Card/Deck Boros Reckoner

[Jason Waddell]

I am catching some flak from one of my drafters for bringing in Boros Reckoner. What do you guys think?

 

[HannesVersmissen]

I think the Reckoner is interesting enough even without Blasphemous act. It should be able to give W/R aggro another great edge.

Now the only real question is whether or not W/R aggro even needs another edge. I like to see it pop up in a draft though!

 

[Eric Chan]

Huh. What was the nature of the complaint? The downsides I can see to this brainy minotaur are that a) he stonewalls aggro really hard, and b) he's not easy to cast, despite his hybrid cost.

I haven't tried him in cube yet, but he seems exciting, so I've got him in there right now, awaiting a test run. If he really beats up on aggro, then maybe I'll reconsider.

 

[Jason Waddell]

The complaint was just some vague nonsense about it "not having a home" and "not being cube worthy". But this guy just tries to force a multicolor Planeswalker deck every week, so what does he know?

 

[CML]

it's powerful and flexible enough without being too easy to cast or too oppressive against aggro decks, i dunno what the problem is

 

[Eric Chan]

Yeah... hmmm. I don't know how you respond to that. Maybe show him how good it is by beating him with a Boros aggro deck, with Reckoner as the centerpiece?

Funny thing is, in a multicolor walker deck, Reckoner isn't half bad at protecting all of his expensive investments.

 

[Jesse Hartman]

The only legit complaint I can see is that, as Eric pointed out, he stonewalls aggro and is pretty much a guaranteed 2-for-1 if they even have an answer. I wouldn't mind including it, but I would have my eye on how much it affects RG aggro, the color combination that is softest to the card.

He IS interesting though. I bet he would be really good in midrange/controllish decks that want a powerful defensive card.

 

[blacksmithy]

it makes me happy that in 2021 this odd little cow is still in like the top 5ish Boros cards, even if Rip Apart and General Ferrous have kicked him out of my cube in the last month

 

[SirFunchalot]

it makes me happy that in 2021 this odd little cow is still in like the top 5ish Boros cards, even if Rip Apart and General Ferrous have kicked him out of my cube in the last month

I think that says so much more about how awful the average boros cards are than it does about how good Reckoner is.

 

[safra]

i would suck boros reckoner's dick while taking heavy fire

 

[Chris Taylor]

i would suck boros reckoner's dick while taking heavy fire

Try hard enough and "heavy fire" might happen anyways