4 Hill Giant
4 Sunhome Enforcer
4 Hammerfist Giant
4 Oathsworn Giant
4 Bloodfire Colossus
4 Boros Signet
4 Lightning Helix
4 Pyroclasm
2 Ur-Golem's Eye
2 Light of Sanction
6 Mountain
5 Plains
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Boros Garrison
1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion |
  They
Probably Are Giants.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
My deckbuilding process is pretty organic. No
pesticides for me. In order to “grow” the next couple decks, I had to
procure some “magic beans”. At least, that's what the unsolicited email
in my spam folder said they were for. The first tribe I'm going to build
around is bigger and yet, not as big, as humans. What I mean is that
their tribe is much smaller, but as individuals, they're much, much
bigger. In this case, size matters.
They're the only tribe that shares its name with two
major professional (North American) sports franchises: the Giants. They've
certainly come a long way since Ravnica debuted and I first started
building decks for the format. My first attempt at a Giant deck was red
and white, since that's where the Giants were. This enabled the use of all
kinds of cool Boros cards, like Lightning Helix, Sunhome, and the
all-powerful Boros Signet. Red and white also happened to contain the only
known Giant-related combo: Hammerfist Giant + Light of Sanction. Under
normal circumstances, Hammerfist Giant would destroy himself (and most of
your team) when he uses his hammerfist, but Light of Sanction prevents all
the damage that sources you control would deal to creatures you control.
Against some decks, this turns ol' Hammy into a repeatable, one-sided
Wrath of God with a Flame Rift thrown in for good measure.
I built it. I played it. I smashed face with it.
Sometimes. To win, you basically have to draw all the right cards in the
right order. Occasionally, you'd be able to play a fourth-turn Bloodfire
Colossus off of two Signets and an Ur-Golem's Eye, but other times you'd
“kick things off” with a turn-four Sunhome Enforcer, which somehow wasn't
as good.
Yes, that's a Hill Giant. Four of ‘em. Normally, I
wouldn't use a vanilla animal unless I was baking a cake that for some
reason wanted animals in it. In this case, I didn't have much say in the
matter, since at the time, the only R/W Giant sitting on the sidelines was
Ninth Edition's Marble Titan. Don't get me wrong. I like ol' Marbles. He
rules the schoolyard. Unfortunately, he quite inconveniently hoses the
rest of the deck. He's the black sheep of the Giant family, an
attention-hog who picks on others his own size (and larger). You'd be much
better off slipping him into a weenie deck, something with Knights or
Soldiers or one of the other tribes I'm going to look at this week. |
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