Quote Originally Posted by lotriderm View Post
Game 1 against decks that run Humility, Moat, and/or ghostly prison is pretty rough, which is why I run Anarchy in my SB.

I'm playing monoR right now, and pyrokinesis has been pretty underwhelming lately. I have been using pyroblast in its place right now (mainly for RWM). Is there any other options?
This. If you aren't running x3 anarchy or x3-4 perish in your sideboard right now, you are doing it wrong. Mainly because Prog is a bitch, but thankfully, Progenitus has been reading up on some of Chomsky's stuff and is digging it, but your opponent doesn't know that, so they won't often play around anarchy very often.

It's a very, very underappreciated little gem in the game of magic. Poor, poor, anarchy.

Oh, and also it is good against white things, such as RWM and moat/humility/prison.

Perish does much of the same but is even better, because you can board it in with more success against the bant decks and the zoo decks. Behind warren weirding, it is THE reason to splash right now.

I don't think pyrokinesis is entirely replaceable in MonoR builds. The tempo boost is so amazing for goblins. You can try something oLdsKoOl like Lightning Bolt, or even consider something like more gempalms. However I don't think I'd want to board in pyroblast against bant, not worth the space IMO.