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Greetings fellow humans, are you tired of playing games against decks like Tron, Affinity, and Abzan, decks that have spread fast since the fall of probe? How would you like to play a game of magic where you can race your opponents to the finish? Then play an aggressive deck that can kill on turn 4 with your own people! Try out BOROS BRAIN-BASHER!
DISCLAIMER
This deck is marked as budget because it honestly plays some format staples that most people should own, (ex. if you don't own path, get path, you'll thank me later when you build basically any deck that runs white.)
All jokes aside, this deck is one of the fastest budget decks that I've built that can actually win you the game on turn 4, that isn't elves. However, since we are running a red white deck, we can actually play sideboard cards against decks that normally have a huge advantage against us. We also don't just scoop to literally any boardwipe like most elf builds do.
The strategy behind this deck isn't very hard at all, play a bunch of humans... and KILL!
MAINBOARD
Abbot of Keral Keep : a 2/1 prowess doesn't seem like much, however if we should run into if after turn 4 (should we not get the kill) we can easily get a solid 2 for 1 off of it given the super low CMC we are playing.
Accorder Paladin : A powerhouse 3/1 for 2 that gives us our turn 4 kill, paladin makes hits from cards like Thatcher Revolt hit super hard thanks to Battle Cry.
Gather the Townsfolk: Human tribal needs some token generation, pumps up Champion of the Parish and Thalia's Lieutenant.
Kytheon, Hero of Akros : A fun card that has managed to reach $4-5 for whatever reason, can survive a boardwipe and turns into a walker if we need it to be.
Monastery Swiftspear: Our red one drop human that can hit pretty card if we play some noncreature spells on top of it.
Soldier of the Pantheon: Another 1 drop, solider is immune to abrupt decay (not saying much) it's honestly just a decent 1 drop, you could play 4 of these over kytheon if you chose to do so.
Lightning Bolt: Best burn spell imo, burn spells in general can hand us the game.
Lightning Helix: Wouldn't be true boros without it, gives us access to some removal/burn and lifegain.
Boros Charm: A way we can beat a wrath, boros charm also hits your opponent for 4 damage to the face.
Path to Exile: The most expensive card ($$) in the deck, Path is a white staple card that can hand us the game should we need it. Journey to Nowhere is the only real replacement and it's off curve.
Thatcher Revolt: The only 3 cmc spell we play, Thatcher revolt is a super pump with our powerhouse cards and can hand us the game in many situations.
And now... Our feature Presentation
Champion of the Parish: If we could ask the Magic Gods to give us one card in any opening hand, it's this one, champion is a super important card that can easily wreck an opponent should you literally cast anything.
Thalia's Lieutenant: The most friendly human we have, he's very nice and shares with his friends, nothing but the best +1/+1 counters of course, also functions as a pseudo Champion of the Parish.
Inspiring Vantage and Battlefield Forge: Our dual lands that give us the easy access to the mana we need.
Mountain and Plains: We've got basics.
NOTES
Brave the Elements is a very relevent card given the amount of aggro in the meta, if you feel that you would like to play this card, I believe you could cut a path or two and a blessed alliance or 2 depending on your meta.
SIDEBOARD
Blessed Alliance : Honestly it's run due to the boggles in my meta, if that's not a problem, feel free to cap this slot to other cards (also alright against burn, but you can probably just race them).
Boros Charm: This card comes out against control matchups, since we need to have indestructible and burn to win those matchups usually, this card can win games by itself easily in this matchup.
Crumble to Dust : Tron crumbles against this card, unless their Mono U tron and counter it, in which case oh well, you can probably just race the deck anyway.
Rest in Peace: needed graveyard hate.
Stony Silence: generic artifact hatred.
Wear : Ensnaring Bridge can be a real pain in the ass.
NOTES
If boggles isn't a thing but perhaps burn is, I'd probably cut a couple Blessed Alliance for either Paladin en-Vec or Fiendslayer Paladin.
Yes some sideboard cards are expensive, know your own matchups and pick good cards to use against your bad matchups... speaking of matchups...
MATCHUPS
GOOD MATCHUPS
Decks that don't run many creatures, such as GBx decks, Tron, some control decks, Shadow Zoo, Burn, etc.
FAIR MATCHUPS
Decks that run lots of creatures like Affinity, Elves, etc.
POOR MATCHUPS
Boardwipe heavy control decks,
skred red,
Uninteractive decks
pyromancer ascension decks, ad naus
If you like this deck, feel free to give me a +1 and check out my profile @ user:TeamSDBags for TONS of budget decks.
Also, feel free to give me suggestions, just try to make them budget friendly.
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Revision 7 See all
(7 years ago)
| -4 | Blessed Alliance | side |
| +2 | Brave the Elements | side |
| +2 | Thalia, Guardian of Thraben | side |
| Date added | 7 years |
| Last updated | 5 years |
| Legality | This deck is Modern legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 2 - 2 Mythic Rares 20 - 4 Rares 19 - 9 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 60 |
| Avg. CMC | 1.61 |
| Tokens | Human 1/1 R, Human 1/1 W |
| Folders | Possible Budget Decks, awesome decks, Combo decks, Projects, Modern Ideas, Boros (Modern/Standard), Decks I want, Interesting Ideas, Budget Modern, Humans |
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