<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rhino, Barreling Brute" href="#" target="_blank">Rhino, Barreling Brute</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> <i>|</i> Art by <a href="https://www.artstation.com/filipe-pagliuso">Filipe Pagliuso</a></em></p>
<p>The full set spoilers for <a href="https://edhrec.com/sets/spm" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Marvel's Spider-Man</em></a> are in! In this deck tech, I'm looking at one of my favorites from Spider-Man's rogues gallery: <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rhino, Barreling Brute" href="#" target="_blank">Rhino, Barreling Brute</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>.</p>
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<p>I have a pretty bizarre idea for this one, and I'm very excited to show it off. Something tells me the Modern players among us will enjoy what I've cooked up.</p>
<h2>What Does Rhino, Barreling Brute Do?</h2>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rhino, Barreling Brute" href="#" target="_blank">Rhino, Barreling Brute</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a 6/7 with vigilance, trample, and haste for <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-3" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-r" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-r" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-g" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-g" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span>. When he attacks, he draws a card if a spell with mana value four or greater was cast this turn.</p>
<p>Essentially, Rhino is an <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Up the Beanstalk" href="#" target="_blank">Up the Beanstalk</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> with very impressive stats and a ludicrously high mana value.</p>
<p>Rhino is very clearly asking a deck constructed around him to commit to the following game plan: Ramp, cast Rhino, cast big spells, smash the opponents. That's exactly the sort of deck I've prepared.</p>
<p>However, I've put a little twist on it. On top of the typical ramp strategy, there's a cascade package reminiscent of the Modern Temur Rhinos decks.</p>
<h2>Rhino's Rhinos</h2>
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<p>In Modern, decks that are looking to cascade into a suspend spell all have a similar structure. Suspend spells don't have a casting cost, and they have a mana value of zero. Cascade decks are full of three-mana spells with cascade, like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Violent Outburst" href="#" target="_blank">Violent Outburst</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Shardless Agent" href="#" target="_blank">Shardless Agent</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, and don't play any spells that those cascade cards can hit other than the suspend cards.</p>
<p>Typically, this involves playing spells that can be cast for less mana than their actual mana value, like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Fury" href="#" target="_blank">Fury</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Leyline Binding" href="#" target="_blank">Leyline Binding</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. That way the cascade spells will always hit a suspend card, but without completely giving up on playing spells in the early stages of the game.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Crashing Footfalls"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Up the Beanstalk"></div></div>
<p>This deck is looking to cascade into one of two cards: <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Crashing Footfalls" href="#" target="_blank">Crashing Footfalls</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Up the Beanstalk" href="#" target="_blank">Up the Beanstalk</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. There are five cascade spells at three and four mana; all of them are guaranteed to hit either <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Up the Beanstalk" href="#" target="_blank">Up the Beanstalk</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> or <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Crashing Footfalls" href="#" target="_blank">Crashing Footfalls</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. Then, there are many other cascade spells at higher mana values that provide a wider range of outcomes.</p>
<p>In all reality, Crashing Footfalls is only in this deck because I get a lot of joy from casting it. A sorcery like this isn't going to make a splash at the Bracket 4 (Optimized) tables, and that's alright for this deck's purposes. A more tightly optimized variant of this deck would stick to the more powerful of the two cards it's looking to cascade into.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Up the Beanstalk" href="#" target="_blank">Up the Beanstalk</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is an incredibly potent card draw engine - among the best ever printed. For just two mana, this enchantment draws a card when it enters and then draws another card every time it's controller casts a spell with mana value five or greater. At face value, that's only impressive in a deck that can make enough mana to cast more than one five-mana spell per turn.</p>
<p>However, one universal truth of <em>Magic: the</em> <em>Gathering</em> is that players will find ways to cheat on mana. In Modern, that method is using spells with alternate casting costs, like <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Fury" href="#" target="_blank">Fury</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>. For this deck, it's casting big spells with cascade that cascade into even more big spells.</p>
<h2>Key Cards for <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rhino, Barreling Brute" href="#" target="_blank">Rhino, Barreling Brute</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span></h2>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Bloomvine Regent"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Rampaging War Mammoth"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Virtue of Strength"></div></div>
<p>One of the deckbuilding challenges cascade decks face is finding ways to make early plays without playing any cards with a mana value of one or two. I've chosen to circumvent that problem with Adventures, Omens, and creatures with evoke or cycling. These cards fill out most of the deck's utility cards, like ramp and removal.</p>
<p>For example, the Omen half of <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Bloomvine Regent" href="#" target="_blank">Bloomvine Regent</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is essentially just a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Cultivate" href="#" target="_blank">Cultivate</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, but it's a <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Cultivate" href="#" target="_blank">Cultivate</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> that can't be cast with a four mana cascade card.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Wondrous Crucible"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Screamer-Killer"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Etali, Primal Storm"></div></div>
