[Official - Solar Flare] Decklists thread

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[Anthonny]

Deck
Creatures: 8 2x Phantasmal Image 1x Wurmcoil Engine 2x Sun Titan 1x Grave Titan 1x Frost Titan 1x Elesh Norn Planeswalkers: 2 1x Gideon Jura 1x Elspeth Tirel Spells: 24 4x Mana Leak 2x Dissipate 3x Think Twice 3x Forbidden Alchemy 3x Doom Blade 2x Unburial Rites 3x Oblivion Ring 2x Timely Reinforcements 2x Day of Judgement	Lands: 25 3x Glacial Fortress 3x Drowned Catacomb 3x Isolated Chapel 6x Island 8x Plains 2x Swamp	Sideboard: 15 2x Flashfreeze 2x Celestial Purge 2x Revoke Existence 2x Divine Offering 1x Stony Silence 1x Purify the Grave 1x Nihil Spellbomb 1x Surgical Extraction 1x Sword of Feast and Famine 2x Mirran Crusader

[Sariku]

I have a more classic take on Solar Flare that is tuned to my local meta very well. At my last FNM I lost only to Dungrove Green (2-1) as I scooped three turns into the first game after a mulligan to five and mana screw.

Deck
Creature: 10 4x Snapcaster Mage 3x Sun Titan 1x Phantasmal Image 1x Wurmcoil Engine 1x Consecrated Sphinx Instant: 14 4x Forbidden Alchemy 2x Think Twice 4x Mana Leak 1x Dissipate 3x Doom Blade Sorcery: 5 3x Unburial Rights 2x Day of Judgment	Enchantment: 2 2x Oblivion Ring Planeswalker: 4 3x Liliana of the Veil 1x Gideon Jura Land: 25 3x Island 3x Swamp 3x Plains 4x Seachrome Coast 3x Glacial Fortress 3x Darkslick Shores 3x Drowned Catacombs 3x Isolated Chapel	Sideboard: 15 3x Flashfreeze 3x Mental Misstep 3x Timely Reinforcements 2x Divine Offering 2x Ratchet Bomb 1x Day of Judgment 1x Doom Blade

I have a lot of editing I'd like to do. The mana base has been fairly consistent for me, but I do think that more core set lands and basics are needed, and less Scars of Mirrodin lands.

I want to fit more Dissipate in the mainboard, at least one. I want to try another Phantasmal Image and one less Unburial Rights, as well as an Elesh Norn in the sideboard.

Mental Misstep was a fluke for me, and I never fond myself boarding them in. I will admit that I just threw my sideboard together, so I'm looking for a lot of criticism there. I want more Oblivion Rings too, at least three in my full seventy-five.

[Mulletman]

This is what im rolling with at the moment but ill be changing it up soon. Just trying to change things up especially the side board not 100% sure if its working

Deck
Creatures 9 3 Snapcaster mage 1 Consecrated Sphinx 1 Grave Titan 2 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Elsh Norn, Grand Cenobite 1 Rune-Scarred Demon Spells 26 1 Doom Blade 2 go for the throat 4 Mana Leak 2 Think Twice 4 Dissipate 3 Forbidden Alchemy 3 Oblivion Ring 2 Timely Reinforcements 3 Day of Judgment 2 Unberial Rites	Land 26 4 Drowned Catacomb 4 Glacial Fortress 4 Isolated Chapel 6 Island 5 Plains 3 Swamp	Sideboard 1 day of judgement 2 Mirran crusader 2 Blade Splicer 1 Timely Reinforcements 3 Flashfreeze 3 nihlspellbomb 3 Divine offering

[Adam W]

I am getting more and more permission-y with my list:

Deck
2 Sun Titan 1 Phantasmal Image 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 3 Snapcaster Mage 3 Think Twice 3 Forbidden Alchemy 3 Mana Leak 4 Dissipate 3 Dismember 1 Disperse 3 Oblivion Ring 3 Day of Judgment 4 Timely Reinforcements 1 Unburial Rites	4 Drowned Catacomb 4 Isolated Chapel 4 Glacial Fortress 6 Island 4 Plains 4 Ghost Quarter	Sideboard: 1 Unburial Rites 4 Timely Reinforcements 2 Flashfreeze 3 Mirran Crusader 1 Surgical Extraction 2 Ratchet Bomb 2 Spellskite

