Monday, January 24, 2011

Currently Armed: RDW

I thought that I should post a deck I'm currently using every once in a while.  Every deck I post is the result of testing and analysis, but few of my builds survive the test of time and my budget.  So here's my interpretation of Red Deck Wins.  It's what I'm currently using, but the list is far from finished.

1 Goblin Guide
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Keldon Marauders
4 Spark Elemental

1 Burst Lightning
1 Earthquake
4 Flame Javelin
3 Flames of the Blood Hand
2 Howling Mine
2 Incinerate
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Rift Bolt
4 Temple Bell

18 Mountain
4 Teetering Peaks

Sideboard:
3 Breath of Darigaaz
4 Flame Slash
1 Flames of the Blood Hand
3 Manabarbs
4 Pyroclasm

The deck is still a work in progress.  The Temple Bells haven't shown amazing results; I plan to invest money in a playset of Browbeat, outside of my usual budget constraints.  The Incinerates and one Flames of the Blood Hand will be replaced with three more copies of Burst Lightning when I finish out my playset.  The removed FotBH will go to my sideboard in place of a Flame Slash.

The singletons were all cards I had sitting around when I made the deck.  I tested it with Chandra Nalaar but she was just too slow for the deck; I took her out for an Earthquake I had sitting around.

The sideboard is a concession to four things: Manabarbs shuts down control decks since they hurt themselves too badly for any move to be profitable.  Pryoclasm and Breath of Darigaaz shut down weenie decks which are highly prevalent in my meta.  Flame Slash kills Wall of Omens and Overgrown Battlement, traditional problems for the red deck.  Finally, Flames of the Blood Hand is the nail in the coffin against lifegain, another popular theme in my meta.

Hope you liked it.  Keep in mind that this is a deck tailored to my meta more than most decks I play.

Until next time, play on.

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