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    Sep 1, 2018
    Zayl posted a message on Pyro Prison || Goblinized Mono-Red Control : The Sideboard Deck
    Round 1: Infect
    G1: Mull to 4 on the play did not see a single land in my 7,6,5 or 4, said eff it Ill keep it and hope they are a slow deck, pass my turn, Opponent plays t1 Glistener Elf. I play a t2 rabble from scryed land and die a few turns later before i can find a third mana to sweep the board.
    Pull in Angers, Torpor, Chainwhirler, Spellskite and Jaya. Pull out Rabbles, and Sarkhans
    G2 and game 3: both games I chalice on 1 turn 1, then a bridge helps seal the deal opp scoops to hellbent both times.

    Round 2: Mardu
    G1: Keep a decent hand, not familiar with this player and he turn 1 blackcleaves into faithless looting, I am putting him on Hollow one for now. I slide in a chalice on1, his turn 2 he plays land and passes, i land pass, t3 he plays Marshflats and I realize he is on Mardu, plays LotV upticks and I discard an irrevelant card, draw for turn nets me a hazoret which i deploy the next turn and kill his LotV, Much thanks for her helping me activate him, Grind him down with Dog Mom with a timely chandra to take care of a bedlam.
    Pull in Eidolon, Stormbreath, Spyglass, Torpor, Chainwhirler, Spellskite and angers, pull out moons, Bridges, Pyretic and a desperate.
    G2: Get another early chalice off on him followed by a sarkhan uptick slowly and Opp deploys a Bridge of his own, drop in Avaricious and start digging for an answer, Opp plays a few lingering souls and wittles away at a looming sarkhan ult, Eventually land a chandra and throw excess cards away with haz until I find an Abrade for the bridge and swing in with the team forcing my opp to have to deal with a chandra and a sarkhan ready to ult, they choose to focus on the chandra, sarkhan ults and they scoop to the power of the dragon man.

    Round 3: Jund
    G1: t1 thoughtseized lose my chalice he follows it up with more jund threats, Am able to sweep his board a few turns later but he recovers with a newly grown Goyf, I am at a position of do i play a moon to stop his lands or a bridge to stop his attacks, I opt for moon so he cant liliana or handhate me, he casts a BBE and gets lily from it I die a few turns later
    In, angers, Spyglass, Eidolon, Stormbreath Spellskite. Out, Bridges, balista 2 ramp spells 1 sarkhan. (I am not sure my sideboard is correct for jund but I am trying to just jam threats and force my way through)
    G2: turn 1 moon YAY they have a basic forest and play goyf followed by Scooze, take some slow beats as I try to get to 3 mana to wipe the board, they deploy another bigger goyf, I find a bridge then a 2nd moon think I have stablized. BBE flips over a Pulse gets my bridge and the tide comes crashing in to spell my demise. Jund does Jund things and shows why it is still one of our worse matchups unless we can just draw answer after answer.

    Round 4: UW
    G1: he plays island passes I t1 chalice with an Opt from Opp in response, plays a field of ruins but misses his 3rd and 4th land drop, I resolve a second rabblemaster and he scoops a turn later
    In Jaya, Boil, Chainwhirler, Spyglass, Eidolon, Stormbreath Spellskite. Out, Bridges, Abrade, Ballista 1 slag ( i kept one in just in case he played secure the wastes plus it can atleast get in 3 damage) and pyretic
    G2: I get a quick eidolon followed by a spellskite. After a few eidolon beats he gets a path for both of them and is able to counter my moon the following turn, In goes normal of deploy threat, threat is removed, Fought through 3 terminusus 1 jace and a Teferi but his card advantage gets me in the end with a 2nd Jace and a Dsphere on my KotH.
    G3: i go first and play eidolon on t1 followed by a t2 SPyglass naming the jace in his hand. pass my turn turn 3 he plays Field of ruins passes, I dont get a land and just pass t4, EOT he fields my Ramunap ruins I tap it for mana fetch my mountain opp fetches basic island, then during eot i use my new land to tap for 4 total and boil away his island and Fountain leaving him with his plains. He plays a Glacial fortres and I reslove a moon, After a few fancy mountains of my opponents and a few threats he scoops.
    This round Opp Wins Player of the night for me, He was real interactive and fun to talk to, He learned that Boil is a card and after the match he remarked that he had no chance in game 3 and that I played masterfully, (mainly due to the "3 land" boil play I think but still) Also he discussed Task mage and said he had fatesealed her to the bottom knowing if i resolved her my next turn he wouldnt of had an answer.

