Dann Wyte

                     PEASANT MAGIC

                        GENCON

                      RANCOR-FIRES

     Hi every one my name's Dann Wyte, I'd like to

share my idea of what Fires with the abuse of Rancor

might kinda look like in Peasant Magic with a review

afterwards. Please read the review, it give a total

explanation on how this WHOLE deck works and the

metagame with it. I'd really appreciate you enjoying

my article to its full extent and my hard labor ALL

afternoon writing the article:

Peasant Rancor-Fires v1.0

4 Llanowar Elves

4 Rouge Elephant

4 Pouncing Jaguar

4 Blastoderm

4 Flowstone Crusher

4 Shock

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Rancor

4 Fires of Yavimaya

2 Lotus Petal

11 Forest

10 Mountain

1 Treetop Village

Side Board:

4 Incinerate

3 Invigorate

4 Giant Growth

4 Wild Might

     Now the review for the Main Deck:

   Llanowar Elves- Since Birds of Paradise is rare the

little elves will have to do, although they won't

produce all types of mana it will produce green, which

is the most important color of he deck being that it

is the main color of the creatures and rancor which I

will explain later

   Rogue Elephant- What can I say? Its just pure beat

down, hmm cast 3/3 haste with fires, rancor it 5/3

haste trample for GG mana. Even if you don't use

Rancor on it, it is still a threat to your opponent.

Very fast too. A first turn Rogue Elephant might let

you take control of the whole game if your opponent

isn't playing red (Lightning Bolt).

   Pouncing Jaguar- Hm, not too shabby, a 2/2 for one

green mana. Nice creature acceleration. It has echo

but hey, what was Llanowar elves made for? Same thing

with Rogue Elephant, rancor it so it's a 4/2 trample

haste. Did I mention how good Rancor is? I think so.

   Blastoderm- Ok, if you don't know what this card is

for you must be VERY slow in the metagame. Anywho, a

5/5 haste (with Fires) for 2GG is awesome! Even if you

can't Rancor it to give it trample and extra power,

who needs it? This thing is VERY wicked with fires.

Who needs Spirtmonger now, ok maybe I'm being

sarcastic.

   Flowstone Crusher- Hehe, a Ball o Lightning (with

Fires) that stays in play, just imagine the look on

the oppositions face when this thing comes in play.

Repeat after me........Cast, and Rancor, and Pump, and

Kill. Take my word for it people, this card is awesome

with haste.

   Shock- Can you say creature control? Ok it's not

that great of a creature control card alone but it

cooks those pesky rodent creatures that block your

mighty Blastoderm from dealing damage and make it fade

away. And it might slow down the opponents first turn

by fring their creature. What more is there to say?

   Lightning Bolt- Now here is creature control, we're

talking big guns. This card will make many appearances

at GenCon Peasant Magic because of its pure insanity

(although most of you guys and gals out there already

know this). Your opponent thinks he got a good start

because he played the 3/3 called Rogue Elephant, hm,

I'll cast Lightning Bolt, kill your Rouge Elephant and

you lost a land and a creature *evil laugh*. You get

the idea.

   Rancor- Hm, big creatures and trample work together

well if you didn't know. Flowstone Crusher, Rancor,

Pump, Haste or 1st turn Rogue Elephant 2nd turn

Rancor, you have a 5/3 trample. Use this with Fires so

when you cast a creature you have a big creature with

haste and trample. Very effective in this deck, just

run over opponents with trample.

   Fires of Yavimaya- Well, here's ol' faithful, the

one and only Fires. Think about it, all your creatures

have haste, you surprise your opponent with Blastoderm

or a Rancored Rogue Elephant. Just imagine people,

just imagine. And if your going for the kill just sac

it for +2/+2 on a creature that has trample. Nuff

said.

   Lotus Petal- Can you say mana acceleration? Yep,

this card works awesome to get out those bigger

creatures with haste or that key card like Fires or

Rancor. Thats about it and I think no further

explaning is required.

   Treetop Village- Well although I only have one in

the deck it still earns its place as a powerful card.

Turn it into a creature Rancor it its a 5/3 trample

and when it turns back to a land the rancor goes into

the graveyard and gets returned to your hand to

enchant another creature later. Cool?, I thought so.

    Now the review for the Side Board:

   Incinerate- Yep, more creature control. Can you

guess why? Yep, the NO REGENERATION part. Are those

pesky regenerators getting you down? No fear,

Incinerate is here! 3 Damage without the opponent

regenerating his creature is pretty good. I think you

got my point on Incinerate, to the next Side Board

Card, Batboy!

   Invigorate- I have three basic Pump Cards in my

Side Board, this one being the first. This pump card

is for those mana tight games where you just can't

come up with enough mana to do more damage or don't

have enough creature power to destroy that pesky Juzam

thats blocking your creatures? Invigorate will help

out alot with the alternate casting cost you can

easily pump a creature to kill another creature or

deal an extra 1 point of damage because of your

opponent gaining life off of the alternate casting

cost. Or you can use it when your opponent tries to

kill your first turn Rogue Elephant with Lightning

Bolt. Now for the second Pump Card in my Side

Board.........

   Giant Growth- Just plain good with Rancor because

of the trample. This card is if you need to deal more

damage to the opponent faster so he doesn't have

enough time to cast that big creature that would Run

you over. Or to save your creature from being burned

to death or dieing from another creature.You get what

I mean.

   Wild Might- This pump card is when your opponents

deck is mana tight. When they can't pay the two

generic mana, cast it on a rancored or unblocked

creature, +5/+5 is alot of extra damage that your

opponent won't expect, one time I was playing this guy

and he was at 12 life, he let my Pouncing Jaguar

through, I cast Wild Might twice and I won, man, you

HAD to see the look on his face, it was hilarious.

Anywho that's it for the Side Board, to the Overall

Report!

Rating the cards on a scale from 1 to 5 on how well

they work in the deck:

Llanowar Elves-4

Rogue Elephants-5

Pouncing Jaguar-3

Blastoderm-5

Flowstone-3

Shock-3

Lighting Bolt-5

Fires of Yavimaya-5

Lotus Petal-5

Treetop Village-4

   The Whole ShaBang- Well what do you think? I think

that if played right this deck could DOMINATE. yes,

that's right it could dominate. This deck is solid

with 4 of everything except Lotus Petal and Treetop

Village, if you count that. I also think that all

these cards work great with Fires of Yavimaya. This

deck (if played) would be a big threat to Black

Suicide which can use the awesome Juzam Djinn. With

this deck though, the life loss will hurt him because

he will need all the life he can get against this

deck. I never play tested this deck so I really don't

know how fast it is, if you can play test this deck,

email me with results on speed and how fast it can

deal damage. My email's on the bottom.

   Did you notice how important Rancor is to my deck?

Yep, it's ALL about trample and haste in this deck, it

is very effective too if my calculations are correct.

Well, thats about it, just remember, against burn keep

the creatures rolling in and against counterspell and

the such do the same, they will run dry of

counterspells.I hope this article was't too long for

you and I hope it helped out because thats what magic

is all about, helping other people get better, Till

next time.........

Dann Wyte

"How can man walk with four balls?"

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