This. Deck. Is. REAL. WITHOUT
Rampaging Ferocidon
I made it to mythic day one! Our two best matchups in best of three are Vampires and Scapeshift, both of which got EVEN BETTER thanks to our salty raptor friend. Ferocidon replaces
Dreadhorde Butcher
in our main deck, who we’ve moved to the board because he’s only really good when we’re on the play. Running 6, count em, 6 typically one sided board wipe effects for Vampires and Scapeshift post board, plus our main deck copies of
Legion's End
make the matchups even somewhat favorable game one. Games 2 and 3, we own, however.
Cry of the Carnarium
and
Flame Sweep
keep our demons, (typically)
Knight of the Ebon Legion
s and Phoenixes safe, while being able to recur value off of
Gutterbones
and in most of these matches we side
Legion Warboss
out, as he’s more of a hedge against esper decks where our matchup is not as strong.
Some key synergies:
On turn 3, it’s very easy to fool the opponent into not blocking our Knight with 3 mana open, as they don’t want to give us a free kill spell on their creature. We trigger spectacle and get a 4/4 Frample on turn 3 with
Spawn of Mayhem
and the opponent is typically out of the game immediately.
In clogged up board states, you can surveil with
Doom Whisperer
twice on your turn to buff your Knights, or even do so just to get them above your sweeper range.
The Chandra’s out of the sideboard are very important,
Chandra, Acolyte of Flame
gives us repeatable damage that can flashback our sweepers as well, and is a key card in the matchup, and the other Chandras are more for esper variants, but the big Chandra can provide sweeper support as well.
Our mono red matchup is strange, and is reminiscent of the
Death's Shadow
versus Burn matchups in modern, where our life total is a resource. They often cannot handle our demon and Phoenix package, and the Spawns typically can kill them in 1-2 turns after we stabilize.
If there’s any interest, I’d love to sit down and make a deck tech video with gameplay. I’ll likely be taking this deck to the next few tourneys before rotation, I think with deck experience the deck can win against almost any meta, but is especially tuned for the current environment and is mostly rotation proof.
