Dies to Removal

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Won my Gameday, twice in a row ! with RW Dragons.

Congrats!

Decklist and thoughts? I'll also be running RW on Game Day, so some pre-event discussion would be nice to have.

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For the old men out there, does anybody want to discuss this? http://www.starcitygames.com/article/30623_Daily-Digest-The-New-RW-Aggro.html For those too lazy to click: [deck=DJDeluxe 2nd Place at Magic Online Daily Event on 4/6/2015] Creature 19 4 Soulfire Grand Master 4 Goblin Rabblemaster 4 Thun...

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By traction I mean is it something that gets planned around in sequencing, or is the VCA mode chosen 80% of the time? The reason I ask is I'm having an issue closing out games where an opponent gets to stabilize after getting them down to 5-2 life. So I'm looking at ways to try and find legs for Mo...

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I don't get it. The 2 sideboards are identical, except one has chandra and one has outpost siege. They are the same card.

Outpost Siege can't be attacked, and doesn't die to Hero's Downfall. It's just easier to protect.

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I think this card is more like what Viashino Firstblade would be if the ETB trigger gave +2/+0 rather than 2/2.

So, Minotaur Skullcleaver?

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What are people's thoughts on Magma Spray vs Anger of the Gods for Boss Sligh? edit: What about Scouring Sands? I feel the problem is the swarm of 1/1s. Scouring Sands might be really really good. also new CFB video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9acJT1vMLo I like Magma Spray more because it's in...

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I like hushwing a lot right now.

Even though stormbreath is pro white, it can be deflecting palmed correct?

Yes. Deflecting Palm says "a source of your choice." Choosing doesn't target, so you can choose Stormbreath Dragon.

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Anything particularly good in the mirror?

Boarding in Deflecting Palm is a nice blowout in the same vein that Wild Ricochet was in last season's Boros Burn mirror.

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What kind of lifegain you faced in the Naya Midrange match?? This is a really interesting question. I will try to answer: If we board out our small dudes, we have less aggro going for capitalizing on the absence of the blocker. But midrange players are actively trying to get a turn 2 (insert fatty ...

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Did some testing with this list tonight: Creatures (22) 4x Firedrinker Satyr 4x Foundry Street Denizen 4x Monastery Swiftspear 4x War-Name Aspirant 4x Goblin Rabblemaster 2x Purphoros, God of the Forge Spells (16) 4x Lightning Strike 4x Magma Jet 4x Hordeling Outburst 4x Stoke the Flames Lands (22) ...

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Does anyone know why RabbleBurn runs those 2 Ratched Bombs in the sideboard? I faced Rabble Burn yesterday with Burn and I lost 1-2 after a board dominated by Chandra and 10+ life in game 2. The deck seems pretty scary I have to admit Ratchet Bomb clears out tokens. An overloaded Electrickery also ...

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Rabble Burn finished in 2nd place in Japan's "God of Standard, Season 2" tournament today. There were another 2 Rabble Burn decks in the Top 16. Coverage: http://www.happymtg.com/category/coverage/archive2014/stkami_challenge2/ Top 8 Decklists (in order of seeding): http://www.happymtg.com...

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I've been running into variants of a G/W/x Chord of Calling deck in my local paper meta. I've seen both Naya and Bant versions. Here is a decklist for the Naya deck: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/09-08-14-naya-chord/ I've had extreme frustration playing against this deck with R/W burn. It plays MD...

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Chandra? Really? I feel like she will eat a stoke and then get ripped apart by something You need to have some board presence before playing Chandra, so that you have some creatures to protect her with. She's good at shooting down X/1 creatures, and works best when you've exhausted their hand (by t...

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is it okay to side firedancers and mortars? or should i just cut the dancers for 3 mortars I like Mortars better as a general solution to aggro and midrange. Firedancers are very polarizing in their performance -- they're either amazing (vs. aggro with little removal) or horrible (vs. aggro with mo...

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Game Day report. [DECK=YP$'s Value Train] Creature (8) 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix Instant (25) 4 Shock 4 Magma Jet 4 Lightning Strike 4 Boros Charm 4 Skullcrack 4 Warleader's Helix 1 Stoke the Flames Enchantment (4) 3 Chained to the Rocks 1 Banishing Light Land (23) 4 Sacred Foundry 4 Te...

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Also considering cutting the Gryff's and the Assemble for like 3 spark trooper's. Mainly worried about aggro and green devotion but I do need to remain flexible enough for a more open field because it's game day. If you're worried about Gx Devotion, then you should keep Hushwing Gryff around, as it...