The MD is pretty consistent: draw cards, counter spells, and eventually use Sun Titan to win the attrition war. You have basically nothing to do on your turn until turn 6 at minimum, which is when you would flashback Unburial Rites and leave counter mana up. One of the amazing things about Snapcaster Mage is the way he lets you diversify your answer spells, so I run a somewhat unconventional removal suite. Disperse is in the main for a few reasons - sometimes, a vanilla bounce card is all you need. However, it's also handy at removing illusions, and it's a fun trick to play with Oblivion Ring.

The sideboard is all over the place due to a crazy local metagame, but the goal is to grab the answers you need. I'm not particularly concerned with answering strategies as I am answering specific cards, and most of the cards synergize with Snapcaster or Sun Titan. Steel Sabotage is great tempo against Wurmcoil Engine and Solemn Simulacrum, Spellskite is great against Viridian Emissary/Kessig Wolf Run/burn spells, Day hits hexproof creatures, and Ratchet Bomb interacts favorably with Sun Titan to completely deny the token strategy. Etc., etc. The extra Snapcaster comes in if you find yourself siding out the sorcery-speed stuff to play more of an instant-speed game. The only other cards I'm thinking of running in the board are: Leonin Arbiter, to slow WRR and synergize with Ghost Quarter; Cathedral Membrane, to slow aggro and synergize with Sun Titan; and Gut Shot, since there really aren't many relevant creatures that Dismember gets but Gut Shot won't.

I do want to spotlight Surgical Extraction, though, since it's been a complete all-star out of the board. On it's own, it's really not that great. It's saved me once or twice by grabbing Nephalia Drownyards against UB Draw-Go, but that's about it. However, when you combine it with Snapcaster Mage, it's basically a free Thoughtseize. Using Extraction purely as a discard spell has won me several games so far.

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Deck
Land 4 Glacial Fortress 4 Drowned Catacombs 1 Isolated Chapel 1 Seachrome Coast 5 Plains 6 Swamp 3 Island 2 Ghost Quarter Creatures 2 Sun Titan 1 Grave Titan 2 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Phantasmal Image 2 Snapcaster Mage 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite	Spells 3 Mana Leak 2 Dissipate 4 Forbidden Alchemy 3 Think Twice 3 Doom Blade 2 Unburial Rites 2 Oblivion Ring 2 Day of Judgment 2 Timely Reinforcements Planeswalkers 1 Gideon Jura	Sideboard 3 Go For the Throat 1 Batterskull 1 Timely Reinforcements 1 Phantasmal Image 3 Memoricide 1 Tribute to Hunger 2 Marrow Shards 1 Day of Judgment 2 Divine Offering

The main reason I've put up this list is because of its manabase. It's not perfect, or even good - I only own 1 Isolated Chapel - but I rarely find myself without the right colors. Only needing double white by turn 3 makes it easy.

[ctaylor33]

This list has changed so much since I started playing it about a month ago:

Deck
Land (27): 4 Darkslisk Shores 1 Drowned Catacombs 3 Isolated Chapel 3 Glacial Fortress 3 Island 4 Plains 3 Swamp 4 Seachrome Coast 2 Ghost Quarter Creatures (8): 2 Snapcaster Mage 2 Sun Titan 1 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Phantasmal Image 2 Consecrated Sphinx	Instants (16): 4 Forbidden Alchemy 3 Think Twice 3 Doom Blade 4 Mana Leak 2 Dissipate Sorceries (5): 3 Day of Judgment 2 Unburial Rites Enchantments (2): 2 Oblivion Ring Planeswalkers (2): 2 Liliana of the Veil	SB: 2 Celestial Purge 2 Revoke Existence 3 Timely Reinforcements 2 Surgical Extraction 1 Day of Judgment 1 Oblivion Ring 1 Wurmcoil Engine 3 Mirran Crusader

[micromanc3r]

