Fight Fire with a Bigger Fire! Standard Dragons v2 (Standard MTG Deck)

Hi all! This deck is a Grixis Dragons list, with some removal, some burn, but mostly big flying threats! This is an upgrade of a previous deck of mine Fight Fire with a Bigger Fire! Standard Dragons. Funny thing, at the beginning of this Standard, this deck started as a more Aggro-oriented Midrange deck and has progressively become more and more control-oriented!

Mainboard

This deck is basically trying to ramp with Sarkhan, Fireblood or also Dragon's Hoard . After that the plan is to cast something big or impactful like Demanding Dragon , Nicol Bolas, the Ravager or Skarrgan Hellkite . Any of this cards has an impactful ETB effect, or warps the game arround it!

There are also burn and removal/sweeper spells like Lava Coil , Moment of Craving , Shock and Cry of the Carnarium . The good part of the burn spells is that they can ultimately go to the dome and increase the clock. Following the Burn path, there's also Risk Factor in the Maybe board which I think is a pretty interesting card. This card can represent up to 8 damage, which is not nothing! Otherwise it would be a pretty good card draw spell. I'm not sure what to cut for it, or even if it's correct to include it in the deck.

Previous versions of this deck were heavy RG, with a tiny bit of black, but it was basically a bad version of Green Stompy. So I decided to sacrifice a bit of speed, cutting elves and whatnot in order to increase consistency, and also gain protection with suff like Dive Down , Spell Pierce and Thought Erasure . Also, Niv-Mizzet, Parun is amazing against control! :D

Sideboard

The Sideboard is mostly focused either on taking down Control or Aggro/Tempo matchups. For Control, the main cards to side in are Thought Erasure for wrath-like effects like Cleansing Nova or Settle the Wreckage . There's also two Negate . Also The Eldest Reborn as both removal and reanimation. Thief of Sanity helps applying pressure early and keep up with the card advantage. And finally Banefire is uncounterable burn! :D

Against aggro there's also Ritual of Soot and Rakdos Firewheeler , which I think is a much worse version of card: Flame-Tongue Kavu. However, a worse version of FTK is still a pretty good card! :D Finally, both Plaguecrafter and The Eldest Reborn help against Stompy!

Maybeboard

Maybe board shortly put: Nicol Bolas, the Ravager is an include as soon as I get it. Connive / Concoct is a reanimation spell or a Control Magic for something small in aggro, and 2-for-1 them in combat. Fiery Cannonade is an instant speed wrath, instead of Golden Demise . Risk Factor is a card draw to refill after turn 6 or 7. No idea if anything of this makes sense (besides the Bolas, of course)

Well, that’s the deck idea! What do you think? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Any comments, suggestions, critics… anything is more than welcome! :D

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Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 7 Rares 9 - 6 Uncommons 11 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.25
Tokens	Dragon 5/5 R, Karox Bladewing 4/4 R
Folders	Ravnica, STANDARD, Previous Standard
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