Screw you Esper and SCREW YOU AGGRO BLACK/RED
Modern
SCORE: 87 | 61 COMMENTS | 15674 VIEWS | IN 26 FOLDERS
croosbones says... #2
A card that i personally enjoy and may work well with this deck is Young Pyromancer.Idk what you should remove for it though :P.Still +1 from me :)
May 16, 2014 9:20 p.m.
Apex_Promethean says... #4
hmmm that's actually not a terrible idea, i might honestly consider to add in 3 Young Pyromancer , i think this is just a great card for burns and aggros alike. This was my first choice for this deck because of how many instances and sorcery i plan on using but i think i might just sideboard it instead, switch out for Anger of the Gods when there running a deck that runs on bigger creatures. I might switch out Electrickery for it, im going to be using this deck at my fnm soon and depending on what happens il be switching cards out.
May 17, 2014 12:04 a.m.
NobodyPicksBulbasaur says... #7
I would drop a Dispel and a mainboard Anger of the Gods for 2 more copies of Jace, Architect of Thought . Jace is good in every matchup. Dispel and Anger are only good some of the time, and you probably won't need 3 of each in the main.
You can probably go down to 2 Syncopate in the sideboard and just slide the Anger and Dispel in over there. You already have Counterflux and Negate in the side. Sometimes enough is enough.
May 18, 2014 11:33 p.m.
Read the discription... this deck is designed to hate on aggro and esper... thats why hes main boarding both
May 18, 2014 11:58 p.m.
Apex_Promethean says... #9
I think dropping a Dispel for another Jace, Architect of Thought wouldn't be that bad of an idea, and dropping a Anger of the Gods is out of the question because i made this deck really for my local fnm, and this is no exageration but it is always at least 3/4 of them are either straight up aggro black or red and i think Anger of the Gods is an amazing ya to stop those early game swarms, but i really like your suggestion and i think it would make my deck a solid first game for any other fnm or tournament so il add Jace, Architect of Thought , but don't hate me if i do 3 and 3 with Ral Zarek , i got to give him love, because he is Izzet, and the leader of The League of Shadows. Hope you enjoyed the deck, and thanks for helping me make this deck better!!!!
Also@Xuhle!!!
How you been mah man, one of the first guys to see my deck and help me make it into the izzet powerhouse it is now, and he is right, it is based around stopping those aggro's but il add another Jace, Architect of Thought in exchange for Dispel , since Xuhle originally wanted me to put 4. Hope you like what iv done with the deck!!
May 19, 2014 12:15 a.m.
Apex_Promethean says... #10
but i still might keep Dispel since Sphinx's Revelation , makes me want to throw a chair out a window, if you could find another card to change out, but still retain its power against aggro and esper then il gladly hear it and even add it
May 19, 2014 12:21 a.m.
I hate Divination . You're basically spending 3 mana to get one card at sorcery speed. It makes very little sense early game, where you're just wasting tempo while you still have cards, and late game there are much better card-draw options. Like that Chemister or Opportunity. Young Pyromancer is as others have said a good replacement, but he dies easily and unless you're also running Dragonshift , it's not really worth it.
So totally drop it to go more AEtherling s or maybe a Vortex Elemental . Or add Melek, Izzet Paragon and die laughing when Keranos means you ALWAYS have instants or sorceries on the top of your deck.
Also, consider Act of Treason . If they cast a big critter, force them to block it and deal their own creature damage before casting burn on it.
May 20, 2014 11:57 a.m.
Apex be careful mate, This deck is pretty much done ... its built to your meta. Don't let too many people sway your decision on what cards to add. This deck is great and it has very little room... Don't take out Nivix Cyclops for a Spellheart Chimera thats a completely different deck... This deck needs the 4 toughness. Im seriously thinking of sleeving this up to take to my local FNM.
May 20, 2014 5:33 p.m.
Apex_Promethean says... #13
Hey thanks man, really appreciate that and ya i think this deck is done, ready to use it at my fnm, really the only thing i think it needs is the numbers on the spells, need to adjust how many there are and maybe tweak the sideboard other then that i think it will do just fine, also you deserve to try this deck since you helped me turn it into what it is, ever since you convinced me to go full blown izzet. Thanks again!
May 20, 2014 9:07 p.m.
I'm working on getting the cards to make this deck. Thanks.
May 21, 2014 10:29 p.m.
maybe a Cyclonic Rift or 3 for the sideboard? or even swapping it for Counterflux but i still love the deck and am in the process of building it just because everyone at my local fnm runs control azorius or esper, i just cant find anyone who has a Ral Zarek for trade and im too cheap to buy it haha
May 22, 2014 11:09 a.m.
bloodydogfire says... #16
I ran into a big challenge of the deck, Mistcutter Hydra . The only solution I've found for it has been multiple burn spells or Ratchet Bomb on one counter. I run them sideboard
May 22, 2014 1:38 p.m.
The amount of gifs in the description is too damn high! otherwise it looks good! +1!
May 22, 2014 3:59 p.m.
this deck cant stand up against USA control and R/G monsters.
May 25, 2014 2:23 p.m.
Apex_Promethean says... #19
ya i tried this at fnm and didnt go to well against r/g but did fine against esper ish but the Nivix Cyclops was to slow might change out for Spellheart Chimera and im thinking about going back to grixis control, because i love Thoughtseize and Slaughter Games because i think it is the best way to deal with espers and usa, and Mistcutter Hydra is hell to go against.
May 25, 2014 2:44 p.m.
Can u please give me the decklist for your izzet deck. IZZET NOMATTER WHAT =P
June 3, 2014 2:30 a.m.
Apex_Promethean says... #22
I'm still working on it, the deck listed at top is just a grixis deck Im working on, but that just a place holder, im actually still using izzet at my fnm and have been, slowly I have improved it, I went 0-4, 1-2, 2-2, and then 2-2 because gruul is to much (Mistcutter Hydra ), but once I go 4-0, il post finished deck, and I think I got Nivix Cyclops to work. So in a couple weeks il update the whole deck, also don't worry it will be full blown izzet.
June 3, 2014 2:49 a.m.
@Apex_Promethean
Thanks! Im playing izzet control too. (But i just started so 1-4 is good for me) I am slowly improving and i think izzet control is a fun pretty good deck that i will try this fnm. I love all your discriptions and i added this to my favourites the second i saw it. i will tell u my score on a variation of your deck on saturday. PS. Where are u from cause I always wonder how other countries fnm are like. I am from Australia and from the words of one of the players playing at fnm "The fnm here is just blue and rogue shit" =P Its true tho!
One more thing. I REALLY REALLY love how you put young Minene Uryu from future dairy/ murai nikki at the end as it hits me right in the feels
June 3, 2014 3:30 a.m.
Apex_Promethean says... #24
Well I play at my local store in California, and they run alot of boros gruul and on Wednesday nights people play esper up the ass, but usually on fnm there is alot of diversity between decks but mostly gruul and boros, and ya I love future diary or nikki since I think japanese versions are always better, dubbed so bad but ya Minene Uryu is my favorite character, and thought it fit for the end
June 3, 2014 2:50 p.m.
Psionic_Nova says... #25
This.....this is beautiful...90% of my friends run b/r aggro, and the other 10% run esper.Im about to lose some friends.
Apex_Promethean says... #1
@Stygiandreams
I think that's a great idea, I will add that for sure, I totally forgot about Keranos, God of Storms , I think if I add another one, should i go back to 26-7 lands? What do you think?
May 16, 2014 2:14 p.m.