Boros Mastiff

Creature — Dog

Battalion — Whenever Boros Mastiff and at least two other cretaures attack, Boros Mastiff gets lifelink until end of turn. (Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (2)

HalbrechtHalbrecht on Dogs

3 years ago

Yay! I love dogs! I've been actually planning on making a dog deck myself, so I have a few thoughts. :)

First of all, let's start with the most important thing: basic lands. You NEED the dog art Plains from Jumpstart!! (You can see that art in your decklist by appending (JMP:45) after Plains.) Yes, they're actually a couple bucks apiece, so you might not want to make ALL 23 Plains that art.... but at least a couple. :)

Alright, on to the actual important things. LoL

Speaking of lands, just want to quickly mention Animal Sanctuary. I know it's not that great, but it does have synergy with your dogs and provides a late-game mana sink if you're out of cards.

This is essentially a white weenie deck, dog-themed, so I'd advise cutting the high-costing angels (especially Adarkar Valkyrie, since she doesn't even do anything the turn she hits) in favor of some more aggressively costed dogs. You really don't have any way to ramp into them, so 6 drops are just going to be too slow. (Shalai might make the cut, because 4 CMC is more doable and hexproof can be amazing in certain matchups, but she's sideboard at best.)

Encampment Keeper is a decent turn 1 play that can also close out games if you last long enough to use his tap ability. Since this deck wants to be attacking with a lot of dogs, Boros Mastiff rewards you with a little life (or a lot if you have your anthem effects in play).

There's no way to tutor up Pack Leader in white. You could splash black for Grim Tutor (which gives you access to Banehound, a solid 1-drop, and Kunoros, Hound of Athreos, solid sideboard hate against graveyard decks). But honestly I don't think it's worth it. First of all, that will make the manabase necessarily expensive. Second, with 8 copies of an anthem effect between Pack Leader and Honor of the Pure, you're bound to hit at least one if not two of them in the average game.

Lastly, just a quick note: I noticed you have a couple dog cards in your Maybeboard (Supply Runners, Trusty Retriever, Release the Dogs) but sadly they aren't Modern legal, so no point considering them unless the format doesn't actually matter to you that much.

Hope something in that wall of text helps! +1 from me!

xyr0s on Boros Aggro Fun

6 years ago

That is true, LeaPlath - I got the stats mixed up with Boros Mastiff. Doesn't matter much, though. Both creatures have no business in an aggro deck, unless it is a boros-of-ravnica themed deck.

@shadow63 - if Lightning Bolt is too pricey, you don't want to play red in modern (but you might want to do so in casual). It may sound a little... demeaning... but I think that even the "budget" tag has a lower limit, and that it goes right where you don't use bolts in red aggro decks. If budget is too low for that, your deck will be so low-powered you'll have trouble finding reasonable matchups in a meta dominated by what is mostly called budget decks, and unless you can find fun in playing in spite of never winning (excepting opponent being manascrewed/-flooded), you should do something else.