You have two 2/2 in play and your opponent plays a Boros Reckoner. Suddenly you are stopped in your tracks if you do not have a good answer. I can think of many other situations, but saying leaving a blocker is not immediate impact is failure to recognize a basic fundamental.
Situation:
Player has a Planeswalker in play with 1 loyalty counter.
I cast Aurelia's Fury with x=2 targeting a player. Can I divide the damage to two different instances targeting the player so I can silence him and destroy the planeswalker at the same time (after damage redirection)?
Man, if I currently have work today (it's a holiday) I wouldn't be able to go to the clan site. Hopefully we get a good solution for that pending problem.
I have never posted in this forum before, but I have used this thread as a valuable resource for my Red deck. So to begin with, I would like to thank all of you for your contributions as we all strive to make our decks better and more competitive.
Recently, I played my Boros deck in the Las Vegas SCG Open. It was the biggest standard tournament I have ever entered, and my deck performed very well. I ended up going X-2 and taking 43rd place, (out of a field of over 300 players) getting me a $50 prize.
This last weekend, I played my Boros deck the Utah Open (Which is a quarterly tournament, organized by game store owners throughout the state of Utah. http://www.utahmagicopen.com/). I ended up taking second place with my deck, which surprised everyone there. No one thought that RDW/Boros would be able to keep up with the meta, so no one planned to play against it. My finish paid me $100 and got me a seat into the next Utah Invitational.
The main issue I've had with the deck is that it has so many ways to gain life between Healers, Tusk, Vault, and recurring Healer/Tusk (which both measure up extremely well against your ground dudes) that you absolutely can't kill them before they get their big stuff online (which they don't even have to do against us to win anyway).
So you need ways to mitigate at least one aspect of their defense - which is to play threats that don't interact with their creatures.
Besides that, use burn appropriately to minimize their life gain (spearing Tusk in response to Resto or when it attacks after opponent activates Vault), and have a SB plan for the deck (I like both Slaughter Games and Rakdos Charm for that duty - which is a problem if you're not playing B, but I'm sure there's other effective hate).
I asked my last frites opponent on how he usually boards against aggro and it as I expected. They minimize their reanimation plan (almost no salvages/mulches) and add more blockers.
I do find Thundermaw Hellkite and Pyreheart Wolf to be very effective against them. It's just the problem of getting enough damage in before Serenity hits the board. I've also found a lot putting in a number of Severs so you can't really overcommit as well.
I guess I have to look at Restoration Angel in white and something in gruul for this current meta.
I attack with a Boros Reckoner bonded to a Nearheath Pilgrim. Opponent blocks with his own Reckoner and I activate first strike. He doesn't because he doesn't have enough mana.
Enter combat damage step, I assign 3 damage to his reckoner, damage is dealt and I gain 3 life, his reckoner triggers and goes to the graveyard (which if these go first btw?). He assigns the 3 damage back at my reckoner.
My reckoner gets damage, and my trigger goes off as well and my reckoner goes to the graveyard (again, which goes first? the trigger or the SBA?).
The main question, will that 3 damage on stack gain me life as well? Since Boros Reckoner is not bound anymore, he doesn't have lifelink. Unless we need the last known information about Reckoner when he put the damage trigger on stack, he gains me life.
So yeah, two questions here in total. When Reckoner gets the damage, does the trigger go off first before SBAs are checked? Or he goes to the graveyard first as a result of SBA when damaged and his trigger fires off, or do they happen at the same time? And will that damage gain me life if he was bonded to Nearheath Pilgrim at the time?
Reviving this, is anybody competing for the World Magic Cup Qualifiers?
If anybody is up for it, let's set up some playtest sessions in preparation for this event through Cockatrice (there's a way to connect so PM me for details if needed). WMCQ is in 2 weeks.
You have two 2/2 in play and your opponent plays a Boros Reckoner. Suddenly you are stopped in your tracks if you do not have a good answer. I can think of many other situations, but saying leaving a blocker is not immediate impact is failure to recognize a basic fundamental.
EDIT: Derp, didn't notice "mana cost".
Player has a Planeswalker in play with 1 loyalty counter.
I cast Aurelia's Fury with x=2 targeting a player. Can I divide the damage to two different instances targeting the player so I can silence him and destroy the planeswalker at the same time (after damage redirection)?
Congratulations! Thanks for proving that Boros is still a viable option for RDW players.
Please teach me your ways.
I asked my last frites opponent on how he usually boards against aggro and it as I expected. They minimize their reanimation plan (almost no salvages/mulches) and add more blockers.
I do find Thundermaw Hellkite and Pyreheart Wolf to be very effective against them. It's just the problem of getting enough damage in before Serenity hits the board. I've also found a lot putting in a number of Severs so you can't really overcommit as well.
I guess I have to look at Restoration Angel in white and something in gruul for this current meta.
Flinthoof Boar is definitely the better card IMO since he has optional haste. In a better Gruul world I want to play those two cards together.
Enter combat damage step, I assign 3 damage to his reckoner, damage is dealt and I gain 3 life, his reckoner triggers and goes to the graveyard (which if these go first btw?). He assigns the 3 damage back at my reckoner.
My reckoner gets damage, and my trigger goes off as well and my reckoner goes to the graveyard (again, which goes first? the trigger or the SBA?).
The main question, will that 3 damage on stack gain me life as well? Since Boros Reckoner is not bound anymore, he doesn't have lifelink. Unless we need the last known information about Reckoner when he put the damage trigger on stack, he gains me life.
So yeah, two questions here in total. When Reckoner gets the damage, does the trigger go off first before SBAs are checked? Or he goes to the graveyard first as a result of SBA when damaged and his trigger fires off, or do they happen at the same time? And will that damage gain me life if he was bonded to Nearheath Pilgrim at the time?
Yeah I know, it's green, but some of us are playing gruul so this is relevant.
If anybody is up for it, let's set up some playtest sessions in preparation for this event through Cockatrice (there's a way to connect so PM me for details if needed). WMCQ is in 2 weeks.