Not sure if anyone else has the love for the old Fires deck like I do, but when I saw Temur Ascendancy spoiled it made me cry a few silent tears of joy. This is a list that tries to make use of it in the blistering fast legacy meta, where casting a do nothing enchantment to make fatties better hasn't seemed viable in a looooong time. With the influx of "fair" cruise lists and the pressure they put on combo, there might be some room to wiggle, where going bigger actually works. Decks like NicFit and BBD's new pyromancer/stoneforge list are making it work. This list has no testing, but I'd like to see what anyone thinks about it.
I love the idea of having access to blue in this NO deck like Bant versions do. Force of Will is everyone's safety blanket and brainstorm really helps shuffle those NO targets back into the deck. I'm not sure about Savage Knuckblade but he's bigger than anything fair being played in Legacy and can out grind removal if given the time. My other thought was to go with Hooting Mandrills. Mandrills opens up the ability to chain together four power guys with proper delving and has trample to not care about young pyro tokens. I don't think this deck can support both mandrills and deathrite like other decks can but I may be wrong. If there's a deck where mandrills can see play over his blue delve brethren it's this one.
I'm sure the deck has a horrible g1 against combo so the sb should be focused on that with stuff like Lodestone Golem and flusterstorm although obviously these a bit of a nonbo. Golem may even deserve a maindeck slot because of how much he disrupts the general theory behind most of the magic being played in Legacy. Having maindeck Clique (it doesn't trigger ascendancy but I think it's too good a card to pass up ina deck that tries to jump from 1-3 mana) and Force goes a long way for a natural order deck, but that shouldn't be enough to stop a good combo player. More Thragtusk and Flametongue for aggro or anything super grindy and creature based seems good. you also get access to all the pyro/hydro blasts out of the board.
I'm also thinking about mox diamond over some one drops, as they could fuel better for Mandrill and open the deck up less to all of the burn being thrown around the meta.
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Savage Knuckleblade
3 Vendilion Clique
3 Flametongue Kavu
1 Thragtusk
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Progenitus
1 Terastodon
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Natural Order
I love the idea of having access to blue in this NO deck like Bant versions do. Force of Will is everyone's safety blanket and brainstorm really helps shuffle those NO targets back into the deck. I'm not sure about Savage Knuckblade but he's bigger than anything fair being played in Legacy and can out grind removal if given the time. My other thought was to go with Hooting Mandrills. Mandrills opens up the ability to chain together four power guys with proper delving and has trample to not care about young pyro tokens. I don't think this deck can support both mandrills and deathrite like other decks can but I may be wrong. If there's a deck where mandrills can see play over his blue delve brethren it's this one.
I'm sure the deck has a horrible g1 against combo so the sb should be focused on that with stuff like Lodestone Golem and flusterstorm although obviously these a bit of a nonbo. Golem may even deserve a maindeck slot because of how much he disrupts the general theory behind most of the magic being played in Legacy. Having maindeck Clique (it doesn't trigger ascendancy but I think it's too good a card to pass up ina deck that tries to jump from 1-3 mana) and Force goes a long way for a natural order deck, but that shouldn't be enough to stop a good combo player. More Thragtusk and Flametongue for aggro or anything super grindy and creature based seems good. you also get access to all the pyro/hydro blasts out of the board.
I'm also thinking about mox diamond over some one drops, as they could fuel better for Mandrill and open the deck up less to all of the burn being thrown around the meta.
ANy thoughts on the viability of this thing?