Saturday, June 14, 2008

R/B bombs=New Avatar

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9 Mountain
1 Burn Trail
1 Corrosive Mentor
1 Sootstoke Kindler
1 Sootwalkers
1 Gravelgill Axeshark
1 Flame Javelin
8 Swamp
2 Blowfly Infestation
1 Torture
2 Elsewhere Flask
1 Wingrattle Scarecrow
1 Fists of the Demigod
1 Scarscale Ritual
1 Cultbrand Cinder
1 Blistering Dieflyn
1 Ashenmoor Liege
1 Midnight Banshee

1 Incremental Blight
2 Rustrazor Butcher
1 Jaws of Stone
1 Emberstrike Duo

Sideboard
2 Manaforge Cinder
2 Loch Korrigan
1 Helm of the Ghastlord
1 Inescapable Brute
2 Cerulean Wisps
1 Cinderhaze Wretch
1 Splitting Headache
1 Smolder Initiate
1 Curse of Chains
1 Ashenmoor Cohort
1 Mudbrawler Raiders
1 Rattleblaze Scarecrow
1 Runes of the Deus
1 Fists of the Demigod
1 Cinderbones
1 Gravelgill Duo
1 Æthertow
1 Emberstrike Duo

1 Crimson Wisps

This potent R/B deck won me my first Shadowmoor draft. A note to anyone who has played mostly 10th Edition and is planning on trying Shadowmoor, the power level is MUCH higher. This deck focused mainly on the ineraction between the bombtastic incremental blight and midnight banshee, and the -1/-1 power of double blowfly infestation. Blowfly infestation is powerful but tricky, remember if your opponent has no creatures on the field the infestation can force you to hurt yourself. Also, elsewhere flasks are amazing, if you can pick up even one jaws of stone of corrupt they are worth it and flow of ideas and howl of the night pack go great with it as well. A final note, I frequently used crimson wisps as a sideboarded card against deck running the hybrid enchantments. They are very powerful but a single wisps can change the enchanted creature's color mid combat enabling a 2-0 trade. Anyway between the agression of boartusk liege and the massive amount of removal and bombs in this deck I was able to easily win the tournament despite a few play mistakes. Yay for a Reaper King Avatar!

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