Klothys, God of Global Warming (Let's Brew!)

[Cyberium]

Klothys, God of Destiny

I want to make a deck with Klothys that focuses on global damage and mana punishment Another article from EDHREC just recently talked about some Gruul cards, Overabundance and Orcish Lumberjack being two, and I think we can add Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, Sulfuric Vortex, Manabarbs for more damage, while locking down with Winter Orb/Static Orb type spells for further lockdown.

Pain and Suffering

DecklistCMCManaPricesChartsDraw 7

Punisher

1 Ancient Runes

1 Ankh of Mishra

1 Burning Earth

1 Burning-Tree Shaman

1 Citadel of Pain

1 Cindervines

1 Eidolon of the Great Revel

1 Harsh Mentor

1 Immolation Shaman

1 Manabarbs

1 Monsoon

1 Price of Glory

1 Primal Order

1 Pyrohemia

1 Pyrostatic Pillar

1 Rampaging Ferocidon

1 Repercussion

1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

1 Spellshock

1 Zo-Zu the Punisher

Damage Amplifier

1 Akki Lavarunner

1 Angrath's Marauders

1 Bitter Feud

1 Curse of Bloodletting

1 Dictate of the Twin Gods

1 Embermaw Hellion

1 Fiendish Duo

1 Furnace of Rath

1 Goblin Goliath

1 Insult // Injury

1 Jaya, Venerated Firemage

1 Quest for Pure Flame

1 Repercussion

1 Soul-Scar Mage

1 Sulfuric Vortex

1 Torbran, Than of Red Fell

1 Witch Hunt

AoE

1 Ashling the Pilgrim

1 Blasphemous Act

1 Chain Reaction

1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno

1 Earthquake

1 Fault Line

1 Fire Tempest

1 Flamebreak

1 Heartless Hidetsugu

1 Hurricane

1 Impact Resonance

1 Inferno

1 Magma Phoenix

1 Molten Disaster

1 Pyrohemia

1 Rolling Earthquake

1 Rumbling Slum

1 Squall Line

1 Sulfurous Blast

1 Volcanic Fallout

Approximate Total Cost:

Filling the Grave

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Discard

1 Anje's Ravager

1 Avaricious Dragon

1 Burning Inquiry

1 Cathartic Reunion

1 Cavalier of Flame

1 Chandra Ablaze

1 Chandra, Flamecaller

1 Chandra's Regulator

1 Control of the Court

1 Daretti, Scrap Savant

1 Dismissive Pyromancer

1 Faithless Looting

1 Fateful Showdown

1 Fauna Shaman

1 Gamble

1 Goblin Lore

1 Greater Good

1 Hazoret the Fervent

1 Incendiary Command

1 Jaya Ballard, Task Mage

1 Living Twister

1 Magmatic Insight

1 Magus of the Wheel

1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion

1 Reforge the Soul

1 Seasoned Pyromancer

1 Survival of the Fittest

1 Tectonic Reformation

1 Tormenting Voice

1 Vivien's Arkbow

1 Wheel of Fate

1 Wheel of Fortune

1 Wild Guess

LD

1 Destructive Force

1 Boom // Bust

1 Burning Sands

1 Decree of Annihilation

1 Devastating Dreams

1 Devastation

1 Epicenter

1 Impending Disaster

1 Jokulhaups

1 Keldon Firebombers

1 Obliterate

1 Ruination

1 Tectonic Break

1 Wildfire

Mill

1 Crawling Sensation

1 Mesmeric Orb

1 Mind Crank

1 The Binding of the Titans

1 The Mending of Dominaria

Sac Lands

1 Aggressive Mining

1 Arid Mesa

1 Bloodstained Mire

1 Evolving Wilds

1 Fabled Passage

1 Misty Rainforest

1 Mountain Valley

1 Myriad Landscape

1 Prismatic Vista

1 Scalding Tarn

1 Scavenger Grounds

1 Strip Mine

1 Terramorphic Expanse

1 Verdant Catacombs

1 Wasteland

1 Windswept Heath

1 Wooded Foothills

1 Zuran Orb

Retrieval

1 Creeping Renaissance

1 Crucible of Worlds

1 Ramunap Excavator

1 Seasons Past

1 Splendid Reclamation

Approximate Total Cost:

