Land:
4x Arid Mesa
4x Copperline Gorge
4x Raging Ravine
4x Razorverge Thicket
3x Forest
2x Mountain
2x Plains
1x Misty Rainforest
Critters:
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Fauna Shaman
4x Squadron Hawk
4x Stoneforge Mystic
4x Cunning Sparkmage
4x Vengevine
1x Acidic Slime
1x Goblin Ruinblaster
1x Manic Vandal
1x Hero of Oxid Ridge
Spells:
4x Lightning Bolt
Equipment:
1x Basilisk Collar
1x Sword of Body and Mind
1x Sword of Feast and Famine
1x Bonehoard
So the basic idea with this deck is the continue to abuse the Squadron Hawk/Stoneforge Mystic package with all sorts of equipment but also give you some additional reach with Fauna Shaman/Vengevine package. It's like "You got peanut butter on my chocolate" "No, you got chocolate on my peanut butter"(see this). Blending these two flavors together just comes together so easily.
You want an opening hand with this deck to be pretty aggressive, but anything containing a Stoneforge Mystic or Fauna Shaman seems more then acceptable. With Stoneforge Mystic you will be wanting to get up a Basilisk Collar if you have a Sparkmage and the rest of the time SoFaF, if you do not. With Fauna Shaman, you will want to start getting your pieces together for some serious crushing. What you get will really depend on the board state. If you are just set up to do some awesomeness, grab venge's and go for it. If you need to catch up, Stoneforge and Sparkmage seem like perfect answers.
Doesn't this just sounds like last years standard? Except with a more amazing equipment? Nothing too creative here, just rehashing old ideas with new cards.
Here are some sideboard considerations:
Goblin Ruinblaster
Might as well fill up. You are going to need to deal with Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle some how post board. This seems like the cheapest answer without going to crazy with Tectonic Edges. Fetchable with Fauna Shaman.
Obstinate Baloth
This guy is a house against red decks. Need life and a blocker? Here you go!
Crush
Crush is becoming one of my favorite sideboard cards for red. It is really cheap and can do some crazy things against your opponents. Ideal against Caw-Blade and Tezzy style decks.
Elspeth Tirel
I am love'n this lady. Sometimes you just need to get rid of the game state. You are lined up with dudes to block and they are in the same situation. She fixes that. She says, lets gain a bunch of life and start over. But you run Vengevines! So its Squadron Hawk into to Squadron Hawk for an amazing amount of damage.
Ratchet Bomb
If you are concerned with a lot of Kuldotha Red, and you should be, this is the card for you. Get rid of those tokens and 0 drops. With the release of the Event decks, these will be played by many a player at FNM.
Thrun, the Last Troll
"Don't Leak Me Bro!" Yea this guy solves that issue. No need for concern of mana leak.
Kor Firewalker
Another solution to red if you are seriously concerned about it. Throw either sword on him, and hes pro 3 colors dude. Yea, he can be pro-RUG
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
There seems to be this deck that plays Pyromancer Ascension and Archive Trap. Yea, that deck is not very good, but play this as a 1 of, and you are auto immune to that deck. Seriously.... Mill strategy is just bad when there are auto one of solutions to them.
Hopefully you have fun and enjoy your FNM! Tell me how it goes if you run this.
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