Dies to Removal

If you're doing the oracle of bones thing, you should try playing green for hunters prowess. I hear trample and refilling your hand is good.

oh hey rtfc

I'd run 2. I want to draw it, and it's not like the cards terrible in multiples.

I think UW gets a lot better with Mana confluence. You probably shave 2 temples and some islands for the confluences so that you can more consistently cast your 2-drops on time while still having your splash mana. The white splash also makes the mirror a bye if they're just mono-blue since you have deicide and they don't.

If you play Jund, your committing to a bigger deck which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I'd start with this:

[deck]4 Experiment One
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
3 Mogis Warhound
2 Gore-House Chainwalker
4 Spike Jestor
1 Scavenging Ooze
4 Dreg Mangler
2 Varolz, The Scar Tipped
4 Ghor-Clan Rampager
2 Exava, Blood Witch

2 Lightning Strike
1 Dreadbore

4 Blood Crypt
4 Stomping Ground
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Mana Confluence
7 decisions[/deck]

It looks like a solid 57 + 3 possibly horrible value cards. Just the way I like it.

Found an article PV wrote about the card.

http://www.channelfireball.com/home/spo ... mespeaker/

The stats make it close(along with the double red mana cost) and the card draw gives it all that potential.

Like, even if the cards a goose egg, there's a lot of room for it to be very good to busted.

You could also just build around the card if you want. Something like RG aggro with madcap skills, rampager, etc. that compliment your gameplan anyways, if being more all in then some people are comfortable with.

Assuming a low curve deck and you hit your 4th land drop, you can generally cast whatever you flip after bolting there guy 95% of the time.

That, and if you're far enough ahead in the game, pumping him with something like a maaka or a warhound creates enough burst damage to put your opponent on the ROPES.

Now that I'm sitting down, I can say flamespeaker is actually the business. I haven't tested vs. very many archetypes, but from what I've gathered in the bit of testing I've done, it excels vs. everything but midrange. Against other aggro, FS is obviously amazing, and vs. control, drawing cards is obviously great.

A card I'm interested in trying out is the 3 mana anthem artifact. Anthems are fine regardless, but a 2/4 flamespeaker is just a big game. Splashing another color also seems powerful as this guy benefits greatly from scry and I'd be looking to flip cards other then burn spells and creatures. Like, revealing a thoughtseize has got to be awesome right? Plus, if you go full 2 color, bestowing herald of torment on him just ends the game doesn't it.

The archer is one of the better cards in the set, low key.

Uh...none? The matchups where the life matters are generally unfavorable game one so it doesn't really matter.

Also, hipster red:

4 Prophetic Flamespeaker
2 Chandra, Pyromaster
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Mogis's Warhound
4 Firefist Striker
4 Rubblebelt Maaka
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Magma Jet
4 Lightning Strike
4 Mutavault
18 Mountain

I keep changing things willy nilly, but rampager definitely makes the matchup very winnable. Drawing it probably increases your odds of winning by 20-30% as they can't just brickwall your guys and firefist striker does a good job of helping you punch through extra points of damage. Depending on how good/bad the matchup actually is, I may want to run some number of shocks.

If I draw rampager I win?

The Gruul Deck I've been working on:

[deck]4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Rakdos Cackler
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Firefist Striker
2 Gore-House Chainwalker
2 Skylasher
4 Mogis Warhound
1 Pyreweild Shaman
4 Fanatic of Xeangos
4 Ghor-Clan Rampager

4 Lightning Strike
2 Mizzium Mortars

4 Mana Confluence
4 Stomping Ground
2 Forest
2 Mutavault
9 Mountains[/deck]

To bad Hellriders not a card.