Topic: My try on a boros heroic deck

Any advice is welcome, especially on the sideboard.
I don't think there is any curve to this dec.
If the game goes long I have ways of dumping the mana into 3/3 creatures with the hammer or 2/1 clerics with Heliod.
I've put only 20 lands which maybe it's too low.
I've tried to keep it in a reasonable(for me) sum of money.

http://deckbox.org/sets/489031

Thanks.

Re: My try on a boros heroic deck

My first reactions to the build:

1) You're sitting on too many copies of legendary creatures.  You're going to end up with dead draw Anax and Cymede a air amount of the time.  Further, Heliod would be best as a 2x, as you don't want to dead draw one, especially since he's unlikely to actually become a creature given your current configuration.

2) Your creature count is quite low and manages to omit one of the best heoric creatures in the set, Fabled Hero.  Given the number of cards you've allocated to triggering heroic, you will likely have games where you only draw 1-2 creatures and a ton of pumps, only to see the creatures removed and you frustratingly drawing dead until they take you out.

3) You have a direct conflict of interest between Hammer of Purphoros and only having 20 lands.  Simply put, it will be highly unlikely that you're ever going to have enough land to really sack into more than 1-2 golems.

4) Spear of Heliod is good, but I wouldn't run any more than 2x of them.  If you're dying for more anthem effects, either more Legion's Initiatives or Path of Bravery will work.  The problem behind having just 3x spears is that you'll never have more than one anthem at your disposal care of its legendary status.

5) Tajic is good and I think there are places for him, but I can just see where you're seldom going to trigger his battalion and even then he'll just get chumped almost endlessly.

6) You'll really need at least 2x Sacred Foundry if you're planning on going to an FNM to really be competitive.

7) I'm seeing ZERO removal on your part.  R/W has a LOT of options to help deal with opposing threats.  Lightning Strike, Magma Jet, or even better given that you're playing with red, Chained to the Rocks.  You need at least a few options to deal with your opponent's creatures, otherwise, there are bigger and better creatures than you're using that will just overpower you.

I think to really make boros work you need to commit to either a full out aggro strategy or a more mid-range game.  Sadly, heroic has some promise, but I don't know that it's worth building an entire deck around just yet.  For an aggro build, you'll want Akroan Crusader, Soldier of the Pantheon, Rakdos Cackler, Firefist Striker, Daring Skyjek, Wojek Halberdiers, and things of that like.  For a mid-range build you'll likely want to culminate in Assemble the Legion which is just a monster card that ends games on its own (although it is actually outpaced by Elspeth until the 10th turn they would both be in play).

Re: My try on a boros heroic deck

Thanks TyWooOneTime for your time.

I've updated it.
1. I missed the fact that it's legendary, - only 2 copies in deck now.
2. I do have Fabled Hero, 4 copies of him. The deck has more creatures now.
3. 22 lands now, but the deck has 62 cards and I can't decide what to let out.
4. 2 spears should be enough for everyone.
5. 1 copy of Tajic just for the fun of it.
6. ok , ok you have a point, 2 copies of  Sacred Foundry.
7. I've added chained to the rocks and pit fight(this should trigger some heroic also)
8. Soldier of the Pantheon is in the deck
Damaging spells are very good but I am thinking that if I have a 1 mana spell to trigger the heroic on the target creature oponent is trying to kill then his  Lightning Strike or Magma Jet will do nothing and I will get an advantage.

Any suggestions of what to drop to get to 60 cards?

Re: My try on a boros heroic deck

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Re: My try on a boros heroic deck

I've been playing this deck for a while, but mostly with a friend so I'm not able to test against many different types of decks.

http://deckbox.org/sets/489031

The more I play with it, I see I'm going away from heroic and closer to battalion mechanic, or just single more powerful creatures that can stand on their own so not much synergy.
Any tips are very much welcome.
Thanks a bunch.

Re: My try on a boros heroic deck

Check out some of the sCG decklists posted here.

http://www.starcitygames.com/pages/decklists/

WR decks have been doing well recently.