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Not stale at all. I've been testing Temur and been very please at how it does vs both Abzan and Jeskai decks. The format doesn't even have a proper control deck nailed down yet. We have a lot of evolution ahead of us.

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5-1 with the Tom Ross list after practice matches. The fact that someone top8ed SCGWOR with the exact 75 makes me really respect the boss' insights. I didn't play against Mardu and never boarded in PE. I'm putting 3 Rabblemasters in the SB, because I hated having to side out FDS against weenie aggro...

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What are those Peak Eruption there for? Mirror match? Sure not Jeskai/Mardu/Gr Monsters? In Ross' article he goes through a SB guide. The only match he brings PE in for is against Mardu Midrange. It's a bit surprising since the Mardu deck only plays 4 mountains and the fetchlands to get them. Howev...

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I'm going to take the Tom Ross list for a spin at FNM tonight. Hammerhand is a card I skipped over in my initial build of Heroic Red, instead opting for [card]Mogis's Warhound[/card]. I'm a bit confused as to dropping RM, since he is a powerful source of card advantage in mono red, but with 8 ways t...

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What did you take out for the Mana Confluence Jasper? I can't speak for Jasper or confirm how the manabase changed, but this was on the last page: The mana base for my list worked much better than expected. If I didn't have all 3 colors available on turn 3, I generally got them by turn 5, and playi...

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I've been running into variants of a G/W/x Chord of Calling deck in my local paper meta. I've seen both Naya and Bant versions. Here is a decklist for the Naya deck: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/09-08-14-naya-chord/ I've had extreme frustration playing against this deck with R/W burn. It plays MD ...

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Question: Would you bring in [card]Wear // Tear[/card] vs U Devotion? If so would you rather bring in Deicide knowing that current U Devo decks run 1/1 Hall MD/SB? The way I prefer to play that match is via grinding. So I'd only consider bringing in a card like W/T if I was taking out all my Skullc...

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The Rabble Red match can often come down to your ability to play around Rubblebelt Maaka . The worst thing you can do is let them declare attack and then try to burn an attacker only to let them blow you out with Giant Growth . I recommend you add the following phrases to your arsenal when playing p...

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I'm going to be giving Peak Eruption some testing in the sideboard going forward. Rx Devotion has become popular at my LGS and I want to stomp it out. I've been pretty disappointed with T/T. I tend to only board it in on the play vs Mono black and the Mirror. It's also a card that is great on turn 3...

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I was on the RB train for the longest time, but found myself switching to burn too recently. I loved Rakdos at the start of the season due to it's ability to just play control against G/R, which was everywhere, but as the season dragged out I found myself being forced to play against a ever growing ...

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Okay, still working on the complete sideboard plan for RWb burn. Culled some advice together and it now looks a lot better. -1 Blood Crypt, +1 Boros Guildgate should help the list, white screw will lose you so many games. Esper and UW/x Control: -2 Chains, -1 Shock, -3 Seering Blood +4 Firedrinker S...

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Hello everyone! I've been on the Rakdos Aggro plan for over a month now and I was thinking about switching decks until JOU comes out and all our work begins again. I'm going to a TCG player 5K this weekend in Orlando, but I'm used to creature beatdown decks and not strait burn builds. I'm going to t...

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I will rocking my FoS/DtR shirt, find me!

Will do! I'll be in a long sleeve collared plaid shirt and khaki pants.

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I'm going to play the deck in the SCG Invitational this weekend. I've had great success with the deck in about a dozen paper tournaments leading up to this big one. It's a solid deck that has some good and some bad match ups and the bad ones don't feel too far out of reach either.

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Congratsulations Zemanjaski. I haven't been playing burn this season, but what do ya'll think about Elixer of Immortality in the sideboard for the burn mirror match. By playing it you're trading for 1-2 cards from them, while putting more gas in your deck relative to land to increase your chances of...

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On hard match ups: Mono-U Devotion and the new U/w Devotion been a thorn in the side of red decks since Theros. The matches aren't unwinnable, but they deck presents some very pesky cards for us between an active Thassa, MoW, Frostburn Wierd. The key is really being able to break up their devotion w...

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I actually don't like Underworld Cerberus or Rakdos Return, they are cards for other decks. The problem is that if you want to play Cerberus along side SBD, you absolutely need 25 lands or more. Rakdos Return is also basically a 5+ mana spell, we also don't have any way to accel into these plays, ex...

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Playing vs Burn goes back to the good old Mike Flores philosophy of "Who's the Beatdown?" Remember the rules of Beatdown? The player with more creatures is usually the beatdown. The player with more removal is usually the control. When you're playing against burn, even though they have so ...

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http://i.imgur.com/CyqdvZn.jpg

What program are you using to play magic?

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http://i.tcgplayer.com/72344.jpg Funny story is that I actually would of never played red in Theros standard if I didn't have these Shocks. I was playing G/W Aggro and said to myself "If I find all 4 of my stronghold shocks I'll switch to red." I wewnt through my card box once and found 2...

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[quote="[url=http://diestoremoval.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=203426#p203426:23q9h04g]RaidaTheBlade » Wed Mar 12, 2014 8:57 pm[/url:23q9h04g]":23q9h04g]Honestly, I like our control matchup. I don't usually have any problems with them. -shrugs- Of course, that is one of the biggest reasons I...

