The Peasants Go Burninating!

Standard RW (Boros)

JRE47

Creature (16)

• 4x Champion of the Parish
• 4x Kessig Malcontents
• 2x Kruin Striker
• 1x Mentor of the Meek
• 2x Restoration Angel
• 3x Zealous Conscripts

Land (23)

• 3x Cavern of Souls
• 4x Clifftop Retreat
• 7x Mountain
• 7x Plains
• 2x Slayers' Stronghold

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Fervor
• 4x Vigilante Justice

Instant (6)

• 4x Cloudshift
• 2x Thunderous Wrath

Sorcery (10)

• 4x Gather the Townsfolk
• 2x Increasing Devotion
• 4x Thatcher Revolt

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Sideboard

Creature (7)

• 1x Angel of Glory's Rise
• 2x Goldnight Commander
• 2x Manic Vandal
• 2x Nearheath Pilgrim

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Cathars' Crusade

Instant (5)

• 1x Battle Hymn
• 2x Burning Oil
• 2x Celestial Purge

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Burn at the Stake
• 1x Sudden Disappearance

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Maybeboard

Creature (27)

• 2x Accorder Paladin
• 2x Angelic Overseer
• 2x Devout Chaplain
• 2x Doomed Traveler
• 1x Elite Inquisitor
• 2x Fiend Hunter
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Grim Lavamancer
• 2x Instigator Gang  ^Flip
• 1x Mirran Crusader
• 1x Rage Thrower
• 1x Riders of Gavony
• 3x Silverblade Paladin
• 2x Somberwald Vigilante
• 1x Thraben Doomsayer
• 2x Thraben Sentry  ^Flip
• 1x Vulshok Refugee

Enchantment (3)

• 2x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Seance

Artifact (1)

• 1x Gallows at Willow Hill

Instant (3)

• 1x Increasing Vengeance
• 2x Rally the Peasants

Sorcery (2)

• 2x Infernal Plunge

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Bounce your way to damage, control, and victory!

Play tons of Humans with Gather the Townsfolk, Thatcher Revolt, and Increasing Devotion, then use them for mass damage right to the opponent's chin with Kessig Malcontents and Vigilante Justice. All those Humans also boost Champion of the Parish and Kruin Striker if you need some old-fashioned red zone beatings.

But that's not the real beauty of this deck. The REAL key is to then bounce the Malcontents with Restoration Angel and Cloudshift for MORE damage. Bouncing Zealous Conscripts also lets you consistently take the biggest threats away from the opponent (ANY permanent can be snagged, so creatures, enchantments, artifacts, land, even planeswalkers are all fair game!) The sneaky wording of Cloudshift ("exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control") even lets you PERMANENTLY take a creature away if you bounce it.

Other components let you draw cards like crazy (Mentor of the Meek), throw a phantom Malcontents or Conscripts or any other creature at the opponent each turn if one of them dies (the little-used Seance), generate extra mana when you need a "big" turn (Battle Hymn), apply some good old-fashioned damage to creatures (the repeatable Burning Oil), and even multiply the your Human-generating sorceries or flickering instants (Increasing Vengeance).

The tables have turned! The peasants are doing the burninating now!

I can't wait to try this out for real.

Date added	13 years
Last updated	13 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 4 Rares 9 - 8 Uncommons 16 - 3 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Human 1/1 R, Human 1/1 W