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- Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:31 pm
- Forum: Mountain (Standard)
- Topic: Is the format stagnant already?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10960
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:58 am
- Forum: Mountain (Standard)
- Topic: Mono Red Scrumper
- Replies: 196
- Views: 94157
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...
- Fri Oct 17, 2014 10:18 pm
- Forum: Mountain (Standard)
- Topic: Mono Red Scrumper
- Replies: 196
- Views: 94157
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...
- Fri Oct 17, 2014 7:08 am
- Forum: Mountain (Standard)
- Topic: Mono Red Scrumper
- Replies: 196
- Views: 94157
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...
- Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:48 pm
- Forum: Aggressive Variants
- Topic: (POST ROTATION) JESKAI BURN
- Replies: 1016
- Views: 308686
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...
- Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:06 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] Boros Burn
- Replies: 7593
- Views: 1331190
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 ...
- Fri Aug 22, 2014 7:38 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] Boros Burn
- Replies: 7593
- Views: 1331190
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...
- Fri Aug 22, 2014 4:08 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] Boros Burn
- Replies: 7593
- Views: 1331190
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...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 12:10 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] Boros Burn
- Replies: 7593
- Views: 1331190
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...
- Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:00 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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 ...
- Fri Apr 04, 2014 4:34 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] Boros Burn
- Replies: 7593
- Views: 1331190
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...
- Thu Apr 03, 2014 6:04 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] Boros Burn
- Replies: 7593
- Views: 1331190
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...
- Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:02 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
- Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:16 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
- Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:17 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] Boros Burn
- Replies: 7593
- Views: 1331190
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...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:22 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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...
- Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:02 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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...
- Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:11 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
On playing vs Burn.
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 ...
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:46 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Primer: R/w/x Aggro
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 379471
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:43 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] Boros Burn
- Replies: 7593
- Views: 1331190
- Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:24 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
- Wed Mar 12, 2014 11:13 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] Boros Burn
- Replies: 7593
- Views: 1331190
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...
- Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:27 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
@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...
- Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:50 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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...
- Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:24 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
Write up of IQ.
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...
- Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:48 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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...
- Sun Mar 09, 2014 6:28 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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 ...
- Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:48 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
@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...
- Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:03 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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,...
- Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:46 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
@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 ...
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 7:46 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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 ...
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:00 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Primer: R/w/x Aggro
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 379471
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...
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 7:02 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Primer: R/w/x Aggro
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 379471
- Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:24 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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...
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 6:13 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: Primer: R/w/x Aggro
- Replies: 1940
- Views: 379471
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...
- Fri Feb 14, 2014 3:27 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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...
- Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:58 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
Work in progress.
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...
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 1:54 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
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...
- Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:25 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: R/b Aggro aka "Dos Rakis"
- Replies: 1301
- Views: 286421
FNM Report
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...
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:54 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: [Primer] PyroRed
- Replies: 3843
- Views: 683005
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...