4 Giant Solifuge
4 Knight of the Holy Nimbus
4 Savannah Lions
4 Icatian Javelineers
4 Soltari Priest
3 Scorched Rusalka
4 Rift Bolt
4 Char
4 Lightning Helix
4 Volcanic Hammer
3 Plains
2 Mountain
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Battlefield Forge
2 Gemstone Mine
3 Boros Garrison
3 Flagstones of Trokair
SIDEBOARD
2 Paladin en-Vec
2 Worship
3 Honorable Passage
4 Ronom Unicorn
4 Cryoclasm |
  Boros
Deck Wins 2006.
Description of deck by Frank Karsten
(quoted):
The essense of a Boros deck is about 20
creatures, 20 lands, and 20 burn spells, give or take a few. People will
always turn up with red decks and try and burn you out. The deck is
highly aggressive and consistent, starting with a 2-power creature on
turn one, then another 2-power creature on turn two, and more more guys
on turn three. Then the Boros player tries to keep the initiative and
attacks his opponent down to a low life total with the white creatures,
clearing the path with burn spells. After the opponent is down to ten
life or less this deck will just throw some burn spells in the face to
end it once and for all. It is also the simplest deck; even if you play
badly, you can still win with a good draw. Slow decks that take time to
take control will usually die to all the highly efficient burn spells.
The strength of this deck is its consistency and straight forward game
plan: quick creatures and burn. The weakness of this deck is that life
gain is hard to beat. It won’t beat a deck with Faith’s Fetters and/or
Lightning Helix. Hence, it has bad matchups against TriscuitTron,
Angelfire, and Solar Fires. It handily beats Izzetron, Zoo, and Solar
Flare though.
The unique elements of the above version version are red
creatures Scorched Rusalka and Giant Solifuge. The Rusalka pushes the
whole “my creatures are faux burn spells” to its furthest logical
conclusion of actually burning the opponent down with them, and Giant
Solifuge is just a mislabeled burn spell anyway. Together these two cards
are some of the best tools Boros has against the hated Faith's Fetters.
Other takes on the deck include playing less creatures and more burn like
Demonfire, or maindeck Wildfire Emissary for the mirror matchup. |
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