If they can keep you off of creatures, then replacing this for a creature or buff would not be great. This card is great specifically BECAUSE people try and keep you off creatures. It hard to kill EVERYTHING on your board, and this makes sure that the payoff the get for trying to do so is minimal.
I'll prolly go up to 14 one drops with 2 of them, and opt for 4 rancors. I think I can side board the maindeck Dismember For more slots with how my local FNM is
I'm gonna try swapping out my 4 Dryad Militant for the new guy. Might even go crazy and try out Tarmogoyf if the first swap pans out well. I am really liking the new snake tho. Him being unable to target after level 3 is annoying tho, so we shall see if that is a big enough setback to bar him from the deck.
Went to my very first tournament today in the town I just moved to. I got third place, going 3-1. Really pleased with my choices and performance despite it being my first time playing non casually and going into a blind meta.
Game 1: Bant (Won 2-1)
First game was great, goblin guide carried that match on his shoulders by getting in for 8. Second match was more even, but 2 Shalai's ended up taking way too much of my gas to get rid of and he ended up stabilizing with Courser of Kruphix lifegain. 3rd match he went to 17 on turn one for a Bird that got bolted in response, after that it was all downhill for him.
Game 2: Hardened Scales (Won 2-1)
First game was a mess, he went double Hardened Scales into a bunch of early game nonsense that I couldn't outrun. Destructive Revelry and Searing Blaze put in a ton of work the next two games, winning me the match.
Game 3: Some super janky homebrew affinity/ Fall of Thran control (Won 2-0)
First game he drops a Chalice of the Void for 1 right after my Goblin Guide, luckily for me I had drawn almost all 2 CMC spells so I ended up taking the game fairly easily. Didn't really give me a lot of info other than I saw he drew a Leyline of Sanctity at one point due to him playing with his hand very horizontal (lol), which was important info for game 2. Game 2 I drew a 5 lander and 2 Goblin Guides, I would almost never keep this but I knew he was gonna hard mulligan to get those leylines. And he did, going down to 5 with no lands for it. Both Goblin guides did almost 20 damage together that fight lol.
Game 4: UW Control (Lost 1-2)
I was actually feeling really good this match up, and game one was a standard burn rundown so I was feeling even better. Game 2 he would most likely bring in Lyra so I brought in Path and Deflecting. Didn't draw a single one of them the entire game lol, and his Lyra ended up stabilizing him at 4 life. Game 3 was just a sad stroke of luck. He blew up all my white sources and I was only drawing white cards... oh well, it happens.
Again, all in all I felt pretty good about it. Destructive Revelry and Goblin Guide were definitely the MVPs of the night. Rest in peace wasn't so hot, but that's super match up dependent so w/e. I'll post my decklist bellow for anyone curious. From what some of the guys there were saying, there is a lot of creature based combo decks, so I'm thinking my little burn deck should do pretty well in the future.
I don't think so. Greenbelt will indeed trigger Pelt Collector twice quickly. But it can ONLY trigger Pelt Collector twice, whereas it can trigger E1 3 times, and still doesn't see consistent play. And in the end, Greenbelt is still a big mana/tempo investment for something that doesn't stick to the board.
Honestly I think both are great. You can keep the playset of Experiment Ones and Dryad Militants. Then run 2-4 in order to fill out the 10-12 1-drops in your deck.
The instant speed and jumpstart might just make the difference for Risk Factor. But in the end it's dancing a really fine line between making it into the deck.
While I don't think it'll be improving my deck during testing, it'll be nice to just have more fun cards in an otherwise fairly linear deck.
I'll definitely be running this guy in my deck for a while in order to see how it goes. What do you all think about him? I foresee him being a bit too expensive and will prolly cut him after a few weeks. But he does looks fun.
Level up 1 Mana
Level 3-7 it has protection from instants
Level 8+ protection from everything.
Game 1: Bant (Won 2-1)
First game was great, goblin guide carried that match on his shoulders by getting in for 8. Second match was more even, but 2 Shalai's ended up taking way too much of my gas to get rid of and he ended up stabilizing with Courser of Kruphix lifegain. 3rd match he went to 17 on turn one for a Bird that got bolted in response, after that it was all downhill for him.
Game 2: Hardened Scales (Won 2-1)
First game was a mess, he went double Hardened Scales into a bunch of early game nonsense that I couldn't outrun. Destructive Revelry and Searing Blaze put in a ton of work the next two games, winning me the match.
Game 3: Some super janky homebrew affinity/ Fall of Thran control (Won 2-0)
First game he drops a Chalice of the Void for 1 right after my Goblin Guide, luckily for me I had drawn almost all 2 CMC spells so I ended up taking the game fairly easily. Didn't really give me a lot of info other than I saw he drew a Leyline of Sanctity at one point due to him playing with his hand very horizontal (lol), which was important info for game 2. Game 2 I drew a 5 lander and 2 Goblin Guides, I would almost never keep this but I knew he was gonna hard mulligan to get those leylines. And he did, going down to 5 with no lands for it. Both Goblin guides did almost 20 damage together that fight lol.
Game 4: UW Control (Lost 1-2)
I was actually feeling really good this match up, and game one was a standard burn rundown so I was feeling even better. Game 2 he would most likely bring in Lyra so I brought in Path and Deflecting. Didn't draw a single one of them the entire game lol, and his Lyra ended up stabilizing him at 4 life. Game 3 was just a sad stroke of luck. He blew up all my white sources and I was only drawing white cards... oh well, it happens.
Again, all in all I felt pretty good about it. Destructive Revelry and Goblin Guide were definitely the MVPs of the night. Rest in peace wasn't so hot, but that's super match up dependent so w/e. I'll post my decklist bellow for anyone curious. From what some of the guys there were saying, there is a lot of creature based combo decks, so I'm thinking my little burn deck should do pretty well in the future.
https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/14-08-18-BlW-boros-burn/
While I don't think it'll be improving my deck during testing, it'll be nice to just have more fun cards in an otherwise fairly linear deck.