    Round 5: Humans
    G1: is a close one t2 thalia followed by a free booter for my slagstorm and a illusion on freebooter that wiffs, I barely able to justthrow blockers down to stem some damage before i double block with mana monkey/rabble to kill her and topdeck an abrade for my sweeper back, get knocked real low next turn from a thalia's lieutenant but sweep the board and Am Able to find a moon followed by bridge and opp scoops.
    In Angers, Dampening, Chainwhirler, Jaya. Out: Rabbles and 1 Sarkhan
    G2: I get greedy, could of t2 angered a champion and Noble but i hold off wanting a little more value and Sin collector comes down and takes it. I cut opp off 1 drops with chalice but a steadly growing Champion gets me in the end with no bridge in sight
    G3: Chalice on 1 them and remove the 2drop then sarkhan, they drop a Mantis rider and go for sarkhan but not tell he is able to find me a moon. Moon them off then deploy Jaya take a hit from the rider then just use jaya's firsta bility to desroy him. Opp scoops to having fancy mountains with a creatrue that kills any threat they could play live on the board.

    Round 6: bye but Opp is on UW Spirits. We play some friendly Pauper of him on Axebane gaurdian combo, me on BW Pestilence lifegain a list i've had for about 7 years with no changes or updates. fun times.

    Quarterfinals of top 8, I am in 8th seed going up agiasnt the only undefeated of the night a good friend on Tron.
    G1: He plays tron piece I deploy Hazoret on our respective turn 1s, cant swing but its okay. He plays 2nd tron piece and a map I play land and abrade the map and swing in for 5, He scowls and plays forest and fetches up his last piece with Sylvan scrying, I swllow hard and then top deck a mountain slam it and swing in again, next turn swing and throw the card in hand after he plays out an Ostone, Realizes even if he pops ostone on his turn he will die to haz not being removed and scoops
    In Stormbreath, Eidolon spyglass, Shattering spree. Out Bridges, ballista and 1 slagstorm
    g2 he plays tron map, Spree map and pass for me, plays 2nd tron piece and I play a rabble, he nat trons and has a wurmcoil which spells my doom quickly.
    g3 On the paly t1 Rabble hit for 1, Opp plays tron piece. I play t2 rabble swing for 8 have him at 11. T3 he nat trons and has a wurmcoil floating a green mana from a sphere flounders a moment then decides to pass, I swing with the whole team for 21 total, blocks 1 rabble with a wurmcoil which I proceed to abrade in response and we shake hands after smashing in for 13 after blocks. Reveals he was deciding wether or not to Claim his own wurmcoil for 2 blockers when i reveal I had a shattering spree to take care of both of them had he done that line of play as well.

    Top 4 Splits a box and its 2am so I drive home and pass out.
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    Aug 18, 2018
    Zayl posted a message on Pyro Prison || Goblinized Mono-Red Control : The Sideboard Deck
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    Can you suspend rift bolt with a chalice on 1 since suspend is an ability?

    Absolutely. The CMC remains what is printed on the card, not how much was paid to put it on the stack. Faitless Looting, for example, still gets countered by Chalice on 1 even if it's cast with flashback.


