Dies to Removal

Elricity

I don't think Gauntlet meshes with a deck who also wants to get a lot of value from its one drops by closing out a game quickly. I've personally loved it as a midrange card though.

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You might need to play with the white color and find one that fits a bit better on the background. Only criticism.

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I typically take out chained against red decks game 2 and if they don't show peak eruption, bring them back for game 3, if there is one. You take a risk with their phoenix's because if you don't draw one to counter theirs, you're in big trouble. If you have your own to match, you have more burn and ...

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Fair enough. I've tried not to play into Anger or immediate removal but that's clearly the wrong call if they're planning on stripping the hand. Putting them in a postiion where casting Rakdos is likely to kill them makes sense.

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Generally it's dead the turn after that and at best, I'm 1+1 Chandra exile cards to their 4 with an empty board.

Mind you I've only seen it three times so perhaps I haven't had enough experience to play through it by pressuring them earlier.

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If they don't hit you with a lethal Rak, it usually isn't a problem. Remember that you can respond to it with a burn, and getting two Phoenix back can screw up their math. Typically I'm hit with it when I'm tapped out casting one of the Chandra types and it's generally around turn 5. I should test ...

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And no offence, it's hypocritical to argue that the text of one card is sufficient to be worth mentioning and dismissing another card that sees inclusion for the same reason. It seems trite to tell me that the text of the cards are actually different though. Reckoner is better for grindy matchups. ...

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I agree that the right call is just to ignore desecration demon. It's only good versus us alongside other fatties because you can keep it tapped for basically ever. The hammer didn't help you in this matchup? More boros charms makes the Junk and other B/x matchups a lot more favorable. I can appreci...

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@Freedom Giving up your one drops feels weaker in GW unless you are on the draw because you can get damage through with Chandra/Traitorous. On the draw, I could see cutting cackler, maybe. Depends on their curve I suppose. Cutting one drops vs big boros I'm sure is death. They're not blocking early ...

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If he's worried about artifacts, he's already splashing white for wear // tear. I wish rakdos charm's other modes were good right now.

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If only someone, somewhere had written a matchup guide that specifically said not to do what you tried to do...alas!

I swear it wasn't up last night!

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Sounds like you made the same mistake I did trying to control Junk. You just have to go under them to have a chance in mono red. Reckoner is bad vs B/x for just that reason because it doesn't attack until turn 4 and doesn't get card advantage in that matchup. I think the answer is to take out shock,...

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That was helpful. Decided to test your version last night and Bx midrange was spanking me. It didn't occur to me until later I was defaulting myself into control mode vs them. Oops

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Mono G Devo aggro caused me to tilt at FNM. Kept a 2lander with satyr satry cackler zealot shock on the draw. T4 Bramblecrush naming mountain. WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT?!?!? Great play tho. Took me out of the game completely with opp at 8 life to stabilize behind bow and god and faceroll. If your oppo...

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It's come up a few times as worthy of experimentation. It also gets rid of phoenixes which is equally important. I think there was even a leaning of putting 1-2 mainboard. Can't remember the layout exactly.

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So if his meta is currently heavy agro, is his best choice to go some midrange deck to weather both ends until his LGS prepares to control hate that boros deck out and then go Pyro and sweep?

Elricity

Assuming they do wrath and you didn't have protection, then you play two more guys and if they Jace the turn after with +1, you have dynacharge and legion's initiative to counter the -1 power and finish UWx off. And of course boros charm. And the fact that almost all your creatures have more than 1 ...

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My biggest question is playing with scry lands, when is it worth playing the scry land to peek at the top. If you scry down and then reveal another land, you've basically lost your draw and if it was a mutavault, then...yeah. I tend to consider it a desperation move.

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Warleader's helix is better. It's a shame because I did like him but Silverblade last season made it more amusing. Even then I cut it.

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Question. If everyone is moving away from burning earth, what do you lose/gain going boros? Seems like you lose either 1 drops or mutavaults. You gain boros charm and/or warleader's helix for a better ultimate and YP protection, and a better removal package. I've only tested the boros version and I ...

