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great talk.

Regarding Ghostly Prison – they are a nonbo with Planeswalkers, so I think you pick one or the other.

You can literally replace the Aven’s and Brimaz’s with the combo (4 Resto and 2 Kiki) and you have the same game plan – control the game with burn, use Blood Moon and Molten Rain to attack the manabase and then win with either the combo finish (or Brimaz and his tokens).

There’s a lot to be learnt from Jeff’s version of the deck. Jeff just likes to play fair which turns him off the Resto/Kiki combo.

Land destruction is much better suited to the prison version. It is viable.

I ran Chandra in Cruise days. Now she’d be a good sideboard card. Siege I think is a lot better in the prison version, and probably one with Elspeth and maybe other token generators, along with Pyroclasm.

Nope.

This just came to mind – wouldn’t Chandra, Pyromaster or Outpost Siege be an all-star in this sort of deck? The main issue I see with it as compared to its blue counterparts (and that is corroborated to some extent by the other commenters) is that you could grind to a halt and don’t necessarily have that much in the way of secondary wincons unless you adopt the “really slow burn” plan. Chandra, Pyromaster remedies that pretty easily (and I’d wager she’s better bang for the buck than Gideon), and Outpost Siege does something similar if you feel that a Planeswalker isn’t safe enough (but with sweepers and Path, you should be fine). Thoughts?

http://themeadery.org/articles/by-the-white-of-the-moon

Another thought is that I know you said you felt confident against aggro, but I still feel that any Boros deck not running Anger of the Gods benefits from Boros Reckoner. It does more than just stonewall aggro – it trades with all sorts of big creatures (which makes it useful against midrange), can block profitably against many others (thanks to first strike), and will generally zap some decks back when they try to kill (not to mention offering a bit of extra value out of your choosing to drop a Pyroclasm on its head). I’d try and make room for that guy.

I mean you can’t avoid the comparisons to twin when your primary win con is kiki+resto. Both decks need a backup plan for when the inifnite dudes don’t happen.

While twin will happily electrolyze the face then snap the electrolyze, do we really want to point 2 magma jets to the dome? It is a long slog to 20 if you have to go that way and you’ll regret it when they resolve something meaningful that you could have killed if you’d held that burn spell.

Isochron scepter is an exception here, as helixing every turn “for free” will actually get there in a reasonable amount of time with just a bit of support from them fetch/shocking and you drawing a couple bolts/jets.

But yeah I’m not saying you need a bunch of 2 and 3 mana goblin piker variants – just that the deck needs to reliably close the game once it has control and that’s pretty shakey when all of your opponents removal can still be live and in their hand (dismember, path, cut, bolt-snap-bolt, etc). Kiki is super fragile when you aren’t making them blow their removal on other things or making them discard it 🙁

I was running 3 Temples and 3 Walls, but never got around to trying the Magma Jets. It’s possible that would have made a decent impact.

You’re comparing a tempo deck to a control deck. We don’t need as many creatures as they do to win. Perhaps we need more than we have right now, but we certainly don’t need or want as many as Twin. Batterskull is nice. Jotun Grunt can be nice.

Assemble is definitely meant for the prison version. Not sure I’d run Pyroclasm in that version.

I would never go above 5cmc. Even that sometimes feels like it’s stretching it.