Potential Rogue Build?

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Posted on Jan. 28, 2017, 6:03 p.m. by lonker

The idea is to use Blood Moon to make all of your opponent's lands into mountains, then you enchant their lands with Genju of the Spires, then kill it with a pinger like Cunning Sparkmage or something like Pyroclasm. You would be able to consistently get Genju of the Spires and Blood Moon with Heliod's Pilgrim or Idyllic Tutor every game. After you destroy their landbase, you could use a cheeky card like Terra Eternal or Sacred Ground and start enchanting your own mountains to quickly beat down on your opponents. Another idea is to use goblin cards like Dragon Fodder, or Krenko's Command alongside Goblin Bombardment to easily ping your opponent's lands. What do you guys think? I personally think it could be an extremely fun rogue deck. Also, post ideas and your decks to add to this rogue archetype. It helps a lot.

For a casual build, sure. Otherwise it's too slow and too inconsistent.

January 28, 2017 6:16 p.m.

You'd want Magus of the Moon

January 28, 2017 6:17 p.m.

Ryjo says... #4

Heliod's Pilgrim can only look for Genju of the Spires. You'd probably need to use Idyllic Tutor to find Blood Moon. It could be fun, but you would need a lot of card draw/good draws to be able to pull off your win condition.

January 28, 2017 6:25 p.m.

APPLE01DOJ says... #5

There's two decks that do similar things. Skred which utilizes Koth of the Hammer in a similar fashion. Then there's Blue Moon which is a control deck that uses Blood Moon to lock the opponent out of the game.

January 28, 2017 6:42 p.m.

Servo_Token says... #6

Nahiri Emrakul could slot in here as a legitinmate win condition once you blood moon lock them.

I feel like you'd want to be playing like a Sun&Moon strategy and just throw some of these cheeky cards in instead of trying to go for a deck that's strictly the cheeky stuff.

January 29, 2017 12:31 a.m.

I think you just play some Genju of the Spires and Pyroclasms in a Red Prison deck like Skred, Sun and Moon, or Free Win Red.

January 29, 2017 12:39 a.m.

Hjaltrohir says... #8

Sun and moon just sounds better. as a casual deck sure, but in competitive it doens't have n=must playability

January 29, 2017 10:57 a.m.

JaceArveduin says... #9

Or! You can play Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Spreading Algae, which is also a recurring mana denial strategy that doesn't require as many moving pieces and is harder to interact with.

January 29, 2017 2:32 p.m.

SamCre1993 says... #10

I think a lot of the time, just landing blood moon is enough. Many of their lands essentially become useless, whether you destroy them or not.

January 29, 2017 2:37 p.m.

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