Boros Landfall

Ruin Ghost exiles a land, not a creature, so he help boost the landfall abilities. Although, after reading it again, I'm not sure if he's exactly worth it because the land doesn't come back until after my turn is over, and I'm having a little bit of space issues getting what I want to fit in the deck.

What cards would you reccomend? And what other questions do you have?

Hmmm... I miss read Ruin Ghost again lol. I definitely want 4 of them.

Do you have any suggestions?

I mean Cosi's Ravager. Cosi's Trickster blows.

Oooo.... he is nice, but look at my really f***ing sexy mana curve...

Would look nicer as 32, 8, 0, 2

Exponential growth...awww yeah.

Lolz. Nice nerd.

I actually run the Dragonmaster for the exact reason you said not to. I don't expect him to be on the table for very long, but I have found he is an AMAZING distraction because your oponent thinks he has to remove him. In an extreme case esterday, I dropped him and a Steppe Lynx turn 3 against BU control. They tap out to doom blade him, and on my next turn I drop a fetchland for double landfall, play and equip a Explorer Scope to the Steppe Lynx, flame slash his Wall of Omens, and drop Assault Strobe on the Steppe Lynx. Swing with the Steppe Lynx, the scope turns over a land... 12 damage and I win.

Sure this isn't the 'expected' gain from using him, but dropping him on ~ turn 4 demands a kill, which often clears the wa for my real threats. I just finished play-testing this version and I agree four scopes is too much, I think 2 is a good number. They are simply too powerful on a Steppe Lynx or Geopede to scrap.

Thanks for taking the time to leave all your comments :)

Yeah, I call dudes like him "removal magnets". For example, in my Black Sacrifice deck, Mortician Beetle is often on the field for...half a frickin' second =P

Yup! Especially in a deck with scopes, you gotta remove him at ur first oppertunity. And with a measly cost of R, you can easily hold him back in your hand to play when you really want ur opponent tapped out. Plus, as ethan mentioned, he is useful bs control.

haha after i commented, i saw that that was a good use, but I'd just rather something else.

id love to see how our decks match up (:

That would certainly be interesting, though in a game it would probably simply be whoever draw the better hand wins. Over all though, I think my deck is superior to yours because of my spells. Silece and Emerge Unscathed have worked wonders for this deck and are two cards too rarely seen in aggro. Just yesterday someone conceded on turn 3 at a standard tourniment to this deck (he was playing Jace UB Control)... The game went:
1) Plains, Steppe Lyx -- Island
2) Mesa-> Plains, swing for 4, Steppe Lynx -- Silence, Island
3) Mesa-> Mountain, Assault Strobe on Steppe Lynx, swing for 12 -- Silence, Concede

Vs just about any deck, 2x Steppe Lynx, 2x Mesa, 1x Plains, 1x Assault Strobe, 2x Silence is an unbeatable 8 cards in our first 4 turns.

yeah, this is true. i'm having trouble deciding what to do with my boros.
i don't have the cash, at the moment, for 20$ fetch lands, so I'm trying to think up ways to keep it cheap, but fast.

your deck has possibly given me ideas though, ^.^

I'll fix my deck up, thennn we'll see what you have to say ; )

alright, changes made.

see how you find it, now :3

Commented. No probs on the ideas, I used to feel bad whenever I borrowed deck concepts too much, but traveling around the country to enter tourniments has taught me that there is no shame in building upon others' ideas. In a room where fifteen people are running a deck 90% identical to yours, a little innovation goes a long way.

No problem man. You have a nice deck there.

Yessir! I don't have a single top deck right now and that makes me sad :( It was that cheater sour8 who pushed my Stompy Deck from the page actually...

But while your here, what do you think of this deck?

congrats on the top list (:

Congrats on Front Page bro! :D

I think it pushed my Tempo deck off >_<

No I'm kidding, great job hitting front page dude. This deck is very aggro, and very Boros. "Kill it quick or don't kill it at all". =]

Thanks everyone!

surewhynot: I think your quote was suposed to be "Kill it quick or... nvm, I just won"

Well my quote was actually what my buddies have always said about a good Boros aggro, but that one works too =P

Thanks man, I'm rather proud of it.

You should be proud, it really is good.

Cool deck man. I would reccomend adding some one-drops to it though. Maybe Vampire Lacerator, Guul Draz Vampires or Pulse Tracker? That way you can start hitting them even faster. I have several vampire decks if you are interested in checking them out.

Sure thing.

Thanks man. This is currently one of m favorite decks

I have considered all of those cards at some point. However, none of them are truely useful in this deck because they are either unreliable or slow. By turn 4, this deck is well on its way to winning the game, and taking the time to drop a Planeswalker that is only useful anyway if I draw him on turn 4 is not a good idea. The Bushwacker is simply too unreliable to be effective in this deck, so I replaced him with a Goblin Guide. The Skyfisher is also a nice card, but he makes me return a permanent to my hand (thus slowing down the aggro).

hope you do well, man. ill hopefully be doing something with my u/b control.

thanks for helping with my boros, i think its truly tournament quality now.

and the best of luck ^.^

No problem man, and best of luck to you too.

Both those cards are much to expensive for me. This is Boros. This is aggro.

Boros Landfall is above all, a landfall-based aggro deck (duh). The increase in fetch lands allows me to activate 2 landfalls reliably early game. Adventuring gear is great because it gives any creature Steppe Lynx's ability, or it can be used on the Steppe Lynx for complete awesomeness. I like SoBnM, simply because its epic

Since we are adding equipment, Stoneforge Mystic becomes a very useful card to have.