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Z, doesn't YP meet all the requirements of a good sideboard card? It's great vs Mono B Devotion or random weenie decks, but either worthless of lackluster vs Mono-U or UW'x Control and is usually pretty bad vs G/r Monsters. That said, board slots are precious and you must decide if the win% of the c...

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@Gutler: What match-ups have you been playing, and what have your losses been against? Your list is so close to mine that the only real difference is cacklers vs ashley and I'm still trying to figure out which is better, when. In my last tournament, I played vs Mono U, UWR Control, Jund deck with D...

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MDU, you changed your avatar and I didn't recognize you. On streaming: Can't you set a delay to the stream so that it's several minutes behind? It would mean that you can't really interact with the people typing comments, but it would stop any peeking. I've been playing MDU's old list: [deck]Lands 2...

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Here is my write up for the IQ I played in yesterday. I'm feeling a bit lazy and the decklist should be uploaded to the SCG website soon, so I'll just link in the decklist later. Round 1 vs Burn. I remember some concerns from MDU and others about the burn match up being hard. I started game 1 out wi...

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I top 8ed the IQ in played in today, but didn't make it out of top 8. It was surprisingly small, last time I went to an IQ at the same store it must of had 70 players, but we had about 30 today. It was only 5 rounds with a cut to top 8, which is feel like a regular FNM to me. Went 3-1-1 in swiss. My...

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I haven't gotten to play this deck as much as I'd like, but I'm kicking off a week of binge magic starting today. I'll be taking a slightly older version of MDU's Rakdos Aggro to an IQ later today. I'll write up a small report for you after. I'm feeling pretty good about my sideboard decisions, but ...

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@Raida But by playing more swamps it makes Chandra's Phoenix harder to cast and it can potentially hurt being able to sequence 2 spells in the same turn. On LBZ main, having them main is great if you play vs G/x decks all day, which is a match where Vexing Phoenix is good already. LBZs are just fren...

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In theory, I'm not going to be an optimist about Pack Rat in this deck. The card can run away with games all by itself, but it's been a stable of Black Devotion lists for over 3 months now. The issue as I see it is that every deck in the format knows it has to deal with Pack Rat and plays an answer,...

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@Tyrael It's been said before that FWP is good vs G/R. Since they generally have trouble blocking a flyer and it's either a 3/3 that just returns when they try to Mortars it or it's a 5/5 that outclasses both Mortars and SBD. Not a bad card vs Mono Blue either, since they have no way to outclass it ...

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I can understand how Mizzium Mortars seems like it doesn't belong on the deck. It's really only in there to answer one specific card, BBoV, but as a 2 cost kill spell it can also be boarded in as just an extra terror vs aggressive decks where you want to play the control game; usually a 4 cost card ...

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Good point. I guess I was just paranoid about Ashiok stealing the Nyx-Smith and doing evil things with it. (The local meta also happens to be obsessed with putting mainboard Ashiok in control decks as a meta call against the other control decks). I wouldn't be too worried. As burn you're the aggres...

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[quote="[url=http://diestoremoval.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=192973#p192973]pikachufan2164 » Sat Feb 22, 2014 12:33 pm[/url Other sideboard cards I've been thinking of: Satyr Nyx-Smith or Hammer of Purphoros as an army-in-a-can card against control (not sure which one is better here)[/quote] Ha...

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I made top 4 (we usually chop after that) at my FNM with MDU's old build. I was heavily debating between either R/W Burn or this deck and choose this one because it plays creatures. I only lost 2 games all night, one vs R/G Monsters where I misplayed vs SBD's monstrous and Xenigod and the other loss...

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Interesting deck made 4-0 in daily. Post BtG reincarnation of Boros Tokens: http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/221643 Do you think it can compete in mono black / Bw metagame? (35% of meta is black based control) The deck plays all x/3's and higher to dodge Drown in Sorrow, but with only a handful of c...

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One reminder about Flame Wreathed Phoenix. The way Tribute works is that if the tribute isn't payed the creature then gets a trigger ability that in FWP's case grants it 2 abilities. The kicker is that your opponent can respond to that ability with a kill spell, Lightning Strike is the most relevant...

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I'm going to continue working on Zemanjaski's original Rakdos Suicide concept. I want to start off with a quote from the RDW primer: You want to win your games. There is a difference between trying to win them as quickly as possible (say, always a turn 4 kill) and trying to kill them as quickly as i...

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Tested the list all day today Z vs Mono B, BW and UW. I swapped tymaret for a Pyrewild shaman after a while and it was really impressive. Tymaret was sort of hard to get online. Might put tymaret back in over barrage. I seemed to draw lands a lot even on 22. Z, do you have a proposed SB? How did yo...

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Zemanjaski sent me that deck list on Wednesday. I was very impressed by the initial main deck, it seemed to have so much synergy. I spent all day Thursday and Friday harassing the the owner of my LGS to make sure he had the cards I was missing and sleeved up Rakdos Suicide for FNM last night. My dec...

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been crushing MBC (main deck bile blights die board drown in sorrow) slightly favorable vs G/R monsters,( new zenegos and fanatic of zenagos/Courser of Kruphix ) unfavorable vs Mono Blue dev ( not many changes at all) vs U/W im having strange results, ( the Gp winning list with slight changes in ma...

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