I'd take out Path to Exile because is not legal in standard. You could add in another Boros Charm , or and a 4th Legion's Initiative , or a 4th Aurelia's Fury in it's place. I'd drop a couple of the Firemane Avenger s to lower your mana base. I'd replace them with something like Wojek Halberdiers or Daring Skyjek .

You're absolutely right about Path to Exile . For some reason, I figured cards that were released in Modern Masters would be playable in standard again. That was silly of me, haha. I can also sub two Faith's Shield in it's place, and then replace those with Brave the Elements when Innistrad goes out of standard and M14 is released.

I'm also going to take your advice regarding the Firemane Avenger , as the deck's heavy mana base is something that's been on my mind as well.

Thanks for the advice!

As KnightsBattlecry001 mentioned, Path to Exile is not legal, yet. It is going to be reprinted in 2014 so keep them around. I too have a boros deck that is definitely not rotation friendly, Boros Reckoner might be a good addition because he is very hard for your opponent to deal with, Ash Zealot is another good add, a two drop with haste and first strike for 2/2 is awesome, but with an added burn against grave lovers, makes it a must have. Other then that I don't have much to add.

Woops, I was looking at Modern Masters for the Path to Exile scratch that.

@ Harbing hey no problem. @ Okami_Tsuki yeah your right about Path to Exile being reprinted. I had completely forgotten that.

I do like the idea of both Ash Zealot and Boros Reckoner in this deck. In fact, I'm going to remove Wojek Halberdiers in place of the Ash Zealot , because their Batallion ability is made obsolete by the Legion Loyalist Battalion function.

I was unaware Path to Exile was being rereleased for M14... I thought it was just being reprinted for Modern Masters?

It is, look at my following comment, my bad.

Ah, thanks for the clarification, and thanks for the advice! I look forward to trying this deck out with its revisions!

Plus, they aren't rotation friendly, but if you have some laying around, Blasphemous Act is wonderful, it is a one sided board wipe with Boros Charm , and if you have any Reckoners out, then you slap the opponent in the face for 13-42 damage, depending on how many you have out. And because this is an aggro deck, you will generally always play it for one red, counting on the fact that your opponent has at least 2 creatures, if they are a token deck, then you probably just won.

Mugging / Mark for Death could be used to make sure your creatures get through.

Otherwise, it's really good, and very well thought out.

Thank you!

I like the idea of Mugging and Mark for Death to help clear a path, and I'd like to try them out with this deck to see how they work. Thanks for the input!

Something I have told several decks that want to be Boros Aggro: Do NOT run Aurelia. She really is too expensive despite having haste and her ability simply encourages you to send creatures to their obvious deaths.

Also Gideon is just plain bad. He's ok in control decks like the original Gideon was, but is a complete waste of mana in aggro seeing that he does a lot of nothing.

And finally, Aurelia's Fury is just like her namesake in that she's too slow for aggro to try and utilize.

Cards that you probably SHOULD run, though, are Lightning Mauler as he does wonders for enabling battalion and Searing Spear simply because it's the best spot removal you can possibly run right now.

I've been having lots of success with my r/w variant, check it out! Boros Indestructible

@formortiis

While I agree that Aurelia is perhaps too expensive to be practical, removing Aurelia, the Warleader , Gideon, Champion of Justice , and Aurelia's Fury from this deck removes some significant strategies. The reason that I chose Gideon for this deck, more than anything, is his ability to become an indestructible human soldier, which also works wonders for enabling battalion, and more often than not, Aurelia's Fury is simply used to tap creatures to allow damage from my creatures to get through.

I will, however, toy around with some of your ideas and see how it works out. I just don't want to make any significant changes to this deck before I playtest anything.

Solid deck. I would suggest though -2 aurelia, the warleader -3 aurelia's fury -2 Gideon -3 assemble the legion +3 spark trooper +3 Searing Spear +4 Silverblade Paladin . +1.

@Formortiis: I think you're missing the basic point here with these suggestions. Lightning Mauler and Searing Spear are more than likely going to be rotated out, and this deck is designed to last through rotation with little to no changes by cards rotated out, instead only focusing on changes by cards coming in with the new sets.

Also, if you and wwhitegoldd actually looked at the sideboard as well, you'd notice that, for the moment, there are already Searing Spears in there, thus the suggestions you two are making produce illegal decks.

ok I see the sideboard. new suggestion -2 aurelia, the warleader -3 aurelia's fury -2 Gideon -3 assemble the legion +1 legion's Initiative +1 Boros Charm +4 Skyknight Legionnaire +4 Viashino Firstblade

If Oblivion Ring is reprinted in M14 (and it will be a shock if it isn't, I say), you might want to look into sideboarding some enchantment removal. That's the most likely way opponents will get rid of Boros Reckoner , save for Murder (which, again, will be a surprise if it's rotated out).

I think you're missing the basic point here with these suggestions. Lightning Mauler and Searing Spear are more than likely going to be rotated out, and this deck is designed to last through rotation with little to no changes by cards rotated out, instead only focusing on changes by cards coming in with the new sets.

Read his description again:

As a preface, since Magic 2013, Innistrad, Dark Ascension, and Avacyn Restored will no longer be playable in Standard as of September 2013, I've designed this deck to use minimal cards from those sets.

Minimal != 0. They are cheap and there is no reason not to run them.

Also, if you and wwhitegoldd actually looked at the sideboard as well, you'd notice that, for the moment, there are already Searing Spears in there, thus the suggestions you two are making produce illegal decks.

Until you use your brain (however hard that may be for you) and realize the implication is to move them to the mainboard.

Alright, so either you replace those cards in the sideboard, or... Scrap it completely for the sake of a few cards that are potentially rotated out soon?

I'm not sure I'm understanding you Formortiis but if you looked at my new suggestion you'd see that all the cards I suggested are in the RtR block.

Alright, so either you replace those cards in the sideboard, or... Scrap it completely for the sake of a few cards that are potentially rotated out soon?

The whole concept of a deck for post rotation is idiotic. There is no way to know if the deck will even be viable then. The only thing you can do is try to avoid buying expensive cards you know for sure will be rotating out and, if you look at the price of Searing Spear and Lightning Mauler (or were even smart enough to do so), you'd see they're dirt cheap and absolutely essential (the former especially) for a Boros deck.

How can you not know if a deck's viable post rotation? If its viable now, and it's main threats are rotated out, then how could it be anything but better? And according to the guy who made it, it doesn't do too bad as is.

How can you know it is? The answer is there is no way to know because everyone else (or everyone else who's intelligent) will be playing the full standard format and not this theoretical format that is missing a potentially vital set. As it stands now, there is absolutely no reason not to run Lightning Maulers or Searing Spears mainboard.

Also, on this site when someone says a deck does well for them, most of the time it means their meta is awful and against a real deck they will still be crushed. This is also true here: Against a Boros deck that uses the full repertoire of Standard legal cards, this deck doesn't stand a chance. It may not have to, but Searing Spear and Lightning Mauler are big and inexpensive steps towards making it better.