I’ve been tinkering with the red/green Pummeler deck since Kaladesh, and I really like the aggresive style of the deck, combinded with the energy management that comes with it. I’ve been playing it a lot in Magic Duels (Sadly, it’s not possible to play the ideal version in there.) Then, when Amonketh was released, I tried Ahn-Crop Crasher and the card always felt fantastic. The Exert mechanic also felt similar to the Energy mechanic in the sense that sometimes you can pour a little extra into the creatures to get more out of them. Crashing for extra damage and sometimes disabling a blocker helped the deck a lot, especially faced with indestructable gods in the way.

Then came Hour of Devestation with the Desert theme. I quickly noticed the deck could use a full complement of Hashep Oasis because I just needed more creature pump for greater consistancy and combo wins with Electrostatic Pummeler. I also noticed I sometimes had a little problem dealing the last bits of damage, so the Ramunap Ruins where included to have extra deserts to sacrifice to either effect. I didn’t dare to include lands that are purely colourless or enter the battlefield tapped, and the all-or-nothing approach makes the painlands a little less problematic.

Since the deserts go into the land slots, it didn’t cost me much deck space. The thing that left to make room for Crashers and more Harnessed Lightning where my two Uncaged Fury cards. They are good at stealing wins, but Crasher does it better.

Cards that didn’t make the cut where Rhonas the Indomitable and Hazoret the Fervent. These cards should be good in the deck, but somehow they always underperformed. Rhonas was often not solving problems when my creatures got removed, and Hazoret I felt was always late to the party, and is a competing 4-drop to the Bristling Hydras. The hydras generate energy, so I prefer those.

One other thing I might run instead of Uncaged Fury is Insult // Injury. It’s more telegraphed, but it might steal some games and it functions as extra removal.

Here is my current list:

~ Ramunap Pummeler ~

Creatures (22) 2 Ahn-Crop Crasher 4 Bristling Hydra 4 Electrostatic Pummeler 4 Longtusk Cub 4 Servant of the Conduit 4 Voltaic Brawler Spells (18) 4 Attune with Aether 4 Blossoming Defense 4 Harnessed Lightning 4 Invigorated Rampage 2 Larger Than Life

Lands (20) 4 Aether Hub 5 Forest 4 Mountain 4 Hashep Oasis 3 Ramunap Ruins Sideboard (15) 4 Abrade 4 Chandra’s Defeat 4 Hapatra’s Mark 3 Mountain