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by NotARobot
Sun Nov 08, 2015 6:45 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

What list are you running now? Theres a quite large variety in sideboards these days, wouldn't mind taking a look at your take on it
by NotARobot
Sat Oct 31, 2015 10:27 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

Atarka overall is kind of depressing me lately. Feels solidly a tier behind the other good decks like GW and jeskai.
by NotARobot
Tue Oct 20, 2015 5:49 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I really liked seeing den protector in some of the atarka lists at the PT. I've been running a couple and its been awesome with titans strength and become immense to just get in, and late game you can grab a command back or something to finish them off. Fun little tech.
by NotARobot
Sat Oct 03, 2015 11:37 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

Mind posting your brother's list, in a new topic maybe? Sounds fun.
by NotARobot
Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:13 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

Abzan aggro is really bad atm.

Not sure thats true... but the great thing about it is that you can swap from agro to control to midrange by just swapping out a few cards in the overall shell. I wish I had bought into it ages ago.
by NotARobot
Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:27 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

Haven't been having much fun playing red lately. I'm thinking of taking the plunge and just buying the rest of abzan agro :S
by NotARobot
Wed Aug 12, 2015 4:27 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I was playing the old version of Atarka Sligh recently after taking a break with MonoR Fliers (LEE SHI TIAN and/or TOMOHARU SAITO) list.

[deck=MDU's Atarka Sligh]Lands 20
11 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Mana Confluence
1 Forest

Creatures 19
4 Foundry Street Denizen
4 Monastery Swiftspear
3 Zurgo Bellstriker
4 Hordeling Outburst
4 Dragon Fodder

Support 1
1 Become Immense

Spells 20
4 Atarka's Command
4 Lightning Strike
4 Stoke the Flames
4 Wild Slash
4 Searing Blood

Sideboard 15
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Roast
4 Destructive Revelry
3 Thunderbreak Regent[/deck]

It was more like I queued with the wrong list as a mistake - but I was presently surprised with the deck performance netting two 3-0 during the 8Man/SE. Anyhow it got me thinking about the current metagame, we have all the control decks which we're strong against and then all the Aggressive Red/Artifact and Gwx durdle decks.

I was looking at Goblin Ramblemaster (which doesn't survive the shock test) and Hordeling Outburst which is unfortunately 3cc which makes it languish, Bile, Arc and Drown bait. I was thinking wouldn't Thopter Engineer just be fantastic in that slot? It gives you a 1/1 flying with haste to peck at all the durdle decks (which also happens to be a great Become Immense target) and a 1/3 body which will annoy the heck out of the red decks running 4x Slash and 4x Bloods. Obv. it doesn't play as well with Foundry Street Denizen but I don't think FSD is that important of a card so it can be replaced (maybe with extra land, BI and Pia and Kiran Nalaar).

Anyhow the MD would end up looking like this:

[deck=MDU's Atarka Sligh]Lands 21
8 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Mana Confluence
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Temple of Abandon
1 Forest

Creatures 17
4 Monastery Swiftspear
3 Zurgo Bellstriker
4 Thopter Engineer
4 Dragon Fodder
2 Pia and Kiran Nalaar

Support 2
2 Become Immense

Spells 20
4 Atarka's Command
4 Lightning Strike
4 Stoke the Flames
4 Wild Slash
4 Searing Blood[/deck]

1/1 tokens + Atarka's Command is already scary but 1/1 flying Haste tokens with Atarka's Command or Become Immense is scarier (Thopter Engineer + Pia and Kiran Nalaar is cute as well). The changes would also improve the Ur Artifact MU since we'll have more ways of blocking 5/5 ensouled thopters to buy time and ways to get past pesky Hanger.

Thoughts?

P.S. Here is a (link) to my standard playlist with all my misplaying glory

Interesting take on it. I wonder if there's enough value artifacts to maybe find space for shrapnel blast? Like some kind of atarka atrifact agro with command, blast, engineers and pia and hangarback? Must brew asap @_@
by NotARobot
Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:53 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

And now mill won a gp. At least we beat that deck fairly easily! How have you guys been doing this week? Any sideboarding recommendations for this GW meta?
by NotARobot
Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:19 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

And how's the mana? I don't really like having to run confluences and the like for a mediocre splash
by NotARobot
Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:47 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I don't think the splash is worth it. What else in white are you playing? What does the mana look like? I would rather stick to a mono colored build and run something like new Chandra vs them.
by NotARobot
Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:33 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

