Izzet Prowess

Modern48.0% WR · 652 matchesLive buildBuy on Manapool
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Boros Energy is a creature-based aggro deck that generates value through Ocelot Pride tokens, Guide of Souls life gain, and Ragavan mana advantage, while threatening to go wide faster than you can race. Your gameplan is to leverage cheap burn spells and prowess triggers to kill them before they stabilize, but their token generation and life gain from Guide of Souls can outpace your damage if the game goes long. Pick Your Poison comes in to answer Cori-Steel Cutter mirrors or, more importantly, to handle problematic permanents like Goblin Bombardment or Ocelot Pride at instant speed—wait, Pick Your Poison is a sorcery, so use it proactively on your turn to destroy an enchantment or give a creature -1/-1 to shrink a key attacker. Heritage Reclamation helps recover resources against their hand disruption from Ragavan and Seasoned Pyromancer. Trim the pump spells (Violent Urge, Monstrous Rage) that are weakest when they have multiple blockers or removal like Galvanic Discharge and Phlage threatening to two-for-one you mid-combat.

Bring In
+2 Pick Your Poison
+1 Heritage Reclamation
Take Out
2 Violent Urge
1 Monstrous Rage