Comments on: I Would Have Played Bolts

By: wobblesthegoose

wobblesthegoose — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:42:36 +0000

Hope you don’t play against Bant. That deck just seems terrible for mono-burn.

By: bk

bk — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:54:18 +0000

why don’t you like path to exile? it’s the best white card in extended (and standard). all you people who said it wasn’t were wrong.

i love ranger zoo lately. i made a sick version that just mauls blue and naya.

4 nacatl
4 ape
4 fanatic
4 goyf
4 thoctar
3 ranger
4 path
4 helix
2 seal
1 tarfire
2 jitte
4 treetop
1 m
1 f
1 p
2 stomping ground
2 sacred foundry
1 temple garden
4 mire
4 foothills
4 heath

sb
3 teeg
4 hedge mage
3 fallout
2 rule of law
3 pillar

i think loam and monowhite are your only bad matchups. you could board a bunch of vortices to improve that, but i think i’d rather beat teps and elves which you are frankly more likely to see in the t8.

and yes, village is that damn good.

By: GRat

GRat — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:27:24 +0000

Brooklyn. Be there or be somewhere else.

By: DAisaka09

DAisaka09 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:27:22 +0000

I agree with Kaibaman11689. No one was more upset about the metagame shift than me. I absolutely loved the deck that i played in Portland and would have only made a couple changes mainly swapping out both mutavaults and two Kataki for 3 Woollthy Thoctar and a land.
It seems now the zoo lists are just getting progressively more and more midrangy to beat each other which frankly i think weakens you against the field. I played with different lists in Seattle and in LA (i’m a college student from seattle who goes to school in LA so i was back on break for the Seattle and Portland PTQs) and really was’t happy with either one. As you said Vortex is the best thing about playing Naya Burn and then you had to cut it because everyone insisted on playing jittes, thoctars and md path to exile.

At the very least playing mono red you won’t have to play beat down mirrors all day which are awful. I think you might want to bump the bridge count to three especially if you think your going to play a lot of zoo, but maybe that’s just me.

By: Burnman

Burnman — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:12:29 +0000

why not run some fetch lands? is it because you fear the stifles in the metagame, or because you think the one damage would be bad enough in some matchups to not run them. I have run bolts for a while and i think the ability to thin your deck just a little is very nice when late game you wanna be drawing gas and not lands. Other than that, i like the list

By: Kaibaman11689

Kaibaman11689 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:59:19 +0000

I think the deck is a solid pick. There is definitely a strong presence of Zoo in Extended right now, almost too much(due to everyone’s infatuation with Fetch & Shock lands/Tarmogoyf . Its seems as if this deck has a nice matchup against Zoo and also Affinity, due in large part to the artifact hate.

Ah, but you already know this, so I guess this post was kind of pointless…

Anyways, good luck!!