Wrath of the Moonborn

Modern Orohu

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Another Bonfire —May 18, 2013

Welp, I have another Bonfire of the Damned for this deck! Now to do some Dragon's Maze updating, any suggestions?

Orohu says... #1

I have poor impulse control. You can probably see where in the decklist.Anyways, does this look like it will do decently in FNM?

April 1, 2013 4:53 p.m.

Fibbe says... #2

That REALLY depends on your meta... the only way to figure out if something will do well at an FNM is to go to a store on a friday night and play magic...

I still think Reckless Waif  Flip is... terribad in the most horrible way possible... but other than that, I see no immediate faults

April 9, 2013 3:20 p.m.

Orohu says... #3

Reckless Waif  Flip really lost her sting when most players I played against started using one-drops, keeping her from flipping, and she wasn't the most effective if I drew her later on. I replaced two of her with Wolfbitten Captive  Flip , and I'm going to see if I have any other low cost cards to take the last one's place.

I also tweaked the Basic Lands a bit, to skew it slightly more towards green. Also, I foiled out the Kessig Wolf Run s. They're a bit disappointing to be honest, the only foiling is on the upper blue part (around where the subtle werewolf is) and the frame.

April 15, 2013 7:53 p.m.

Shrodinger says... #4

Thinking about the meta and werewolve, you cant stay gruul. Its too hard to stay Gruul atm. You either need to go Black/Green/Red or White/Green/Red.

Reason #1 : You need to protect yourself against a mass treats :

Aggro deck will rush you with an army of weenie. Control deck will wipe the board. Moonmist will only protect you from the weenie attack. Charms will protect you against both. Golgari Charm (Regenerate) and Boros Charm (indestructible) do the trick. They also have other useful abilities. Golgari taking down key enchantments like Intangible Virtue or Boros killing an annoying planeswalker.

Reason #2 : Big Flyers

You cant deal with Griselbrand and Angel of Serenity or even Thundermaw Hellkite . Your only option is to get Plummet in your sideboard. My Team Pavlov went Naya for Selesnya Charm . That way, I can EXILE them so they cant be brought back with Unburial Rites . If you were Golgari, you could get simple Murder or better yet next expansion : Putrefy .

Reason #3 : Flipping more

Bloodrushing creatures wont help you flip your werewolves when you need it. You can also only buff an attacking creature, thus you cant surprise your opponent by baiting him into an attacking and buffing a blocker. As for red, the only good gruul instant is Searing Spear I would suggest going 3 colors for more instant variety. Also, consider Wolfir Avenger since everyone seems to be running Thragtusk to which the Avenger is a direct counter.

Reason #4 : Win Conditions

I see only 2 win condition at the moment. First, buffing a Terror of Kruin Pass  Flip with bloodrush from Ghor-Clan Rampager . It wont happen often with 2 Rampager and 3 Outlaw and with all the removal running around. Other than that, there is always the good old Moonmist tricks you can do. If I were you, I would try to get more low cmc buffs like Giant Growth and a 4th outlaw in the deck. Rush of Blood also comes to mind to seal the deal, but only 2 of it. Mayor of Avabruck  Flip can also become a win condition if you can protect him with charms (regen or indestructible), or even with simple cards like Ranger's Guile . Flip him, then protect him from the next turns nuke.

I hope that helped.

April 15, 2013 10:47 p.m.

Shrodinger says... #5

Gruul Charm is also extremly useful against those black/white spirit deck.

April 15, 2013 10:50 p.m.

Orohu says... #6

I'm going to try out a deck build similar to your Naya Werewolves (Probably substituting the Garruks for Domris), and see how I like it. I'll keep this one separate, though, since I like it as is for now.

April 16, 2013 9:10 p.m.

Shrodinger says... #7

The Naya Team Pavlov was an experiment. I reverted it back to Jund (with the addition of Putrefy coming in the next expansion. If you want better results, go Jund. Check my last comment in Team Pavlov to understand what counters Naya had ; which was too many.

Also, Jund Team Pavlov biggest counter was Super Friends deck (Mass Planeswalker), but those decks costs like 400$ and above to make and only one person plays one of those deck at my local FNM.

April 18, 2013 6:04 p.m.

Orohu says... #8

I'm keeping my deck Gruul until I can get the right lands, so I'm curious, what do you guys think of Flesh / Blood ? It worked wonders in the prerelease for me even without Flesh , and won me quite a few games.

I'm also thinking about trying Armed / Dangerous . That, and I pulled a Ruric Thar, the Unbowed .

April 29, 2013 11:57 p.m.