<p>Finally, there's the top of the mana curve. Once <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Up the Beanstalk" href="#" target="_blank">Up the Beanstalk</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is in play and the Rhinos have been unleashed, it's time to do what ramp decks do best: begin dropping expensive bombs turn after turn.</p>
<p>The best top-end bombs are the ones that draw cards or make mana. <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Wondrous Crucible" href="#" target="_blank">Wondrous Crucible</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a protection spell that grants everything ward <span class="mana-container-container"><span class="mana-container"><i class="ms ms-cost ms-2" style="margin-left: inherit !important;"></i></span></span> and casts a spells from the graveyard at random every turn. As I've said many times, Commander players are often unwilling to bear the mild inconvenience of an additional two mana to target something. For that reason, I consider the ward that Wondrous Crucible grants to be effectively hexproof the majority of the time.</p>
<p>Where <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Up the Beanstalk" href="#" target="_blank">Up the Beanstalk</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a card draw engine for casting five-mana spells, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Screamer-Killer" href="#" target="_blank">Screamer-Killer</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a removal engine. Screamer-Killer is a best-in-class tool for keeping opposing blockers off the board to clear the way for Rhino, Barreling Brute. This easily feels like the most oppressive card in the deck when things are going according to plan.</p>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Etali, Primal Storm" href="#" target="_blank">Etali, Primal Storm</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> is a card advantage machine. One of the reasons I'm so comfortable playing a deck that has such a narrow range of answers is that it plays a handful of cards that can steal opponents' cards to help pick up the slack. Maybe this deck isn't great at targeted creature removal, but I'm sure if I attack with Etali, Primal Storm enough times, or get lucky off an <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Etali, Primal Conqueror" href="#" target="_blank">Etali, Primal Conqueror</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> enters trigger, someone will have something I can use. That's good enough for my purposes.</p>
<p>Plus, this is a deck that wants to constantly put more material on the board regardless of the text on any of the cards.</p>
<h2>How Does This <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rhino, Barreling Brute" href="#" target="_blank">Rhino, Barreling Brute</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> Deck Win the Game?</h2>
<p>There aren't a lot of specific plans for winning the game baked into this deck. Placing big creatures on the table and turning them sideways is about as far it goes. However, there are a few cards that make ending the game a little easier.</p>
<div class="edhrecp__cards"><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Thunderfoot Baloth"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Craterhoof Behemoth"></div><div class="edhrecp__card-container" name="Kamahl, Heart of Krosa"></div></div>
<p><span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Thunderfoot Baloth" href="#" target="_blank">Thunderfoot Baloth</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Craterhoof Behemoth" href="#" target="_blank">Craterhoof Behemoth</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span>, and <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Kamahl, Heart of Krosa" href="#" target="_blank">Kamahl, Heart of Krosa</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> are all creatures that grant the rest of the team a power/toughness boost and trample. These all drastically simplify the process of pushing through the 120 points of damage required to end a game of Commander.</p>
<h2>Rhino, Barreling Brute Commander Deck List</h2>
<div class="edhrecp__deck mtgh"><span class="edhrecp__deck-s" name="Rhino&#039;s Rhinos" site="edhrec" archidekt_link="" cards="[Commander]
*1 Rhino, Barreling Brute
[/Commander]
[Enchantments]
*1 Bigger on the Inside
*1 Encroaching Dragonstorm
*1 Etali&#039;s Favor
*1 Monstrous Vortex
*1 Sunbird&#039;s Invocation
*1 Up the Beanstalk
*1 Virtue of Strength
[/Enchantments]
[Creatures]
*1 Amethyst Dragon
*1 Ancient Bronze Dragon
*1 Ancient Copper Dragon
*1 Annoyed Altisaur
*1 Apex Devastator
*1 Beanstalk Giant
*1 Bloodbraid Challenger
*1 Bloodbraid Elf
*1 Bloomvine Regent
*1 Boarding Party
*1 Craterhoof Behemoth
*1 Drumhunter
*1 Etali, Primal Conqueror
*1 Etali, Primal Storm
*1 Foundation Breaker
*1 Fury
*1 Generous Ent
*1 Geological Appraiser
*1 Greater Tanuki
*1 Kamahl, Heart of Krosa
*1 Kogla and Yidaro
*1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
*1 Noise Marine
*1 Oliphaunt
*1 Rampaging War Mammoth
*1 Sagu Wildling
*1 Screamer-Killer
*1 Thunderfoot Baloth
*1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
*1 Tyrant&#039;s Familiar
*1 Young Red Dragon
[/Creatures]
[Instants]
*1 Natural Reclamation
*1 Return of the Wildspeaker
*1 Violent Outburst
[/Instants]
[Sorceries]
*1 Circuitous Route
*1 Crashing Footfalls
*1 Decimate
*1 Explosive Vegetation
*1 Into the Time Vortex
*1 Map the Frontier
*1 Migration Path
*1 Ranger&#039;s Path
*1 Skyshroud Claim
*1 Tempt with Discovery
*1 Throes of Chaos
*1 Vastwood Surge
*1 Volcanic Torrent
*1 Walk with the Ancestors
[/Sorceries]
[Artifacts]
*1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
*1 Wondrous Crucible
[/Artifacts]
[Battles]
*1 Invasion of Zendikar
[/Battles]
[Lands]
*1 Arid Mesa
*1 Bloodstained Mire
*1 Boseiju, Who Endures
*1 Cavern of Souls
*1 Commercial District
*12 Forest
*1 Hidden Nursery
*1 Hidden Volcano
*1 Karplusan Forest
*1 Misty Rainforest
*1 Mosswort Bridge
*12 Mountain
*1 Scalding Tarn
*1 Spire Garden
*1 Stomping Ground
*1 Verdant Catacombs
*1 Windswept Heath
*1 Wooded Foothills
*1 Wooded Ridgeline
[/Lands]"></span></div>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>This is the first Bracket 2 (Core) deck I've ever built. It was a blast! <span class="edhrecp__link"><a class="edhrecp__link-a" content="Rhino, Barreling Brute" href="#" target="_blank">Rhino, Barreling Brute</a><span class="edhrecp__link-image"></span></span> offers a very refreshing gameplay experience compared to the other decks in my arsenal. I tend to go for "fiddly" decks that have meticulously crafted game plans and a lot of subtle nuances.</p>
<p>The Rhino is about as subtle as a brick. That style of play scratches an itch!</p>
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