Sewers Under Kasprah – Red Flush & Green Drain

Lots of red Flush cards!

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Lots of these cards are your basic red spells with a Flush tacked on. Shocking Jolt is just Shock with Flush. However, once more it is important to notice that the cheaper and easier it is to get a card into your graveyard, the more expensive the Flush cost. So Shocking Jolt is a cheap little spell, but costs 5 to Flush.

Clear the Well is a common Flush payoff, where you deal damage equal to the number of cards you own in exile. However, since Plunge is also a thing, your opponent with a Plunge deck might actually help you go off with Clear the Well!

Watch out for Blind Cyclops; it can also deal damage to your own creatures! Purgebreaker is an uncommon Flush payoff. You only need to have Flushed one card (or had an opponent Plunge one card of yours) to give Purgebreaker trample. Chainbomb is a fun design that I want to explore more. Originally I had it as only being 'Destroy target artifact' without the other option, which meant that you might blow up Chainbomb itself if there are no other targets. At least you are given a small choice here to deal damage to creatures. However, depending on board state, this might actually hinder you from Flushing. I wonder if I changed it to something like it deals damage to you if you can't do the other options. Arson is simply a rare card (Banefire) with a bonus Flush, though it's not a payoff the way Clear the Well is.

The green Drain cards are pretty simple. Shortfanged Slink has no power, but Drains if it isn't blocked, so it's a bit of an opposite Afflict.

Pesticider and Topside Feeder offer activated Drain abilities. Lifeblood Enchanter is a payoff for the Enchantment deck, which I may make be Selesnya, or even Simic, though I'm not sure I want that to even be an archetype for this set. Enchantment themes are a bit of a late addition when I was struggling for interesting cards.