He was talking about their live show at FYF, Ali and Q-Tip went hard for Phife Dawg. But I digress.
On another note, what are people's opinions on Hellspark Elemental and Keldon Marauders and whatever other burn creatures exist with temporary board presence? My opinion flip-flops a lot depending on the matchup.
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I like Marauders a bit better because it does guaranteed damage and has nice synergy with haste effects (and blink effects, I suppose). Hellspark never really appealed to me because it's awful to cast on curve, but if you wait to cast it it's way too likely to get walled out.
I really like Hellspark. There are few things that can block it and survive in the early game. And even in the later game it ussually represents 5-6 damage. Even if it gets blocked that means another creature of yours isn't.
If I play Hellspark on turn 2.. it will get through unblocked about 95% of the time.
Then you can just set up for him later with maybe Goblin Bombardment or Hissing Iguanar to gain some incidental value. I think he's a good, but not great, red aggressive creature.
The burn creatures are bad on curve, you're missing out on board development to effectively bolt your opponent in the face (but worse because it actually has counterplay, so it's more of a punisher effect really). Still, Marauders is generally a lava axe for 2 mana and gets crazy with haste and blink so I'd run it before the Hellspark.
Yeah, you shouldn't be playing these on turn 2. Thats how you start letting your opponents start stabilizing on turn 4 or 3.
I'm still using hellspark for a theoretical deck that uses goblin bombardment, but I think it's pretty average. Our aggro decks dont turn into burn decks as easily as the card would like.
It's essentially a Raise the Alarm with Retrace. Boros decks usually don't care about lands, I legitimately can't remember a game where a Boros aggro deck landed the Trenches and couldn't sac lands.
On the other hand, Swift Warkite is twice the cmc and has an unexciting ETB and unexciting body. It doesn't fit in aggro decks, and it won't make much of a splash in any other kind of a deck. There's a lot of better Rakdos cards to run.
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Oh, but you see, you only need to unearth Mogis's Marauder, Lightning Mauler, or Bloodlust Inciter and it does. (Yeah, no, the name is generic and nonsensical.)
Hes much heavier white than red, and cloistered youth is already better than thriving grubs. So if you're going to put in accorder paladin, the grubs should go.
Regardless, I just dont feel comfortable playing 15 lands. There are 9/8 sources for white\red which helps, but if it was me I would cut... Maybe lightning mauler since it doesnt synergize well with the "late game" for another basic. The deck is probably aggro enough to support hellspark, but that was my other choice. It's also dense enough and low toughness enough that mutagenic growth for free makes a lot of sense.
I would just cut the Keldon Champion for Accorder Paladin if you're worried about the low land count.
There are a couple configurations that work well here, and any changes are pretty minor. I would put Accorder Paladin in over Thriving Grubs and replace either Renegade Freighter or Hellspark Elemental for Mutagenic Growth or Acolyte of the Inferno/Splatter Thug respectively.
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On another note, what are people's opinions on Hellspark Elemental and Keldon Marauders and whatever other burn creatures exist with temporary board presence? My opinion flip-flops a lot depending on the matchup.
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Of note, it can't actually give a "dies" trigger when you unearth it. It IS sacrifice fodder, yes, but it's not two triggers with e.g. Blood Artist.
Then you can just set up for him later with maybe Goblin Bombardment or Hissing Iguanar to gain some incidental value. I think he's a good, but not great, red aggressive creature.
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I'm still using hellspark for a theoretical deck that uses goblin bombardment, but I think it's pretty average. Our aggro decks dont turn into burn decks as easily as the card would like.
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Swift Warkite isn't worth a guild slot (unless your guild sections is like 8+ cards per guild)
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On the other hand, Swift Warkite is twice the cmc and has an unexciting ETB and unexciting body. It doesn't fit in aggro decks, and it won't make much of a splash in any other kind of a deck. There's a lot of better Rakdos cards to run.
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I think i've mentioned it before, but that card would be super cool if it was like....
2BR
Lightning Zoom Dragon
flying, haste
ETB, cmc 2 or less onto battlefield, gains haste, return to hand (or graveyard/exile, idk)
3/1
or something like that. Smaller creature, smaller body, smaller impact, but same idea.
1x Dragon Hunter
1x Dryad Militant
1x Elite Vanguard
1x Expedition Envoy
1x Jackal Pup
1x Mardu Woe-Reaper
1x Cloistered Youth
1x Hellspark Elemental
1x Honored Crop-Captain
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1x Mistral Charger
1x Soltari Trooper
1x Stormfront Pegasus
1x Thriving Grubs
1x Ahn-Crop Crasher
1x Goblin Heelcutter
1x Kor Hookmaster
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1x Spined Thopter
Artifact
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Instant
1x Lightning Bolt
1x Swords to Plowshares
Enchantment
1x Temporal Isolation
1x Lust for War
Land
1x Battlefield Forge
1x City of Brass
7x Plains
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1x Accorder Paladin
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1x Fireblast
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Regardless, I just dont feel comfortable playing 15 lands. There are 9/8 sources for white\red which helps, but if it was me I would cut... Maybe lightning mauler since it doesnt synergize well with the "late game" for another basic. The deck is probably aggro enough to support hellspark, but that was my other choice. It's also dense enough and low toughness enough that mutagenic growth for free makes a lot of sense.
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There are a couple configurations that work well here, and any changes are pretty minor. I would put Accorder Paladin in over Thriving Grubs and replace either Renegade Freighter or Hellspark Elemental for Mutagenic Growth or Acolyte of the Inferno/Splatter Thug respectively.
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