison 1 Repercussion 1 Command Tower 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All 1 Wooded Foothills 1 Darksteel Ingot 1 Eye of Ugin 1 Worn Powerstone 1 Expedition Map 8 Snow-Covered Mountain 1 Rolling Thunder 1 Path to Exile 1 Survival Cache 1 Martial Coup 1 Inferno 1 Devil's Play 1 Temple of the False God 1 Oblivion Ring 1 Scabland 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Scrying Sheets 1 Personal Sanctuary 1 Pariah 1 Manabarbs 1 Brightflame 1 Fire Servant 1 Walking Atlas 1 Chain Reaction 1 Beacon of Immortality 1 Boros Garrison 1 Mind's Eye

Sideboard 1 Razia, Boros Archangel

ignore the razia, shes just a sub before gisela come out online