Lands:
4 Auntie's Hovel
4 Ghitu Encampment
4 Graven Cairns
6 Mountain
4 Sulfurous Springs
1 Swamp
Creatures:
4 Anathemancer
4 Boggart Ram-Gang
4 Figure of Destiny
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Mogg Fanatic
Other Spells:
4 Flame Javelin
4 Incinerate
2 Pithing Needle
3 Terminate
4 Volcanic Fallout
Sideboard:
2 Banefire
4 Chaotic Backlash
4 Deathmark
2 Guttural Response
3 Thought Hemorrhage |
  Boddy
Red 2009 Standard.
Description of deck by its author
(quoted):
Mike Flores: How Charles Gerndon Dupont ended
up with this deck is arguably a more interesting story than the deck
itself... But we'll leave that to The Week That Was.
For our purposes, we will simply point out that a deck
like this one seems very well suited to the present metagame (or at
least a version with a declining percentage of B/W Tokens decks).
Personally I love a Blightning, and I love a Demigod of Revenge, but
Dupont's deck didn't play either. To some degree the presence of
Anathemancer reduces the necessity of alternate threats; Anathemancer is
just that good. Topdeck it in the same spot that you would have
previously brained the bad guy with a Demigod of Revenge and you will –
for less mana – probably deal the same amount of damage to him that
turn... And you didn't have to have on hand.
Pithing Needle and Terminate don't deal any damage, but both cards are
more effective against Seismic Assault and Swans of Bryn Argoll
(respectively) than the resistance you would typically see in a deck
like this one. Thought Hemorrhage is a bit of a gamble because it is
roughly the same speed as the Swans of Bryn Argoll deck's kill, but if
you hit it, all their Seismic Assaults will go away, and Swans will be
in the position of trying to win with just some 3/2 creatures.
It should probably go without saying that a deck like
Dupont's only gets better as Faeries gets more popular. Red Decks almost
couldn't lose to the popular Faeries in Lorwyn Block Constructed, and
the addition of Volcanic Fallout makes the strategy even more sound
against everything but the big Cliques... And that's what Terminate is
for. |
