MTG Salvation

First take with mono Green. SB changes with meta game. After seeing Rumti play Swarm Shambler I came up with the second version.
I watch Rumti and RintMS that I watch for updates to the archetype.

Another build I just thought up to increase the number of routes to a Turn 4 Henge is to remove 2 Yorvo for 2 Garruk and -4 Beetle adding 4 Lotus Cobra. T2 cobra, T3 untapped land makes 4 mana to cast Garruk, most likely make a token then on T4 +1 garruk to give +3/3 to either lotus cobra or the beast token and cast henge. It would look like this:

This has been feeling better than having Horned Beetle and Yorvo. I am going to -1 Forest, +1 Passage to see if I can really abuse Cobra.

-2 bone crusher giant, +2 Torbran?

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I think you need one more large creature 2x slot. Maybe Terror of the Peaks some kind of alternate finisher. Seems fun to play. People are probably confused when they see Scorch Spitter but it acts like a goblin guide if they have no early plays.
I was just looking under sacrifice creature. There seem to be a lot of red black options.
Possible black cards
Spark Harvest or Fireblade Artist or Labyrinth Raptor or Dire Fleet Warmonger
New red Heartfire Immolator

I do agree with "...some kind of alternate finisher". But then its like what do I take out. Thus far the deck is fairly terrible, sucks not drawing the incinerator. I play the spitter and fiend to get 5 damage with heartfire on T3. I do like Fireblade Artist in that it can eat a creature for 2 damage to help get incinerator out but then again I do not know if it would be better than the cards it would take out.

This is simple, cast token creating cards, attack for as much damage as you can then on T4 and 5 cast the retrospective card to sac a token to get Raze Boar into play for the win.


Whatcha think?

Chandra's Incinerator is no doubt a sexy card and due to her abilities requires a deck with ways to deal the opponent direct damage not only to cast her but to use her ability to knock blockers and threats out of the way. Here is my first attempt a creating the best home for her.

Other cards worth thinking about are:
Electrodominance
Slaying Fire - 3 mana for 4 damage
Spear Spewer
Light up the Stage - instead of Risk Factor
Cavalcade of calamity - different deck with more 1 drops and Torbran, Thane of Red Fell instead of spells

Has anyone else brewed with the Incinerator?
T1: fiend or spitter. T2:static field or hauler. T3: attacks and or sacs with any spell combinations of; skewer, shock or heartfire for a T3 Incinerator.

I really like Purphoros so when I saw Terror Of the Skies I got really excited! So I made some room for him in my Purphoros deck.



What do ya'll think?

Since the Banning of Fires of invention I have updated the Primer.

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Oof... well I dipped my toes into PucaTrade again, and after getting most of my 'points' back in trade, I'm officially leaving it behind forever. When all was said and done, I traded a Flooded Strand for a Thassa, Deep-Dwelling plus 400ish points I am writing off. Never mind the HOURS I spent fiddling with the site and figuring out their insane economy. After not getting any bites for a few weeks on some cards I was looking for, I simply put the highest price on a bunch of standard cards to cut my losses, figuring that inflated standard prices would get a taker.

Oh well, I guess that site is as dead as this thread is...

I have joined to the pukka trade discord channel and constant advertisement of your wants list and applying the appropriate bonuses will get you the cards you need. I also send a lot of cards out cards that I just have lying around I don't play anything other than standard and it's just cardboard to me so I send it out and get points.

So far out of the new set I am loving Quartzwood Crasher and Footfall Crater so I am brewing up a Gruul list that goes higher than current Gruul lists but hopefully the hastily bigger creatures win. Here is my first draft:

