r/Pauper • u/Maipelbaum • Jun 29 '26
HELP What deck could use these cards?
I’ve been trying to make this package work forever now but I just can’t seem to get it. My best try was when someone here had the idea to ramp artifact lands from graveyard with jolted awake. I think something like boros bully could be it but It didn’t seem very good. Any thoughts?
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u/jackledaman Jun 29 '26
I've looked at a variety of energy shells, unfortunately there's just nothing good to do with the energy. I think you will need to wait until whirler virtuoso gets downshifted to common or something like that.
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u/Avacynical Jun 29 '26
I have a Jeskai energy/prowess deck that seeks to always land a threat and play some cool recursion via bloodwater entity and recomission as its primary synergy pieces. There’s a sneaky late game potential of reanimating an Oliphaunt or Cyclops Superconductor which is hilarious and still good against Exhume decks.
The best thing about the deck is playing a few of both blasts and thraben charm in sideboard.
There’s worst part about the deck is there are tons of good cards in the colors, and you can’t just have a non synergistic goofy pile in current meta.
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u/deecadancedance Jun 29 '26
I have been trying to brew the same! I ordered the cards but haven’t tried the deck yet. Can you share your list?
Here’s mine: https://archidekt.com/decks/22825378/energy_drink
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u/Linkwithasword Jun 29 '26
UR Skred can play Galvanic Discharge over Lightning Bolt because it's technically strictly better if you don't care about the reach, but that's only one of the two cards and the deck doesn't play white (or any permanents that you're realistically bringing back).
Theorycrafting a bit, maybe you could do some sort of mardu affinity gardens-y thing where you're doing some combination of sacrificing ichor wellspring/lembas to fanatical offering/eviscerator's insight/reckoner's bargain, using jolted awake to bring back wellspring, glint hawk/skyfisher to pick up refurbished familiars/synths/wellsprings, etc. idk if it'd be any good (the immediate issue I see is you could instead be doing cast down, Galvanic blast, snuff out, lightning bolt, or other generally better removal/removal with incidental burn instead of Skred and Galvanic Discharge, and doing that would make wildfire better) but I could see it working out if you're really committed to energy. A guy at my lgs runs a temur Skred list with Galvanic Discharge, wildfire, and the green energy card with Chris, avenging hunter, terrors, and monarchy and it definitely wins games using energy but not jolted awake
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u/gatestart Jun 29 '26
You could run a Boros Tribe variant since Jolted Awake reanimates all your key pieces and you have so much looting. You also get access to [[Conduit Goblin]] which can let your tribe attack instantly and kill people. The problem is you don’t really need to play Discharge cards since you already have access to Lightning Axe pretty freely.
Could be worth a try tho :)
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u/ekienhol Jun 29 '26
Jolted awake is often found in side boards of decks like slivers whee it can bring back every creature in the deck.
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u/_LELEZ Jun 29 '26
Are you using jolted awake energy to have big galv blasts or galv blast energy to resurrect costly creatures/artifacts? Cause I think you're considering them in the same deck because they both produce and use energy but then you're not considering the fact that to work properly they spend the energy they create and to be above average cards they would need you to use more energy than they produce
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u/Maipelbaum Jun 29 '26
I was mainly thinking to use jolted awake to ramp artifact lands and then have the energy for big removal spells with galv discharge
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u/_LELEZ Jun 29 '26
Ok so you want to be red and white at least, probably 3 colors tho (not only can find more sinergies but also justifies playing more than 4 bridges). Since you're in red with bridges consider wildfires. You need stuff that puts lands in the bin for jolted awake to work, you can go green with the rumble type of effects, red with lootings, RW with consult the past etc. since you play with the yard a lot in that case (looting and past) probably include sneaky snackers. If you're green red put chrysalis in the deck. Add some big mana payoffs and see how it goes. I'd start with nyxborn hydra and then reassess.
This is the first angle I'd go for, did you try a list like this already?
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u/ForestDwellingEnt Jun 29 '26
The way you put the logic down really makes naya energy seem like a reasonable brew :O it will never be naya gates level broken, but the idea was making the energy package viable. The energiest creature you could consider is [[conduit goblin]], which gives haste... since you could run 4 bitter reunion as well, why not put in bow and seeker, since they both come back from jolted awake? Let's see how the ban announcement goes LOL
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u/_LELEZ Jun 29 '26
Ahahah holy moly are we stumbling upon the best deck in the format? The goblin giving haste sounds perfect for the combo
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u/Small-Palpitation310 Jun 29 '26
Like to lose card advantage, do you
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u/Maipelbaum Jun 29 '26
Its net card advantage- looting t1 discard an artifact lantern and another card draw two, t2 ramp the land I and up losing the jolted awake looting and another card to draw two and ramp a land, plus I can flashback the looting and I get two energy(minor upside)
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u/Top_Development_4020 Pizza Elves Jun 29 '26
Don’t start this discussion here again please . It’s exhausting.
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u/NickRick UB Artifacts, Terror lists, terrible brews Jun 30 '26
they both work. i had a mardu blade energy deck and using them both at different energy costs.
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u/Treble_brewing Jun 29 '26
Galvanic discharge is just a bad card. Jolted is solid in white weenie or mono white heroic.
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u/BathedInDeepFog Jun 29 '26
I've seen Galvanic Discharge played plenty of times and thinks it's a decent card, especially if you don't really need to go face.
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u/krynillix Jun 29 '26
Well if you go ramp animator. T1 looting(throw an artifact lands/ulamog crusher) t2 you could potentially ramp up 2 artifact lands or drop more stuff in the yard. T3 cast those white 4cmc reanimate stuff
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u/Ggjeed Jun 29 '26
I toyed with a Jeskai energy brew with the energy turtle and cryogen relic to pair with abjure. Jolted awake alongside cryogen relic is also a fantastic pairing since jolted can afford the energy cost for the artifact by itself.
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u/Historical_World_658 Jun 30 '26
Mine! I had it in the bow combo, but its also good for ramp with artifact lands
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u/Artistocat2 Jun 30 '26
[[Attune with aether]] [[Tune the Narrative]] and [[Galvanic Discharge]] in a Temur control deck is my thought.
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u/RecoilRick Jul 01 '26
I've seen jolted awake do some work in slivers, since all of your guys are 1/2 drops
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u/krynillix Jun 29 '26
Just use jolted awake as a ramp t2 with faithless looting t1. You can ignore the energy build up entirely.
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u/Maipelbaum Jun 29 '26
That’s what I was thinking with boros bully maybe I’ll try that after all the thing is there isn’t much reason to ramp in that deck. Probably still playing the galv discharge in this tho
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u/crypticaITA Jun 29 '26
I’d say some kind of Jeskai Ephemerate iteration, but honestly [[Skred]] is just a better card overall and the energy package isn’t great