Thursday, April 01, 2010

RW Control Revisited

1 Baneslayer Angel
4 Luminarch Ascension
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Burst Lightning
4 Path to Exile
3 Earthquake
4 Chain Reaction
2 Comet Storm
2 Chandra Ablaze
3 Ajani Vengeant
4 Everflowing Chalice

4x Valakut
4x Arid Mesa
5x plains
11x mountais

SB:
4x Day of Judgement
2x Baneslayer
4x Oblivion Ring
4x Volcanic Fallout
1x Chandra Ablaze

When playing against Zors last night, I found that Mind Sludge wrecks me, just like blightning only worse. I feel that I needed to add some form of a board presence, and Luminarch Ascension should do that.

Chandra Ablaze fills a similar purpose while adding versatility to my deck. When she is down, she can turn any of my red spells into free sorcery speed Flame Javelins, additionally, If I do need new cards I can use the - ability to refill my hand (unfortunately, this could also help my opponent, but I think that most of the times I would need to use it it will probably help me more.)

These two cards will help me some against discard which is just slaughtering me it seems.

I moved the Day of Judgements and the Oblivion Rings to the board and brought the earthquake count back up. This does make me a little more vulnerable to UW skies and other flyer decks but the L:uminarch Ascension hopefully will act as a counter to that.

So now there are two forms of inevitability to the deck, both of which have limited numbers of ways to deal with them (Ascension and Valakut)

Im a little tempted to lose Valakut so that I can make room for a third color, blue, to add a little more versatility and card draw to the deck. For now, Im going to be working on trying to stay as true to my original idea as possible though.

1 comment:

DRokRoss said...

Post RoE cards of note, thus far:

Gideon Jura

Planeswalker - Gideon
[+2]: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able.
[-2]: Destroy target tapped creature.
[0]: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
Illus. Aleksi Briclot #21/248 6


Wall of Omens

Creature - Wall
Defender
When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.
0/4