Deck
Lands 7 Island 5 Swamp 3 Plains 4 Drowned Catacomb 1 Darkslick Shores 4 Glacial Fortress 1 Isolated Chapel 2 Inkmoth Nexus Draw 4 Think Twice 3 Forbidden Alchemy Creatures 3 Snapcaster Mage 2 Grave Titan 1 Consecrated Sphinx 1 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Batterskull	Counter spells 3 Dissipate 4 Mana Leak 1 Negate Removal 4 Doom Blade 2 Oblivion Ring 1 Black Sun's Zenith Other stuff 2 Timely Reinforcements 1 Unburial Rites	Sideboard

[ctaylor33]

Solar Flare
By: Akira Asahara
2011 GP Hiroshima - 10/29Type II - 3rd Place
Archive: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=936635

Deck
Main Deck: 3 Consecrated Sphinx 2 Liliana of the Veil 3 Snapcaster Mage 1 Sun Titan 3 Day of Judgment 4 Dissipate 3 Doom Blade 4 Forbidden Alchemy 4 Mana Leak 3 Oblivion Ring 3 Think Twice 1 Unburial Rites	4 Darkslick Shores 1 Drowned Catacomb 2 Ghost Quarter 3 Glacial Fortress 3 Island 4 Isolated Chapel 3 Plains 4 Seachrome Coast 3 Swamp	Sideboard: 1 Day of Judgment 1 Gideon Jura 2 Jace, Memory Adept 3 Mirran Crusader 1 Negate 2 Nephalia Drownyard 1 Nihil Spellbomb 2 Ratchet Bomb 1 Timely Reinforcements 1 Wurmcoil Engine

Solar Flare
By: David Thomas
2011 StarCity Open Standard - Kansas City - 10/29Type II - 4th place
Archive: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=936721

Deck
Main Deck: 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 2 Liliana of the Veil 2 Phantasmal Image 2 Snapcaster Mage 3 Sun Titan 1 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Batterskull 1 Day of Judgment 3 Despise 2 Doom Blade 4 Forbidden Alchemy 1 Go for the Throat 4 Mana Leak 2 Oblivion Ring 3 Think Twice 2 Unburial Rites	4 Darkslick Shores 1 Drowned Catacomb 2 Ghost Quarter 4 Glacial Fortress 3 Island 4 Isolated Chapel 2 Plains 2 Seachrome Coast 4 Swamp	Sideboard: 2 Celestial Purge 2 Day of Judgment 2 Dissipate 1 Divine Offering 2 Flashfreeze 1 Oblivion Ring 2 Surgical Extraction 3 Timely Reinforcements

Solar Flare
By: AJ Sacher
2011 StarCity Open Standard - Baltimore - 10/22Type II - 4th Place
Archive: http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=935322

Deck
Main Deck: 2 Liliana of the Veil 1 Phantasmal Image 4 Snapcaster Mage 2 Sun Titan 2 Wurmcoil Engine 2 Day of Judgment 1 Dismember 2 Dissipate 2 Doom Blade 4 Forbidden Alchemy 1 Go for the Throat 4 Mana Leak 2 Oblivion Ring 4 Think Twice 1 Unburial Rites	4 Darkslick Shores 2 Drowned Catacomb 1 Ghost Quarter 4 Glacial Fortress 4 Island 3 Isolated Chapel 2 Plains 4 Seachrome Coast 2 Swamp	Sideboard: 2 Celestial Purge 1 Day of Judgment 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 1 Flashfreeze 1 Ghost Quarter 1 Negate 1 Oblivion Ring 1 Phantasmal Image 3 Purify the Grave 1 Revoke Existence 2 Timely Reinforcements

[Malcontent99]

Here's my list. I've won three tourneys in a row with it so far (FNM x2 and Game day), although, admitedly, I don't play in the most competitive environment on the planet.

