Dies to Removal

And cue the complaining over on Sally.

Legion's Initiative with Anax and Cymede, the Skullcleaver and the Viashino Firstblade plus a cantrip to activate Heroic on Anax?

Oh yeah.

Edit: Good lord. Even budget decks are going to be quite powerful. This is their idea of slowing a format down?

This format looks fucking awesome.

And cue the complaining over on Sally.

I believe someone once said "People on Sally would complain even if Wizards slid 100 dollar bills in the booster packs." Paraphrased.

Oh sure, most of the cards will end up being bad, but it's exciting to think about new interactions.

I think the control decks are going to be fucking terrible. No 1 or 2 mana draw/filter? Yup, they're going to be terrible.

Aggro or aggro-midrange or midrange-control looks good. I don't think there are the cards for tempo, as there's not really a 1 or 2 mana threat you can just resolve and rude to victory behind counters/removal.

So I want to explore the heavily front ended aggro decks (12x 1 drop AIR) or the more midrangey Chandra versions. Heroes Downfall is very good, but if they're behind on board, a three mana terror is bad; so it's not all upside.

There's very little life gain in the format. So getting damage in them burning them
out seems realistic.

Then there are just UR Pyromancer brews. The 1 mana heroic spells are very good with Pyro + Triton Treature Hunter; that's the start of a good engine; add Electromancer and Teleportal and things might get real? I don't have much faith in Master of the Waves; the deck also lacks any real CA engines which is awkward in a format with two highly playable wraths, because you won't recover enough and Supreme Verdict can't be countered. So maybe this idea sucks.

Heroic Boros is the last thing I want to look at, and it's going to have a token sub-theme obviously. Martial Glory is very good against green decks and red decks.

Exciting stuff.

For all you college football fans: Nebraska vs UCLA. I'm there. Get hype!

[deck]Creatures (14):
4 Hexproof Plant
3 Scavenging Ooze
2 Polukranos
2 Reaper of the Wilds
1 Desecration Demon
2 Undewrold Cerberus

Artifacts(3):
1 Rakdos Keyrune
1 Whip of Erebrous
1 Bow of Nyela

Removal(7)
2 Dreadbore
1 Hero's Demise
1 Putrefy
2 Abrupt Deacy
1 Magma Jet

Disruption(6)
4 Thoughtseize
2 Rakdos's Return

Walkers(2)
2 Xenagos, The Revealer

Draw(2)
2 Read the Bones

Terrabase(25)
4 Stomping Ground
4 Blood Crypt
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Temple of Abandon
2 Rakdos Guildgate
2 Gruul Guildgate
1 Swamp
2 Forest
2 Mountain[/deck]

Manabase was just thrown together. Biggest weakness is not knowing what threats are good in open field(aforementioned weakness of midrange) and thus the deck should probably just be
playing something like 4 desecration demon and 4 Hasty dragons since they can just close games the fastest, but I like hedging and testing different things. The control matchup would probably be interesting. The 6 discard spells make it easy to plan around what the control deck is doing and the combination of cards like whip, Xenagos, and and keyrune give you resilent threats, but it's not like before where you could get there by just resolving one creature that they sort of had to answer and/or couldn't answer profitably.

The agro matchup is either great or horrifically bad depending on draws. Ooze, whip, plant, and 1-for-1's go a long way towards running agro decks out of gas till you drop fatties and start gaining life incrementally, but then again, DAT MANABASE. Still, boarding in 4 anger the gods is a thing I suppose.

Worst card in the deck is likely read the bones but I felt there was a need for something that provides actual card advantage besides janky aritfacts. I do like how the bow does
lots of things though and is good vs. everything but control(cause Ashiok doesn't mill).

Watching it now. Who am I pulling for TH?