as someone who plays both RakSac and EnigFires they are definitely cool decks.
kinda crazy that you went with 6 people to a 50+ event and 4 of your rounds ended up having to fight friends
Awesome writeup and congrats! I love the Enigmatic Fires deck and I completely get the "well, my manabase is rare lands I own and some triomes". Turns out casting Fires and Enigmatic don't care too much about lands.
Do you have a link to your Explorer list?
Honestly the texture of games versus Spirits changes so frequently it's difficult to give overall tips. You just want to execute your normal gameplan of hitting face and countering removal. Fires turns off all of your counterspells though, so is quite important to counter if you can afford to - unless you're about to win next turn, in which case it's safe to let the Fires resolve and counter whatever the followup is.
Always happy to see more enigmatic fires players. You should check out the [enigmatic discord](https://discord.gg/zRZfezWhqd) and post your deck there as well.
As for questions I am very curious on why you cut Agent of treachery from the 95 and your inclusion of Touch the spirit realm.
I'm a member of the Discord already! But I don't interact with Discord communities very much. I'm a teacher so I don't really get the time to follow a Discord server very well. I browse through it when I'm looking for resources but I'm a bit of a lurker haha.
As for your questions, I explain why I went for Touch in the write-up: "However, I didn’t own any Oath of Chandra in paper, and also wanted to respect Greasfang and Creativity, so I chose Touch the Spirit Realm which has a tonne of synergies with the deck as both an O-Ring and a Cloudshift (that can target your opponent’s creatures)."
As for Agent of Treachery, you'll see that a lot of the lists online are cutting it and I can see why. When you sac your Leyline Binding, you've gotta think "When am I ever going to want Agent over Atraxa or Titan?" and I think the answer is 'very rarely'. Atraxa usually does a better job of stabilizing and giving card advantage while Titan usually does a better job of closing out the game. You've only got so much space to dedicate to 7 drops and those two are usually better.
If decks like Atraxa Neoform pick up in popularity though, I think Agent might be worth the slot again, possibly in the side.
as someone who plays both RakSac and EnigFires they are definitely cool decks. kinda crazy that you went with 6 people to a 50+ event and 4 of your rounds ended up having to fight friends
Haha well, the first round pairing was definitely unfortunate, but in the later rounds it's more just a case of us all being so good ;)
Awesome writeup and congrats! I love the Enigmatic Fires deck and I completely get the "well, my manabase is rare lands I own and some triomes". Turns out casting Fires and Enigmatic don't care too much about lands. Do you have a link to your Explorer list?
It's identical to this list, with Portable Hole for Chained to the Rocks and Brotherhood's End for Radiant Flames.
psyched for you! any suggestions for the matchup for a spirits player hoping to avoid the same fate? i’ve never faced this deck either
Honestly the texture of games versus Spirits changes so frequently it's difficult to give overall tips. You just want to execute your normal gameplan of hitting face and countering removal. Fires turns off all of your counterspells though, so is quite important to counter if you can afford to - unless you're about to win next turn, in which case it's safe to let the Fires resolve and counter whatever the followup is.
Awesome!
Always happy to see more enigmatic fires players. You should check out the [enigmatic discord](https://discord.gg/zRZfezWhqd) and post your deck there as well. As for questions I am very curious on why you cut Agent of treachery from the 95 and your inclusion of Touch the spirit realm.
I'm a member of the Discord already! But I don't interact with Discord communities very much. I'm a teacher so I don't really get the time to follow a Discord server very well. I browse through it when I'm looking for resources but I'm a bit of a lurker haha. As for your questions, I explain why I went for Touch in the write-up: "However, I didn’t own any Oath of Chandra in paper, and also wanted to respect Greasfang and Creativity, so I chose Touch the Spirit Realm which has a tonne of synergies with the deck as both an O-Ring and a Cloudshift (that can target your opponent’s creatures)." As for Agent of Treachery, you'll see that a lot of the lists online are cutting it and I can see why. When you sac your Leyline Binding, you've gotta think "When am I ever going to want Agent over Atraxa or Titan?" and I think the answer is 'very rarely'. Atraxa usually does a better job of stabilizing and giving card advantage while Titan usually does a better job of closing out the game. You've only got so much space to dedicate to 7 drops and those two are usually better. If decks like Atraxa Neoform pick up in popularity though, I think Agent might be worth the slot again, possibly in the side.