wickeddarkman

You jest, tease!

About 2 weeks ago I was asked how I would improve a boros burn.
I suggested the person moved kor firewalker to the main board to fight the buildup in red decks, then as a sidenote I argued that he should get auriok champion because of the rise in rakdos is evident.

This week white weenie surfaces with 3 auriok champion in the sideboard.
If only they'd put it main, because rakdos Is most played in modern now.

Once white weenie starts putting auriok champion in main, burn will turn back to boros to be able to take out auriok.
This means boros players can get an edge by still packing auriok champion themselves if they also keep kor firewalker nearby.

Let's see what happens the next 14 days.

Then grizzly gets to stay, but ditch the flood thingy, it's worthless.

Fallen empires is only restricted in some of the 93/94 formats, depending more or less on nationality.
Nicely writ, and I especially loved your phrase "next in our wicked rooster"
Made me feel rooty again.

Yeah, I might always be right (at least once each day, as the astrologer said)
But I might be hard to interpret;)

No, bogles is an active deck that my mill fights with cards like devour flesh and engineered explosives.
I test against it. Back 2 years ago bogles had 4 leyline of sanctity which totally stops my mill tech. It's one of the reasons for playing chancellor of the Spires.

Better!
You should find cards that interacts with hand size as lurrus now increases it.
Martyr or sand is an example.

Talent of the telepath is usually more flexible than grizzly spectacle.
Chronic flooding is basically worthless as your opponent can just stop using that land. It will only work if you have something that can tap the land frequently. A better choice would be mesmeric orb.

With your knowledge on the modern arena, what might I be missing as testdecks?

Ad nauseam
Bant
Bg shadow
Bogles
Eldrazi colorless
Gwx vizier
Humans
Jund
Land destruction
Mizzet 5c
Pif
Rakdos
Rdw
Scapeshift (various)
Tron
Uw

Was this deck based on the new companion errata?

This has 20 lands, and I can list:
Project silhana alfred version
The ultimate pervy deck
Discard devotion
Izzet a stupid deck
Sage of the ozolith
There a card on top play it

All have 20 lands. It's your default number when your deck isn't experimental with the mana.

Considering how many decks you post, you can't refine the mana of them all.

I can suggest that you start making your default mana into 22 which is a much more stable than 20.
Go take a look at my decks. All of them have had the mana refined with at least 200 games each as the bare minimum, and the major projects have at least 2000 games behind them.

Look at the mana and you'll find most rests above 21 mana.

This isn't storm :)
I'm currently testing through boogles, and I've forgotten how much I've used engineered explosives in the past mill designs. I did expect to use cards like tribute to hunger and devour flesh to deal with big creatures. I had also forgotten that bogles used to play 4 leyline of sanctity, which meant battles had to be won by going aggro with fulminator mage and chancellor of the Spires. It's certainly not fast games.

How come you almost always default to 20 lands ?

In this deck you obviously put money on emrakul, so you must set your mana to play the planeswalker asap.
From games where I studied how much mana was necessary to hardcast archive trap I know that 25 lands is optimal, but 24 lands also useable.

Tormenting voice and cathartic reunion will allow you to adjust whether or not it pays to go with a fast weenie strategy or the planeswalker approach. By discarding lands or collecting them.

What about fog instead of lightning bolt?

Ah, makes sense to play the deck carefully rather than reckless. And you will frequently get a chancellor mana and a land.

How often did you activate leyline of abundance second ability ?
Did abundance improve your self output ?

Next time you might want to try out the lifegain stormcard.
I can also sell you the idea of adding a single edge of autumn to the deck, but only one. It's my suggestion to all combo, but ironically doesn't work in my glimpse deck.

I'm getting interested in the deck:)

I could spend some days running it through my paperstrip method, just to see what evolution would do with this.
Give me a small list of cards you really wanted to add to the deck but had to give up on during your building it.

At what turn did you combo most often and what's your goal turn.

If you can get to a decklist similar to the one that defeated you I can use it to train the deck on it.

Do you remember which decktypes that brought you down to 2-5 life?
Training against those will be sweet to do.

Give me as many details as possible, if theres any of the cards you want to play that you only have 1 of. Do you have any cards you might want to invest in, but are unsure about.

I could also walk you through how to do it on yourself, but it would mean a lot of work on your side.

It locks down the lands that the ld normally would, stall the mana base long enough for another ld to arrive and draws a replacement card for it's own effect, which keeps the steam up.

How on earth did you get past rdw, which destroys your mana elves ?
Am I missing something?

I have been thinking of simian spiritguide to kickstart the red half of the deck.

I thought it was legal by being a masters card, but it isn't modern legal

Just discovered sinkhole was out of the question. Turned to spreading seas instead.

Remember that it can double dig when you have 4 mana.
It enables visions of beyond much faster.

He's obviously given up on kaheera.
Don't do that, the companion errata have only made companion more nuts.
Now that you physically draw the card, all cards printed that has to do with hand size are affected by it, which means this card now has several thousand new interactions compared to before the errata...

Read my post.

Wickeddarkman tells you stream of thought is beating thought scour, do you listen?
(Vaguely disguised magic meme)