Happy Saturday all. I hope you had fun playing at the Magic 2013 Coreset prerelease. Won or lost, I am pretty sure core set cards are fun to play in Limited. Continuing the brewing period for the new Standard, here is another suggested deck archetype.

Kuldotha Big Red Post-M13
By Mark Ian Alloso

Lands
4 Phyrexia’s Core
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Hellion Crucible
3 Buried Ruin
14 Mountain
1 Swamp

Creatures
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Kuldotha Phoenix
2 Firewing Phoenix

Spells
2 Slagstorm
3 Galvanic Blast
3 Sphere of the Suns
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Ichor Wellspring
1 Spine of Ish Sah
2 Bonfire of the Damned
1 Mimic Vat
3 Pristine Talisman
3 Mycosynth Wellspring
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Magmaquake
1 Red Sun’s Zenith

The strategy here is to setup Wellspring artifacts while controlling the board with sweepers until you can land a Kuldotha Phoenix offensive or the Wurmcoil Engine. The artifact card choices were somewhat similar to that of the UB Tezzeret build, this time gaining benefit from Metalcraft.

This is my rough sideboard list:

1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Slagstorm
1 Magmaquake
1 Karn Liberated
1 Trading Post
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Manic Vandal
2 Doom Blade
2 Smelt
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Hellion Crucible

The M13 cards added here are Magmaquake, Trading Post, Smelt and Hellion Crucible. If the meta continues with Restoration Angel shenanigans, I might consider adding Combust though I’d like to experiment a bit with the Black splash. Maybe I should sideboard another Swamp. Lol.

I’ll check if this list can materialize into paper and hopefully play it in the FNM or on the regular Saturday Standard tourney. Comments and suggestion are very much welcome.

Until next post!