Dies to Removal

Just won FNM with my version. "Flying sideboard" worked perfectly, people were really surprised to see Regent into Phoenix into Phoenix;D. Of course one small (really small, unfortunately) tournament is almost meaningless, but until late October I won't have any chance to test it more seriously than local events.

EDIT: ok, i found big weakness of this deck - it's called mono red They have too many cheap spells to interact with our creatures

Deck is great. Although my testing was not super significant as i tested with only one friend who plays ramp decks with almost no interaction mainboard, I learned some things about the deck itself. It's good idea to aggressively mulligan if you don't have one drop (kinda obvious?), but some hands with sliderunner are also fine. I tried to play with openers like Abbot + Heelcutter but I either lost or won because my opponent durdled.

The biggest issue with this deck seems to be postboard plan. One of my friends (when i showed him this list) said that it's gonna be great presideboard against anything and heavily hated in games 2 and 3 by everything. And it's true, my ramp-playing friend boarded something like 11 cards against me (Radiant Flames, Feed the Clan and Roast) and mathup turned from extremely good to average.

So for now I don't have any suggestions for mainboard as I think it's good enough, except that I want to try two-color version for maximum consistency. But I do have some thoughts for sideboard: what about a little bit of transformation? I like those kind of sideboards and it could help to avoid all the hate people gonna have first weekend (which is inevitable cause atarka's red is very popular in testing, people mention it in every thread about new standard).

My proposition:


[deck]
SIDEBOARD
4 Thunderbreak Regent
3 Ashcloud Phoenix
2 Flamewake Phoenix
4 Roast
2 Arc Lightning // Boiling Earth // Seismic Rupture[/deck]

EDIT: Seismic Rupture could be great as mass token killer in "flying sideboard" version (and landfall creatures are easy to get 3 toughness with fetchland).

Brilliant idea! I goldfished it for few minutes and i already want to add tasigur thanks to 12 fetchlands;D Ok this may be not so good idea (hooting mandrils?), but anyway new standard mana base is awesome if it lets us play 12 fetchlands in a red deck. Tomorrow i'm definitely going to test this version above.