My love of Bloodchief Ascension currently knows no bounds. No doubt this will wear off once I discover it really belongs in the dollar-rare basket.

Meanwhile, here are two decks you may enjoy trialing. Both of them mean you can avoid slamming downs $100 on a set of Lotus Cobra.

Though Lotus Cobra would work well in the BBBB deck…

Balls-to-the-wall-Bloodchief

The intention of this deck is to simply get counters onto Bloodchief Ascension ASAP. Even without Ascension the deck is stupid fast and highly distruptive.

[16 x 1 Mana spells]

4 Lightning Bolt
4 Vampire Lacerator
4 Goblin Guide
4 Bloodchief Ascension
4 Disfigure (could be Doomblade or Terminate)

[16 x 3 mana spells]

4 Blightning
4 Hideous End
4 Volcanic Fallout
4 Goblin Ruinblaster

[4 x X mana spells]

4 Earthquake

[20 land]

20 x LANDS

BBBB (Blood-Blast-Blighting-Broodmate)

An update of the Standard Jund Cascade deck, it looks to pushing card advantage into epic proportions. Cascade+Recurrence+Discard+Ascension=Win.

[12 x Blood spells]

4 Bloodchief Ascension
4 Bloodghast
4 Bloodbraid Elf

[8 x Blast spells]

4 Goblin Ruinblaster
4 Bituminous Blast

[8 x B-lightning spells]

4 Lightning Bolt
4 Blightning

[2 x Broodmate spells]

2 Broodmate Dragon

[6 x chaff spells]

2 Terminate
4 Putrid Leech

[24 lands]

24 x LANDS