Through the Fire and the Flame

by DedWards on 15 October 2018

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sorceries (1)


Instants (5)


Enchantments (2)

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Deck Description

Beensitting on Glorybringer; Stormbreath Dragon; and Thunderbreak Regent for a while now. Originally I was going to make a Skred Red deck using them as finishers, but I've been struggling to find Snow-Covered Mountain. Then, a few days ago, I realised Fatal Push can fill the same roll as Skred (mostly), so I dug up the dragons and any BR duals I could find. This is the result.


I was originally worried about the high number of 4 and 5 mana cards, but it turns out that a 4/4 Dragon after a 4/4 Dragon, every turn, is pretty powerful when backed up by early game removal.

Still not sure on the sideboard. I have two Storm decks and a Tooth and Nail based Tron to worry about, and Dismember is for the few Hazorets in my club (and other prot red / indistructible / high toughness creatures).

*Edit 8 Dec '18
Reworked the sideboard. There's only 1 true control player at my club at the moment, but a lot of combo and aggro players, especially 2 aggro red players (an Arclight Phoenix + Runaway Steam-Kin deck and an 8 Whack deck). So the sideboard has been tweaked accordingly.

How to Play

Idealy you want at least 1 mana rock to play a turn 3 Thunderbreak Regent / Chandra, Torch of Defiance / Koth of the Hammer, and / or a turn 4 Stormbreath Dragon / Glorybringer. Just keep playing these awesome threats turn after turn while swinging with your dragons until the opponent is dead. Mind Stone can be used to draw a card once the mana it provides is no longer needed.

Lightning Bolt; Fatal Push, Cut (Cut // Ribbons), and Anger of the Gods help buy time until you start dropping dragons and 'walkers.

Ribbons* (Cut // Ribbons) makes for a nice alternative win, especially with Chandra's second [+1] or Koth's [-2] helping pay towards the {X}.

Stormbreath Dragon is pretty resilient to a lot of targeted removal in the format. Its cmc is too high for Fatal Push, protection from White makes it immune to Path to Exile , and 4 base toughness keeps it just out of range of a single Lightning Bolt. And with the extra mana from the mana rocks or 'walkers, making it monstrous isn't a rare occurrence.

Glorybringer's exert ability comes in handy as you get to save on removal spells. Haste is also very good. There's a reason this was such a good card in standard.

While Thunderbreak Regent doesn't have haste like the other two dragons, it is 1 mana cheaper, and punishes the opponent for using spot removal on your dragons.


*I made a fatal error with my original sideboard choice for grave hate. I originally had Relic of Progenitus as my grave hate, but I had a game where it exiled my Ribbons. I have since replaced it with Nihil Spellbomb

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Dragon
  • Planeswalker

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Through the Fire and the Flame

Have you considered Dreadbore, or are there not really any planeswalkers that show up in your meta enough to justify it?

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Posted 14 December 2018 at 11:20

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Besides the lack of walkers in my meta, I don't have any Dreadbore.
The problem decks in my meta are 8 Whack, an aggro Arclight Phoenix mono red, Storm, Grishoalbrand, Tooth and Nail Tron, and Valakut. Not many planeswalkers there.

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Posted 14 December 2018 at 13:20

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Ah. Never mind then, though keep it in mind if you want to play at a larger tournament.

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Posted 14 December 2018 at 22:03

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take out smoldering marsh and bloodstained mire and put in dragonskull summit. Then i would take a look at the new 3 mana m19 sarkahn planeswalker. and finally, i would recommend 4 copies of cavern of souls because a: it screws control up completely and b: it lets you pay any colored mana for you dragons.

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Posted 15 December 2018 at 02:19

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Why swap the Smoldering Marsh, which is a mountain, for a non mountain? Koth of the Hammer works better the more Mountains you have. And the fetches help me get the duals and trigger Revolt for Fatal Push.

Cavern of Souls is a little too expensive for my liking (Currently $60+ on Star City Games). Besides, I don't need the mana fixing as I'm (mostly) mono red. And if you read the comments above, control isn't really a problem in my meta.

Honestly, I don't feel like I need Sarkhan, Fireblood. Like I said already, I'm mono red, so the colour fixing isn't needed, I have 6 walkers and 6 mana rocks that provide mana that can be used on any spell, and my dragons don't have super high mana costs.

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Posted 15 December 2018 at 06:04

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