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RD(P)L2k12 75 cards, 15 sideboard 4 {Hellion Crucible} 17 {Mountain} 21 lands 4 {Reckless Waif} 4 {Bloodcrazed Neonate} 4 {Stromkirk Noble} 4 {Stormblood Berserker} 16 creatures 4 {Arc Trail} 4 {Volt Charge} 3 {Koth of the Hammer} 4 {Incinerate} 4 {Gut Shot} 4 {Shrine of Burning Rage} 23 other spells Sideboard 3 {Combust} 1 {Pillar of Flame} 2 {Smelt} 3 {Mental Misstep} 3 {Grafdigger's Cage} 3 {Traitorous Blood} 15 sideboard cards Notes: This is my standard deck that I usually run. I try to keep it as up to date as possible. I did run a build of this at PTQ Return to Ravnica where I went 5-2 (11-6-0) and made Top8

No vexing devils?
That soulbond haste guy has proven pretty problematic on numerous occasions in my tech group.

Quote from: Kaleo42 on June 19, 2012, 04:47:42 AM
No vexing devils?
That soulbond haste guy has proven pretty problematic on numerous occasions in my tech group.

{lightning mauler}

Lightning mauler is an excellent 2 drop. I can't think of a better 2 drop since he allows anything yøū play the next turn to attack when played.

Quote from: KangaRod on June 21, 2012, 01:41:22 AM
I really think {vexing devil} is just simply not good. I'd have to cut {gut shot} or {pillar of flame} for him, and both of those are so incredible in the meta right now.

I'd like to run {lightning mauler} but he costs 2 mana and I'm not sure I want to drop the {bloodcrazed neonate} for him since it synergizes with {volt charge} so well. Perhaps when it cycles, I'd think about bringing him in for ita synergy with {brimstone volley} which is probably what I'll run instead of {volt charge} unless stuff really comes in to change up; I see the environment getting only more creature heavy.... Which means {lighting mauler} may get better.

How did you make top 8 at a ptq?

Vexing devil is very good. If you know how to play magic.

Quote from: KangaRod on June 22, 2012, 04:59:46 AM
Feel free to enlighten me, I don't claim to know everything. How would I correctly play {Vexing Devil}?

Vexing devil against any good deck is mediocre. If you're playing a bunch of kiddies that don't play with removal or counters then yeah, vd is good. (omg lol)

With all these delver, esper control, wolf ramp flying around,he is not a threat whatsoever.

He is only OK in the first hand or t2. 

You NEVER want to leave the decision of a card up to your opponent.

He's a scrub and not worth a slot in a deck, sorry.

Quote from: KangaRod on June 23, 2012, 12:40:33 AM
Oh  don't apologize at all. I agree 100%, I was curious as to how he thought {vexing devil} was worth anything more than a piece of toilet paper to wipe my ass with.

I don't know why I quoted you haha. Im with u. He's not worth a slot

Fire servant or galvanoth

I would honestly cut volt charge and the bloodcrazed neonate. They work well together, but Vexing Devil and Lightning Mauler are so strong. They seem way more worth it.

Quote from: KangaRod on June 23, 2012, 03:55:30 AM
why on earth would I put a card that costs that much to cast with only 20 lands? To boot.... is {fire servant} even T2 legal?


Wasn't overly impressed with the performance of {Chandra's Phoenix} so I dropped the pair of those, as well as a single {pillar of flame} then added 3 {reckless waifs}, but I like to look at them as {merciless predators} haha, just because they brought the pain so hard in some of my other games (but I was also happy with {stonewright}. More often than not I found that surprisingly the sorcery aspect of {pillar of flame} was a bit of a pain, and I seemed to use like the use of {gut shot} way more.

You forgot the second parenthesses.

Quote from: KangaRod on June 23, 2012, 03:55:30 AM
why on earth would I put a card that costs that much to cast with only 20 lands? To boot.... is {fire servant} even T2 legal?


Wasn't overly impressed with the performance of {Chandra's Phoenix} so I dropped the pair of those, as well as a single {pillar of flame} then added 3 {reckless waifs}, but I like to look at them as {merciless predators} haha, just because they brought the pain so hard in some of my other games (but I was also happy with {stonewright}. More often than not I found that surprisingly the sorcery aspect of {pillar of flame} was a bit of a pain, and I seemed to use like the use of {gut shot} way more.

I'm actually going to add reckless waifs instead of a few things like a playset of Chandra's Phoenix.

Do you play with koth at all?

Dragon seems bad to me...it will take 4 turns (leaving room for 1 proliferate)...and even that is long. He will just get removed when he awakens. {Silent Departure}, anyone? To make him good, you need a ton of cards that either proliferate or give counters. You have some, but not enough to make him a threat. And putting in more would waste space.

IMO {Hellion Crucible} is garbage. Although I can see your decks use for them, me personally I wouldn't