As our regular readers undoubtedly recall, I'm a
big fan of powerful cards with drawbacks, so
you'd think Volatile Rig would fit the bill. On
paper, it certainly does, and its death trigger
can make for some unintentionally (or
intentionally) hilarious situations. However, I
feel like this isn't really a Lord of the
Pit-style suicide card, but more of another
possible piece in a coin-flipping combo deck -
repeatable coin flipping effects are great in
that particular strategy, and there haven't been
a huge number (Wirefly Hive springs to mind).
Unlike some of the others, though, this one can
attack for damage as an alternate win condition
- not reliably, of course, but you wouldn't be
picking this card in the first place unless you
didn't mind a little unreliability.
Welcome back readers todays card of the day is
Volatile Rig an interesting and limited and
casual only card. In standard, modern, legacy
and vintage this creature does not do enough to
justify its inclusion in your deck as it depends
on a coin flip and may not do the ability you
are hoping for making it sometimes a useless
card that doesn’t fit into any decks. In casual
and multiplayer this is a fun and wacky card
that may serve a unique purpose in a coin flip
deck providing a possible board sweeper. Combine
with Krarks Thumb or cards like Chance Encounter
to make a fun coin flip centered deck. It can be
used as a decent early aggressive drop In
limited it’s a 4/4 for 4 mana with trample and
can sometimes be a nice board sweeper or a
decent bomb card. Overall a card more geared
towards limited and multiplayer and provides a
fun exciting card for players to use.
Today's card of the day is Volatile Rig which
is a four mana 4/4 with Trample that attacks
each turn if able and if dealt damage has a
fifty percent chance of being sacrificed and
when it dies it has a fifty percent chance of
dealing four damage to each creature and player.
This is an odd card that is fairly efficient as
an attacker if nothing deals damage to it, but
any blocker turns it into some potential damage
and global destruction. A deck built
around not losing field presence should the
effect activate can make this work, though it is
definitely not the kind of card you can place in
just any build.
In Limited the risk is notable, but if played
when none of your other creatures are in play or
at risk the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.
An aggressive colorless creature in a decidedly
multicolor environment puts this high on any
deck's list and it should be included for all
Sealed builds. Volatile Rig is also an
easy first pick in booster that doesn't lock in
your later choices in any way.
