Iroas, Menace to society
Commander / EDH
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Changes made to lands and one creature —March 28, 2017
Out 7 basic lands and Rakka Mar In 7 good nonbasic lands and Hanweir Garrison Meld
griffstick says... #4
Thanks I love this deck. It's really aggressive. Can beat a table in 7 turns. But it runs out of gas in long games
February 8, 2016 6:39 p.m.
Runs out of gas late-game you say? Knollspine Dragon and Dragon Mage say hello.
June 7, 2016 11:19 p.m.
I like the deck. It has a lot of things going on. Everything has a reason for being here, which made cuts hard to make. Without sacrificing your theme too much, here are my suggestions:
It's good to have a hard board wipe available in the deck. Sometimes you just need them. Chain Reaction is your weakest board wipe because sometimes it just won't be big enough. I recommend swapping it for Wrath of God or Day of Judgment. Or Akroma's Vengeance if you want it to hit enchants/artifacts too.
This is a very agressive deck that wants to attack. Silent Arbiter really crimps on its gameplay. I know it makes your one attacker unblockable with Iroas, but it'll hurt more than help in most cases. A nice, on-theme alternative is Angelic Arbiter that still slows down attacking opponents.
I think the deck could use some protection from spot removal so I would recommend Lightning Greaves which can be fetched with Stonehewer Giant and Mother of Runes. To make room, I would cut Sublime Archangel and Nobilis of War, not because they are bad or weak cards, but rather because the abilities they provide are some of the weakest among the deck, especially the Nobilis. You've already got so many p/t buffs, cutting the Nobilis for a protective card will be to your benefit. Since this deck really wants to swing relentlessly, Sublime Archangel doesn't cooperate.
A couple more thoughts I had would be to add Odric, Master Tactician in place of Boros Battleshaper and maybe Odric, Lunarch Marshal to spread the keywords around more, mostly flying and haste. I also tried to find space for Savage Beating but the deck is so light on non-permanent spells I really couldn't decide on anything to cut.
Blade of Selves almost got an honorable mention but too many creatures have "on attack" triggers and since the Blade puts them in already attacking, they miss these triggers.
I did not price-check anything so some of my suggestions may be out of budget range. Hope you find some good suggestions here.
June 8, 2016 10:29 a.m.
griffstick says... #8
Rakka Mar, Argentum Armor, Assemble the Legion, Sublime Archangel, Silent Arbiter, and Archetype of Aggression. Are all the cards I have considered making changes to. I hope that helps everyone out.
June 8, 2016 2:15 p.m.
Stuff that seems bad:
- Silent Arbiter
- Chain Reaction
- Argentum Armor
- Kusari-Gama
- Angelic Field Marshal
- Archetype of Aggression
- Boros Battleshaper (ik ik, I love him too)
- Butcher Orgg though he may just be too righteous to take out.
- Laccolith Titan
Will suggest some replacements in time.
June 8, 2016 3:19 p.m.
June 8, 2016 3:21 p.m.
griffstick says... #11
I like Chain Reaction but now that Bloodfire Colossus has been brought to my attention it might be the perfect switch.
Remember I need to boardwipe on combat with damage based boardwipes so my creatures live.
Kusari-Gama is a must keep its a boardwipe
Knollspine Dragon might find its way in. good suggestion.
But Deruvid is killing it right now.
June 8, 2016 3:42 p.m.
griffstick says... #12
Odric, Lunarch Marshal is a great suggestion I will probably switch out Sublime Archangel for it. Savage Beating is pretty much exactly everything this deck wants I will probably switch out Argentum Armor
June 8, 2016 4:11 p.m.
Kusari-Gama is a boardwipe only if an opponent chooses for it to be or am i missing something?
June 8, 2016 4:11 p.m.
griffstick says... #14
That's the thing you see that's why there are so many creature buffs. Get iroas up to 11 power and they will want to block. Even at 7 power they will want to block. It's a nice trick when holding a Boros Charm
June 8, 2016 4:20 p.m.
I suppose. Seems win-more.
Anyway here's some general cards I suggest for R aggro to keep people's totals down.
- Scab-Clan Berserker
- Zo-Zu the Punisher
- Inferno
- Price of Progress
- Volcanic Offering
- Vandalblast
- Spellshock
- Repercussion
- Pyrostatic Pillar
- Manabarbs
- Curse of Bloodletting
- Burning Earth
- Homura, Human Ascendant might also die in here given the preponderance of wipes.
- Flamerush Rider
- Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
- Wrecking Ogre
- Hostility
- Bitter Feud
- Ancient Runes
- Citadel of Pain
- Price of Glory
- Ankh of Mishra
June 8, 2016 4:31 p.m.
Awesome deck +1!! Could you review and upvote my Aurelia Boros Voltron?
July 13, 2016 9:29 a.m.
Thanks for the advise. I'll do some improvements on manabase. You forgot to upvote.
July 13, 2016 3:55 p.m.
Can you give me the code to make the font different and make the box transparent?
August 9, 2016 8:57 a.m.
griffstick says... #21
I will use the $ sign in places that it doesn't belong to keep the code visible. for the font, to change the text from normal to comic Sans <$font face="Comic Sans MS">. To change the font color, <$font color="red"> to change the font size (this site runs on size 3) <$font size="5">. Last important code for font is <$font/> this code puts a stop to all font codes except font face code. To get the bars like this
you simply put the _ symbol more than once.
August 9, 2016 11:37 a.m.
Interested in making the text boxes transparent like on here as well.
August 9, 2016 11:52 a.m.
griffstick says... #23
The code to make the box transparent is
<$link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://dl.dropbox.com/s/fqxpobte7n2g7wh/TappedOutProfileCustom.css?dl=0" />
copy this code and take the $ sign out. This code doesn't always show transparency on phones, but on a computer it always will.
badgurfield says... #1
Hey man! I love Boros, probably my favourite guild! Just a question, any reason why you're not running Gisela, Blade of Goldnight? Is it because of her stupidly high CMC?
October 9, 2015 3:03 a.m.