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by dauntless268
Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:44 pm
Forum: Mountain (Standard)
Topic: Boros Burn 2.0
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You pray not running into UB control with 8 dead cards in your MD...
by dauntless268
Sun Nov 09, 2014 12:39 am
Forum: Mountain (Standard)
Topic: Boros Burn 2.0
Replies: 277
Views: 111004

Took Mardu Burn to a 6-3 finish (39th place, 240 players) at the MOCS today

[deck]
Lands 24
4 Nomad Outpost
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Caves of Kolios
4 Bloodstained Mire
6 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Temple of Triumph

Creatures & Hordes 17
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Seeker of the Way
4 Goblin Rabblemaster
3 Butcher of the Horde
2 Hordeling Outburst

Burn 11
3 Magma Jet
4 Lightning Strike
4 Stoke the Flames

Planeswalkers 2
2 Sarkhan, Dragonspeaker

Other 6
4 Crackling Doom
2 Chained to the Rocks

Sideboard 15
2 Erase
2 Hushwing Gryff
2 Scouring Sands
1 Murderous Cut
4 Searing Blood
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
[/deck]

It’s a pretty straightforward Burn Deck that splashes Black for Cackling Doom and Butcher. Compared to the RW variant, you get a little more game against the midrange decks (where the lifeloss is rather irrelevant) and you are a little weaker against Boss Sligh (of which I faced none in the MOCS).
Tournament Report
Round 1 vs. Rvng (Mardu Control) 2-1
Deck with Brimaz, Rabblemaster, Butcher and a ton of removal. Very close match, lost g1, managed to burn him out g2+3. Eidolon did a ton of work

Round 2 vs. Bradfordlee (GR Devo) 2-0
Won g1 rather clearly by curving Seeker -> Rabblemaster, he stumbled on Mana g2 and I managed to win on the back of a Sarkhan. Hornet Queen came too late. May want Souring Sands here?

Round 3 vs. Hosaboy (Mardu Control) 1-2
Same deck as Rd.1. He always had multiple creatures that I couldn’t keep up with. Was expecting he’d side in more removal and out threats, not doing so won him the game

Round 4 vs. TiuTang Clan (Abzan Reanimator) 2-0
Won g1 on the back of a Swiftspear backed up by Removal and Burn. G2 I had an Erase for his Whip

Round 5 vs. BradPitKeeper (RW aggro) 1-2
Lost 1st game pretty horribly after double mulligan, 2nd game managed a good topdeck, 3rd game he had Chandra and Double Sarkan, so ggs

Round 6 vs. Zamboanga1156 (Abzan Reanimator) 0-2
Not much chance here against his Whip backed-up Hornet Queens

Round 7 vs. Oyuoyu1 (Jeskai Tempo) 2-0
Almost too easy. Outtempoed him in both cases. Second game ran my board into End Hostilities unnecessarily, still won.

Round 8 vs. TradeWind (Abzan Midrange) 2-1
Misplayed game 1, Searing Blood made g2 & 3 pretty easy

Round 9 vs. Zorrba (GR Monsters) 2-0
G1 + G2 managed to burn him out. Triple Searing Blood in G2 obviously helped quite a bit
I’m not 100% sure about the maindeck. Sideboard is OK (especially Searing Blood and Eidolon have been very good), but I guess there should be a pair of Sorins in there to replace Butcher in the matchups where your opponent boards in a ton of spot removal.

Some thoughts on possible directions in which to take this deck

(1) Drop Swiftspear for 1 Jet, 2 Outburst & 1 Butcher
(2) Keep Swiftspear, add 3 Defiant strike, possibly reducing 1 land and the 2 Hordeling Outburst
(3) Switch around the numbers of Hordeling Outburst + Goblin Rabblemaster

Thoughts / Suggestions welcome as always!

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