Dies to Removal

GoblinWarchief

Guys, i really appreciate your work on red builds. Today i should have played in a preptq with a mono red list featuring 4 abbot and 4 ire shaman (similar to the one mdu posted a while ago), but after staying awake until almost dawn debating the last few slots i then didn't wake up in time. Yes i'm ...

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I suggest giving a chance to kessig forgemaster.... i'm playing a list very similar to the one in the above post and my 2 drops creatures are 4 forgemaster 2 abbot, since abbot is not excellent in a higher curve list and forgemaster is very good against other creature decks (trades with sylvan advoc...

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What do you think about the future of burn after the last unbans? I personally believe the deck is still good, but slightly less than before the eldrazi era. Now we lose an effective bye (tron that will have very few players) and our matchups against Ux control decks become tricky because they have ...

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Fallout is spectacular against robots, elves, merfolks, and decent against infect/company. I would not be too worried of killing my own creatures, because in the matchups where fallout come in, either you cut eidolon and maybe guide, or fallout is so strong that destroys the opponent completely.

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There is a quite active facebook page of the clan

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I just don't think is possible to run the leonin arbiter package + blood moon+ kiki jiki. How are you gonna build your manabase with 4 colorless ghost quarters, very little fetches or none at all, plus needing to always have one basic plain out in case you play blood moon, and triple red for kiki ji...

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Maindeck is what i play except the manabase. i have 11 fetches, 3 foundries, 1 stomping ground, 2 copperline gorge 3 mountain. This way i can take less damage, but then again i don't play firewalker in my board.... i think your manabase is fine because you need WW postboard. I'm not sold on ensnarin...

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Now that twin is banned, maybe a boros shell with restoration and kiki jiki has a real reason to exist. Also eldrazi displacer is a very powerful card that i would like to play, but it heavily conflicts with my inclination towards playing maindeck blood moons XD probably i should just drop moons so ...

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I think the change is good for us. Obviously amulet was a shitty matchup, and twin was always a scary card to face because especially in game one we could not do a lot if they killed us turn 4. The biggest benefit for us is that g/r tron will probably see much more play without twin in the format.

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i side out a land on the draw in many matchups, but as you said it depends on the number of blazes i have. Also i don't side out lands if i am bringing in spells like molten rain or volcanic fallout.

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You're too kind MDU... i think i am good with burn, but in the end my best result has been 7-2 at a regional ptq. someone here even top'8ed a gp if i recall correctly, you play much more than me and your videos are awesome, khaos is fantastic and so on.... but i just would like to be in the place wh...

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I am not a fan of lists with the full set of guides, spears, nacatls, eidolons + some lavamancers for 2 reasons. The first and major one is that removal spells/big blockers become very good against you: as you said, rock/jund become even matchups and this is not a thing i am willing to accept. The s...

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Someone can please add me to the FOS facebook group? this is my profile page https://www.facebook.com/pinco8

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Well, it is the same maindeck i've been running forever (i was playing 3 searing blazes 1 shard volley but then i went up to 4 blazes) except for the manabase. I run 11 fetches ,3 foundries, 3 mountains, 1 stomping ground, 2 copperline gorge. This configuration lets me save even more life, but it's ...

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It's the first card i board out on the play and on the draw.

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My inclination is to bolt the dork almost always, just because as you said, you may get a free win if he kept a shaky hand based on that creature to help with his mana. Not killing it, you also open yourself up to turn 2 plays like kitchen finks, knight of the reliquary, loxodon smiter that would ju...

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Is it even remotely normal that since the card was spoiled, every time i have to go to the bathroom i think of "Brutal Expulsion" ?

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Ok, it won't be as long as my last reports because i'm lazy. First things first, the decklist : [deck] 4 Goblin Guide 4 Monastery Swiftspear 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel 2 Grim Lavamancer 4 Lava Spike 4 Rift Bolt 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Searing Blaze 4 Skullcrack 4 Boros Charm 2 Lightning Helix 11 Fetchl...

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Well, i nearly reached the protour. regional ptq rome, 160 players, i lost my first match, then won six in a row, and lost the win and in for the top 8 that guaranteed qualification. Also i only lost to non existent decks but you will know when i write my report

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Well, they usually keep some copies because burn plays creatures and incidentally terminus costs 6, so i t can counter fireblast with counterbalance.

