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Feb 14, 2013 -- 10:37AM, Islands wrote:

You have to play excetionally tight.  You have to use your burn perfectly and you have to be very wise to get the most mileage out of Tibalt.

A single misplay here can often be curtains.

Could you give some examples of tight play?  If this-then that kind of stuff that someone less experienced with the deck may not pick up on right away? 

Stuff like when to use Tibalt's abilities wrt what's in your hand.  When to play what to get the mostout of Brimstone Volley's morbid clause, when to burn vs. when to let your creatures do the damage, etc...

The best example of tight play is not making moves that limit your lines of play... and by definition playing to your deck's outs.

Don't throw away resources/cards to lines that only end in you losing the game.

Let that sink in for a while. Its true of any deck... but since this deck is so high variance being excellent at it rewards higher here. 

Ran this tonight. First time with it so obviously some player error, but overall it seems solid. I'm short a Vexing Devil so I ran an extra Boros Reckoner in the main, and I had 1 Hellion Crucible in place of a mountain. The Hellion Crucible was never relevant; the only times I could make the token it was too late to save me. It would have been better as another red source.


Went 3-2:
Round 1 vs Gruul. T2 Burning Tree Shaman into Skarrg Guildmage, T3 Huntmaster, T4 Thragtusk, and T5 +4/+4 trample bloodrush onto Thragtusk kind of wrecked me. Went 1-2, and really wasn't sure what to do better. Skullcrack stopped some life gain but it wasn't enough. I was also stuck on 2 land game 3, when I needed to hit that third land for Brimstone and Reckoner.
Round 2 my opponent never showed up, so I technically won.
Round 3 vs Orzhov (control?). Enough small guys at least one would stick through his removal, and enough burn that half of it went to his face, and Skullcracking when his Nighthawks swung. 2-0
Round 4 vs Bant control. Slow deck, side in the Reckless Waif! T1 Waif, T2 Noble followed by Pillaring the Snapcaster he played just to stop the Waif, and T3 Waif transforming and he could never recover. 2-0
Round 5 vs Gruul Werewolves. Huntmaster, burn, and a misplay on my part and I got stomped. 0-2

At least to me, R/G seems to be an issue because it shares your removal options while having larger creatures.
There was never a time where Forge Devil would have been worth playing; I'm dropping him from my sideboard. Possible replacement options are Volcanic Strength or Madcap Skills , either would be nasty on any of your creatures. Volcanic, at least, would help against the R/G decks, and I think I'm going to give it a try.

I'm not sold on 4 Wraths. Probably half the games I had one in my opening hand, but the rest of the hand was solid enough to keep it. And Tibalt never discarded it. Actually, Tibalt never saw play in the games I won, only in the games I lost, so that's either user error (I don't think as much, because I didn't play him until I was okay with things in my hand getting discarded) or coincidence. My one misplay with Tibalt was -4'ing when I should have +1'd to work towards his -6.

If I had the lands, I'd totally splash the white for Boros Charm as well. Unfortunately, I don't at this moment.

Yeah, Volcanic Strength is going to be going back into the SB for Naya.