Revamped Gruul Aggro - Fine tuning needed!

So if I'm following you correctly, you have a Gruul aggro build that does NOT have 4x Burning-Tree Emissary feeding into 4x Firefist Striker?  Because to be honest, you're leaving a LOT of power on the table without those.

Personally I'd consider sliding Scavenging Ooze to the SB as the above mentioned two-drops are far faster and more critical to the aggro plan.

2x Stormbreath Dragon is fine, but you'll likely want more quality three drops like Chandra's Phoenix or other things of that nature... remember, your goal is for that four damage from Stormbreath to finish them off.  One possible three-drop to consider is Reverent Hunter - they still haven't caught on, but he's easily a 4/4 for three if you put down Exp One and then BTE into anything... that'll evolve the Exp AND essentially give you a Loxodon Smiter (which isn't half bad I hear these days).

Anger of the Gods is TERRIBLE for an aggro build.  You're going to end up clearing your own side quite a bit only to watch your opponent play Brave the Elements or something to that effect.  You might SB a few, but aside from that, you almost NEVER want this card in an aggro build.  Mid-range, sure, but aggro?  Not so much.

Xenagos isn't anything special for aggro, but Chandra, Pyromaster definitely pulls her own weight.  Between the pinging and unblockable +1 and the card advantage you spit out with her +0, yeah, she might be worth playing at least 1x of in here.

As much as I despise net-decking, there is something to be said for it as the pros really have put in the time to sit and playtest decks over and over and over again.  I would suggest looking into what the most successful Gruul aggro builds are at this weekend's tourneys and make some slight tweaks to your build to flesh out the low end of the curve with them as you still feel creature light for some reason (I would also say you don't need 7 burn spells, as you're probably going to want more creatures to increase the odds Domri hits AND to keep more of a pressuring board presense).

Where can I find those results? I'm fairly new to competitive deckbuilding, and I'll mostly just be using this at FNM's.

How does replacing 3x Anger with 3x Reverent Hunter and 3x Magma Jet with 3x Chandra's Phoenix look? I'll figure out a way to make room for the lady of flame herself at some point, but those changes just sort of jumped out at me.

Last edited by Leaite (2013-10-05 19:14:29)

Added in those Firefist Strikers, and holy wow. Cascading two BTE's and then a FFS on turn two was fun, and actually really effective.

Thanks for the link, by the way.

Would you suggest the activated ability as an option, or simply using the haste benefit? I'm leaning towards the latter, as the former seems to detract from other, more valuable, mana usage.