Boros Midrange
Standard
4 COMMENTS | 250 VIEWS
FNM —Nov. 2, 2013
Ended up taking Aurelia, the Warleader out completely. She's awesome, but far too slow to be of any real benefit. If I drew her, it was either in my opening hand or when I could have used something else. Also, I feel that committing to the WW in her casting cost is just too difficult for this deck to do reliably.
Going to try a build with Purphoros, God of the Forge in place of her and one of the dragons. Added Burning Earth to the sideboard, may ending up removing that if it becomes a significant problem for me.
Round 1 vs. RB aggro (2-1): Anger of the Gods. No other words.
Round 2 vs. UWR control (0-2): A few suboptimal plays on my part, also needed burn to finish it and wasn't able to draw it. Good, close games.
Round 3 vs. UR (2-1): Really interesting deck concept running both devotion to blue and red running Nivmagus Elemental, Frostburn Weird, and Master of Waves
. Keeping him off devotion to either color was an obvious help. I'd like to see that deck develop.
Round 4 vs. BG (2-0). What's worse than having 1 Assemble the Legion on the board? Having 2 Assemble the Legion on the board. I am a horrible person and apologized for this afterwards. (Game 1).
Game 2: Opponent just couldn't stabilize. Chandra did work.
Deck is putting up decent results, becoming more and more consistent, and I'm becoming more confident with it every time I play it. I feel like the board could use some work, but I'm otherwise very happy with it.
Yeah, Wear/Tear definitely sounds good against Mono-Black, since they usually need Underworld Connections for draw (especially if they're pitching cards to Pack Rat).
I also like Anger of the Gods a lot better without the Ash Zealots in the deck. Yeah it still hits Reckoner but at least he'll get to do some damage on the way out.
I was going to ask if you've experimented with Shock in place of Magma Jet, since I've found sometimes the 1cc can be better than Scry, but after thinking about it, for a mid-range deck like this I do think the Magma Jet is probably the better call. Might be something to playtest with if you haven't already though.
Glad you had a good time at SCG!
SaltForYourWounds says... #1
Took this to SCG Indy and ended up going 5-4 for the day. All in all happy with it, am looking to make some sideboard changes as I'm having trouble with mono black devotion.
All-stars against Mono-Black Devotion were definitely Assemble the Legion (sure, I'll sacrifice a creature!) and Skullcrack . Tried Pithing Needle to name the Whip of Erebos and Pack Rat , but it didn't do anything to stop Gray Merchant of Asphodel from taking out HUGE chunks of my life thanks to Whip and Underworld Connections . Thinking of running Wear&Tear in the board for this. Thoughts?
2 losses were to that (one a complete clusterfuck of misplays and poor life choices- silly Erebos, you can't die to burn spells!), another to mono-blue devotion due to misplays, and one to Gruul as I hadn't prepared for this matchup at all.
Definitely a fun day where I met some great people, played some of the best Magic I have in a long time (and learned a lot from it), and gained some large tournament experience.
October 26, 2013 10:43 p.m.