Dies to Removal

If the criteria for a deck to be R/W Burn is to:

1. Play spells
2. Win
3. Piss people off

Then every goddamned deck I've ever played has been R/W Burn.

I don't think it works that way if you're the leader. It's like going to a gym in Pokemon - nobody cares if you beat up on the random scrumpers loitering around - they're expected to go X-2-drop - but if the gym leader loses then that's a big deal.

Scralt City Gym

I'm flattered you remembered, though, and could be bothered to take the time out of your busy schedule of doing more for this site than anyone to spurn me... especially tonight of all nights when you've got to go get ready to be a card shop hero. I hope this diversion doesn't cause you to go X-2 at FNM and lose the respect of your fellow scrumpers.

i was referring to the hilarious time redthirst said his bouncing duties included gun fights with gang members

Shootings happen at those clubs and, when they do, Security generally shoots back... don't really know what you find so hilarious about that.

gayest slogan ever

They must have been all out of "Frog among toads" t shirts.

I'm probably marrying this woman. Unless she's hella crazy and I haven't seen it yet, anyway.

3 things:

1. All women are hella crazy, but

2. That shouldn't concern you for obvious reasons, and

3. Marrying? Not in God's Country, nancy.

I was always a big fan of the Weatherlight Saga, but quit really following M:tG's story lines after Apocalypse.

Depends on how important having mana on turn one is in your particular deck - personally, I want 18-20 untapped lands that add mana of the color of my one drops in my Aggro decks.

You think everything's the Devil!

Mamma says Spam's so ornery because he got all them teeth and no toothbrush.

Travis Woo?

Raugh out roud.

I believe I articulated why Red Aggro sucks some days ago, though thirst's deck looks promising.

I wouldn't put too much faith in it. You know I just threw the list together while posting and then made up some bullshit about a vague imaginary friend testing it to lend it credence, right?

Here's something I threw together, LP, and a buddy of mine has been testing - he seems pretty impressed with the deck's ability to run over slower decks:

4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Frenzied Goblin
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Eidelon of the Great Revel
4 Borderland Marauder
3 War-Name Aspirant
4 Goblin Rabblemaster

4 Hammerhand
2 Crowd's Favor
4 Titan's Strength
4 Lightning Strike

19 Mountain

I haven't gotten a chance to test it myself, but he said that Crowd's Favor was often a decent surprise when you're tapped out and the threat of it was able to force bad blocks after he played the first - he told me his favorite play was when he could play Satyr or Swiftspear turn 1, tap out for Marauder or Eidelon turn 2, swing into a Caryatid and kill it with a completely unexpected Crowd's Favor. After that his opponent would often not bother to block his one drop whether he was tapped out or not.

Not really
sure on a SB besides 4 Arc Lightning and possibly a few land + Phoenix.

Feel free to run it through a few paces - I'd love to hear about your experience with the list since it'll probably be another couple of weeks before I can get around to actually testing anything.

The fact that Junk currently has all the best Midrange Control cards is probably the incentive to play Junk.

So am I the only person that likes Frenzied Goblin?

I'm pretty sure I value it over Denizen atm, if that tells you anything. Haven't tested it, but I consider repeatable Falter effects on creatures to be solid. Especially if you're combining it with something like Hammerhand to really fuck with your opponent's attempts to stem the tide.

Glad to have confirmation. You know that damn dick-showing rule book is as thick as my cock.

GW, have you considered cock slapping the bitch?

Right to left, of course.

Unless it's backwards in Italy? I haven't kept up with my Colonial/Imperial to Metric cock-slapping etiquette conversions since my pagent days like I should have...

Been making the same red deck since Mirage/Tempest/5th... so it's not quite as impressive as y'all might think.

Swiftspear is gonna be my hero in a deck playing Titans Strength

With that in mind (and because I do like pump spells against Caryatid) I'm thinking the initial version of stupid cheap Sligh might be something more like:

[deck]
4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Frenzied Goblin
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Borderland Marauder
4 War-Name Aspirant
4 Goblin Rablemaster

4 Hammerhand
4 Lightning Strike
4 Titan's Strength
4 Stoke the Flames

20 Mountain
[/deck]

Also replaced Denizen with Frenzied Goblin since I dropped the goblin-making spell and to help get around things like early Coursers.

I do. All I'd need is the new stuff - all common/uncommon.

Don't know... depends on what we expect the new format to look like. Right now, all I really know is that a lot of people are going to be playing 3+ color with incredibly slow/painful mana bases.

The more I think about it, the more I like the deck - especially since it'll cost me like $5.00 to put together.

You don't think 16 one drops is a bit excessive? Maybe drop a couple to increase you two drops to 4-ofs? I am a big fan of 2-3 Frenzied Goblins, though.

Ha! Shows how much energy I've devoted to Standard Magic lately.

-4 Shock, +4 Hammerhand

I guess that could be good... it certainly doesn't jump out at me as being particularly amazing, though.

I agree with you. Card probably slots into boss slight type strats, but for generic red agro decks doing reasonably normal things, I'll pass.

Yeah, I could see something like:

4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Foundry-Street Denizen
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Borderland Marauder
4 War-Name Aspirant
4 Goblin Rablemaster

4 Shock
4 Lightning Strike
4 Hordeling Outburst
4 Stoke the Flames

20 Mountain

to punish early decks with poorly-thought-out mana
bases.

I guess that could be good... it certainly doesn't jump out at me as being particularly amazing, though.

I suppose you're right, Kait. And while the Butcher is no Aristocrat, it's certainly better than anything we've had in the 4-drop slot for a while. So yeah, probably worth it.

Butcher of the Horde...yesss

As much as I hate trying to go 3 color Aggro, this guy might be worth it. Dat mana base is going to hurt, though.

PM me your address Spam and I'll get your fedora in the Mail ASAP.

RIP redthirst

Not dead and never went back to Sally - just got a job where I not only don't get 8 hours of free time each day to dick around, but I also don't have access to my phone. Since that particular job also takes up about 14 hours of my day and I tend to want to spend time with the family on my days off I, sadly, don't have too much time for y'all.

Glad you still love me, Khaos.

Time traveling punks. With their long hair and their rock-n-roll and their ear rings...

WHY DON'T YOU GET A REAL JOB?

Why you so grumpy today, Dechs? Were some whipper-snappers playing on your lawn again?

Moving to NC, Suga? We can go to Clemson games together!

I liked the mat. Certainly better than the Minotaur thing I got last time.

Won the mat with a pile of Jund mythics.

That happened.

Certainly outside-the-box. I'm also impressed with Cunningham's G/W Aggro - the power level of those creatures is pretty fucking up there.

Also, if Redthirst ever pokes his head in, he was an expert on BYOS.

The secret is to always believe in the heart of your cards.

Good job today gentlemen.

"Naw I ain't going to tell some nigga to play Vexing Devil in an Aggro deck. I got more sense than that."

"Yeah I remember telling that nigga to play Vexing Devil in an Aggro deck."