Help with my sligh

[Anonymous]

First, sorry for my bad English. I know i should use Spanish forums, but that's the best forum i ever read. I stopped playing 3 years ago. Next week it's gonna be a a tournament here, and i dont know if my sligh deck is a little old. Friends has tell me that the metagame is full of aggro and suicide, and only a pair of control decks. I've been looking for new cards and that's the deck i have now:

Dorks:
4x Jackal Pup
4x Goblin Cadets
4x Goblin Patrol
4x Mogg fanatic

Burn:
4x Chain lightning
4x Fireblast
4x incinerate
4x lightning bolt
2x Goblin grenade

Utility:
1x fork
1x wheel of fortune
4x Ankh of Mishra

Lands:
1x Strip mine
19x Mountains

SB:
3x Anarchy
4x Pyroblast
3x Gorilla shaman
3x bottle gnomes
2x Scald


Please, tell me what i shouldn't use and what i can put in. A friend tell me about price of progress but if there aren't control decks i think it'll be stupid. Dont tell me about black lotus, mox ruby.. cuz i cant get one. Please, the tournament is soon, hel pme.

[Anonymous]

And another question, what to do on second turn with ankh at hand, burn and creatures or cast the ank?

[MolotDET]

Ok jomateix,

this is what I have for you.  But I guess this is depending on what those aggro and control decks are.

-4 Goblin Cadets +4 Cursed Scroll (or 3 and 1 Black Vise) no cadets because in an aggro heavy enviroment they will be useless after the first one or two turns, and the scrolls will always be good.

-4 Goblin Patrol +4 Gorilla Shaman (one again, these will only be of limited use, and the maindeck shaman will be useful against powered decks or anything that uses cheap casting cost Artifacts.

-2 Fireblast +2 Price of Progress (while the PoP might not be as useful if you metagame is mostly mono-colored, they should be better in these slots even if there are only a few multi-colored decks, because Fireblasts 3 and 4 are dead cards anyway.  Alternatively I might suggest Browbeat if your metagame is right.

-2 Goblin grenade +2 ? (This would be a metagame call.  If you take the advice I have given above these will nolonger be useful.  Depending what you are playing against I might suggest Flame Rift, Lava Axe or Shock.  But non of those cards are really good.  Personally in this spot I would add some mana exceleration like: mox Diamond, Sol Ring or Lotus Petal.

19x Mountains (I would try to mix in 4 Wastelands and/or 2 or 3 Barbarian Rings here.)

SB:
3x Anarchy (do you see enough White decks to warrant this?)
4x Pyroblast (4 blasts doesn't give you enough, I would make 2 of these Scald and perhaps the other 2 Price of Progress)
3x Gorilla shaman (Should move to the maindeck)
3x bottle gnomes (I guess these are for use against other Sligh decks?)

for other sideboard cards I might say:
Overload or Rack and Ruin - if you are running into Artifact decks like TnT and Mask. I like Overload better.

Tormod's Crypt - if you are going to see Keeper, Dragon, TnT or Oath, this is a good card.

Browbeat - if as you say the metagame is low control and very few Blue based decks, this will be a great card.  I might put it in the maindeck if your metagame is very mono-colored and/or there are few counterspells.

Pyrokinesis - this would be very good in an aggro heavy metagame if the decks are filled with small creatures, though if there are few counters you might like an X spell (Fireball or Kearevek's Torch)

Gorilla Tactics - if the metagame is heavy Suicide as you say it might be useful to have a full complement of these in your Sideboard.

sorry about most of the suggestions being so vauge but I would need to know exactly what people play there to know what is right.

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Unless there is something else to deal with, you should always drop the second turn Ankh if you are able.  This will deversify your threats and make you harder to deal with.
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hope this helps,