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Game 1: I agree with you that it was a good play on your part. It was a bad play on his part to block. His life total matters less than yours in this matchup. He shouldn't have fallen for it but it cost you nothing to attempt it. He was probably concerned you could lightning strike/elemental block h...

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Sounds like he forgot he's the beatdown deck vs Pyrored. Game 1 blocking YP into obvious removal was the wrong call without his own combat trick. Although, in this scenario, you didn't get card advantage (he 1 for 1.5'd you at worst). Game 2 he should have attacked you, not Chandra unless he was dea...

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Other than reckoner, which some of the devotion players are arguing against anyway, the rest of the devotion deck is fairly cheap and should be able to be built on 50-60 USD.

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I think just Boros actually. Who's got the Boros builds going on? Seen the BIA. Are there mid-range and control builds happening as well? Mine's pretty much a control build that I tweaked after seeing all the midrange in states this weekend. My control game 1 is already good enough so MD reckoner f...

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Keep zealot/reckoner/phoenix for defense and remove as many of their RR permanents as possible. Resolve Chandra and win.

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21 lands is more than enough for 2 drops, the mutavaults won't hurt him.
He only has 2 one drops so gates aren't really going to slow him down either. Also, he has

and

on 15/14 colors, he can't go lower and expect to cast them.

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Midrange is definitely in vogue at the moment so either beat that or beat what's beating that.

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Only on game 2/3 if a mountain is in your sideboard

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This was my list at States in Austin: [deck]Creature (12) 4 Boros Reckoner 4 Chandra's Phoenix 4 Young Pyromancer Spells (24) 4 Boros Charm 4 Lightning Strike 4 Magma Jet 2 Warleader's Helix 2 Pyromancer's Gauntlet 2 Hammer of Purphoros 3 Chandra, Pyromaster 3 Flames of the Firebrand Land (24) 1 Bor...

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I ran this at States: Overall pretty disappointed in getting unlucky in my last two matchups. I just did not expect so many midrange strategies. Maybe we're delusional in thinking these three-color monstrosities aren't decks? Will be interesting to see how the meta continues to develop. This. Was t...

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Wouldn't 21 mountan/1 vault main and 3 vault sideboard be correct if you're mainboarding reckoner?

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Maybe it was just Austin but two GW made top 8 in States yesterday. 2 GR as well.

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Just got back from states texas and GWx performed very well. They incorporated more 1 drops which made verdict not so good I bet. And they had the lifegain that was shutting out red. Curious to see how other reports go. Top 8 was one uw control, no esper (not surprised), dega control, 2 gw, 2 gruul ...

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I'll leave the actual merits of nykthos to others, and focus my commentary on the minor procedural issues. First off assuming you are running a non-zero number of mutavaults a singleton nykthos you are not achieving an accurate test as there is a non-zero chance that you would not have drawn nyk, b...

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(Editing post so it makes sense). I still want to sit down and test Nykthos. This is the best test I can think of to find out. Hypothesis: Replacing one Mutavault in a RDW that already uses Fanatic of Mogis with Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx helps win the game better (defined as doing more damage to your o...

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At what point with that deck does your opponent have the time to tap out for Jace and not instantly lose?

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@ Elricity The Shrine is interesting, however, if any of your T1 or T2 plays dies, you can't use it for T3 Reckoner, which makes me worry. We also don't have mana dumps, so I'm not sure what to use the mana on. I'm only suggesting Nykthos as a replacement for the 2nd mutavault which can't cast T3 r...

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Thinking about Chandra, I suppose the answer could be that although you know she's better than some card in your deck every game, if the card you "board" out before game one is more powerful than the difference of Chandra and your bad card, then it might not be worth the risk. If any deck ...

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With this much devotion, I really think having a Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx is a better plan if you're boarding it alongside Chandra. Being able to have the chance to have enough mana to use her 0 the turn you play her and then being able to easily play both cards you draw the following turns would just...

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You put mortars in the side to shore up the mirror match on the draw and have it be still somewhat useful in your other matches. If you didn't have to face the mirror, then sure, you would slam in 4 acts and call it a day. That said, the split between them really depends on what your main deck looks...

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