I still haven’t built a decent and competitive deck in my Magic: the Gathering Arena account and I can say that I am still in the “pondering” period as to what will be my first deck. Youtube MTG Arena is one of my references which I get to review not only a decklist but also the actual gameplay recap in the platform.
In one of my weeknight deck research, I have found one YT channel which albeit unusual from the other Magic Arena channels that I follow because of the language which is Japanese. I saw in one of the videos the gameplay and testing of the Gruul Adventures deck.
He considered this one as the currently most aggressive deck in the Standard metagame. Me being a fan of Japanese bizarre deck builds in the past, I checked on the decklist and gameplay.
You can browse the Youtube video below.
Here is the decklist:
Deck
4 Bonecrusher Giant (ELD) 115
4 Brushfire Elemental (ZNR) 221
4 Edgewall Innkeeper (ELD) 151
4 Kazandu Mammoth (ZNR) 189
2 The Great Henge (ELD) 161
4 Lovestruck Beast (ELD) 165
2 Evolving Wilds (IKO) 247
4 Fabled Passage (ELD) 244
2 Questing Beast (ELD) 171
3 Mountain (ANB) 114
3 Scavenging Ooze (M21) 204
3 Embercleave (ELD) 120
2 Scorching Dragonfire (M21) 158
1 Shatterskull Smashing (ZNR) 161
4 Cragcrown Pathway (ZNR) 261
9 Forest (ANB) 112
1 Primal Might (M21) 197
4 Spikefield Hazard (ZNR) 166
Sideboard
2 Klothys, God of Destiny (THB) 220
1 Scorching Dragonfire (JMP) 139
1 Scorching Dragonfire (M21) 158
2 Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate (IKO) 175
2 The Akroan War (THB) 124
2 Embereth Shieldbreaker (ELD) 122
3 Ox of Agonas (THB) 147
2 Garruk, Unleashed (M21) 183
Most creatures on the list are usually generic choices while it somewhat got a feel of a Landfall strategy. I can say that it is a hybrid deck build of the two. I liked how the Brushfire Elementals keep the aggressive assault while you setup with the Adventure creatures.
The removals look random but I think it is numbered that way to fight against the Boogeyman Rogues deck. Two copies of The Great Henge make your late game more resilient and the conditional cost makes it not a burden if you’ve drawn it earlier.
I have bookmarked this deck for now, and maybe on the top of the priority decks to build in Arena. This can inspire me to grind the wildcards to craft the other components later on.
Until the next blog post.