Playing with fire
Standard
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Standard Tournament 8-8-15 3-1 —Aug. 9, 2015
Finally got the deck built the day of for this tournament. Got every card i needed but wished i had a little more time to play test
Round 1: U/W Aggro 2-0 game 1 six to give me the extra draw off a quick tormenting voice. Drew and Ugin and resolved it turn 7 and i had the game there. Game 2: Pretty much the same thing sided in negate to deal with his aura's and protection. Hit a soulfire grandmaster on turn three. eventually i just kept copying and bouncing a lightning strike for the game.
Round 2: Red Deck win 1-2 Game 1; Drew the perfect removal hand and curved into an ugin which he conceded to with no way to deal with that game 1 Game 2: I had a nice hand but got stuck on only two red mana and a haven for 11 turns and was stuck with 2 dig a dissolve and 2 goggles in hand Game 3: he was at 4 health needed to draw a anger to deal with an out of control rabble master or an exquisite firecraft didnt do it for three turns and he ate me with rabble. Probably could have done a little better with the burn game 3 but lesson learned
Round 3: 4 color dragon control. 2-1 Game 1: was not expecting this at all. He ended up winning after i ran an ugin into a scorn. Havened it back only to have it die to burn and haste dragon off of Dragon Tempest. Game 2: played it really slow and just kept the game going until i burned him out with goggles and some heavy burn. Game 3: This one went WAYYYY to long. he had three haven on the field and played a very unexpected Dragonlord Dramoka. I managed to get a soulfire on the field and we played life gain pass turn for a while. I got an ugin and eventually exiled the dramoka after trying to remove it twice only to have him haven it back. I endded up winning of a super burn turn.
Round 4: Atarka Red 2-1 game 1: too many creatures for me to deal with. ended up just poking me to death with goblins over time game 2: much more prepared the other two anger of the gods came in as well as the aether spout. Kept the field clean and won off ojutia. Game 3: Pretty close to the last game except i had to stabilize with soulfire after some early hits. leanred that if i anger of the gods with soulfire on the field i still gain the life even though she exiled. Ended up getting 15 life and used the to spend the rest of the game burning him out.
Howl goes a little heavy on the mana for my taste even for getting an additional strike. But as for Firecraft where would it go? Its already spread pretty thin around maybe in place of roast? I'd love to use it since it's a great kill late game for 8 damage uncounterable with goggles
August 6, 2015 1:10 p.m.
roast is a sideboard card unless your local meta plays a lot of abzan with siege rhino
August 6, 2015 4:54 p.m.
its split between Abzan and G/R devotion where i am its why i did like roast but double firecraft off goggles still does the same thing so i feel ok with it there
August 6, 2015 4:55 p.m.
You should add a Disciple of the Ring or 2. It really slows down your opponent to a slow crawl. Not to mention it can be more powerful as time goes on. Plus, if the opponent has a removal spell for Dragonlord Ojutai, you can just untap him and the spell fizzles. This leaves you with mana left over and you save your counterspells for something more important.
August 6, 2015 6:09 p.m.
Where would she go? This deck relies pretty heavily on the cards it already uses. I've tried to run on just three goggles but it's actually hard to draw into them since most the draw is gained form interaction once goggles is on the field
August 6, 2015 6:15 p.m.
I say take out 1 Clash of Wills. It seems a little too costly for a counterspell. I'm not sure why most decks run 3 or 4 when 2 would suffice. It's like when Syncopate was legal in standard. People only ran 1 and it did way more than the clash does because it exiled the card instead. I would say up Dissolve to 3, Clash of Wills as a 2 o, and Disciple of the Ring as a 1 of in the deck.
thedark1 says... #1
Howl of the Horde just so you can cast 5 Lightning Strikes in a turn. alsoExquisite Firecraft would work well here.
August 6, 2015 12:55 p.m.