I was just scrolling around tappedout, chilling, and i stumbled into this. Man you are good and rising my enthusiasm xd i'm a big fan of the aplication of legacy ideas to edh, as you can probably tell already. I will give this deck some thought when i wanna build something alike. Right now between grenzo and my other edh decks i don't really have the mental capacity to process more stuff. Let me say i'm super glad i found you cause the stuff you build is very much the kind of stuff i aspire to build :P

@duffman24, thanks for dropping by. Those are two very interesting suggestions. I've tested one of them-- Experimental Frenzy --in another deck (my mono-red Grenzo list) and it was just okay. It's definitely not as good as Outpost Siege . In addition to a skewed mana curve, frenzy will only shine when we have access to top deck manipulation, like a sensei or scroll rack. We cannot play multiple lands per turn, too, and that's often a problem with frenzy (you play a land and then there's another land, so you're forced to pass). There's another card, Stolen Strategy , that does something somewhat similar to Outpost Siege . At first glance, that card seems to be much better than outpost and frenzy but in practice, it's actually pretty mediocre. The problem is that more likely than not, you'll exile lands, and you cannot cast lands, and when it's not lands, you'll likely exile some irrelevant spell from your opponents. Of course, the value of such a card will scale with the quality of the decks that you are playing against, but so far, my experience with it tells me that it's actuall worse than frenzy and much worse than outpost. In the same vein, there's a new card called Light Up the Stage that I've tested extensively and is really, really good in aggro lists. I've removed ascendancy to find a space for it--that's how good Light Up the Stage is. (I've updated the list to reflect that change.)

Now, let's talk about Smothering Tithe . The card ramps like crazy because no one ever pays for it (unless 1v1'ing or 2v1'ing) and has pretty good synergy with Akiri (each treasure is a +1/+0). That said, unless you have a reliable way of spending the mana it generates, the card is only okay. Say, if our commanders had an activated ability like Thrasios, Triton Hero , this card would be very good because it would allow us to use the mana to generate card advantage. However, that's not the case and this makes me very reluctant to play smothering tithe here. I've no doubt that frenzy takes precedence over smothering tithe in any boros list. Our main issue is card advantage and we need all the help we can get to generate card advantage, not necessarily ramp. However, it also works pretty well with jokulhaups, so that might be something to consider. I guess I'll have to test it at some point.

Hey so I am somewhat of a Boros expert myself with Aurelia being my main. Ive played your decklist 3 or 4 times and i have some questions. First one is, why run cataclysm and jokulhaups over something like Armageddon , Ravages of War , and Boom/bust? These help lockout the game when you're ahead, Cat and Jok only help when you're behind and are unplayable when you're ahead. I guess i just don't see the situation where you would want them. Next I really think you need to be running Smothering Tithe I was staring at Wheel and Idyllic tutor in my hand and I knew that would have been lethal on someone if it were in there. I also feel like without smothering tithe there weren't really good targets for idyllic tutor (outpost siege was already in play at that moment in time). Fiery confluence really has done much for me either, I replaced with Chaos warp. There were some other removal card choices that seemed odd as well, like Orim's chant. I am personally a wear/tear crush contraband, and return to dust fan if you're going to be spending that much mana. However certain metas do require things like Crush and Smelt . Also the land count seems light for the hedge mage. Ive had some inconsistent starts because of that. So yeah for me personally, I've noticed some issue in actually closing the game out and being able to stop opponents. Have you run into similar issues? What type of decks do you run against typically, since I know that can make a big different. I would guess at least some blue combo stuff with the REB and PBlast and the matrix. Rule of Law seems like it could be a strong addition especially if you are facing combo. I feel like some evasion equipments could also be really good something like a Tenza, Godo's Maul , Trailblazer's Boots or even Cobbled Wings . Anyway I wanted to get some insight on some of these thing. I am slowly working on my own list as my old one is quite outdated. But the idea is to lock up the game with land destruction, winter orb, or possibility storm.