Whomever changed the title to “Boros” from “Boris” I love you. Every time I saw this title, and after the first time I clicked on it and realized the OP meant to type Boros, I felt like I was getting stabbed in the eyeball.
Actually I did type Boros, but my stupid phone autocorrected. it Bugged me just as much as it bugged everyone else.
The hippo got it right, in a non-cEDH setting Boros is capable of competing, albeit with a lot more hoops to jump through than say Golgari colored decks. However, its really the only dual color that has no legs whatsoever in cEDH, where Commanders need a function and not just being an excuse for a color identity (the partners perform this better anyway).
I also agree that EDHREC popularity is also a poor judge of competitiveness. Circu, Dimir Lobotomist is a solid Dramatic Scepter wincon with a playstyle like lantern control for shutting of the same wincons run in a lot of decks, just by exiling it from one. Despite this he sits under 200 decks built and thats largely due to how linear and dull he is for casual pods, eating (rightly) a lot of focus for just being annoying.
But the "Boros sucks" attitude isn't just an issue in cEDH, where its an obvious fact that Boros sucks, but in less competitive metas as well, which is something you and Dirk seem to be missing. There are a lot of people out there who think that its pointless to run even in relaxed playgroups. Beyond mld helping in 75% metas, even pretty casual playgroups I've seen where a Boros deck wouldn't even need mld to compete shy away form the color combo because "it sucks." That's a larger culture problem.
This is exactly my point. My addendum to that is that makind land control more acceptable makes Boros stronger and may help with that culture problem.
Reliquary tower should not, in my mind, be in every deck. This is one such case. Krenko only has wheel effects and skullclamp to draw, since it is mono-red. The only possible way to get more than 7 is whiffing lands and not playing anything or wasting loads of mana on skullclamp, which is pointless. This makes reliquary tower not fit the deck, because it has a useless effect at the cost of only generating colorless mana.
Thank you for the suggestions though!
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Actually I did type Boros, but my stupid phone autocorrected.
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This card is so good with Sliver Overlord... steal ALL the creatures!
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This is exactly my point. My addendum to that is that makind land control more acceptable makes Boros stronger and may help with that culture problem.
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I was literally about to type that exact same thing. Grenzo is all you need for a rat deck. Get a bunch of mana and pull them from your deck.
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Reliquary tower should not, in my mind, be in every deck. This is one such case. Krenko only has wheel effects and skullclamp to draw, since it is mono-red. The only possible way to get more than 7 is whiffing lands and not playing anything or wasting loads of mana on skullclamp, which is pointless. This makes reliquary tower not fit the deck, because it has a useless effect at the cost of only generating colorless mana.
Thank you for the suggestions though!