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Won my GPT today! 2 byes for Chicago!

AWESOME job dude! Way to represent the

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Turn/Burn will handle Blood Baron, Obzedat, all the Gods. It's a great card. I personally wouldn't want to lose T/T, but everyone is different and so is their meta.

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I run reprisal sb as well as Banishing Light. With green being splashed in MBC, Banishing Light gets weaker, and Reprisal gains weight. I know it only hits Demon, but it does hit an out of hand Pack Rat too. It works! I went 3-1 at FNM and I took out a DD and a Master of Feasts (after I drew the fre...

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Toil is good vs MBC on the play, not so good on the draw, especially after game 1. I still like it better than FDS.

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Congrats Longtoe, great job!

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Undefeated burn for the win in Knoxville!!

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@ Tyrael they will and it will.

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is Eidolon of the Great Revel greater then Font of Ire vs Control and Bx Devotion from the SB?

Yes

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It is perfectly placed in R/W dev. It can also find a potential home in a Rakdos Midrange. Very powerful card.

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Purp beat me again.

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Zealous Conscripts is ALSO a big creature with haste attacking as well. It's a situational card. It could be amazing or it could be dead. You would have better results with Lava Axe. Yup, I went there. The "Act of Treason" cards can do damage, at worst they remove a chump blocker. Personal...

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Purp beat me too it.

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True, but it depends, especially vs MBC. When they have multiple creatures what do you choose? The demon they can just tap down? The smaller creature that they can just chump? What I'm getting at is if they have the ability to block, it's not that great of a spell. I do see what you are saying and a...

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Why steal a creature and give it back, when we can just destroy it?

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@magicdownunder Reprisal all the way. I run 2 in my sb. SoM is janky, yes it can hit creatures with power 3 or less, but they aren't our problem. I'd rather have a card that can get rid of every 4 power + creature (except BBV and SBD) for 1W instant mana and can't regenerate.

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@ Purp and Brainsick: My protege plays dredge, so I've actually played against it a lot (although he is a newer pilot). I also played against it between matches last week and didn't lose any. YP$ does a lot of work against them, and you have all your exile effects for problematic creatures. I don't...

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Purp that looks tight! Let us know how you make out. I'm not running YP, I'm running 4 CP, 2 SFD. 3 Searing Blood, 3 Shock, 2 Toil/Trouble, 2 Cttr, 1 Banishing Light. The rest of the main is identical to yours. My shop is big in Jund/G/R, B/W so I'm trying Reprisals in my sb.

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Here was one of the supere IQ winning lists: [deck] 4 Sacred Foundry 4 Temple of Triumph 1 Temple of Silence 1 Temple of Malice 9 Mountain 1 Mana Confluence 4 Mutavault 3 Shock 4 Searing Blood 3 Satyr Firedancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix 2 Chained to the Rocks 4 Skullcrack 4 Boros Charm 4 Magma Jet 4 Lig...

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Guys, reactive proactive shmoactive. It's about having the right cards in your deck. We are a burn deck we want burn spells that are instants, so we can do 20 pts to the dome. Sprinkled in between them are cards that help us get to that point that burn can't handle. As long as they answer the proble...

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@Rhyno One thing you should know is I main SFD and don't play YP. I'm one of the rogues, because my shop is mainly aggro and like 1 to 3 control decks at the most on one night. Mono U I burn everything except FBW, unless they are greedy and pump him (which most times they are). Courser of Kruphix de...

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It has to be tested. Full swaps might not work, who knows? It's an answer to a lot of problems we face. Regarding MoW, by the time he comes out he should only give 1 to 2 tokens at best. Mono U isn't a bad mu for us. Yes CttR was our silver bullet for MoW, but it's still good for us. Courser of Krup...

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I top 8d the IQ with YP$, but both of my losses were to BG. I think I want to put more of a clock on them with ash zealot, trying to possibly force them to use Abrupt Decay on my two drop rather than one of my 6 enchantments. I don't think we can rely on Assemble as much vs them, so the idea of inc...