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Red blasts have never been really good in burn because you don't want reactive spells. What are you gonna do, always keep one red mana open because they may cast counterbalance? Vortex and Firecraft are both good against miracles, vexing shusher is worse than both in my opinion because it just dies ...

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Now that there is the option to scry i think it is correct to be a little more aggressive with mulligans. I always mulled 4 landers (unless they were very good like guide eidolon searing blaze) and now i will have no doubt anymore in doing so. This deck loses mostly due to flooding, so i prefer to k...

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I lost in the finals of a 20/25 people event with burn. Since i didn't have time to tune a list, i just decided to use patrick sullivan's last take on legacy burn : http://www.starcitygames.com/article/29714_Burning-Down-Grand-Prix-New-Jersey.html The only change i made was +1 smash to smithereens -...

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Voyeurlands
when it enters the battlefield, it checks to see if 2 basics are doing their thing. If there is, it comes into play erect.

threesome lands

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Atarka red won the first SCG open, a version with titan's strength become immense and temur battle rage. I think no one was expecting so many pump spells in atarka aggro, but going forward it will probably be better to switch to a more normal version.... titan's strength and 1-2 become immense are s...

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It was killed by dromoka's command, but if you didn't face the card it was still solid. Now that chains rotated though there is no real reason to play r/w

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well probably w/r aggro is not a thing anymore. It existed mainly because of chained to the rocks and the card rotated out

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Well, i don't post a lot but i visit the site frequently and i find it an invaluable source of informations for magic and especially red mages. Maybe one day i will make primers about the decks i play, but i'm probably too lazy to do that, and this would be the best i could do to create activity her...

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Black Vise is fantastic if you have it turn 1 on the play. In this scenario it deals at least 5 damages (unless you are playing against something that dumps his hand with 0 cost spells). The problem is, in any other situation it is a very bad card. Even turn 1 if you are on the draw black vise could...

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I won a tarmogoyf in a 20 people event, deck is the same i posted last times, i just swap sideboard cards basing on what i expect to face. After losing the first round to uwr geist due to horrible misplays i made, i managed to refocus and beat a bant control brew, bant midrange with geist (don't kno...

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I board him out just on the draw. i find that on the play the best way to win is just tempo them out with early creatures (i know this also because i played only goblins in modern for like 2 years when i didn't have fetches nor shocks, and i never lost against merfolks despite not having piledriver ...

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I don't bring in path against abzan/jund. My hand is likely to get significantly reduced by inquisitions of kozilek and liliana, so i want every card i have to deal damage. Exiling a goyf is nice, but we want to just kill them rather then deal with their creatures, because this approach will just gi...

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People are for the most part ignorant and not able to communicate in a proper way, speaking or writing. That's why they consider a robot one that is more civilized than them.

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Yesterday i checked the modern burn thread on salvation and there was a guy suggesting to play 16 lands with 4 titan's strength maindeck. It doesn't take much to remember why i accurately avoid that site. I have fun trolling there though ; i remember a couple years ago when i was advocating kemba, k...

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Wow, this is the second pro tour in a row won by this deck. I'm quite surprised that basically no one is playing denizen/dragon fodder/outburst/rabblemaster anymore. I mean, I understand the power of abbot/firecraft, but i still think the tokens shell with atarka's command is powerful too. By the wa...

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I had a great time at the midnight prerelease too mainly because i arrived there half drunk and the store offered a beer to the players. I had 13-15 good red cards and the option to splash white or black and play a normal aggro deck, but i also opened 2 Thopter Spy Network and the drunk part of me w...

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Yeah, the issues you describe are real. I just think we have to keep in mind heliod's pilgrim as a card because she's good

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I think you are well positioned anyway with this hand, i would go with two swiftspear so you avoid taking tons of damage from eidolon.
If opponent has a potential blue mana source untapped always go with spears to play around spell snare

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I tried a combo focused version of boros with 4 twin and 4 village bell ringer plus the usual cards (angels, walls, splicers, kiki). I don't know if the more midrange oriented approach with just kiki combo is better, but what i know is that two copies of heliod's pilgrim were all stars in my deck. B...

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I think you are overly optimistic. I think if they are playing martyr of sands, the matchup is always horrible. If they are not playing it, you can win having a fast start with creatures, but you can't hope beating a deck that plays soul warden and soul attendant with just burn spells. Anyway they c...

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