4 Flametongue Kavu
4 Bird of Paradise
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Yavimaya Barbarian
4 Kavu Titan
3 Thornscape Battlemage
2 Shivan Wurm
4 Raging Kavu
4 Fires of Yavimaya
3 Urza's Rage
2 Ghitu Fire
4 Karplusan Forest
9 Forest
9 Mountain
Sideboard:
4 Call of The Herd
4 Blurred Mongoose
2 Obliterate
4 Hull Breach
1 Thornscape Battlemage
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Fires!
Fires! Fires!
One of the dominating deck when Invasion came into the type
2 scene, Fires of Yavimaya has become one of the staple cards
to any red green beatdown deck. But, when the Masques block
rotated out of T2, Fires has lost Saproling burst and Blastoderm,
two cards that proved to be the most important cards. Able to attack
in turn 3, Blastoderm is a good choice and with Shivan Wurm
gating ability, Blastoderm is cool. And having 7 1/1 tokens
to attack, Saproling Burst is simply amazing.
But not anymore. Many said that Fires are not as powerful as before
nowadays, having to be replaced by Orbosition and Finkelmage. As old
archtype dies hard, people are looking for replacement for the old
cards. I am one of them.
Looking at the deck list beside, well, one can easily says: not much
different. But it sure takes a hard blow, losing Saproling Burst.
There is no way to find a card as good as it, and some may suggest
playing Saproling Symbiosis, which is not quite a good choice.
That's why I choose to make it into a big beefy creatures deck. I
replace Saproling Burst with 4 Raging Kavu, a good choice
for 3 mana slot, able to be cast on turn 2. Then I replace Blastoderm
with the always-flexible Kavu Titan. Kavu Titan may
not be as fast as Blastoderm, but its ability to be a 2/2 creature
or a big 5/5 trampler makes it the best replacement.
Shivan Wurm is a normal choice as its combo with Flametongue
Kavu is the ultimate one. 4 Flametongue Kavu is a heaven,
and its casting cost of needing only 1 red mana and 3 generic mana,
makes it flexible in multi-colour deck. Thornscape Battlemage
is a card I like personally, and I put it in as a staple card to counter
weenie, or as a game finisher as well. Against blue mage, Yavimaya
Barbarian is everything of a nightmare, and 4 of them is normal
I guess in today's meta-game that is based on blue. And no Fires deck
can operates without burn spells and I choose to put in 3 Urza's
Rage and 2 Ghitu Fire.
Theoritically, against sligh deck, Fires has no problem trampling
over it but it may face a tough luck against the new Landy-deck. Fires
is quite vulnerable when its loses the mana. That's why I put in 4
Call of The Herd, a card fast enough to kill a Landy deck.
When you sideboard in the herds, you may want to take out Fires
of Yavimaya, because you may face dilemma in whether to cast a
2nd turn Fires or Call of The Herd. Against Orbosition, Fires
players have to depend on its sideboard and a good draw of Yavimaya
Barbarian. I particularly, would like to put in 4 Blurred Mongoose
and 2 Obliterate.
Fires is a good dominating deck and is able to face any deck given
a good choice of sideboard and the metagame.
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