[[Primer]] Izzet a New Frontier?

Frontier Aggro Budget Burn Competitive Primer UR (Izzet)

Triton

Instant (16)

• 2x Expedite
• 1x Lightning Axe
• 4x Lightning Strike
• 2x Temur Battle Rage
• 3x Titan's Strength
• 4x Wild Slash

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Exquisite Firecraft
• 4x Slip Through Space
• 3x Treasure Cruise

Land (20)

• 2x Evolving Wilds
• 4x Island
• 9x Mountain
• 4x Shivan Reef
• 1x Spirebluff Canal

Artifact (2)

• 2x Bone Saw

Creature (14)

• 2x Bedlam Reveler
• 4x Monastery Swiftspear
• 4x Stormchaser Mage
• 4x Thermo-Alchemist

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Sideboard

Instant (10)

• 2x Dispel
• 2x Fiery Impulse
• 1x Lightning Axe
• 1x Rending Volley
• 2x Smash to Smithereens
• 2x Unsubstantiate

Artifact (1)

• 1x Tormod's Crypt

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Incendiary Flow

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Frontier UR Prowess

The Primer

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Introduction to Format

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The Frontier Format is an eternal format in which players can use cards from M15 and onwards. While it is true that the idea is the same as Modern, it does give newer players (such as me) the opportunity to use their old cards from previous sets that rotated out. I personally believe that this is a great idea and has potential, and will be on the hype train using this deck.

Why UR Prowess?

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There are two reasons as to why I chose UR Prowess: flexibility and budget. This deck is actually solid in Modern and can be modified to be Modern-legal if Frontier doesn't pan out well. The other reason as to why I chose this deck was because of the initial budget. I'm intending to upgrade the land base mostly, because all the cards in the deck are under $2 USD.

Variations

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As with a good amount of decks, there are some variations of this deck, with different color splashes providing different benefits.

Temur

Temur Prowess, or UR splashing the color green, provides access to Become Immense , allowing the deck to do lethal amounts of damage via Become Immense + Monastery Swiftspear + Temur Battle Rage . Splashing green also allows access to enchantment removal in the sideboard.

Grixis

Probably one of the more versatile colors, giving access to a slew of cards, such as Tasigur, the Golden Fang, Gurmag Angler and Painful Truths along with debatably better removal that the color black provides. While splashing black doesn't provide enchantment removal, there is definitely a significant amount of additional creature removal.

Jeskai

Splashing white allows the deck to go wide with Monastery Mentor, and gives access to Seeker of the Way , who is most of the time a 3/3 with lifelink. White also gives access to enchantment removal in the sideboard.

Budget

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Due to this being a budget build, I'm keeping the entire deck $45 and under. This means no suggesting the Fastlands, Fetches, etc that skews the price of the deck. They will be added later, however. :)

Card Choice Explanations

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I'm going to be leaving lands out, as they are rather self-explanatory.

Creatures

• Monastery Swiftspear: Probably one of the best 1-drops in the format. Prowess on a hasty body is amazing.

• Stormchaser Mage : 2-drop upgrade from Swiftspear, he has the added bonus of Flying.

• Thermo-Alchemist: Extra damage. The frequent use of spells makes him quite effective.

• Bedlam Reveler: Basically our 4th and 5th Treasure Cruise on a fat body with Prowess.

Sorceries

• Slip Through Space: Cantrip that makes creatures unblockable.

• Treasure Cruise: Is always used basically as a sorcery-speed Ancestral Recall for late-game to refuel or just raw card advantage. This and Dig Through Time were banned in Modern for good reasons.

• Pieces of the Puzzle : Okay, this is where most people are gonna be like, "what a scrub hur hur hur." Let's think for a moment, yes it's , but it's a Divination that digs five cards deeper and provides fuel for Bedlam Reveller and Treasure Cruise.

• Exquisite Firecraft : An uncounterable finisher in this deck. Very useful for getting in damage against control decks.

Instants

• Expedite: At worst it's card draw and a cantrip for Prowess dudes, at best it speeds up those lazy revelers and Alchemists

• Titan's Strength : Filters draws and pumps creatures all for

• Lightning Axe: Cheap, powerful spot removal in colors

• Lightning Strike: basically the frontier Lightning Bolt. Until it gets reprinted, this will suffice

• Temur Battle Rage : double-strike and trample? Sign me up!

• Wild Slash : A weaker Skullcrack but for less mana

Strengths

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This deck can kill really fast, usually swinging for lethal around turn 5 consistently. It does have means of regaining advantage via Treasure Cruise and Bedlam Reveler.

NOTE: As Frontier is a new format, I do not currently have favorable matchups

Weaknesses

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This deck is weak to a lot of early-game removal, and does lack an amount of interaction during game one. These weaknesses, however, can be remedied by sideboaeding correctly for the matchups.

NOTE: As Frontier is a new format, I do not currently have matchups

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Top Ranked	Achieved #12 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	WB
Key combos	Become Immense + Monastery Swiftspear + Temur Battle Rage
Legality	This deck is not Frontier legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Rares 13 - 9 Uncommons 26 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.23
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