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I wanted to try my hand at a Shrine of Burning Rage deck before it cycles out of Standard. Looking for sideboard suggestions at the moment. Please let me know what you think!
Went 2-1 vs. friend's UG Illusions
Game 1 - Opening hand with 4 land, 2 Tezzeret's Gambit and Koth. Should've taken a mulligan but decided to play it out. Didn't work so well.
Game 2 - Grim Lavamancer on first turn and Shrine of Burning Rage the following turns. Devil's Play came up huge keeping the board clear of Lord of the Unreal and Phantasmal Image . Had 17 charge counters between both Shrines when I finally set them off.
Game 3 - Stromkirk Noble and Chandra's Phoenix with burn to back them up kept the pressure on early. Koth of the Hammer reared his ugly -5 head and my mountains took over from there.
Also played a couple multiplayer games. Overall I've found the lone copy of Spikeshot Elder to be underwhelming. Ancient Grudge never found a use either. Replaced both with Thunderous Wrath unless a better idea comes along.
Ran into a maindecked Sigarda, Host of Herons and Tree of Redemption yesterday. Sigarda I can understand but Tree of Redemption ? Needless to say I got stomped.
Something like Goblin Battle Jester or one of the 3 red creatures with infect could bring down the tree. There's not much you can do vs a Sigarda, though. You already have green sources... maybe add a Blightwidow to the SB?
I have been considering Corrosive Gale and Phyrexian Metamorph in the SB for Sigarda and other such things (spirit tokens/legendary creatures).
As for infect, it seems too slow for bringing down the tree. Beast Within works but there's roughly 1/6 chance of drawing a Rootbound Crag for when I need it. Or Karn Liberated but he's 7 turns in, 5 with Koth.
Maybe add an Island or some blue mana fixing so you have a choice to pay life or blue for the card:Tezzeret's Gambit
add a forest, a single forest, ghost quarter your land to get it if need be, also if people GQ your crag, well, it becomes unlikely that you will get another one.
Also, blasphemous act can take care of sig and the tree.
I have given thought to that. Will playtest and see how it works out.
nice deck i have one alot like it set u on fire watch u burn to death+1
Very nice. If you deck was a slower, Control-style Big Red, I would suggest at least 1 more Koth of the Hammer and 1-2 copies of Karn Liberated , but that would probably mess it up. +1
Thanks. It was running kind of slow til I added Goblin Fireslinger . Hitting a 1 drop more consistently now. :)
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| Avg. CMC | 2.45 |
| Top rank | #59 on 2012-08-08 |
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emrakool says...
So far the idea seems to be going in the proliferate direction, with 15 total possible cards to add counters to.
Chimeric Mass is iffy but thought it may work with proliferate. With Koth of the Hammer out I can easily drop it the following turn with 8+ charge counters.
card:Devil's Play also works nicely with Koth's -2 ability, and his ultimate should likely end games pretty quickly.
card:Tezzeret's Gambit and Reforge the Soul provide the added card draw red sometimes so desperately needs.
Thinking about tossing in Rootbound Crag and a couple Kessig Wolf Run . Thoughts?
July 30, 2012 8:34 a.m.