Bosseidon

Just an update: moved the SB Guide over to ko-fi.com/s/721fb48e78 to make it easier to manage, this way you don't need to bother with DM's and such

T8'd the sunday challenge, I can't get enough of this format! Forgot to pack in the Scorching Shot, so 14 card sideboard 🤷‍♂️

Mirror is getting popular. As much as I like Twinmaw feeding itself back into the deck, having removal for Hellkite might be too important from now on

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Full disclosure: I will be putting any guide sold towards making Liverpool's Spotlight Series to keep spreading the Mono Red love 🔥

I've been on the Standard grind with Mono Red for a while. After multiple (two is multiple ok?) MTGO Challenge top 8's and an RCQ win, I've decided to write a Primer with Sideboard notes for each matchup, totaling 26 pages. DM me if you want it, I am asking for 5$ per copy

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Won a 31 person RCQ yesterday, with trusty Mono Izzet, I like to call it. No spice list, just playing the good cards.

R1 Vivi WW
R2 UB Mid LWW
R3 Mono Green WW
R4 ID
R5 ID

4th

QF UW Control WW
SF UW Tokens (with cats) WLW
F UB Mid (rematch) WW

@fireshoes.bsky.social mono red bro for reach

Forgot the value tag 😞

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Top 8'd the Challenge on Mono Red. Trying out dropping the U because Vivi is still favorable without the splash, and mirrors and UB are easier like this. Still lost like 5 times against UB today, I think Case/Chandra need to 100% be in the side, and you can't go long against them

Has frenzy been good? I'm struggling to find the exact removal spread for the deck, but frenzy kinda fits nicely between annihilation and obolt

Was ojer good or spicy?

Missed the Standard Challenge Top 8 on breakers (which makes sense when you lose early rounds)

Vivi LL
Vivi WW
UB Mid LWL
UB Mid WW
UB Bounce WW
Jeskai Rooms LWW

Stole Quinniacs list, but added Starting Town which also casts Twinmaw if push comes to shove. Loved the Viper tech!

Top 8'd a Standard challenge, losing only to the king himself. Picked up the flex slots from a winning list, and quite enjoyed them

R1 D Vivi Prowess WW
R2 P 4C Control WW
R3 D UB Mid WLW
R4 P UG Aggro WLL
R5 UB Mid WW
R6 Vivi Cauldron LWL
QF Mono Red LWL

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Just general midrange/attrition matchups where the board matters. They are key to beating any Demon deck, since they scale well with the game, and can represent card advantage. The base "kill something, make clue" is huge to win in resources, and the double fireball mode with Nemesis is there too

Finally got to snag a trophy in current Standard. I'm quite happy with the current 75, as close to "stock" as it is, the flex/spice slots feel quite strong

@fireshoes.bsky.social cause Demonic Ruckus and SB All Star Torch the Witness

Oh...
Oh no...

Clean 5-0 10-0 with my version of Prowess. Abundant Harvest is cracked, and Questing Druid is just the best 2 mana draw spell for the strategy. Pending carries a lot against all forms of random hate crap, and Phalge sweeps the mirrors. Really liking the list.

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Went back to explore UR, with a list that's heavier on the early aggro instead of trying to combo in a single combat with Mutagenic + Violent Urge. Felt way more solid into interaction, while still being really fast. Stormchaser's Talent as a 1 drop that can also trigger Prowess later on was great.

After an unimpressive 3-3 at RC Bologna, I hoped straight into Modern to try and find a Prowess build that vibes with me. After playing UR, I thought about how Abundant Harvest let's you keep 1 landers, minimizing how many lands you need. Got the 5-0 on the 3rd league @fireshoes.bsky.social

Results from DFT Standard with Gruul Leyline. Barring UB Bounce and some random "Other" decks, it definitely felt like Leyline had the advantage. And TDM is looking very promising, I just hope the deck doesn't get too much on the map before the RC...

Early Tarkir Draft Trophy, with a pretty sweet aggro-y Abzan deck

It seems that I really can't play properly unless I'm on something that can start swinging early, but I've just accepted that at this point 🙆

Another Pioneer challenge, another day people haven't learned that they need to change their mana now that there's a lynx punishing non basics

🏆 with the best deck in Standard, no notes ✌️

Q'd for RC Bologna in the last possible weekend. I had lost 4 finals throughout the season, 3 with Leyline, which I still think is the best deck around.

Current list has remained mostly unchanged, Manifold is very good at giving life to otherwise subpar pump spells.
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The Breach conversion rate is probably gonna be super high. At 1400+ players, there are A LOT that just brought whatever they like

Top 8'd the Standard Challenge
R1 (Draw) RG Mice WW
R2 (Draw) Domain WLL
R3 (Play) RG Leyline WW
R4 (Play) Domain WLW
R5 (Play) RG Mice WLW
R6 (Play) Mono Red WW
R7 (Draw) UW Control WW

QF (Play) RG Mice LWL

Sided poorly in the T8 match, but RG Mice feels very favourable

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The EDH brackets look cool in theory, but no formalized difference between tiers 4 and 5 just keeps the same issue as before: no strict definition of what differentiates a cEDH deck creates space for disagreement

For example, the auto classification tools are currently missing some cEDH lists

🏆#2

Ranger-Captain of Eos is really good in the deck, as much as I was a doubter before. Didn't face Eldrazo, which is the one matchup I can't seem to consistently beat with Energy, but we take these all the same.

(Not tagging Fireshoes cause this is the blandest list in existence)

RC Prague went great. Not the tournament itself (1-3) or the Open (1-2), but the weekend was quite fun.

I'm excited to run back another season with standard now, gonna work even harder to reach the 2025 goal of a PT invite.

List for RC Prague, let's do this!

Arena makes it way better, but I just don't love its speed nor its inability to do anything vs the plethora of chonky bodies in the format

Really strong. It enables Incinerator on turn 2, but it also just gets to represent a lot of hard to dodge damage. Really surprised by how good it was.