Others

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Gods

1 Nylea, God of the Hunt

1 Rhonas the Indomitable

1 Purphoros, God of the Forge

1 Xenagos, God of Revels

Mana

1 Elvish Spirit Guide

1 Neheb, the Eternal

1 Orcish Lumberjack

1 Simian Spirit Guide

1 Tinder Wall

Enchantress

1 Argothian Enchantress

1 Eidolon of Blossoms

1 Enchantress's Presence

1 Kruphix's Insight

1 Oath of Nissa

1 Omen of the Hunt

1 Seal of Primordium

1 Verduran Enchantress

Lockdown/Stax

1 Smokestack

1 Static Orb

1 Winter Orb

Life

1 Ageless Entity

1 Basilisk Collar

1 Batterskull

1 Well of Lost Dreams

Versatile

1 Overabundance

1 Mage Slayer

1 Pyromancer's Swath

1 Snake Umbra

1 Strionic Resonator

1 The Binding of the Titans

1 The Flame of Keld

Approximate Total Cost:

[Card Slinger J]

Maybe run both Elvish Spirit Guide and Simian Spirit Guide for a turn 1 Klothys If you have the perfect opening hand? Speaking of mana accel, Tinder Wall and Neheb, the Eternal aren't bad either. Maybe consider Monsoon and Price of Glory for those control builds while Klothys gives you the option to exile their lands to add more insult to injury.

Mindcrank would add an interesting mill theme to fuel Klothys' second ability. Well of Lost Dreams costs you 2 mana and a card to exile from a graveyard to draw 3 cards a turn. Ageless Entity keeps getting bigger every time you gain 2 life from Klothys. Mesmeric Orb seems like it would be fun with this Gruul Stax strategy you've got going on here.

If you have a way to blink Riftsweeper repeatedly for it's ETB trigger you can constantly shuffle back in cards you exile with Klothys' second ability. Perhaps Conjurer's Closet and Voyager Staff could help with that. That would be another good reason to run Horned Kavu and Shivan Wurm to bounce Riftsweeper back to hand to recast for it's ETB.

[Feyd_Ruin]

Klothys is nice in that she is a nonaggro commander in a normally aggro-bound color pair.

You could always expand on the "punishment" aspect. This would give a great outlet for cards like Cindervines, Ancient Runes, Spellshock, etc. RG also has some decent critters that add to these effects, like Burning-Tree Shaman and Harsh Mentor, as well as several "noncreature spell" punishers.

[pokken]

I think the most efficient way to keep the yards stocked is probably going to be killing stuff and wheels. Cute stuff lke sac'ing dorks and what not feels like a good way to have a deck that's full of jank - which might be fun, but gets old to me personally.

Cards in the vein of harsh mentor and burning-tree shaman are probably the way I would go. There're quite a few duders like that in red esp.

I don't think stax effects are the way to go since they don't fuel the yard and prevent other people from getting in on the damage race. Other people fighting is great for your plan.

[Card Slinger J]

If you're wanting to go Aggro instead of Stax then Bloodthirst isn't a bad option.

[Mookie]

I'll call out Primal Order, one of the few playable cards from Homelands.

Other than that, Ruric Thar, the Unbowed is always fun. Klothys seems like a reasonable way to ramp into things, plus it provides a bit of a life buffer to soften the burn a bit. Destructive Force and Wildfire also seem reasonable if you want to fuel the mana production ability.

[darrenhabib]

Reminds me a lot of Mogis, God of Slaughter.

Here are some global damage cards.

• Primal Order
• Burning Earth
• Chandra, Awakened Inferno
• Immolation Shaman
• Manabarbs
• Rampaging Ferocidon
• Spellshock
• Sulfuric Vortex
• Ancient Runes
• Cindervines
• Citadel of Pain
• Eidolon of the Great Revel
• Pyrostatic Pillar
• Repercussion
• Witch Hunt
• Pyrohemia

Might as well have lots of removal given the "indestructible" and the fact that so much of your cards are enchantments (and not creatures probably).

You could have some land destruction as well considering she give you a mana to give you a head start after board wipe.

• Boom // Bust
• Decree of Annihilation
• Devastation
• Impending Disaster
• Jokulhaups
• Obliterate
• Ruination
• Destructive Force
• Devastating Dreams
• Epicenter
• Keldon Firebombers
• Tectonic Break
• Wildfire
• Burning Sands

[Cyberium]

List updated. I like Klothys being a Gruul general who benefits from milling. You can then exile cards base on what you need after.