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The local metagame is small and relatively biased towards aggro (Rx, Wx, Gx) and midrange (Bx, BWx, Gx). There is relatively little control, but there is at least 1 Hexproof deck (possibly 2) in the mix to complicate things. I'm preparing for an open meta, as inevitably, a few people from other sto...

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Warning: Local meta sideboarding ahead; take my choices with an entire shaker of salt. Here's the deck that I'm planning to play at Game Day. [DECK=YP$'s Value Train] Creature (8) 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix Instant (25) 4 Shock 4 Magma Jet 4 Lightning Strike 4 Boros Charm 4 Skullcrack 4...

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Today on CFB articles, it's Matt Sperling's Pro Tour Top 8 tournament report: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles ... 015-top-8/

Going to read through for some insight on card choices and metagaming.

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Do you guys think flames of the firebrand is too slow vs these rabble decks? I'm considering bringing it back in because I'm seeing more NVS from mbd and it seems pretty sweet vs agro... Since Rabblemaster Red runs more X/1's, Flames of the Firebrand nets you even more potential value than before. ...

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After scouring through decklists, here's the Rw Burn deck that Shota Yasooka played at the Pro Tour: Creature (8) 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix Instant (25) 4 Shock 3 Stoke the Flames 4 Skullcrack 4 Boros Charm 4 Lightning Strike 2 Warleader's Helix 1 Magma Jet 3 Searing Blood Enchantment (...

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Actually, it can. The Elemental tokens are red, so they can reduce Convoke spells' casting costs by [mana]r[/mana].

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How do "Hunt" Entry Object work in prerelease events? I havn't played one of these in a very long time... do they give you fix boosters or something which favor more on the colour of choice? Prerelease entry gives 5 regular M15 boosters, plus 1 semi-randomized seeded M15 booster. The seed...

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Painlands are back!

I would be happy to run Battlefield Forge over Mana Confluence in Burn once M15 hits. Whether or not it's a better option than Boros Guildgate depends on how often we expect to need the coloured mana.

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so is the deck completely off the fistblade plan?

As long as Blind Obedience continues to be a sideboard staple in opposing control decks, yes. Losing the buffed haste turn makes Firstblade horrible.

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Way over my head lol.

Super simple version:

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Why doesn't my link work? help? It looks like the BBCode doesn't support HTTPS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nWNBpofp70 Do you guys see this Boros Deck Win (link - http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/events.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/journeyintonyx14ptq/0215westvalley that win a PTQ (I thi...

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Sideboarding: Rw – 2 Blind Obedience, 1 Chained to the Rocks, 2 Spark Trooper in // 4 Ash Zealot, 1 Skullcrack out Are you talking about Rw Aggro (creature-heavy) or Rw Burn (the mirror)? Rw Aggro: +2 Blind Obedience, +1 Chain, -3 Skullcrack Ash Zealot is good against their creatures, and Skullcrac...

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It's a little fringy but I have died to Rakdos' Return stripping my hand vs. Dega and Mono black spash red. Ricochet on that would be pretty much the bestest thing ever. Wild Ricochet would only be an eye for an eye against Rakdos's Return, though. The card text on Return says "target opponent...

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How would sideboarding against the Burn mirror go? I'm thinking of the following: -3 Shock -1 Searing Blood +2 Blind Obedience +2 Chained to the Rocks However, a case can be made for -4 Ash Zealot instead of removing the burn spells, since it's much less resilient to removal spells (in comparison, P...

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Edit: Enjoying the deck. Almost wondered why not ash zealot over chainwalker but I'm assuming it's to bash carytids. There's a discussion of the deck on Reddit going on right now. Here are Lundgren's thoughts on some of the card choices: Some of my previous iterations of this deck included Ash Zeal...

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Other sideboard cards I've been thinking of: Satyr Nyx-Smith or Hammer of Purphoros as an army-in-a-can card against control (not sure which one is better here) Hammer is a great card vs control, but it really only belongs in the bigger red decks with around 25 lands. Since your mana curve allows y...

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Thinking of playing this next week. The local meta is pretty heavy on the control/midrange decks, so the sideboard is more tuned towards those match-ups. Creature (12) 4x Chandra's Phoenix 4x Satyr Firedancer 4x Young Pyromancer Instant (24) 4x Boros Charm 4x Lightning Strike 4x Magma Jet 4x Shock 4...

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