    While playing at last GP side event I had a chalice on 2 while playing against hollow one. He played an ancient grudge, which got countered. Then he played it from the graveyard for the flashback cost. I told him that it was countered, and he called a judge. The lvl 2 judge explained that the cmc of a flashbacked card is the one showed on the flahback cost, so I should have had a chalice on 1 to counter it. That seemed very strange to me but you know, it's me against a judge so it was kinda pointless to argue


    Local mountain slinging L1 here. That judge made the absolute wrong call. The cmc of a card is always its listed cmc. The only time that is different is when a card with an x in its cmc is on the stack then x will be x+other normal costs. Like a banefire for 3 will cost r+3 so its cmc will be 4
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    Jul 9, 2018
    Zayl posted a message on Pyro Prison || Goblinized Mono-Red Control : The Sideboard Deck
    Not a premium member but can anyone give me a hookup of the shoutout? Screenshot or copy/pasta?
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    Apr 9, 2018
    Zayl posted a message on Pyro Prison || Goblinized Mono-Red Control : The Sideboard Deck
    Hopefully we might get one in DOM there was a passing line in last week's lore post about an "fiery tongued kavu" that alot of people are holding onto as a sign of reprinting. And I like where this deck is going so far if we are getting back to traditional dragon stompy roots with beefy fliers mixed with disruption leaning less on prison and more on tempo. I'm wondering if it might be trinispheres time to shine as we side out bridge and use our dragons and rabbles to dominate the board.
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    Dec 13, 2017
    Zayl posted a message on Pyro Prison || Goblinized Mono-Red Control : The Sideboard Deck
    Hello Disciples of the Mountain. After the banning of Gitaxian Probe earlier this year i have been in the search for a new deck to fill the void of Infect. Having decided I wanted to sleeve up my Koth's again I went searching for a deck and stumbled upon Free Win and Skred. After a bit of testing and playing I didnt really feel comfortable with either one and almost hung up the red control dream all together until I saw Russ's list the other week. It Immediately set my Johnny wheels spinning at the ability to play multiple roles so easily in just a few quick slots in and out in the SB so what else was I to do but to pull the trigger on the missing Chalices I needed and sleeve up for the next Modern event in my area.

    After reading Russ's guide on siding and roles I managed to do rather well having a first round loss to Death and taxes never finding a Bridge plus a surprise Mark of Asylum in g2 on t2 negating my grip full of Slag/Angers. ROund 2 I handily took out WU fishes with an easy chalice on 1 followed up by a bridge g1 with a bit of deja-vu in game 2. Round 3 was versus Rakdos burn that I barely managed to eek out a win in both games ending both of them with my opponent just needing to topdeck a bolt to finish me off. Final round of the night before cutoffs was a easy loss to mono green tron where honestly I am not 100% sure of my position with the deck and I am sure I made multiple misplays but i managed to barely squeak into the top 8 the store had for the event in the 8th seed. quarterfinals opponent was a weird GB deck that was half the rock/half 8 rack. Game 1 he turn 1 Inquisitions and grabs my ritual for the moon I had planned to play leaving me to scrabble to place a lock piece but not before he had a bob and goyf on field making for a clean kill from behind. Game 2 I enact plan "aggro" and drop in the t1 rabble followed by a turn 2 chalice for 1, he draws for his turn 3 and just scoops remarking how he had side-boarded most his removal out placing me on Free Win and never saw that coming. Game 3 his own bob plus 2 eidolons seals his fate quickly as i hide behind a bridge. and in the semifinals I again fall to r4 opponent of Mono Green Tron while I flail and try my best. Game 1 i made a fatal error of going for the turn 1 moon instead of rabblemaster completely playing the wrong role for the matchup. and in game 2 i do get the turn 1 rabble but he swiftly followed up with a dismember on his t1 followed by a o-stone for my Moon. It was an awesome night though I am completely enthralled with this deck and although i know i made a ton of mistakes I plan on conquering this big red hill of a deck.


    Some tips from the experts about the tron matchup would be amazing as well as there are a few Mono U turn decks in my meta and im not 100% sure on how to properly play versus it. I am assuming going for the full aggro but i feel if they start going off there will be nothing I can do. ALSO I dropped the Mamma and papa for the Hammer only ever saw it in one of my tron games when it didnt matter but it just feels like a good fit if i ever drew it in any of my other matches I would have been stoked to see it at nearly any time. Will be playing in another event on sunday and I will run my results back to you guys. hopefully with more of a breakdown as a total new acolyte attempts to join the ranks of the masters. Thanks to Ray for the beautiful Incarnation of a red prison deck, and Congrats again to Russ for his well earned finish of this machine.
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