Mutagenic Growth in RDW?
Modern Deck Help forum
Posted on March 5, 2018, 11:23 a.m. by ellie-is
This deck, before anyone asks.
Someone suggested it a while back. I was wary of the suggestion, because as they pointed out, it's weaker than the other buffs I have in the deck - Built to Smash, Brute Force, and Titan's Strength - but comes with the obvious upside of not costing mana.
This deck is built around buffing either Viashino Slaughtermaster, which has double strike, or Kiln Fiend, which does what Kiln Fiend does, with Monastery Swiftspear and its Prowess ability for support.
I've been offered a playset of Mutagenic Growth recently, so I started considering adding it again. There are a lot of situations where it comes in handy, and it helps with getting more consistent hypothetical turn 3 wins. One of the biggest problems is that with this being monored, I do not have the option to simply pay as a stompy deck might. I also don't want to remove one of the other buffs, as +3 becomes +6 with the two main beaters of the deck, and +2 becomes only +4. Still enough to help get a lot of wins, however.
I'd love to get people's thoughts on this if possible. Whether or not this will really improve this deck, what I could remove to make room for it, or even just seeing general thoughts on whether the card itself works in non-green decks would be lovely.
looked at the list and I'd either take out ash zealot or the burn spell in there. If you keep the burn spell swap it with lightning bolt
March 5, 2018 9:10 p.m.
Thanks. And yeah, that's the plan, lightning bolt is just kinda expensive right now. But I'll keep the burn, it's always good to be able to deal direct damage.
March 6, 2018 6:01 a.m.
@shadow63 After giving it some good thought, yeah, Ash Zealot seems to be the best candidate for being taken out. My biggest fear is that I'll have too little creatures, finding myself with a bunch of buffs and nothing to cast them on. I'll have to keep thinking, haha. But thanks for the suggestion :)
March 6, 2018 6:37 a.m.
Bolt should be going down in price its getting a reprint in the matters set and there's Magma Jet I think the scry would be really good in the deck
March 6, 2018 11:53 a.m.
Sadly bolt hasn't dropped much with the reprint. Cards like Nettle Sentinel fell from ~5 dollars to ~80 cents, but Lightning Bolt's drop was only one dollar from it's previous four-dollar cost. $12 for a set is still a bit much for me at the moment (it is, in fact, the entire cost of the rest of the deck, hah).
I like Magma Jet a lot. I own a set of that, so I might play around with it a bit and see how it goes! But at two mana I worry it's a bit slow for this deck. If anything, I at least still have the scry from Titan's Strength.
APPLE01DOJ says... #2
The card kicks ass.
March 5, 2018 12:46 p.m.