Dies to Removal

Mr. Metronome

I think I like Foundry Street Denizen there, the max number of 2+ power 1 drops is what you want.

Is a 1 of Hall of Triumph worth considering in that deck? Good with the high amount of 1-drops the same way it is in White Weenie, but also seems sweet with Crusader.

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Just picked up most of Rb Devotion on MTGO, it's performing awesomely so far.

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I was drawn to Val's list for its lack of mutavaults, I sold them at a high point and want to avoid picking them up again until rotation (online, atleast)

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Was browsing through threads for a cheap deck to pick up on MTGO for the time being, do you think this is a good choice still? Prophetic Flamespeaker any good in it?

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I really like the look of this deck, still. Not sure how I feel about 3 Mana Confluence, could hurt you in the matches where your lifetotal is important. I might play this at one of my FNM's tonight.

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MDU's old pyroskies deck was playing 2 Stormbreath Dragons off 23 lands, so blood baron off 22 isn't ludicrous, but agree it is unlikely you will cast it on curve. If it lands on turn 6/7 against MBD it may still be soon enough to stabilise you (the main exception being an early packrat that stuck)...

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Blood Baron on only 22 land seems... Ambitious.

What do you think about Renounce the Guilds in the sideboard? Hits Sphere, BTE, Frostburn Weird, NVS, BBoV, Boros Reckoner...

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Just got stomped out of round 1 of two consecutive 8-mans by Mono Black, in the first one he drew 2 Demons in game 3 after duressing both of my Chains, and in the 2nd one I drew literally half of my lands (after scrying 3 to the bottom) and he was stuck on two lands for a long time but drew out of i...

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Want to test: [deck] Creatures 4 Chandra's Phoenix Enchantments 2 Chained to the Rocks Instants 4 Boros Charm 4 Lightning Strike 4 Magma Jet 3 Searing Blood 3 Shock 4 Skullcrack 4 Toil // Trouble 4 Warleader's Helix Lands 4 Blood Crypt 1 Boros Guildgate 5 Mountain 4 Mutavault 1 Temple of Malice 1 T...

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Loving the look of the new mana base, I'll be trying it out at FNM this week. I realized I was siding in Chandra in 2 situations: A) When I want to play as the control deck. B) When I want to draw extra cards. So... NEARLY every single matchup. If I'm not trying to burn out your creatures and gradua...

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Why the move back to Firedancer?

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Fuuuuck, just got knocked out of the daily by Staff of the Death Magus... Next turn, he untaps, duress's my warleaders helix (gains 5), downfalls my Chandra (gains 1 + infinity pings), turn after plays swamp underworld removal spell into swamp gray merchant. Literally cannot beat that card, should I...

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That's awesome to hear. Deck is super good. Also, I just 3-1'd the daily. Round 1: BW Midrange, loss. Not particularly close, I mulled and drew poorly. Round 2: No show. Not close either :P Round 3: Esper Control, lose game 1, crush games 2 and 3. After burning him to death he said "Nice luck d...

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how would you go about sideboarding with this list vs RW Devotion?

Lost game 1 (and should have won it, but I misclicked and went to declare blocks before making my YP Token to chump with >:(

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Bleh, 1-2 in the daily. Updated my post.

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Why no Spike Jester? I've never used the card in a Pyro shell before, and am winning without it. Am I missing out? The card feels very similar to playing a turn 1 Delver of Secrets, and blind flipping it on turn 2. It's very, very good. It's hard to kill (in comparison to Ash Zealot at least) and b...

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http://i.imgur.com/agvAnYr.jpg Currently at 1-0 in the daily with the above list. I'll edit this post with match reports as the event goes on. Round 1: Boros Burn. Won game 1 pretty easily on the back of 2 Spike Jesters and a Chandra's Phoenix. SB: Out: -4 Firedrinker Satyr -4 Dreadbore In: +2 Doom...

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Why no Spike Jester?

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I don't even slightly understand the logic of saying that Stormbreath Dragon stomps on Mono Black, who runs Hero's Downfall, Desecration Demon, and Doom Blade/Ultimate Price, but is bad against UWx Control decks who run Detention Sphere, Supreme Verdict (sorcery speed and forces them to tap out so y...

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I'm sold, I'll try him out. Mortars is still a fine removal spell against gw/gr, and bw has been a sketchy matchup for me. How do you currently sideboard vs them?