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Regardless if someone didn't see or neglected to read something, we shouldn't be rude to each other.

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[quote=" Elricity » Wed Apr 30, 2014 11:34 am "]Burn doesn't have room for narrow cards like Titan's strength to support a specific card. It either has to function with the other spells in the deck that we are already running or not. I think everyone knows flamespeaker 1) draws cards and 2...

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Are we really going to play 8 O-ring equivalents? We just drop Chains right? (doesn't hit non-creatures, gets hit by peak eruption). Or maybe 3-2 split? I have some concerns on how we can beat decks with 12-16 2-power 1 drops without Anger of the Gods. There is FotFB into Chandra I suppose. If you ...

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Plus toil/trouble is a back breaker. Last Friday back to back for 12 total and that was after a Boros charm. I went 3-1 losing in the last rd and getting 2nd place. Mono grn with his nut draw and my weak ones.

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So I'm god-awful at the control matchup. I have never won a single match against a UWx control deck. How do people play against control? What things specifically do you watch out for (besides leaving up skullcrack mana)? You running mutavaults? Constant pressure and end step burn. And yes keep that...

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Here is where I'm at for my list: For those of you who can count, thats a 13 card sideboard. I need 2 slots for monsters/mirror/aggro decks. Any suggestions? So far I'm considering Spark Trooper, Blind Obedience, Peak Eruption, another Wear // Tear, and Anger of the Gods I think you'll get the most...

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I agree that the list looks fine, with one personal exception. I like BO and have found that it's one of those cards that I'd rather have and not need, then need and not have. RDW and burn are relatively cheap to build, so you might want to consider it.

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Regarding Rakdos Return, I agree it is an amazing card and can be back breaking, but it just isn't a good fit in this deck. Mana is tough as it is and altering the mana to fit 1 card is not advisable. Once you add RR, then you'll want to add Dreadbore, then this card and that card etc. Before you kn...

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I have found out that if you run AZ you need to run Titans Strength or many times it's a dead card. I eventually just dropped AZ and went with the more Dega burn version. You can tell he just copied a list and played. Some of his games he made play mistakes that a burn player wouldn't have made. I d...

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23rd GP Melbourne 1st GPT Nagoya 5th-8th $1K 1st $1K Went: 2-0 vs MBC 2-0 vs MBC 1-2 vs MBC (two mull to 5) 2-1 vs GW Aggro 2-0 vs MBC 2-0 vs GB Dredget Quarterfinal: 2-0 vs Esper Control Semifinal: 2-0 vs GB Dredge Final: 2-1 vs Esper Control Very impressive dude! I don't see burn going away anyti...

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Awesome job Zem. That's impressive dude! How many 1ks is this now?

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I'm an online only player (ranked 36), burn is the 2nd most played deck in the format (most run 3-4 searing blood) what I do is just NOT cast the creatures once its hits the T4+ mark (UNLESS I CAN PROFIT SOMEHOW) - I feel that preboarding against burn and control is more hassle then its worth esp. ...

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Went 3-1 (2nd place) lost a close G3 to G/R monsters. Kalonian Hydra targeted by Xenagos is not fun. Went 2-0 vs b/w control. G1 back to back troubles for 11. Sexual chocolate baby! I run the dega burn version with just Chandra's Phoenix main. I adjusted the mana by dropping 1 Blood Crypt for a Boro...

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So my G3 Vs MonoB was fun

T2 eot Boros Charm - 16
T3 Trouble for 7 - 9
T4 Trouble for 6 - 3
T5 Strike - GG

That's actually sexual!

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Attempt to disbelieve! /roll.

I rolled a 20!

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DXI-Edge play the burn! If you have tested it and feel comfortable with it, play it. Control will be making a big push and of the 3 choices, I would want your burn deck. IMO Good Luck!

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BO > PE. PE losses value with all the mana dorks and does 3 dmg for 3.

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Any Sphinx deck. If you don't have a Skullcrack in hand, you might as well draw cards for more gas.

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