MTG Salvation

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

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

Here is my take on the Purphoros Fires deck that seems to be the best shell for Purphoros:

I tested many games where this deck always was on the draw to see the worse case situation against Gruul Adventures and it did quite well I thought. Storm's Wrath is a beating and the deck is so explosive and digs through cards very quickly.

What other version have you guys tested? Next I am going to replace the 3rd boar with a 2nd Drakuseth.
1/21 edit: -1 Mountain, +1 Castle Vantress
4 bonecrusher Giant to Sideboard after testing revealed a strong need to remove or block pre-fires. 4 Borrowers to bounce stuff. 4 shock for aggro and 3 negate for control
1/31: 4 MD Bonecrusher for early removal and blocking. -1 Mtn, with so much draw and scry etc trying to add more spells. +3 Redcap Melee for Mono red matchup, negates become Mystical Dispute. 4 Lava Coil over Shocks.
2/12: -2 Boar~its just too cute, WinMore. +1 Wrath, +1 Cavalier. Wraths are pretty important against fast decks.
2/19: -1 Ox, +1 Drak. playing Drak just wins.

Martin Juza briefly discusses this deck then played it exhausted here, starting at 5:23

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?

how good would immolation shaman be against food decks? everytime they use oven, cat, goose (to make food) food fabled passage or wolf then get dinged.

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24 Creatures + 10 Spells + 23 Lands = 57 cards deck

ACK! Thanks, added +2 Yorvo and 1 hellkite

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To fix your mana base add Fabled Passage. I run 3 plus one rugged highlands. I'm also at 24 lands too. Without another untapped r/g land at our disposal, you will probably need 23 lands at least.

My list for bo1 Arena. Seems decent, perhaps not as good as in the last meta. Bonecrusher giant is really good, as is questing beast. I'm not sold on Robber of the Rich yet. I think Zhur-taa Goblin may be better.

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4 Stomping Ground (RNA) 259 4 Gruul Spellbreaker (RNA) 179 4 Growth-Chamber Guardian (RNA) 128 10 Forest (RIX) 196 6 Mountain (M19) 275 2 Zhur-Taa Goblin (RNA) 215 2 Nullhide Ferox (GRN) 138 3 Fabled Passage (ELD) 244 4 Paradise Druid (WAR) 171 1 Rugged Highlands (M20) 250 2 Shock (M19) 156 3 Once Upon a Time (ELD) 169 4 Questing Beast (ELD) 171 2 Skarrgan Hellkite (RNA) 114 4 Bonecrusher Giant (ELD) 115 3 Lava Coil (GRN) 108 2 Robber of the Rich (ELD) 138

Dont understand how Goblin could be better than robber since robber is easier to cast and can net you cards especially late game. It can also block fliers.

LOVE this card

and I love Green Aggro so I started this list, let me know your thoughts:

So what you all think? I'll be making more edits as time goes on.
10/1: added 4 Once upon a time and removed 2 paradise druid, 1 Yorvo and 1 Love struck beast.
10/15: replaced Harpooner with Zhur Goblin, more toughness and haste whenever needed. +1 Spellbreaker, -1 Yorvo.
-1 cottage & -1 castle, +2 Mtn > more red for the goblin. +3 Flame sweep, -2 Spyglass, -1 lava coil to SB for field of dead decks. +1 Harpooner -1 Lava coil
10/17: it was brought to my attention that I was missing 3 cards so; +2 Yorvo, +1 Skarrgan Hellkite
11/11/19:no more Field of the dead and the Meta is all food decks. Replaced Goblins with Harpooners. Added Cindervines to the deck to combat dance decks.

So I considered sideboarding Massacre Girl and Order of Midnight for slightly less conditional board wipes. But my deck has to choose between W or B and doesn't support both.

What about Realm-cloaked Giant?

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I've stopped playing 4C Gates for about three weeks. Actually, I stopped playing paper Standard. The meta has gotten extraordinarily gross and I don't feel like investing further in paper cards this close to rotation.

Gold fishing strategies against decks centered around Field of the Dead, Risen Reef and/or Agent of Treachery isn't yielding very good results. If a deck just employs one of these cards, I can find the strategy to beat it. If the deck uses two or three of these cards, then I can't find the strategy without involving a greater degree of luck.

Of course, there are a number of sideboard cards that can be utilized. I just haven't figured out which ones ywt.

rams have trample and colossuses cant be blocked by creatures with 2 or less power......
gates ablaze and deafening clarion take care of creature swarms. Im just saying on this thread that if people already had the cards they can play the deck and on that note what new cards would be improvements if any, what SB cards would be included and what do you think the metagame will look like?

This deck is unaffected by Rotation. If you had it built before you can use it on the first FNM after rotation.
Here is my list to start:


Not too sure where to take the Sideboard but this is a start.

I wanted to find people to talk about Jund dinosaurs, my new favorite deck that is competitive.
First is the list I am currently running because I am trying to max out on T3 Ghaltas'.


I dont think my sideboard is ideal. With the unbanning of Rampaging Ferocidon perhaps that goes into the SB to combat vampires and scapeshift, -3 Fame Sweep, +3 Ferocidon??? Once I have enough bad experiences with Raptor Hatchling im sure I'll take those out.
My main questions are how to side board, what have you all been doing?