my only thing with the deck is the mana base. Since you're running Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth , you could probably cut down on your swamps. when I playtested this, I couldn't get enough red source yet I had more than enough black source thanks to urborg. I think that if I could've fetched another mountain since the only one in the deck was already in play, your deck would've won the round.

I think maybe replacing a Launch the Fleet with Godsend could be valuable. Godsend is a great finisher, as well as a disabler and a beatdown engine.

Launch the fleet could be a great closer with Purphoros out there. I'm still following this deck to see your progress. Any updates, please let us know! I've been playtesting as well against friends, and it's hard to say where it's at but it definitely looks promising.

Still think it could be better, I just don't know how. Cliche I know

Well letter4tony, beyond what I've stated in my updates section, the only thing that is changed is that I removed 1x Temple of Silence for 1x Battlefield Forge .

Godsend is a really powerful card SwaggyMcSwagglepants, but Launch the Fleet serves a very superior purpose in being able to be played no matter where you are in the game. It is practically an spell, just with "strive" shenanigans. Godsend is also 3 cmc, which clashes with far too much of my cards. It may get a sideboard inclusion for the midrange status in the near future though. It has potential, but Launch the Fleet and Purphoros, God of the Forge just flat out wins games.

Femme_Fatale, I just the noticed the following ruling on Mardu Ascendancy :

"Although the tokens are attacking, they were never declared as attacking creatures (for purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example)."

Does that means that Goblin Rabblemaster does not get the +1/+0 from those goblin tokens the turn they are created?

Nice deck, +1

No TDemers. In fact, there is no errata that WotC would use to make the buff NOT happen with Mardu Ascendancy . In actuality, since both of them proc at the same time, I would put Goblin Rabblemaster 's ability on the stack first, and Mardu Ascendancy 's ability on the stack last, so that way I get my token first and THEN the buff ability procs.

The key thing to see here is that the ability checks to see which creatures are ATTACKING. It is also important to know that attackers are all declared at once, there is no intermediate phase between declaring each attacker. The only method of which abilities wouldn't work with Mardu Ascendancy is if the ability said "whenever you declare an attacker". I haven't seen that be put on a card in a long time, so your safe from those interactions for a while ^^

And thanks for the +1~

Thanks for the clarification, it makes sense. Attacking vs. declaring attackers.

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