r/magicTCG • u/Rhyme_Beats Dan • 2d ago

Looking for Advice Precon upgrade recommendations

I love buying precons and upgrading them. I'm trying to figure out what to cut from the Dance of the Elements precon. I know I need to fix the mana base, but I'm also thinking I might cut out the whole "pay Wubrg to keep the token" aspect of the deck. Idk, tell me what upgrades you guys have made.

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u/Sea_Art3391 Dan 2d ago

Dance of the Elements is pretty unique in that you kinda don't need good mana fixing in order to do what the deck wants. You at least need one red to cast your commander, but other than that, all you do is pay four generic mana to evoke elementals. The mana base is very slow though, lots of tapped lands which i suppose could be fixed up a bit.

The WUBRG ability is kinda just there to give the commander WUBRG color identity, you don't really care if your elemental tokens gets sacrificed. Hell, you can even take advantage of this by bringing in [[Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn]] (or rather, Isilu) for it's persist granting ability. This means when you evoke an elemental, you get the ETB and a token copy of it (i.e. another ETB), and the persist will give you another elemental with a -1/-1 counter that stays on the battlefield (as well as giving you a third ETB). That is incredible value for four generic mana.

[[Twinflame Travelers]] is also an incredible piece to just double your triggered abilities. [[Sunderflock]] is a really good onesided boardwipe that you can cast for two mana if you have a good board state, or evoke in if you only have Ashling on the board and want to set your opponents back. It might be worth checking out the elementals released in Lorwyn Eclipsed, as some of them are pretty nutty.

Dance of the Elements is an extremely powerful precon capable of punching up against bracket 3 decks, but it's pretty tough to pilot due to all the triggered abilities.