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Do as much damage as possible as quickly as possible. The idea is to use cheap Heroic creatures with cheap auras and instants (and Strive cards later in the game). Satyr Firedancer will presumably make every direct-damage spell a creature kill spell, and should also make Searing Blood terrifying against other aggro decks. The ideal play is Turn-One Satyr Hoplite or Favored Hoplite, Turn-Two Madcap Skills, hit you for 5. Turn-Three Boros Charm giving it double strike, hit you for 12. Turn-Four Lightning Strike or Searing Blood (if it has a target), you're dead.

Inspiration for this deck came from a discussion on The Mana Pool podcast when talking about Satyr Hoplite. This is still in development, probably lots of tweaking to do to make it better.

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So, I found out that this is actually a thing that's happening and I'm going to see it if I start playing standard. With that in mind, I've focused the deck a lot more on just getting those heroic guys out and targeting them for maximum effect. The line of play remains the same, but now there are more enablers to do the turn-two-five-damage, turn-three-even-more-damage including more Titan's Strengths, Martial Glory (actually quite ridiculous on turn two, since you can target the same guy; it might go to four copies and replace Desperate Stand), and Coordinated Assault (not as good turn-two but it does enable two heroic guys for one mana; I'll take it!). I moved the Firedancers to the board, and put some Searing Blood there. It'll be great for the mirror match, if I read this correctly. Also four copies of Gods Willing in the board against control matchups. Will probably be really good versus mono-blue and mono-black, and hey, Heroic enabler! Threw in the Lightning Strikes there as direct damage or just point removal (and works with Firedancer), added a Chandra, Pyromaster in case things need to go long. I've got a bunch of dudes to protect her with on the ground, though she still doesn't survive Hero's Downfall. Tethmos High Priest will help get my dudes back if I feel I need to do that. He might come out in favor of something that helps me shut down control. But since I don't know what that is, yet, this is what I got!

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Date added 10 years
Last updated 10 years
Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

0 - 2 Mythic Rares

8 - 3 Rares

22 - 6 Uncommons

14 - 4 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 1.70
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