Showing posts with label aggro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aggro. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Standard: Flinthoof Humans


Here's the list laid out in yesterday's winner's circle:


Creature curve 12-21-4-3, topping out at Frontline Medics and Ghor-Clan Rampagers. Zero removal, though the Medics and Firefist Strikers might let you "ignore" creatures you can't kill. Flinthoof Boars with only 8 mountains.

Pedro Carvalho asked about Hamlet Captain over Boar, and Karsten replied with a link to a deck by Andre Mueller.


4 Boros Elite, 4 Experiment One, 4 Champion of the Parish
4 Burning-Tree Emissary, 4 Mayor of Avabruck, 4 Lightning Mauler, 4 Flinthoof Boar, 3 Hamlet Captain, 1 Thalia
3 Kessig Malcontents
3 Ghor-Clan Rampager
2 Searing Spear
4 Cavern of Souls, 12 Shocklands, 4 M10 duals

That's a creature curve of 12-20-3-3, with 2 actual spells (Searing Spears) and the same 20 lands as Karsten's deck.

There is an 8-card difference between the two maindecks. Karsten has 2 extra Thalia, 2 Firefist Striker, and 4 Frontline Medic, where Mueller has 3 Hamlet Captain, 2 Searing Spear, and 3 Kessig Malcontents.

(Mueller also has an actual 4-of in his sideboard, to protect his Medic-less deck from Supreme Verdicts.)

With its superior 1-drops, Humans has sort of taken over from Saito-style Rg as the top Burning-Tree aggro deck in standard. Running Flinthoof Boar on a 3C Cavern of Souls mana base is bold tech from some very advanced players.

Saturday, 25 May 2013

Block: Composition of aggro decks

Aggro decks at PT DGM:
  • The Florida Naya deck played 21 lands / 32 creatures / 7 other (going by Chris Fennell's list), and the creatures included 8 one-drops and 16 two-drops.
  • The Rourix Naya deck used 24 lands / 29 creatures / 7 other (going by Jose Francisco de Silva's list and counting "make a token" as creatures). They used no one-drops and 16 two-drops, including 4 Zhur-Taa Druid.
  • Wescoe's GW deck played 23 lands / 32 creatures / 5 other. He used 12 one-drops and 12 two-drops.
  • Josh Utter-Leyton's Rw deck played 21 lands / 28 creatures / 11 other. He used 12 one-drops and 12 two-drops, and he had Legion's Initiative maindeck over Boros Reckoner.
Aggro decks that have 4-0'ed in the last two published dailies:
  • MagicLair playing the same 37 spells as Wescoe
  • xMiMx playing 35/37 of the same spells, except with 2 Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage instead of 2 of the Judge's Familiar
  • Puddingtime playing 35/39 of the same spells as Utter-Leyton, with 4 Viashino Firstblade instead of 4 Frontline Medic
  • Shatun playing 19 Mountains, 33 creatures, 4 Dynacharge, and 4 Mizzium Mortars (similar to Jonas Koestler's 8-1-1 deck from the PT)
  • Medvedev playing a sweet Bant tokens deck featuring 4 Lyev Skyknight and 3 Rapid Hybridization