Kor Skyfisher is a 2/3 flier for 2. His "Drawback" really becomes an asset in this deck, by allowing us to make landfalls late game when we would otherwise run out.

Spikeshot Elder is simply one of the best Red 1-drops in the game.

Koth is a boss and provides a stronger mid-game.

I think that covers everything really, feel free to ask if there is something you don't understand

I see, thanks :)

i just remember the 4x silence, assault strobe, emerge unscathed and bolt. lol

so I wanted to know why you made such changes, seeing how our decks were very similar.
it's obvious you're a more experienced deck builder than I am, so I figured if you made certain changes, they were probably for the better.

I'm still messing with my boros. but I'm digging the land base you go going on, lol

Although those spells work in theory, I began going on a standard tourniment tour recently and this build works so much better. Old build was 2-6 in the one tourni i did it in, this one is 34-6 with 3 top 8s. and I play serious magic

Magic isn't magic if it's not serious. That's the way I play, anyway, haha.

And nice, 34-6 is pretty sweet, and top 8 is always nice. :D

As I said, my boros is still.. gettin' there, lol. Don't got the money for a koth, although i wanted one of him from the very start D: <

You can check up on it though, and see how the changes have come.

(You've inspired a lot of those changes, lol)

Thanks man. Good philosophy. Do you play tourniments for cash?

I thought so as well. And no, here we don't really have many magic options. The prizes are... crap more or less But here, we don't really care for the rewards, we play for the further understanding of the game.
like some of the players here are insane, o.o
but, on the upside, whenever there's provincials or something else along those lines, the prizes are cash and a nice amount of cards. So, basically we're in training all year 'round, lol

Spikeshot is a 1-drop, which is nice. Sparkmage cant get going until T3, while Spikeshot can get going sooner, pluz can be used as an attacker.

I have two sb, but for the most part Id rather have Gears. Devistating Summons is such a horrible card in this deck I honestly wonder if you have ever place Boros. Bushwacker is good, but not as good as the other guys I have

Nothing is more hilarious than watching someone cast Devastating Summons and then having their Bushwhacker countered! The look on their face is priceless! XD

There's a right deck for DS, but this is not it.

They wouldn't counter the bushwhacker since it'd be cast after DS, you'd want to counter that so they don't even get the tokens. DS is a good card, you just have to not be stupid when playing it. I say that in the lightest sense meaning, that a slight miscalulation can end you or set you back a few. When playing it I generally pay close attention to their mana availability so they won't be throwing anything out I don't know and I can swing for 10 on turn three with just those two cards. If I went first, they will have almost nothing to defend with and have little to no mana to counter with.

Honestly though this is a great deck and That is the only thing I would change if playing it.

My main problem with Bushwacker is that its a situational card. Most cards in this deck are thinks I would always be happy to see... the bushwacker is not always amazing. In addition, what could you take out for him? I'm always interested in improvement... how would you change the deck?

One Skyfisher and one Spikeshot for 2 Bushwackers. It'll add just the right amount of extra kick to the deck.

Tried it.... nope :(

Hmmm...Alright. I wanted to see what the results would be. Also, while I agree that Boros will be a tough deck in MB...I don't think it will be the deck to beat. The deck to beat is going to be a new adaptation of an old deck, or something altogether different. It will be a control deck, and it will very likely have White.

Boros will be great because it will be the only thing fast enough to have a chance against this new control deck.

=]

I agree. that new white knight promo is crazy, lol.
but i think poison is going to be huge, too. :/

True. Did you see the Green Sun? OMFG.

green sun? :O i cant find it anywhere, care to enlighten me?

http://mtgsalvation.com/mirrodin-besieged-spoiler.html#4776 has all your spoiler needs.

INCLUDING THE NEW TEZZ!!!

holygreensun, that's crazy!
but I'm digging the sphinx. that just SCREAMS card advantage. look's like blue black artifact control will deffinitely be a top deck.

i may have to look into this.

You can say that again....

Tezz, New Sphinx, Sphinx of Jwar Isle, JTMS, Grave Titan...
Then throw in a shit ton of artifacts, Preordian, etc.

The Sphinx is sweet with baby Jace, since his +1 becomes "draw 3 cards. ur opponent draws 1 card"

im digging his -1. an etched champion, metal craft on the field, swinging for 5 unblockable? thats nuts.

i tried to jump the gun on the artifact thing, so could you check my blue black artifact deck?
its called prep for tezz, lol.

Done. Very nice deck. What do you think of the two new ones I just put up? Eldrazi Green and Quest for the Holy Vineyard?

thanks man, did you see the comment i posted about thopter assembly? that card is insaneee.

and ill check them out right now, (:

It depends on the situation. Besides the obvious cases, like if I'm sitting on two fetchlands in my hand, I don't have a hard and fast rule. I take into account the deck my opponents playing, the current life total, my current board position, everything really.

well, speaking from a point of view on my boros deck, i wouldnt run anything that costs more than 4 to drop.
boros is supposed to be fast, and if it takes 6 turns, and you're still not winning, there's a problem.

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fine, 1 or 2 Sun Titan for late game when you really need to come back and possibly win because of landfall bonuses in his deck.

.... 6 lands on the table? That will happy by what... turn 8? Maybe? nty. I dont want anything bigger than Koth in my aggro deck. Ethan got it right.

The reason I ask is because I understand the Sword of body and mind also gives a creature to add to the arggo, with the mill as a side effect. But I am not sure dropping to 2 life is worth the effort, but I can see why untapping lands can be helpful in this deck.

Also what cards from MB do you think will work well in this?