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Ruric Thar, May I?

Casual* TheMadRocketeer

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Aug. 24, 2016


Goals
The goals of this change are to improve the mana curve, to add a bit more ramp, to accelerate the damage, and to restrict the granting of haste to my own creatures only.

Added
1x Fires of Yavimaya
2x Zhur-Taa Druid
2x Fanatic of Xenagos
1x Wickerbough Elder

Removed
1x Acidic Slime
1x Concordant Crossroads
1x Elvish Pioneer
1x Invader Parasite
1x Omnath, Locus of Rage
1x Oran-Rief Hydra

Goals
The goals of this change are to speed up the casting of my best creatures by a turn or two, improve the reliability of finding the payload creatures,and decrease the mana curve a bit.

Added
3x Orcish Lumberjack - Fast mana in this deck's colors
3x Fierce Empath - Tutors the critical pieces
1x Forest - Small increase, as the Lumberjacks both help color balancing and consume Forests. May end up swapping 1 more Mountain for another Forest.

Removed
1x Wickerbough Elder - May add to sideboard
1x Embermaw Hellion
2x Fanatic of Xenagos
2x Deadly Recluse
1x Mountain


TheMadRocketeer says... #1

Comments, feedback, and suggestions are welcome. As a kindness, please keep it clean. Thanks. :-)

June 23, 2016 3:36 p.m.

TheMadRocketeer says... #2

Comments, feedback, and suggestions are welcome. As a kindness, please keep it clean. Thanks. :-)

July 2, 2016 7:42 p.m.

TheMadRocketeer says... #3

Not sure how I did the duplicate comment. Wish I knew of a way to remove it.

July 2, 2016 10:25 p.m.

Nephilim says... #4

Goblin War Drums + Familiar Ground = Unblockable creatures

July 9, 2016 9:46 a.m.

TheMadRocketeer says... #5

Nephilim, I like it. :-) I have only 1 Familiar Ground, so it would be a chancy combo, but sweet if it came out. The other side of the coin, though, is that either enchantment is useful on its own. I want to do a bit of tweaking on this deck, so I'll put Goblin War Drums on the maybe list for now as a strong contender. Thanks.

July 9, 2016 9:58 a.m.

Nephilim says... #6

Np :) also if you equip Basilisk Collar to Ruric Thar, the Unbowed he'll have lifelink when HE deals the damage so it negates the damage to you and gains you life from your opponent. I've also played a build similar to this but gave him Grafted Exoskeleton for him to be dealing infect lol

July 9, 2016 10:38 a.m.

TheMadRocketeer says... #7

Oh nice! I don't currently have a Basilisk Collar, though I'd sure like to pick up a few. They'd go well in my Death-Ray Infect (B/R) deck too. Of course, I'd still take the hit for playing it unless I got it down before Ruric Thar, the Unbowed hit the field.

For now, I like the idea of letting creatures' abilities do most of the work, just because it's cool and doesn't depend on drawing a combo. One thing that I own only 3 of but would work in this deck very well is Fierce Empath. I use it in my Urzatron 2.3 deck to help get the beasties out. Typically, once I have enough mana production on-line, I'm seeing Ruric, but a couple of Empaths could help ensure it, and I really so want to see Ruric ASAP.

July 9, 2016 12:44 p.m.