MTG Salvation

Uhh... every standard deck plays around 25 land... except boss sligh.

If you're playing shrapnel blast, which is probably totally fine, I think you should be playing more artifacts.

I'd probably go with something like:

4 Darksteel Citadel
1-2 Hammer of Purphoros
4 Phyrexian Revoker
X# Kaboomist
2 Hall of Triumph


having a high % chance of dead cards in hand because of no artifacts would be bad news, but there are plenty of good artifacts to play in red.

Seems like hammer of purphoros should be in here.

Ornithopter is a huge waste of space, and cloudfin raptor seems off...

I think eidolon is better is the SB, ash zealot is way too good in aggro match ups and is the best body for mantle and madcap as aaa said.

I'll gladly make the post board swap vs removal heavy decks though

Two guys that top 8'd states were playing boss sligh with eidolon main.

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I won an 8-man this morning, playing against Esper Control, UW Planar Cleansing and Black Devotion.

Burning Earth is crazy good right now, it single handedly has been winning for me against jund, esper, uw, and any 2-3 color decks its such a beating.

Here's what I ran today, I decided to give a zero Fanatic list a try, so it'd be slightly weaker against jund/Gx aggro, but it flowed quite well.




Couple notes:

Looks like the sideboard will be a work in progress.

The more I play with Harness by Force the less I think it's necessary, the maindecked Mortars is more effective, and Firefist Striker, Reckoner and Chandra all play well against midrange already.

Burning Earth is -probably- correct at 2, but I could see it going up to 3. Not playing with access to this card is bananas.

Satyr Nyx-Smith is -very- good at beating Desecration Demon, which is the hardest card to overcome in the Black Dev matchup... Some combination of 3 Nyx-Smith and Eidolon gives them fits.

I'd like to fit in more Eidolon's, but I hate drawing them in multiples so 2-3 is probably correct.

Nothing needs to be said about searing blood and skullcrack, these should be 4-of's in every RDW list.

I only play on MODO and larger tournaments, so i can only speak from what I see.

And I see a -ton- of Jund Monsters, Gx Aggro, R or B Aggro, black dev and a smattering of other random decks.

Satyr Nyx-Smith though is a terrific card for esper/UW/black dev. It's the best card to bring in against black devotion and verdict control decks, I usually float between 2-4 of these and 0-2 hammer of purphoros.

Depending on your metagame that might work, "going under" midrange decks is probably a bad idea though.

Most midrange decks ace your guys pretty well with 3 & 4 drops, which is why I've started maindecking mortars for beating courser and stormbreath.

Fanatic and Mortars both help blow out of a stalemate.

Been doing well on MODO with my current list:

He absolutely brings in skullcrack against black devotion, otherwise you lose to a single merchant.

I don't think he brought in harness by force in that matchup, I could be wrong though.

dragon mantle is alright there, though, at least it cycles if they're tapped out.

I would think he brings in skullcracks, all the burn, and eidolon and takes out auras.

I made the switch back to playing RDW when it seemed like there was a good meta-shift for it.

I've been doing really well on MODO, the last couple days with 4 8-man wins, and a 19-6 record including the 2-mans for testing sideboard.

Here's my list:

Looks like RDW had some oretty good showings this weekend at states.

There's no way you run temples in this deck. If you miss a drop because of a CIPT land and blow your curve, your odds of winning just went down the tubes.

I doubt harness by force will ever be more than threaten with 20 lands, a threaten type card could be ok though.

Skullcrack if your matchup against UW(x) control is bad enough, sure. Pretty narrow though.