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All to say really for this update -
Sire Of Insanity
and more aggro like
Ghor-Clan Rampager
and
Wolfir Avenger
.Still needs testing, but it looks promising!
Well it's been some more months, and i have a few things to say.
Aggro is back in, with Boros and surprisingly
Experiment One
appearing frequently. Also
Loxodon Smiter
is seeing quite a bit of play, so now the
Abrupt Decay
s are main board.
Olivia Voldaren
continues to be the shining star of this deck, winning most games that she sticks single handedly.
As per usual,
Thragtusk
,
Huntmaster of the Fells
Flip
, and
Vampire Nighthawk
remain in the deck as they are effective ways of gaining life. Although i did cut one nighthawk for a
Hellrider
one of, which has proven itself to be a nasty contender against any deck that it hits the field against.
Silklash Spider
saved me in a game against a 4 color control deck that used
Sublime Archangel
and
Restoration Angel
, and all of the other usual non-black suspects, cleaning up the skies so that i did not die immediately.
In the sidebaord is
Skullcrack
, a card that pretty much blanks the advantage most control decks get with
Sphinx's Revelation
and also gives the deck adequate reach on top of what it already has.
That's pretty much all I have to report about this one.
Well i've played this quite a bit since September and have found the following:My main-board match up vs Zombies is now over 66% or 2/3.Vs UW Aggro is about 3/5 main-board, and almost 3/3 post side-board.Esper control is an interesting deck, and i go back and forth with it. 1/2 for that oneBant control has just hit the field, and is giving me trouble. I'm trying to figure out how to play against it, but so far 1/3RDW does give me some trouble game 1, but after board I almost never loseFrites, depending on the build, is a long matchup but so long as i draw an even mix of spells or if i just draw
Sever the Bloodline
s and
Deathrite Shaman
i do pretty well. Might board
Rakdos Charm
...Main-board
Annihilating Fire
has worked very well, but not so much as to warrant more than 2 of. 1 was cut for a
Mizzium Mortars
.I have found that Frites hates most of my main-board, with
Deathrite Shaman
and
Sever the Bloodline
, but 4 of deathrite was not exactly the way to go since one does the job vs frites. Also, some builds of frites are running red with
Rolling Temblor
which is pretty effective at getting rid of deathrite and
Huntmaster of the Fells
Flip
. So I cut 1 deathrite for another
Mizzium Mortars
.I learned that most people are now playing
Mizzium Mortars
over
Bonfire of the Damned
, and I would not recommend doing this. The advantages are clear, but Mortars does not replace bonfire since you can cast bonfire for 3 or 5 and have it be just as effective as a mizzium mortars earlier on in most match-ups. Where Mizzium takes over is in the late game where creatures have the 4 toughness, but even the a miracle on bonfire can still wipe the board and do massive damage. So i kept the bonfires in spite of critics.The sideboard may start to include
Rakdos Charm
, but i am not sure what to cut. Also, i have heard people play
Faithless Looting
over
Sign in Blood
and i may start play testing this.
Return to Jund
Surfkatt says...
I love sever, I truly do. Yet the more I play with it the more i realize that it is just to slow. It would be so much better as dreadbore or mizium mortars or victim of the night so you dont die to blitz/rdw. The last thing you wan to do versus aggro on a good draw is to do nothing turn 2 (aka farseek) into sever because then you are just dead. You want to go removal, removal, creature, creature, Stableize with tusk. Also I don't think the rampagers fit at all. They just seem worse than a stableizing planeswalker (gary or lili) or a thunderamaw (which i can lend you). Wolfir avenger is sweet but idk about nighthawk now. I think you would benefit more from Rakdos keyrunes and lands to make sure you can cast all your spells and use all your X cards effectually.
Skullcrack is garbo in the board, its just really bad. Vraska seems sweet in the board and so does Curse of deaths hold. I also think 1-2 duresses would be nice.
May 7, 2013 2:08 p.m.