Postby Valdarith » Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:04 pm
So many spells as in spell/land ratio? With 29 creatures in the deck there are very few hands you have to mulligan with too many spells.
The scrylands are fine. You learn to play around them after awhile. With the new City of Brass being spoiled the deck could move in that direction later on.
I'm really happy with the 60, particularly the singleton Goblin Shortcutter. That caught a lot of people off guard. I like him more than Firefist Striker since he's a better topdeck which you need from your singletons. We have a lot of ways to swing for a LOT of damage in one turn and Shortcutter is more favorable in those instances.
The deck has a little combo element to it with Armed and pump spells. People not in the know just lose out of nowhere, and people with some idea of what's going on have to play ultra conservative so they don't get blown out. It's favored against the other aggro decks in the format due to Burning-
Tree Emissary and bigger guys like Fanatic of Xenagos and Ghor-Clan Rampager. It's faster AND more powerful which none of the other aggro decks can boast. I am curious as to how the mono blue devotion matchup would be pre and postboard. Skylasher really helps with that matchup as they have no way whatsoever to interact with it so I'm free to just blast them for 14+ with Armed and whatever pump spells I see fit.
As for the sideboard, I have rethought some things.
[deck]
Creatures (29)
4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Skylasher
4 Gore-House Chainwalker
1 Goblin Shortcutter
4 Fanatic of Xenagos
4 Ghor-Clan Rampager
Spells (11)
3 Titan's Strength
2 Madcap Skills
2 Armed / Dangerous
4 Lightning Strike
Lands (20)
4 Temple of Abandon
4 Stomping Ground
2 Forest
10 Mountain
Sideboard (15)
1 Ranger's Guile
2 Skullcrack
2 Gruul Charm
1 Armed / Dangerous
1 Madcap Skills
2 Magma Jet
2 Destructive Revelry
2 Act of Treason
2 Peak Eruption
[/deck]
nI don't think Shock and Searing Blood are necessary in the board. I want more high impact spells than those in the decks I'd board them in for. I'm the beatdown vs other aggro decks so I don't feel like Shock is where I want to be, and while Searing Blood is okay against midrange decks I'd prefer to play Act of Treason and Gruul Charm to push through their fatties.
Some key differences between my deck and Tom Ross's is that I took out Legion Loyalist and Ash Zealot for four Gore-House Chainwalker. It's really good against Sylvan Caryatid and Nightveil Specter and it also chains nicely off BTE. Ash Zealot is a fine card but is a bit mana intensive and doesn't play well with BTE, plus it gets stoned against Caryatid. I feel like Legion Loyalist is relatively low impact in a deck like this since most of our guys are two-power which makes him irrelevant against midrange deck. We are already favored against other aggro decks so at that point his only upside is pushing through Elspeth tokens, and I
feel we should be beating Esper before she comes down anyway (plus we have Rampager to push through the blockers). As for the sideboard, I took out two Shock, three Domri Rade, two Searing Blood, and a Forest for two Act of Treason, two Destructive Revelry, two Peak Eruption, and two Gruul Charm. I don't think Domri Rade is where we want to be against control and black decks. It slows us down a lot and I'd rather just go kill them while they durdle instead of attacking them from that axis. I prefer Destructive Revelry against Esper as a way to combat Detention Sphere and postboard Blind Obedience. Peak Eruption is a hedge against the plethora of red decks on MODO, particularly Burn because setting them back a turn is huge when they're trying to get to Warleader's Helix mana, plus nabbing Chained to the Rocks is a big deal. Act of Treason is for midrange decks and does a ton of work, especially when you already have a strong board presence. Gruul Charm can serve as a falter against midrange decks while
being great to bring in against mono blue.
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