Efficient jeskai creature removal
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Posted on March 6, 2015, 2:50 p.m. by HavokX
I recently added blue to my boros heroic/prowess deck to great effect, but that meant that I had to get rid of Chained to the Rocks because having 8 Mountains in a 3 colour deck is a recipe for disaster. So I'm in the market for a new removal spell. I found a few and I've listed their pros and cons below, but I need your help in choosing one. Have any of you used them? How did it work out? Are there any others that I may have missed?
Suspension Field
+ hits all troublesome creatures that are out of burn's reach
- dies to enchantment hate
Reality Shift
+ instant speed removal that hits everything
- gives them a 2/2 creature with the possibility of being uglier
Ride Down
+ instant speed removal that removes a blocker and also allows damage to get through
- useless if they don't decide to block
Void Snare
+ hits everything for 1 mana, and it doesn't matter that it's sorcery speed because it triggers prowess
- it doesn't actually stop anything, just delays
Banishing Light
+ gets rid of everything, including pesky noncreatures like Elspeth, Sun's Champion
- costs 3 mana, and dies to enchantment hate
Rasta_Viking29: I agree that Chained to the Rocks is an amazing card, it's one of my favourites in standard, but adding blue helped more than it hurt in my playtests so far. Battlewise Hoplite is perhaps the best example of this as I had Seeker of the Way as my only 2 drop before, and adding it really, really helped with consistency. And I really want to try out Narset Transcendent among other things when DTK comes out.
March 6, 2015 3:21 p.m.
ChrisHansonBiomancin says... #4
Narset will be a really good reason to go Jeskai. Only other options I can think of are Oppressive Rays (similar +/- as Void Snare but may be a little better here) and the 2-drop burn for 5 to a nonflyer that got spoiled.
March 7, 2015 12:08 a.m.
Really depends on what your main colors are. Since you said it was boros before adding blue Suspension Field seems like the best choice along with Roast from DTK. For planeswalkers you can use Stubborn Denial, Disdainful Stroke which you should play with blue anyways to counter pesky spells like rhinos and crackling dooms.
March 9, 2015 5:26 a.m.
Roast and Valorous Stance are the two best, Roast is better with Soulfire Grand Master in multiples otherwize Valorous Stance is the better of the two. Other then them I'd play Lightning Strike / Wild Slash / Stoke the Flames in some numbers, all depending on how fast/slow your meta is. I'm running 4 Lightning Strike and 4 Wild Slash right now because Jeskai / R/W, Abzan Aggro and Mardu is all over my local shop and you need to burn off creatures the turn they come down or lose the tempo of the game.
Rasta_Viking29 says... #2
The blue splash into R/W Aggro hurts the deck more than it helps. Chained to the Rocks is one of the best cards in Standard and I would make other deck building sacrifices in order to run it.
March 6, 2015 2:54 p.m.