Trying to finalize what list I wanna take to DC scg this weekend. If I wasn't so afraid of the pure monored build I'd snap off atarka, destructive revelry seems fantastic right now with so much UBx demonic pact, GW enchantment, and UR thopters floating around.
by NotARobot
Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:06 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I dont understand why the red mages at the pro tour did not decide to run red white burn instead of mono red? isnt monastery mentor too good not to splash for and they get chained to the rocks

RW doesn't offer anything exceptional for us. Mentor is a strong card, but we want to be playing 1 and 2 drops then burning everything else away, very few lists run 3 drops these days outside of Chandra or Heelcutter. Chained to the rocks is a good spell, but we're already packing something like 24 burn spells that can go to the face OR creatures, its just not necessary to take a hit on the mana base for access to chained right now.
by NotARobot
Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:04 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I felt like I couldnt lose to GW coco when I had firedancers in the board in my atarka list, but the pure monored doesn't really have space for dancers so the matchup is pretty rough there.
by NotARobot
Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:20 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

MonoR is fantastic~

I don't really have a fixed list yet since I keep changing it every other day but here is the last list which I was on:

[deck=MDU's Atarka]Lands 20
1 Forest
1 Mana Confluence
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Temple of Abandon
10 Mountain

Creature Based Spells 20
4 Monastery Swiftspear
3 Zurgo Bellstriker
4 Dragon Fodder
4 Abbot of Keral Keep
3 Goblin Rabblemaster
2 Pia and Kiran Nalaar

Burns 20
4 Wild Slash
4 Lightning Strike
4 Atarka's Command
4 Searing Blood
4 Stoke the Flames

Sideboard 15
1 Arc Lightning
3 Destructive Revelry
3 Fiery Impulse
4 Roast
4 Flamewake Phoenix[/deck]

DIdn't feel too slow with so many temples? I hate seeing them in my opener usually. Can't say Ive ever had much success with flamewake either.
by NotARobot
Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:34 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I like atarka, but I found that I've been skimming down on actual token makers more and more, so I switched over to pure mono red. Theres just not enough room to put everything I want in the list
by NotARobot
Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:30 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

What list are you currently on mdu?
by NotARobot
Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:04 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

Signed up for a daily last night with an accidental placeholder atarka list thanks to modos fantastic programming, still managed to cash 3-1. It was running scab clan berzerkers out of the board, and they did major work every time I brought them in and was able to connect. I'm not sure they're better than going bigger with thunderbreaks or something. How do you all feel about the card?
by NotARobot
Wed Aug 05, 2015 4:49 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I really don't like the blue splash, especially what it does to the manabase.
by NotARobot
Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:39 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

So where do we go from here post - pro tour? Is it best to hop off of monored for a week or two? I'm heading to the DC 5k this weekend and Im not sure what I even want to bring.
by NotARobot
Sat Aug 01, 2015 11:31 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

PLaying that list you posted last night? Whats your sideboard look like?
by NotARobot
Sat Aug 01, 2015 10:47 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

Did you run monored or atarka?
by NotARobot
Sat Aug 01, 2015 5:49 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

Command version is slightly weaker to the monored mirror because we tend to damage ourselves more? Maybe they were just hedging vs other red decks?
by NotARobot
Sat Aug 01, 2015 3:45 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I havent been able to check today. Any of the decks running new Chandra ?
by NotARobot
Thu Jul 30, 2015 8:45 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I don't sideboard much for rally, just make sure to bring in your firedancers. They really shut down any deck running collected company, and are insane in combination with searing bloods.
by NotARobot
Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:00 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

Have you guys been testing with the mull scry rule? I'm pretty sure it's going live after the pt this weekend
by NotARobot
Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:21 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

The deck feels a lot worse without wild slash, did you not run into much of the mirror MDU?
by NotARobot
Mon Jul 27, 2015 3:54 pm
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I take back what I said about firedancers before, they're insane vs all the coco decks running around right now.
by NotARobot
Mon Jul 27, 2015 8:44 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

How did the mana feel? Did you ever want to go up to a 4th confluence and drop a temple or anything?
by NotARobot
Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:50 am
Forum: Aggressive Variants
Topic: Atarka Sligh
Replies: 243
Views: 117524

Atarka Sligh

I've never been a fan of dancers, even way back in the days of boros burn. They just die to literally everything, and theres nothing worse than dying to a creature after you threw burn at their dome and they removed the satyr in response. Nest is fun but is the mana good enough to cast it in the deck?

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