RW Heroic

Pioneer Competitive Heroic Protection RW (Boros)

GeminiSpartanX

Instant (18)

• 4x Defiant Strike
• 1x Gods Willing
• 4x Loran's Escape
• 4x Monstrous Rage
• 3x Reckless Rage
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Spikefield Hazard  ^Flip

Sorcery (6)

• 4x Ancestral Anger
• 2x Homestead Courage

Land (18)

• 4x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 4x Inspiring Vantage
• 4x Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Plains
• 4x Sacred Foundry

Creature (18)

• 4x Favored Hoplite
• 2x Fugitive Codebreaker
• 4x Illuminator Virtuoso
• 4x Monastery Swiftspear
• 4x Tenth District Legionnaire

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Sideboard

Instant (8)

• 1x Get Lost
• 2x Light of Hope
• 1x Raze the Effigy
• 1x Reckless Rage
• 2x Rending Volley
• 1x Torch the Tower

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Case of the Crimson Pulse
• 3x Showdown of the Skalds

Creature (1)

• 1x Jegantha, the Wellspring

Artifact (1)

• 1x Damping Sphere

Land (1)

• 1x Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

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Maybeboard

Creature (17)

• 2x Adanto Vanguard
• 1x Apostle of Purifying Light
• 2x Dreadhorde Arcanist *f-pp*
• 2x Electrostatic Infantry
• 2x Feather, the Redeemed
• 1x Fiendslayer Paladin
• 1x Hazoret the Fervent
• 2x Mavinda, Students' Advocate
• 2x Seeker of the Way
• 2x Soul-Scar Mage

Instant (11)

• 2x Boros Charm
• 1x Chance for Glory
• 2x Destroy Evil
• 1x Disenchant
• 1x Fight as One
• 2x Flowstone Infusion
• 2x Redcap Melee

Artifact (3)

• 3x Portable Hole

Land (1)

• 1x Den of the Bugbear *f-pp*

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Alpine Moon
• 1x Escape Velocity
• 2x Rest in Peace
• 2x Roiling Vortex

Sorcery (6)

• 2x Deafening Clarion
• 3x Gird for Battle
• 1x Maximize Velocity

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Another iteration of RW Heroic, this time with more Heroic creatures!

One of my favorite old standard decks was UW heroic and I initially looked into building an updated version of that deck for the Pioneer format, but it seems that RW heroic is the place to be thanks to recent printings of certain cards, namely Ancestral Anger, Tenth District Legionnaire, and Reckless Rage. Defiant Strike was always one of the best cards to draw in the old UW heroic decks since it replaced itself, but Ancestral Anger is practically a strict upgrade, with the only downside being that it is sorcery speed. Blue cards commonly used in UW Heroic decks provide more reliable card advantage, but generally cost 2cmc (Ordeal of Thassa and Staggering Insight) in addition to the very nice card Curious Obsession. However the Red version keeps up card advantage with Ancestral Anger, replaying cards from the GY with Dreadhorde Arcanist, and using the additional scrying from Titan's Strength to smooth our draw step. The red version is more explosive due to the hasty creatures (compare Tenth District Legionnaire to Battlewise Hoplite), and in a way synergizes better with a combination of heroic and prowess creatures than if every creature in the deck had heroic. For example, targeting a heroic creature with a Defiant Strike gives the permanent +1/+1 counter in addition to the temporary +1/+0, but with a prowess creature alongside the heroic creature the prowess creature also gains a temporary +1/+1, whereas in the UW version you don't really want to draw too many creatures since there often aren't as many buffs to go around in a creature-heavy draw.

Homestead Courage will replace Titan's Strength since it triggers prowess multiple times in a turn and provides a lasting effect, although it costs 2 mana to give the same buff thereby making it a less explosive option, but one that might be more appropriate in removal-heavy metas. Portable hole might be a good SB card instead of some of the other red removal depending on your meta. Mine looks to be filled with UR Phoenix and Jund food/cat oven decks, so I'll try to find a SB plan against those first and foremost.

2/25/2024 - Heroic made it to the finals of the Pro Tour! See the list here!

Date added	2 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 7 Rares 25 - 4 Uncommons 15 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.26
Tokens	A Mysterious Creature, Map, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	4. Pioneer