Madness in the Lion's Eye - Extended or casual

[Dune Echo]

Here's my thoughts so far, anyone wish to help me find any other great card interactions I missed? I'm more than willing to keep it red/green. Zombie Infestation is just too good to miss though.

Black:
4 Zombie Infestation

Red:
? Devestating Dreams
4 Fiery Temper
? Firestorm
? Sonic Burst
4 Sonic Seizure

Green:
4 Arrogant Wurm
4 Basking Rootwalla
? Nostalgic Dreams
4 Roar of the Wurm
4 Wild Mongrel

Gold:
? Stormbind

Artifacts:
4 Lion's Eye Diamond

Lands:
? Forest
? Mountain
? Swamp


All my "?" are just card ideas. Anyone else think of anything to help me discard stuff with or use the 3 mana LED gives me?

 

[Spiderman]

Since you're using red, there's a card for RRR that lets you discard a land for 2 damage to a player or creature. Forgot the name though...

And do you just want to stick with the Infestations for black? I seem to remember a Weatherlight black creature (Circling Vulture?) that lets you actively discard a card, but I'm not sure if it has to be a creature card or any card.

 

[Dune Echo]

Circling Vultures
B, Summon Birds 3/2, Weatherlight Uncommon
Flying
During your upkeep, remove the top creature card in your graveyard from the game or bury Circling Vultures.
If Circling Vultures is in your hand, you may discard it. Play this ability as an instant.
Illus. Una Fricker

Unfortunately, no, this doesn't help. Basically, I need some more discarding abilities and ways to potentially soak up the 3 mana I'll get from LED.

Seismic Assault unfortunately will not help me out here either.

 

[Lotus Mox]

rules question: can you use mana from LED to pay for a madness spell you discarded with it?

some card ideas: Urza's Bauble, Squee, Krovikan Horror, Elvish Spirit Guide.

edit: Violent Eruption is nice to get discarded to, I also think Wild Mongrel, Stormbind, ZI and LED are enough ways to discard cards.

edit2:If you need some more ways to soak up the LED mana, you could add CotH.

 

[Dune Echo]

Anyone notice on Mark's article yesterday on MTG.com that LED was one of the cards pictured? You betcha it can, Lotus Mox. LED just got a LOT better because of Madness.

I think I have enough Madness effects within the cards in Torment. My main problem is finding additional ways to discard the Madness cards and other ways to spend the mana I will get for LED. I can't count on discarding an Arrogant Wurm every time I use LED.

Cursed Scroll could help this deck out too, I guess.

Roar of the Wurm suits my purposes better than Call of the Herd. Violent Eruption totally suits my purposes! Thanks so much!

 

[Lotus Mox]

you actually have already another way to use LED mana in your deck, Roar of the Wurm.

CotH = Call of the Herd.

Violent Eruption is an instant pyrotechnics for 1RRR with madness: 1RR.

And I think 12 cards which discard cards are more than enough to consistently have at least one (this is a 60 card deck, not a 250 one ), and that's not counting the ? cards like Stormbind or Nostalgic Dreams.
You could add Vampiric Tutor for more consistency.

 

[Dune Echo]

Red:
2 Devestating Dreams
4 Fiery Temper
4 Firestorm
? Sonic Burst
? Sonic Seizure
4 Violent Eruption

Green:
4 Arrogant Wurm
4 Basking Rootwalla
? Nostalgic Dreams
4 Roar of the Wurm
4 Wild Mongrel

Artifacts:
4 Lion's Eye Diamond

Lands:
? Forest
? Mountain

 

[Dune Echo]

Originally posted by Lotus Mox
you actually have already another way to use LED mana in your deck, Roar of the Wurm.

CotH = Call of the Herd.

Roar of the Wurm definitely suits my purposes much better than CotH (which I figured out 2 minutes after my post, duh) because I want to pay the Flashback cost more than anything.

Originally posted by Lotus Mox
Violent Eruption is an instant pyrotechnics for 1RRR with madness: 1RR.

Thanks, I realized it might be on the Torment spoiler after I wrote that.

Originally posted by Lotus Mox
And I think 12 cards which discard cards are more than enough to consistently have at least one (this is a 60 card deck, not a 250 one ), and that's not counting the ? cards like Stormbind or Nostalgic Dreams.

You got me there, guy. I'm stuck with a 5-Color player's mind frame for life now, I guess.

Originally posted by Lotus Mox
You could add Vampiric Tutor for more consistency.

I'm thinking of just sticking with Red/Green for now because I think I have enough weapons in that color. Devestating Dreams combos well with the fast mana I'll get from LED, but I'm not sure how many to put in. DD also acts as a Red Armaggedon of sorts.

 

[Spiderman]

If it will help, you could try CrystalKeep's Search Engine and see what cards might help with discard.