3-Color Bogles?
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Posted on Feb. 23, 2016, 12:50 p.m. by Bovine073
Hello all, I was recently thinking about if bogles started to (at least more often) go tri-color, which would it pick? (
base)
Also, would any of the colors actually add enough to the deck despite the mana inconsistencies it will start to face? Keep in mind, Bogles already has (arguably) the two best SB colors already.
If it went Bant, it could add: Geist of Saint Traft, Invisible Stalker, Noble Hierarch? Spectral Flight, possibly? And Serum Visions to improve consistency.
If it went Naya: Assault Strobe, Fling, Madcap Skills, Temur Battle Rage (and SB Deflecting Palm, possibly).
Abzan is possibly the most lackluster of the three, but it could add: Unholy Strength, Dark Favor, and Tainted Strike.
Thoughts on which of these would be the best one, or if any of them would be good at all?
Oh, of course, but it is 3 mana. I guess it is in some respects a 6/6 though.
February 23, 2016 1:21 p.m.
That's the top of your curve. 1cmc Bogle 2cmc Stalker 3cmc Geist. That's 12 creatures, the rest are spells. It worked really well for me.
February 23, 2016 1:32 p.m.
Geist Bogles is terrible. Bogles is an aggro deck that wants to win fast - if you have to wait until turn 4 to swing for the first time, chances are you'll be in a terrible spot by then.
If you really want to play 3-color Bogles, Bant is the best choice, but that's because of Invisible Stalker, Unstable Mutation and Serum Visions. And given the fact G/W already has Silhana Ledgewalker, Invisible Stalker is simply not necessary. Splashing blue (or any other color) will just make your mana even less consistant - and we're talking about a deck that runs 20 lands at most and has to mulligan very aggressively.
tl;dr Geist is slow as balls, it has no place in an aggro deck. And straight G/W is as good as it gets - a third color adds very little and makes your mana base needlessly complicated.
February 23, 2016 1:52 p.m.
why would you drop Gladecover Scout? He is equally good as bogles and I don't think he should be let go to make room for Geist of Saint Traft as that pushes your clock WAY back. On the other hand, if you were considering a playstyle a little less aggro, then the 2 and 3 drop creatures could curve nicely, but you should look at going blue/white and dropping green all together...
February 23, 2016 1:54 p.m.
Alternatively, you could just drop white and play Red Hot Chili Bogles instead. :3
(nope, that's not a good idea. man, is it fun, though)
February 23, 2016 1:55 p.m.
Consider red for madcap skills, it's certainly not worth it to run blue though, I played bogles for quite a while myself. If you want evasion silhana ledgewalker is functionally the same as invisible stalker. There's a really good article on mtg salvation with a bogles primer discussing a third colour in bogles.
February 23, 2016 7:40 p.m.
The boogles needs not necesarily to include green.
It can use blue instead without a lot of problems - Slippery Bogle, Invisible Stalker, Spectral Flight, Auramancer's Guise
Basically you ca play it as long as you have the green, or blue hexproof creatures.
I toyed around with the idea of building a 
bogles deck for a while, maye you can get some useful ideas from it: Biohazard - Infectious Bogles
February 25, 2016 4:47 p.m.
Oh my goodness, Unstable Mutation is modern legal? Now I'm looking at Bant more and more.
Xica good point, but I worry about getting another hexproof set of creatures w/o Gladecover Scout. I do like your deck though.
But at the same time, Abzan looks just as good with Predator's Gambit, Phyresis, Dark Favor, and Unholy Strength.
February 26, 2016 12:21 a.m.
The problem is that bogles main strength is its speed, and 3 colored mana base is not a good idea when your plan is tap everything out in every turn before t4.
DrFunk27 says... #2
You're missing the best Bant card -- Geist of Saint Traft. I played Bant Bogles for awhile. It's solid, especially now with all the fetchlands readily available in Modern.
February 23, 2016 12:52 p.m.