Firstly, thank you FlyingDelver for telling me to stick with young pyro. Went to an FNM last night and the deck did serious work (even beat Tron 2-0).
My only loss of the evening was to boggles. The matchup didn't feel even slightly close (mainboard leylines are a beating game 1). I have a crackling doom and a Liliana of the Veil in the sideboard, but I got totally steamrolled.
Is this just a bad matchup or is there something we can do other than sideboard more copies of crackling doom?
I agree that the synergy is certainly there with young pyromancer. And those are the rules I would follow for casting it.
My issue was that if the board wasn't empty it could never attack nor reasonably block and trade for anything relevant and if the board was empty then the pressure it put on the opponent was generally pitiful.
In my experience so far it really only seems to pump out chump blockers. Only approximately 1/10 games has it felt like a sufficient threat, while in the testing I've done so far Rabblemaster on an empty board is a fast clock and otherwise can threaten a chunk of damage if the opponent gets too aggressive or trade for a larger creature if I'm attacking with it.
I realise that my experience is limited, but so far I'm more impressed with Rabblemaster in that slot.
Long time reader, first time poster here. I recently took mardu pyro to an FNM and had some great games, but out of 4 rounds I went to time and drew twice (which was disappointing because in both matches I was only a turn or two away from winning).
The decks I played against were 2x junk, U/W control and Jeskai Geist. Other than Jeskai which was a quick 2-0 I noticed that this deck takes forever and then some to close out a game; especially when you run into graveyard hate post board. I also noticed that more often than not that I was not happy to see a pyromancer in my hand.
Something I'm playing around with at the moment is replacing all the young pyros with goblin rabblemasters for closing speed and 3 copies of blood moon main instead of playing any copies of Liliana (2 Lilianas in the sideboard though).
I was just curious if anyone else had tried this and if so what kind of results they had.
My only loss of the evening was to boggles. The matchup didn't feel even slightly close (mainboard leylines are a beating game 1). I have a crackling doom and a Liliana of the Veil in the sideboard, but I got totally steamrolled.
Is this just a bad matchup or is there something we can do other than sideboard more copies of crackling doom?
My issue was that if the board wasn't empty it could never attack nor reasonably block and trade for anything relevant and if the board was empty then the pressure it put on the opponent was generally pitiful.
In my experience so far it really only seems to pump out chump blockers. Only approximately 1/10 games has it felt like a sufficient threat, while in the testing I've done so far Rabblemaster on an empty board is a fast clock and otherwise can threaten a chunk of damage if the opponent gets too aggressive or trade for a larger creature if I'm attacking with it.
I realise that my experience is limited, but so far I'm more impressed with Rabblemaster in that slot.
The decks I played against were 2x junk, U/W control and Jeskai Geist. Other than Jeskai which was a quick 2-0 I noticed that this deck takes forever and then some to close out a game; especially when you run into graveyard hate post board. I also noticed that more often than not that I was not happy to see a pyromancer in my hand.
Something I'm playing around with at the moment is replacing all the young pyros with goblin rabblemasters for closing speed and 3 copies of blood moon main instead of playing any copies of Liliana (2 Lilianas in the sideboard though).
I was just curious if anyone else had tried this and if so what kind of results they had.