Sideboard Help

[theravenseye]

Need some help with my mono-red sideboard. Here's the deck:


43 Angry One-Drops

60 cards, 15 sideboard


17 Mountain
17 lands


4 Akroan Crusader
4 Firedrinker Satyr
4 Frenzied Goblin
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Foundry Street Denizen
20 creatures


2 Blinding Flare
4 Dragon Mantle
4 Coordinated Assault
4 Titan's Strength
3 Flamespeaker's Will
4 Hammerhand
2 Magma Spray
23 other spells


Sideboard

2 Tormenting Voice
2 Act of Treason
1 Shatter
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Crater's Claws
2 Circle of Flame
3 Lightning Strike
15 sideboard cards

[AstroGeek327]

I don't know if this is good advice or not, but someone told me to go for variety over quantity in my sideboards. So no more than two of one card. It has worked pretty well for me as far as I can tell, but I don't get out and play much.

[LinkCelestrial]

Astro, that's generally good advice. However, if you know you're going to see, for the purpose of this standard deck, tons of reanimator, then you want to run four {Tormod's Crypt} because that makes your matchup /so much better/.

Generally with a deck like this I focus more on patching weaknesses than exploiting those of my opponents. You want to win quickly, if the things you'd sideboard in to deal with their threats become relevant you're probably in trouble. Currently there are a fair chunk of board wipes and sweepers, none of which are fixable in sideboard for mono red atm...

{Chandra, Pyromaster}: Late game card draw, punch through defense and peg off things in the mirror. I think you should consider one or two.

More {Circle of Flame}. Having two out shuts down most decks so hard. I personally run four in one of my decks. (sideboard)

Maybe a couple more {Shatter} to deal with {Perilous Vault}. Meta dependent.

I don't really like {Crater's Claws}. Seems kinda meh with your really low mana base and low powered creatures. I'd think about switching to {Stoke the Flames}.

[Thetrufflehunter]

{harness by force}. Grab their suited up heroic, or their dragon, or their polukranos, or anything like that.

[AstroGeek327]

Astro, that's generally good advice. However, if you know you're going to see, for the purpose of this standard deck, tons of reanimator, then you want to run four {Tormod's Crypt} because that makes your matchup /so much better/.

Generally with a deck like this I focus more on patching weaknesses than exploiting those of my opponents. You want to win quickly, if the things you'd sideboard in to deal with their threats become relevant you're probably in trouble. Currently there are a fair chunk of board wipes and sweepers, none of which are fixable in sideboard for mono red atm...

{Chandra, Pyromaster}: Late game card draw, punch through defense and peg off things in the mirror. I think you should consider one or two.

More {Circle of Flame}. Having two out shuts down most decks so hard. I personally run four in one of my decks. (sideboard)

Maybe a couple more {Shatter} to deal with {Perilous Vault}. Meta dependent.

I don't really like {Crater's Claws}. Seems kinda meh with your really low mana base and low powered creatures. I'd think about switching to {Stoke the Flames}.

That makes sense x) I love this forum, I am actualy starting to understand MTG a little more!