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I've been liking Mizzium Mortars in the board. Thoughtseize over duress has also over performed, it nabs BBV and Grey out of black decks. I might try to find a plan that let's me board in 4.

Has Tymaret actually been good?

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I've really enjoyed how against aggro I play turn 1 one drop, turn 2 searing blood your guy and attack to put you to 15 and against control cast spike jester in place of searing blood to put them to 15. Ash Zealot dies to more of the post board removal against the meta too, Last Breath, Doom Blade, ...

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THOUGHTSEIZE >>> DEVOUR FLESH FOR OBZEDAT BLOOD BARON AND ALL THAT OTHER SHIT PEOPLE PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE Thoughtseize is pretty fucking terrible in a deck with 8 black sources, 4 of which come into play tapped. The card becomes essentially useless if not castable on curve. The list a few peopl...

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Top 4'ed GPT Phoenix (12 people, lol). [deck]Creatures (20) 4 Firedrinker Satyr 4 Rakdos Cackler 4 Ash Zealot 4 Young Pyromancer 4 Chandra's Phoenix Spells (17) 4 Magma Jet 4 Lightning Strike 3 Searing Blood 4 Dreadbore 2 Shock Planeswalkers (2) 2 Chandra, Pyromaster Lands (21) 4 Temple of Malice 4 ...

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Thoughtseize should actually be really good vs hexproof, a lot of their hands fall apart if you take even one card (their only creature, etc).

Pretty sure I'm gonna jam some version of this deck at the GPT tonight.

Mr. Metronome

Is Chandra consistently castable on only 21 land?

What happened to your idea of adding Exava? I really liked the sound of that.

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How do the games play out? How are you sideboarding? What role are you taking and how are you evaluating priorities and threats? I ask because I crush red aggro. I generally try to remove every creature he plays, run out of removal, and then die before being able to take over the game with a Phoeni...

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I've had a lot of trouble with beating RDW, which makes up a decent portion of my meta.

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I'm honestly not liking this deck as much as I used to. I might start playing some variation of a PyroWhite/PyroBlack deck, my local meta has a lot of other small creature decks and not a lot of the decks that burn preys on. Also, as great as a high-skill deck is, I want something with a few more fr...

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Alex, I'd love to read that article if you do decide to write it.

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Zem, remember a week ago when we were all focused on finding the optimal 60th card? That was a sign we had the optimal list...

Barring changes to the meta (which seem to be happening a little, at least) I don't think the deck needs many changes.

Mr. Metronome

Still loving this deck, that sideboard looks pretty good. Is 4 Toil/Trouble too many? I feel like you can't bring it in vs anything besides UW.

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@Guttler: I have the fnm promo version of those same shocks. I ran the deck with the recent SB (DXI's) at our local 5 dollar standard. I went 3-1, beating Esper, the pseudo mirror (new player, I gave him a deck tech and some advice after.), and a UB Seer deck (he had two pain seers he refused to sto...

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Didn't you initially cut Young Pyromancer from the list for Ashley since she fits better with the "kill you with damage" plan?

Though I do think there is some merit to a Pyromancer build atm, having played Valdarith's recent PyroBlack list.

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Something I've come to realize with more play testing is that I somewhat miss the top end that my old PyroWhite list had, with 2 Stormbreaths and 2 Chandra (and at one point the 3rd Stormbreath in the side) any thoughts on a list that can go a little bigger? It makes you slightly worse vs UW/Mono Bl...

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Searing Blood leads to so many blow outs, especially against mono black players. I had one play a rat on turn 3, i played my 2nd ash zealot (and had RR up still) and swung in, he discarded and tried to activate his muta to make the rats 3/3's to block zealots, i searing blood the mutavault and he ta...

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I just punted myself into 2-2 in the daily, didn't see the line that let me play around the 2nd Gray Merchant (that my opponent ended up having), but the line was there, and I know it now so I can recognize it in the future. Said punt: I'm on 4 lands, opponent has a Gary (which I skullcrack'ed) and ...

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Just had the pleasure of having my face burnt off by Zemanjaski in an 8man, the other Semifinals went really long so he's probably about to crush a control player.

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I just played the most insane game with Val's list in a 2-man against Mono U. I'll see if I can find the replay tomorrow, but the TL;DR of game 3 was that I stabilized at ONE LIFE, with him at 18, and got him down to 15 with a single YP token. He D-Sphere'd it, and then I shocked him to get a Chandr...

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All my best games with the deck have revolved around Firedancer. Its won me games I had no business winning.

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