One of my recent deck archetypes played was the Red Green Midrange version that Brad Nelson piloted in PT Theros. It looks at first like a typical ramp deck but uses a fast kill combo with half of Flesh/Blood and Bloodrush or Monstrosity.

The deck in my record has garnered me a 4-0 in FNM and a top 8 in Bacolod Theros Gameday. Dragons are the deck’s superstar and so far its only bad matchup is the Mono Black Devotion deck though Mono Blue is also a threat.

I have created an updated decklist based on the recent results of major tournaments and Grand Prix.

Lands
4 Stomping Ground
4 Temple of Abandon
9 Forest
6 Mountain

Creatures
4 Boon Satyr
4 Elvish Mystic
1 Polis Crusher
4 Polukranos, World Eater
3 Ghor-Clan Rampager
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Stormbreath Dragon
4 Sylvan Caryatid

Spells
1 Bow of Nylea
4 Domri Rade
2 Flesh/Blood
2 Mizzium Mortars
2 Xenagos, the Reveler

The card changes are Polis Crusher, Bow of Nylea, and additional Boon Satyr to make it four. The crusher replaced the fourth rampager whereas one Flesh/Blood was cut for the bow. One-ofs may not be that effective but this gives you answers in the main deck for certain matchups.

Polis Crusher can answer random enchantments like Underworld Connections, Detention Sphere, and Whip of Erebos and is a huge trampler by itself. Bow of Nylea with Polukranos’ monstrosity is a big blowout for the opponent’s critters and also gives you a lot of other options to do in the late game.

Boon Satyr is sort of a five-drop in the deck’s curve with the use of Bestow as a powerful combat trick.

My sideboard would probably look like this:

2 Bramblecrush
3 Burning Earth
3 Mistcutter Hydra
1 Mizzium Mortars
2 Plummet
2 Ranger’s Guile
2 Ratchet Bomb

Most in the list are my preference against specific deck archetypes like Bramblecrush and Plummet. I am also glad to have returned Burning Earth to the list to use against Esper and Borzhov decks. I have doubts about Ratchet Bomb versus Boros and Rakdos aggro decks but I am also concerned about dealing with Selesnya’s tokens (on which my last match was a disaster). We shall see if the local metagame shifts into more aggro decks again and fewer devotion decks.

That should be a wrap for this post, and until next time.