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rufus
07-22-2015, 08:35 PM
There are a couple of older threads where people have tried to combine Pyromancer Ascension with the standard cantrip shell - back when the ascension was spoiled (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?21746-Deck-Pyromancer-Ascension and http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?15624-Deck-Pyromancer-Ascension) and more recently with young pyromancer (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?26276-Pyromancer-s-Ascension-(Grixis-Young-Pyromancer).

With the newly printed pyromancer goggles in Magic Origins, I found myself looking back at that card and wondering about running it a somewhat different way, using a BRG engine with Gitaxian Probe as a token blue representative card.


4 Gamble
4 Entomb
4 Lightning Bolt

4 Regrowth
4 Noxious Revival

4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Manamorphose

4 Pyromancer Ascension
4 Infernal Tutor
4 Abrupt Decay

4 Chrome Mox

16 lands

The planned win is to get one pyromancer ascension on-line, and the bootstrap it into a second using some kind of manamorphose/regrowth loop.

I'm trying to work out whether this should be a casual deck concept or a competitive one.

Blastoderm
07-23-2015, 01:19 PM
There are a couple of older threads where people have tried to combine Pyromancer Ascension with the standard cantrip shell - back when the ascension was spoiled (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?21746-Deck-Pyromancer-Ascension and http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?15624-Deck-Pyromancer-Ascension) and more recently with young pyromancer (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?26276-Pyromancer-s-Ascension-(Grixis-Young-Pyromancer).

With the newly printed pyromancer goggles in Magic Origins, I found myself looking back at that card and wondering about running it a somewhat different way, using a BRG engine with Gitaxian Probe as a token blue representative card.


4 Gamble
4 Entomb
4 Lightning Bolt

4 Regrowth
4 Noxious Revival

4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Manamorphose

4 Pyromancer Ascension
4 Infernal Tutor
4 Abrupt Decay

4 Chrome Mox

16 lands

The planned win is to get one pyromancer ascension on-line, and the bootstrap it into a second using some kind of manamorphose/regrowth loop.

I'm trying to work out whether this should be a casual deck concept or a competitive one.

You probably need some Discard or you'll get wrecked by other combo/counterspells. Move 4 abrupt decay and two other cards to the sb?

rufus
07-23-2015, 07:16 PM
You probably need some Discard or you'll get wrecked by other combo/counterspells. Move 4 abrupt decay and two other cards to the sb?

The recursion should help a little vs counters, but yeah, I had similar thoughts. I'm still trying to refine the primary engine.

Edit: This 'tutor for everything' idea is just plain terrible.