Hopefully I'll be able to play it on Arena and find out how bad it is
Some points/information.
- Bonder can enable more efficient attacks when a planeswalker is in play in that some times you have to dedicate 2/3 attacks to one planes walker just to ensure it dies due to the 1/2 blockers your opponent might have. Thus because a trampler can deal combat damage as though it was unblocked, you now only have to send one.
- Hasting paradise Druid can give you your second red or more in a rare pinch.
- I wanted at least 3 Vivien and at least 2 bonder and 9 4 drops were too many so I cut a Questing beast for a Bonecrusher, lower the curve. With 4 Druids maybe thats a mistake? I'll have to mark that card to see if it being a Questing beast would be better.
- Crater can be used mid combat to give any attacker trample based on your OP's blocking. Trample on questing beast is naturally great!
- Voracious Hydra and Gruul Spellbreaker are other possible options. I like the idea of doubling hydras counters and giving it haste!
- Mana curve is: 15 1 drops; 4 pelts, 4 crater, 4 Heart's desire, 3 Temple of abandon (2 might be the right number). 11 2 drops;4 druid, 4 Harpooner, 3 stomp. 7 3 drops; 4 lovestruck beast, 3 giant. 8 4 drops; 3 Questing Beast, 3 Vivien, 2 Bonder. 3 5 drops; 3 Crasher and 2 6 drops with Embercleave.
- I want the deck to still get out early and be aggro deal some initial damage then use its top end to finish the opponent by using Embercleave or Bonder to deal damage directly.
- Harpooner and crasher are great post wipe threats with crater in play in that harpooner can hit them for 7 or 8 total damage and crasher can make a another threat.
- If you Mutate a Gemrazer onto a Pelt Collector on T3 does it get teh counter AND turn into a 4/4 with trample and reach?!?!?!!?
- With 3 vivien it might be worth it to put in 1 God-Eternal Rhonas or Voracious Hydra to 'Fireball' the opponent.
-Ram through might be a good removal spell in this deck

So what are your thoughts? What are you ideas for the trample theme from Ikora and how would create Gruul in this new standard?

Major edit:
4/15/20: -4 Kraul Harpooner, +4 Stonecoil Serpent. I think new standard will feature more multicolored decks so sacrificing the conditional removal for a creature that is harder to deal with and scales better as the game goes on is worth it. Thinking about the popular cards that cant deal with Serpent I think it is worth it in anycase. Also frees up 3 sideboards slots.
-3 Serpent from Sideboard to main deck, +1 redcap Melee, +2 Thrashing Brontodon
4/17/20: up to 12 forest from 11 and -1 mountain +1 Temple. Have to be able to cast vivien on time, matches color requirements better I think. Wildbonder is more of a card that shows up for the final blow, down to 2, +1 bonecrusher
4/23/20: Dammit this deck sucks, LMAO. Its it just too slow. If one is going to make a trample themed deck then I think it will involve reliable ramping the first 3 turns then start dropping creatures with Trample so that you can drop bonder and get damage in directly, which I HAVE accomplished with this prior draft. I'll look into that and report. Footfall crater only seems good late game when you are in top deck mode, otherwise you are casting creatures on curve.

So the Boros build was terrible, too often discard cards you didn't want to so my new idea is to just take Jeskai Fires and take cards out and put cards in.
Here is the standard Jeskai list.
So here are the changes I am making:


The Sideboard seems fine, I'll trust the professionals and I really like Robber of the Rich with fires in play and I'll see how tithe taker works.
I know this is just a worse Jeskai Fires deck but this thread is all about the love for Purphoros and finding him the best shell.

Found this old but useful video that shows the deck in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=METXtCmCv6s

I haven't tried it enough yet on paper and I am waiting to get 3 more mythics on arena to be able to grind it on arena but once I do I'll take it to the ladder and see how far I can get. I just thought it looked better on paper as far as defending itself against the current aggro metagame.

So I have been testing here and there and I have come to realize that this deck has to better defend itself before it can go off, buy more time.
That made me this about how good Deafening Clarion is and so I looked into white as the 2nd color then came across Charming Prince then realized that if I was going to be playing 2/3 Clarion that there wouldnt be a need for Storm's Wrath, well at least not 4, then realized that I could play Shatter the Sky instead and a 2/2 split with 1 clarion in the SB would be great. I was sold. so I have came up with this Boros build:

other SB options are:
Heliod's intervention - for embercleave/aggro decks/fire decks

After Standard rotation here is the best shell I have found thus far for Purphoros:



It will take a LONG of time to see if the right number of Dragons are 3 or 4 etc. I am confident the deck will need help against aggro so maybe a form of sweeper.

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With the spoiler of Nyxbloom Ancient the thought of untapping with it and casting Finale of Devastation is SO Sexy!
So I have been brewing and came up with this list:

It would be too easy to splash colors like blue for counters or white for unbreakable formation against sweepers with shocklands, 4 cards to find them or 11/12 dorks that can do any color.

So what do you guys think?