But Pascal Maynard tweeted the following in the midst of testing, and I instantly had to try it. The most recent Twitch Rivals tournament was the first chance anyone really had to try Standard after the triumvirate of bans, and teh Intarweb was alive with everyone testing and sharing their ideas on what they wanted to play. I've experimented with Return to Nature and Sorcerous Spyglass as early favorites, but Grafdigger's Cage is also an option. I don't think you can play a deck right now that doesn't have any sort of artifact or graveyard hate. It's early but the deck is miserable enough to play against that I don't trust the "we're just going to be faster than it" plan especially when it's putting up the percentages that it is in early competition results. My main concern about the deck at this point is matches against Cat Oven. If that happens, we have this great opportunity to play Drakuseth with Fires, and then use the lands to give everything haste and nuke our opponent's board before they can react to it. It's nice if Risen Reef draws us a couple of cards, but the important thing is to get an extra land or two in order to draw our Cavaliers or Drakuseth, Maw of Flames. The deck is trying to get a Fires of Invention on the board as soon as possible along with more lands than one-per-turn so that we can play our finishers and get them attacking. This deck isn't playing for huge quantities of bodies, but instead it's an aggro deck with big bodies. It's a little different from the normal builds insofar as it isn't playing any elemental-based ramp. So while I was wandering around on Reddit I stumbled across the same idea but with Fires, and I had to try it. The real question is: how much spicy can you stand? The Habenero: Elemental Fires 4 Arboreal GrazerĮlemental Tribal was a very good deck back in the M20 days before anything that you played was just going to get Elked, and I haven't seen any reason why it couldn't be again. So, since we still have access to one of the more entertaining have-some-free-mana cards in Fires of Invention, I've been messing with a couple of spicier versions of the Jeskai standby to surprise our opponent with the big stuff rather than the usual finishers. And since the new Standard meta hasn't quite panned out yet apart from a couple of decks that we were pretty sure were good even before Oko got Elked, you can get away with playing a lot of wild stuff. You gotta mess around with something that might be on the edge of reasonable or sane, just to get the blood flowing and prove to yourself that you're alive. uncomfortable? Confused? Either way, I think it's weird.īut sometimes you just gotta. I know people who carry bottles of their favorite blend with them, and when they pull their special George's Nuclear Inferno #27 (WARNING NOT FIT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION CUZ IT'S EXTRY BOLD) out of their bag I feel. But I've never needed to be a hot sauce snob. And I understand wanting the newest or most niche flavors since I'm a beer snob and can discuss various IPAs and such with the best of them. I like spicy food, and as I age (as science suggests) my taste buds are either more tolerant of or deadened to spicy flavors, so I can use the hotter stuff. I've never understood the desire for hot sauce.
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