RDW/mono-red

SJM · Joined: 17 Apr 2009 Posts: 360

Is this deck a legit contender for extended?

It's cheap to build (the most expensive cards are standard cards) and auto-pilots itself.

I might actually play extended if this deck is legit.

Astarael · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 22

4 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Great Furnace
10 Mountain
2 Teetering Peaks

4 Goblin Guide
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Keldon Marauders
4 Mogg Fanatic

1 Incinerate
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Magma Jet
2 Relic of Progenitus
4 Rift Bolt
1 Shard Volley
4 Shrapnel Blast

Sideboard

4 Ghost Quarter
3 Pithing Needle
3 Ravenous Trap
4 Shattering Spree
1 Tormod's Crypt

Extended legal and fairly successful.

Rath · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 100

I'm just wondering why the Relic of Progenitus in the main. Is there enough opposing decks you would rather hate on their GY than simply burn them?

I see it as Shrapnel Blast fodder at the least or shrinking opposing Tarmogoyf's or Knight of Reliquary seem good as well. Obviously it hurts Dredge and ThopterFoundry deck.

Are there any other reasons that I'm missing?

FiReBLT · Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 224

I reckon you'd hit just about all of the uses - but having said all those reasons, you're still wondering why it's main?

The Relic slows down the decks which can beat you within your timeframe, and cycle against irrelevant decks - like any good cycler, it wins games against some decks, and cycles very cheaply against anything else.

_Major_ · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 2

The smash to smithereens is better than Shattering Spree! It allows not to die to a chalice fo the void at 1!!!

ProsekDan · Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 16

I agree that smash is better right now due to absence of affinity from the field.

I personally wouldn't play relic main deck, I's just not good enough in enough match-ups to justify it being main deck.

BTW, you can destroy Chalice with Shattering Spree

_Major_ · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 2

I didn´t know tha chalice could be destroyed with spree. If so forget my comment I prefer spree over chalice.

I disagree when you say that relic is not good at the moment. I can see only hypergenesis or Dark depths as the only decks where relica are unuseful. I would run 4 main instead of that 1´s radom cards main. Like that you gain 4 extra slots on sb because you don´t need extra cards for dredge.

What are the needles for? Maybe shome martyr of ashes vs agroo?