Grixis Fires Control
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:07 am
Wanting to play Nicol Bolas, but knowing that the mana had been bad and rotation made it worse, I stumbled across this Reddit thread. This deck was inspired by an early tournament showing by Mogwai. More recently, I found this Reddit thread.
I played the bo1 list in the first thread to a combined 14-6 record (across three accounts) in the Arena win every card event, with about half the losses as straight punts, so I think it's not terrible.
If you like to get behind before playing powerful spells to catch up, this could be fun. Jeskai Fires Superfriends has more tournament results, so that would be a safer version to try.
I've built the bo3 version in paper, but not played it yet. It's basically the same mainboard that the Reddit post suggests, except for the manabase, which seemed insufficiently black.
I played the bo1 list in the first thread to a combined 14-6 record (across three accounts) in the Arena win every card event, with about half the losses as straight punts, so I think it's not terrible.
If you like to get behind before playing powerful spells to catch up, this could be fun. Jeskai Fires Superfriends has more tournament results, so that would be a safer version to try.
I've built the bo3 version in paper, but not played it yet. It's basically the same mainboard that the Reddit post suggests, except for the manabase, which seemed insufficiently black.