Dragons (MS)

by TheForum on 05 September 2017

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  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Dragons (MS)

So I'm not sure the Avaricious Dragon is doing much for you. While it is strictly better than Furnace Whelp and is another dragon, its discard ability seems to be a big drawback for your deck as it is constructed. Though it is a 4 drop you hardly ever play it on turn four, favoring Thunderbreak or not dumping your hand over having the 4/4 flyer out. So you usually wait until turn 6 or so to play it and it seems a little underwhelming at that point. It doesn't really win you the game, it contributes by drawing you more cards but you then have to play them even if it isn't to your advantage either forcing you to commit too much capital onto the board or blow your burn spells at a time that isn't always to your advantage. I have some ideas that might better take the place of a couple or all of the Avaricious Dragons. I know you are in a precarious place already with creature count and number of dragons so a balance will need to be struck for sure.

Ideas for your Consideration:

Dictate of the Twin Gods - I would include maybe 2 over two Avaricious Dragons. Combos well with them actually, being able to double the damage of the burn spells you draw so that the downside of having to playing them on your turn is mitigated. Plus it doubles Tempest damage so playing an Avaricious after the Dictate could be a big damage total.

Kolaghan, The Storms Fury - I know you would have to splash black but it is a ridiculous play in this deck. You dash it in every turn for extra tempest damage plus it has a multiplying Battle Cry effect for your dragons which could be devastating to your opponent.

Twinflame - This is less likely but I wanted to mention because it is cool. For 5 mana you create tokens of 2 of your dragons getting double tempest triggers. The tokens do get exiled but they'll be big creatures so you can be aggressive with the tokens keeping the actual creature in reserve if needed.

Anger of the Gods - Another control option to make sure you get to the mana you need to play your bigger threats that don't have drawbacks

Unfortunately there aren't many more Dragons to choose from in the 4-5 CMC that could fill in for the Avaricious Dragons but you could use Fanatic of Mogis as a better late game 4 drop possibility than the Dragon.

Mostly though I think your best options are either the Dictate or Kolaghan as fill ins (or Berserker's Onslaught, but that is a less good Dictate in my opinion). But you also may not see waiting to play the Avaricious as enough of a problem and that is fine as well. I am curious to hear your opinion on the matter as the person actually playing the deck.

-Bill

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Posted 29 September 2017 at 19:33

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I share your concerns about Avaricious Dragon, but I hadn't played with it enough to know. I actually just played it some with Eric tonight, and I'm still not sure. Never did they truly hurt me, and there were times where I was behind and forced to play it and discard 2 or 3 cards. However, I made a point to consider if another card would have helped me more in these instances, and the answer was generally no.

I'm still not convinced that they're the optimal card, but I think it's possible that they still might be. There are ways, however imperfect, of planning around its drawback. Mostly this has to do with taking a mulligan - asking myself if it's a liability for the greedy one (too many high cost cards, multiple Avaricious Dragons, etc). I think I'll have to continue doing this for now. There were just as many times where the draw ability was a big help. With uncertainty, I'd say the has been worth the reward.

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Posted 30 September 2017 at 12:18

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