You could cast Rallier and Eriksdotter, or after using a ghost quarter to bring an Eriksdotter back from GY. Would be an interesting infinite combo. Both cards can also be used to bring back or protect or creatures.
This list is from when Assault formation was first printed and hasn't been updated in quite a while.
Pretty horrible matchup against Jund/Abzan TS decks, but seems decent everywhere else. Pretty straight forward combo that can win quite quickly with Mardu Ascendancy making 1/1's that can become 1/4's
Can someone explain how turn two thought knot can be cast? Card is asking for waste mana?
All the old lands that produced colourless mana now produce <> colourless mana. If you search up Eldrazi temple on gatherer for example.
Tap: Add <> to your mana pool.
Tap: Add <><> to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.
Ancient Stirrings actually seems really good with eldrazi. Especially with all the colourless sideboard options. It feels like a smaller dig through time. It hits most of the cards we play in the MB and helps find sideboard cards like Sun droplet, flaying tendrils (devoid drown in sorrow), ratchet bomb etc
I'm having a lot of trouble deciding on a deck list and whether I should or should not splash white into it. Has everyone already decided that splashing white is worth it?
I love the excuse to play Thassa. Also master of Waves is really fun against big red. I tested your list - 2 Cyclonic Rift -1 Jace +1 Azorius Charm +2 Syncopate and swapped out some islands to up the plains count.
No. I'm suggesting we need a better answer than just 3 Wear // Tear against 4 burning earth in game two. This is against a deck that doesn't have to deal with tapped lands and shocking themselves to hold off threats and are playing a lot of our threats, like Boros Reckoner and Stormbreath Dragon.
They also seem to have no problem dealing with Blood Baron and if we did get down an Underworld Cerberus, they tend to get more from it's death than we do even if they 2 or 3 for 1 it.
I'm sorry if I give off the impression that i'm whining or complaining, but I honestly just want to improve the list and not "just roll over."
I don't think many decks will be that greedy with mana bases. I really feel as if Dega is one of the few decks that can run a greedy mana base. Additionally, boros reckoner is a huge pitstop to those decks, and with helix and bloodbaron, they'd need an amazing curve to beat you. in which case, so be it.
I rather have the diversity and power that that colors give me than to just bend towards the power of burning earth.
There's only 1 creature in Big red typically that Boros Reckoner can block without dying, that being Ash Zealot. Everything else turns into Boros Reckoner going 1 for 1 on bigger threats, let alone they have their own Reckoners.
They also run Mizzium Mortars and seem to have no problem with Blood Baron.
Their curve is actually better than ours and don't have to deal with any tapped lands what so ever.
There's a lot of hype on Esper Control for rotation currently and many people testing Bug/Dega lists. These decks alone are more than enough reason for burning earth to see a lot of play.
You could cast Rallier and Eriksdotter, or after using a ghost quarter to bring an Eriksdotter back from GY. Would be an interesting infinite combo. Both cards can also be used to bring back or protect or creatures.
3 Doran, the Siege Tower
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Noble Hierarch
4 Spellskite
4 Nyx-Fleece Ram
3 Treefolk Harbinger
Enchantments:
3 Mardu Ascendancy
3 Assault Formation
Spells:
3 Glittering Wish
4 Path to Exile
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Razorverge Thicket
2 Murmuring Bosk
1 Godless Shrine
1 Blood Crypt
1 Plains
1 Forest
1 Swamp
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Overgrown Tomb
4 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Doran, the Siege Tower
1 Mardu Ascendancy
1 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
1 Guttural Response
1 Wheel of Sun and Moon
1 Dreadbore
1 Boros Charm
1 Firespout
1 Wear // Tear
1 Fracturing Gust
This list is from when Assault formation was first printed and hasn't been updated in quite a while.
Pretty horrible matchup against Jund/Abzan TS decks, but seems decent everywhere else. Pretty straight forward combo that can win quite quickly with Mardu Ascendancy making 1/1's that can become 1/4's
All the old lands that produced colourless mana now produce <> colourless mana. If you search up Eldrazi temple on gatherer for example.
Tap: Add <> to your mana pool.
Tap: Add <><> to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.
I tested it at a smaller fnm last night. I only have 3 Liliana though so it was -1 liliana +1 dismember.
2-0 Sultai Delver
2-0 Blue Tron
2-1 UR Delver
The field was meh, but I found I lost to my deck the game I lost and not really the opponent.
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Elvish Archdruid
2 Essence Warden
4 Heritage Druid
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Elvish Visionary
3 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
1 Elvish Champion
1 Imperious Perfect
1 Spellskite
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Scavenging Ooze
4 Collected Company
3 Chord of Calling
Land:18
2 Forest
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Horizon Canopy
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
1 Pendelhaven
4 Razorverge Thicket
1 Gavony Township
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Spellskite
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Mark of Asylum
2 Beast Within
1 Choke
1 Eternal Witness
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Fracturing Gust
1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
2 Path to Exile
1 Aven Mindcensor
This is what I'm thinking about running. I would love to hear suggestions and input though.
aside from:
-1 Mizzium
-1 Xenagos, the reveler
+2 Flesh//Blood
MB change in the Chapin/Kibler list that i'd personally make for sure, I'm just not sure about them.
Something to look at. Draw combo <3
They also seem to have no problem dealing with Blood Baron and if we did get down an Underworld Cerberus, they tend to get more from it's death than we do even if they 2 or 3 for 1 it.
I'm sorry if I give off the impression that i'm whining or complaining, but I honestly just want to improve the list and not "just roll over."
There's only 1 creature in Big red typically that Boros Reckoner can block without dying, that being Ash Zealot. Everything else turns into Boros Reckoner going 1 for 1 on bigger threats, let alone they have their own Reckoners.
They also run Mizzium Mortars and seem to have no problem with Blood Baron.
Their curve is actually better than ours and don't have to deal with any tapped lands what so ever.
There's a lot of hype on Esper Control for rotation currently and many people testing Bug/Dega lists. These decks alone are more than enough reason for burning earth to see a lot of play.