Boros Aggro - Competitive Humans & Tokens

Modern* FadingLight

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Card Change Update 1 —July 4, 2017

Removing Angelic Overseer for Archangel Avacyn  Flip. It requires my opponent to remove the immediate threat, or worry about dealing with a 4/4 Flying Vigilance or a 6/5 Flyer.

Oloro_Magic says... #1

Dragonmaster Outcast and Kytheon, Hero of Akros  Flip while very good do not belong in this deck really. Cathars' Crusade is also too expensive to be useful, Honor of the Pure would work much better. Anger of the Gods can and should be a sideboard card seing how it hurts you more than any opponent and should only be used if absolutely necessary. Champion of the Parish up to 4 copies is another must if you are sticking with the human theme. As for cards in your maybe board, Iroas, God of Victory could be interesting in this deck, and Metallic Mimic provides a lord card if that is what you want. As for cards you haven't considered, both Goblin Bushwhacker and Reckless Bushwhacker can be finishers in this deck (I personally prefer the latter).

June 20, 2017 7:47 p.m.

FadingLight says... #2

Thank you Oloro, I put Dragonmaster Outcast more as a win-con by inevitability, but that would be far too slow for this deck. Kytheon, Hero of Akros  Flip is also too slow for this deck. How do you feel about Glory of Warfare? I'm torn between Anointed Procession, Iroas, God of Victory and Purphoros, God of the Forge as well. I was thinking Anointed Procession + Purphoros, God of the Forge, but menace from Iroas, God of Victory seems so tempting. What do you think?

June 20, 2017 9:03 p.m.

FadingLight says... #3

June 20, 2017 9:13 p.m.

Oloro_Magic says... #4

It depends where you want to take the deck, Purphi would enable a win by ETB affects and the deck would be more combo based in it's design with tokens entering to fuel the ability. Iroas, God of Victory on the other hand lends itself to pure beatdown and a faster clock where you win through massive swings. Take into consideration your meta, if there is a prison deck don't play Iroas, and if there is a Torpor Orb type deck don't play Purphi. I would say play one in the mainboard and have the other in the sideboard to quickly convert based on matchup.

Glory of Warfare lends itself to more zoo type decks in my opinion, it gives decks inevitability in the long game but devoting slots to it is frankly a waste. You never want to see it in your opening hand and as the game goes on it isn't always the best topdeck. There are better cards that can find their way here and always be useful.

June 20, 2017 9:20 p.m.

FadingLight says... #5

Oloro_Magic Alright well thank you, sideboarding my 4-drops sounds like an excellent idea, thanks for that. I think those are well spent slots. How do you feel about Anointed Procession?

June 20, 2017 9:26 p.m.

Oloro_Magic says... #6

I haven't used it enough in modern yet to formulate a definitive answer on it. In Commander it is great, in standard it combos well with Hidden Stockpile, but here I'm not too sure, I would definitely playtest it and see how often it ends up being game changing or just ends the game, if it is less than 40% of the time I would just scrap it.

June 20, 2017 9:44 p.m.

FadingLight says... #7

Oloro_Magic Alrighty, last question. Figure of Destiny? I think he would be good as time goes on.

June 20, 2017 10:50 p.m.

Oloro_Magic says... #8

It's an interesting card but if you ae looking for that leveling effect then I would recommend Student of Warfare as it is still a human.

June 21, 2017 6:19 a.m.

Cicjose says... #9

Glorious End just as a backup plan when you are about to win play at their upkeep :P

June 26, 2017 7:33 a.m.

FadingLight says... #10

Cicjose Glorious End is an interesting card but really risky, do you mind giving another reason to play it?

June 26, 2017 7:14 p.m.