[darrenhabib]

List updated. I like Klothys being a Gruul general who benefits from milling. You can then exile cards base on what you need after.

I personally think milling opponents is a recipe for disaster. Even though Klothys, God of Destiny has the ability to exile a card each turn from any graveyard, it's a full turn and will often be too slow to stop a power play if you are feeding your opponents graveyard strategies.
Mesmeric Orb and Mindcrank are particularly terrible. Unless you have your own amazing graveyard strategy, Mesmeric Orb literally does nothing except make your opponents decks stronger.

At the end of the day you'll always 100% have a card to exile from a graveyard each turn. The best idea is to have fetch-lands so that you have early mana acceleration from her during the early turns, and then switching to damage mode later, and you'll have tons of graveyard targets once opponents have cast spells as well.

• Bloodstained Mire
• Scalding Tarn
• Wooded Foothills
• Arid Mesa
• Verdant Catacombs
• Misty Rainforest
• Windswept Heath
• Prismatic Vista
• Fabled Passage
• Mountain Valley
• Myriad Landscape
• Scavenger Grounds
• Strip Mine
• Evolving Wilds
• Terramorphic Expanse

You can look at your own discard to fuel her ability to function a little better. Here is a list of potential cards to fuel discard.

• Anje's Ravager
• Avaricious Dragon
• Cathartic Reunion
• Cavalier of Flame
• Chandra Ablaze
• Chandra, Flamecaller
• Chandra's Regulator
• Control of the Court
• Burning Inquiry
• Daretti, Scrap Savant
• Dismissive Pyromancer
• Faithless Looting
• Fateful Showdown
• Fauna Shaman
• Gamble
• Goblin Lore
• Greater Good
• Hazoret the Fervent
• Incendiary Command
• Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
• Living Twister
• Magmatic Insight
• Magus of the Wheel
• Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• Reforge the Soul
• Seasoned Pyromancer
• Survival of the Fittest
• Tectonic Reformation
• Tormenting Voice
• Vivien's Arkbow
• Wheel of Fate
• Wheel of Fortune
• Wild Guess

I'm building up the idea of basically a very creature light deck. The reason is that you can run cards that deal damage to players (to go on theme) and also creatures.

• Ashling the Pilgrim
• Earthquake
• Fault Line
• Fire Tempest
• Flamebreak
• Hurricane
• Inferno
• Magma Phoenix
• Molten Disaster
• Pyrohemia
• Rolling Earthquake
• Squall Line
• Sulfurous Blast
• Volcanic Fallout

Also of note cards that I thought could be good:

• Heartless Hidetsugu
• Rumbling Slum

One element that you could lead up to is in fact using all the Gods as they are indestructible, which means immune to your own mass removal.
However they don't particular do anything until the all give you a certain amount of devotion.

• Nylea, God of the Hunt
• Rhonas the Indomitable
• Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1 Xenagos, God of Revels

With devotion in general, you might want to pressure with Klothys, God of Destiny as a 4/5. With this in mind will pay to keep a tabs on enchantments especially which give you devotion and advantages. Some that come to mind.

• Oath of Nissa
• Seal of Primordium
• Omen of the Hunt

With so many enchantments you can run the enchantress draw package, even though they wouldn't mix well with the mass creature destruction, you still might be able to configure in a way that you can run advantages at times you catch opponents with their pants down.

• Argothian Enchantress
• Eidolon of Blossoms
• Enchantress's Presence
• Verduran Enchantress
• Kruphix's Insight

Then also back up opponents removal with..

• Creeping Renaissance
• Seasons Past

[hyalopterouslemur]

Snake Umbra is pretty nice with Klothys. If she's a creature, you can just exile a card from a graveyard and draw X cards, where X is your number of opponents.

Hurricane and Squall Line are nice and thematic to boot.

Don't forget the red swords. They're useful if you have any creatures without indestructible.

Mage Slayer lets you do more damage to one player during combat.

[Cyberium]

List updated. I think milling's effect depends on how much your meta utilizes graveyard, though mass LD and/or Wheel effect are indeed more productive by comparison.

Snake Umbra is an awesome suggestion.

[Cyberium]

An interesting take, it has a mix theme of land tools, LD, Enchantress, and lock down. Helm of the Host is a surprise, though an understandable one.