monkeyballs - boréal
IDEAS AND DIFFERENCES?
I created this deck when I first started playing OS. In fact, it’s the only deck I consider to have ‘created’, other decks were just meta variations on established archetypes.
The idea was that I believed playing **all** the restricted cards must be good, so I started a deck that had them all (Balance later moved to the SB). Then, the next best cards were lightning bolt and disenchant, so I added 4 of those.
Finally, I decided to add fireballs since it made our mid-to-late game top decks very good. I packed 4 Kird Apes since I had 4 Bolts and 4 Disenchants to deal with factories, and it was otherwise the best 1cmc creature.
It’s the closest deck to a delver deck that I could come up with for OS. I didn’t want to play the traditional aggro deck
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because I thought it scooped to much of the meta, so I wanted an aggro deck that had some late-game punch and a good mana denial strategy. I always enjoyed beating Karl with it.
MATCHUPS?
It can beat traditional aggro decks if you draw the right removal. It has a good matchup vs decks that are weak to strip mine. T1 Kird Ape can win the game vs many decks who are too slow for it.
SIDEBOARD SUGGESTIONS?
You only run 6 creatures so you can design a SB that sides them out and becomes a more controlish deck. You can add 3x Swords to Plowshare + other removal. Versus decks that play Bolts, you can side in Serra Angels.
source: Kyril D-R - Montreal Tundra Wolves
picture: @oldschoolmtg
Kyril D.R.'s list
CREATURES
2 Bird of Paradise
4 Kird Ape
SPELLS
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Fireball
2 Disintegrate
1 Fork
1 Chain Lightning
4 Disenchant
2 Sylvan Library
1 Regrowth
1 Mind Twist
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Braingeyser
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Mana Drain
1 Time Twister
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Sol Ring
1 Chaos Orb
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
LANDS
1 Library of Alexandria
4 City of Brass
4 Strip Mine
2 Tropical Island
4 Taiga
4 Savannah