Wednesday, July 10, 2013

My Epic Storm

See it as Norin intended.

So yeah haven't really done standard in a little bit but Young Pyromancer is just too damn awesome to not build a deck with him (though he needs to put on a damn shirt...kids these days). So I thought to myself while grocery shopping...how can I make him in the most fair deck I can? Then I suddenly collapsed as a dark vision came to me. Blood rained down from the sky, dark clouds in the sky, thunderbolts flashed illuminating the sky...and it came to me. Storm. The most fairest deck of them all. After all, even the great Lord Maro has a mighty Storm scale which he judges the most fairest of mechanics. So obviously storm is the fairest. Shut up. Logic.

Anyways, an elderly lady with her grandchild poked me on the head as I came too asking if I was okay. I jolted up, pushing the lady aside, as I stormed out of there knocking her groceries all over the floor. I had work to do as I heard her grandchild crying out for help as the lady struggled to get back on her wheelchair.

But...with that totally fair and not completely stupid mechanic not being in standard I had to be creative to appease the vision. So looking through the standard cards we basically have two rituals.

Infernal Plunge
Battle Hymn

Both of which (in)conveniently need creatures. But how can I dun make creatures I asked the dark god in the sky. And then not Maro gave me Young Pyromancer. It appears my goat sacrificing had appeased the wizard gods as they have given me this great power. Oh and also goblins.

Alright so now that I have these guys I needed a way to win. What was a totally not obscure way I could win...well I recalled this...oddly when I was thinking about Emmara Tandris for some reason. Also when thinking about fire I decided eh why not.

Well now that I had my deck idea ready I ran over to my buddy and start ravingabout all of my ideas. He said my deck was the shit! Or maybe just shit. I really don't remember. Whatever. I just am going to raid his cards later anyway. Oh and more goblins.

Finally at long last...I had all the cards I needed. Only one step left. I got my bubbling cauldron from my attic ready, threw my friends cards in, and took the cards up on the roof. Magically the Gods struck my cauldron with lightning and gave birth to...my epic experiment.

TLDNR: 

Deck List
Win Con (besides just beats)
1 Burn at the Stake

Pretty Much a Win Con
2 Epic Experiment
2 Past in Flames

Creature Poopers
4 Young Pyromancer
4Krenko's Command

Rituals/Close Enough to a Ritual
4 Battle Hymn
2 Infernal Plunge
4 Goblin Electromancer

Shovels
4 Faithless Looting
4 Think Twice
4 Desperate Ravings
4 Thought Scour

Lands...yawn
6x Island
7x Mountain
4x Steam Vents
4x Sulfur Falls

Sideboard
3x Guttersnipe
2x Izzet Charm
1x Massive Raid
4x Pillar of Flame
2x Ral Zarek
3x Syncopate

How to play the deck

Alright real talk. You want to have in your opening hand either a Young Pyromancer or a Goblin Electromancer (preferably both) and some dig. If you don't have that in your first hand mull unless if you are sure you have enough dig you can get it by T3. Besides that as far as cantrip priority I made a little guide.

Goblin Electromancer? 

Yes!
1. Think Twice
2. Desperate Ravings (depending on hand may move up to one) 
3. Thought Scour
4. Faithless Looting

No :(
1. Thought Scour
2. Faithless Looting
3. Think Twice
4. Desperate Ravings

Now this order does change depending on if you are comboing off or not. Typically if you have a ritual you want to save desperate ravings and faithless looting since they are red mana dependant.

On that note be very wise about how you spend your Blue mana. It is a limiting factor in the deck. Besides that the goal is to get a lot of tokens via young pyromancer and krenko's command and using that mana for combo rituals into an eventual Burn at the Stake...or you know...just flat out murdering your opponents with the army you have.

Finally some notes about the sideboard. It's really experimental at the moment. Guttersnipe and Massive Raid are in for an alt win con should you need it. Pillar of Flame is for Voice of Lameness and other pesky jerks. Ral, Syncopate, and Izzet Charm are in for long grindier games/control.

Enjoy,

Jude


TLDNR 2:
Just cast shit and smack the dudes with the tokens and the things.

1 comment:

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    http://ascendedapprentice.blogspot.com

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