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by TptBahamut
Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:39 pm
Forum: Mountain (Standard)
Topic: Boros Burn 2.0
Replies: 277
Views: 107315

I'm having continued success with the RW "Je'skies" deck I posted on page 6. 3 Phoenix + 2 Stormbreath just win games against junk, especially if you make it to 6 mana and they can't kill the phoenix. Jeskai doesn't stand a chance, they can't keep a threat on the field and they just fall way behind. Haven't had a chance to play green devotion, yet though.
by TptBahamut
Fri Oct 17, 2014 6:45 am
Forum: Mountain (Standard)
Topic: Boros Burn 2.0
Replies: 277
Views: 107315

Playing around with the following list:

[deck]
4 Temple of Triumph
4 Battlefield Forge
2 Windscarred Crag
3 Plains
11 Mountain

4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Seeker of the Way
4 Hushwing Gryph
3 Ashcloud Phoenix
2 Stormbreath Dragon

4 Chained to the Rock
4 Magma Jet
4 Lightning Strike
3 Searing Blood
4 Stoke the Flames
[/deck]

My thought is, take Strasky's deck from the pro tour and get rid of blue. Mantis Rider turns into Swiftspear, banishing light turns into chained to the rock, and charm becomes searing blood. Sure, we lose some flexibility, but we speed the deck up and gain a ton of consistency.

Sideboard is a WIP, but I'm thinking Deflecting Palm and Sarkhan for the green devotion decks, reprisal/pillar of light/glare of heresy for Junk, and magma spray/4th searing blood for the jeskai match.

Played a few games in tourney practice on MTGO, and beat Junk Midrange in the first match. Matchup felt good, I even punted and played stormbreath with hushwing in hand and knowing he had a rhino on top, but it just didn't matter. Stormbreath is just a massive beating against junk, and I want it everytime I hit five mana. Also played against junk aggro, and got mana screwed in two games. Kept a speculative one lander in game 2, with three Swifties, but never drew the second land.

Sure does feel better than having to play tapped lands all the time and getting color screwed with a fistful of blue cards.
by TptBahamut
Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:44 pm
Forum: Mountain (Standard)
Topic: Boros Burn 2.0
Replies: 277
Views: 107315

So, after a few more matches... according to my opponents, my deck is awful and I'm a sack for winning.

Turns out, drawing multiple rabblemasters against junk can break through for the win. Two rabbles against junk's siege rhino into siege rhino into sorin +1 got through for exactly lethal, then triple rabbles in game 3 does a lot of damage in a hurry. And of course, my opponent whined and complained about how he didn't draw any removal. He also told me my deck is terrible against Junk, which typically I'd agree with.

And my round 1 Mardu opponent complained when I crushed him 2-0. He stumbled on mana, and as any good red deck does, it punished him. Ergo, my deck is terrible and I won because I'm lucky.
by TptBahamut
Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:09 pm
Forum: Mountain (Standard)
Topic: Boros Burn 2.0
Replies: 277
Views: 107315

A million times what RW said. Built one of the jeskai lists in the top 8, and played a few eight mans... certain draws are ridiculous, but I stumbled over mana in most of my games, playing things behind curve and just couldn't keep up vs a variety of things. Go back to my modified Boros Burn, and it's consistency is great, and power level isn't -all- that far behind.

That said, rabble is still a fence call. I see merits for both directions.
by TptBahamut
Sat Oct 11, 2014 12:53 am
Forum: Mountain (Standard)
Topic: Boros Burn 2.0
Replies: 277
Views: 107315

If we want to get rid of deflecting palm... does an extra land and two Ashcloud Phoenix warrant any consideration? Gives us a big flyer, recursive threat... Definitely more proactive than palm. That said, I've barely played any games with the deck, and it was all against aggro where palm was lackluster and I sided it out.

That said, arc lightning is a house. Except against Mardu Ascendancy.

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