Deck
2 Gideon Jura 2 Wurmcoil 2 Grave Titan 2 Consecrated Sphinx 4 Snapcaster Mage 3 Day of Judgment 1 Tribute to Hunger 3 Doom Blade 2 Go for the Throat 2 Oblivion Ring 2 Think Twice 4 Forbidden Alchemy 2 Unburial Rites	1 Dissipate 4 Mana Leak 2 Seachrome Coast 4 Glacial Fortress 4 Drowned Catacombs 4 Isolated Chapel 4 Plains 4 Islands 3 Swamps 1 Nephalia Drownyard	Sideboard: 2 Celestial Purge 2 Revoke Existence 1 Divine Offering 3 Timely Reinforcements 1 Batterskull 1 Karn, Liberated 1 Ratchet Bomb 1 Ghost Quarter 3 Surgical Extraction

I was giving serious thought to my land configuration in light of Akira's emphasis on the Scars lands, but I have decided that would not work in my meta. As it is I always seem to have what I need to Kill or counter on T2 and I really, really need to have the option of dropping Day on T4 or a dude on T6. Waiting another turn because my land comes in tapped would have cost me matches twice on Sunday. Other than that this list has served me very well so far. It is extremely resilient to aggro strategies and okay against control strategies. I'm not entirely sure what to do about the Drownyard. I should either put another in the MD or swap the one I already have out altogether and replace it with a Ghost Quarter. Must say though, that the Drownyard was massive value for me when I had three Snappies in my first 10 cards.

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[AjaniHolo]

Deck
Creatures: 12 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobyte 1x Consecrated Sphinx 2x Wurmcoil Engine 3x Sun Titan 3x Merfolk Looter 2x Phantasmal Image Planeswalkers: 7 1x Liliana of the Veil 2x Elspeth Tirel 3x Jace, Memory Adept 1x Karn Liberated Other Spells: 15 4x Unburial Rites 4x Forbidden Alchemy 2x Go for the Throat 2x Oblivion Ring 3x Day of Judgement	Land: 26 4x Isolated Chapel 4x Drowned Catacombs 4x Glacial Fortress 6x Plains 3x Swamps 5x Islands	SB: 3x Surgical Extraction 3x Divine Offering 3x Spellskite 1x Oblivion Ring 2x Disperse 3x Celestial Purge

I STEAMROLLED my local FNM group w/ this deck, mostly had trouble w/ U/B control (played only one game and it went to time, lawlz), aside from that draw i lost to mono-black infect because i wasnt running Divine Offering at the time. later that night, even w/o the offering i beat the same mono-black control deck in top 4

I am very opposed to the Scars lands in this deck mainly due to the importance of land access during the later game. Any thoughts?

[Timewkr23]

Here's the deck I've been working on

Deck
3 Snapcaster Mage 2 Sun Titan 2 Phantasmal Image 1 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 2 Gideon Jura 1 Batterskull 2 Oblivion Ring 3 Despise 4 Mana Leak 4 Forbidden Alchemy 3 Think Twice 3 Doom Blade 2 Day of Judgement 1 Unburial Rights	4 Glacial Fortress 4 Drowned Catacomb 4 Isolated Chapel 2 Darkslick Shores 2 Seachrome Coast 4 Plains 3 Island 2 Swamp 1 Ghost Quarter	Sideboard 2 Dissipate 2 Flashfreeze 2 Surgical Extraction 3 Timely Reinforcements 1 Day of Judgement 2 Ratchet Bomb 2 Divine Offering 1 Oblivion Ring

I made room for Despise caz it's SO good right now and cut Timely from the main. I think I may have to go back to running at least one with the rise of Tokens but I feel that if I can resolve a Elesh Norn then I'm in good shape. After siding it gets better since I go up to 3 Day and add a couple Bombs aswell as said Timely's.

[bmrabb]

Due to a lack of a few cards, this is what I played at FNM last week.
Went 2-0-1. Then I lost in the Top 8. Feel free to PM for any comments or questions.

Deck
Creatures (10): 1 Snapcaster Mage 2 Mindshrieker 2 Phantasmal Image 2 Sun Titan 1 Grave Titan 1 Consecrated Sphinx 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One Intants/Sorceries/Enchantments (22) 4 Mana Leak 2 Think Twice 4 Forbidden Alchemy 3 Unburial Rites 2 Day of Judgement 2 Oblivion Ring 2 Dismember 3 Doom Blade	Planeswalkers (2) 2 Gideon Jura Lands (26) 4 Isolated Chapel 3 Glacial Fortress 2 Seachrome Coast 2 Darkslick Shores 1 Drowned Catacombs 5 Plains 4 Island 5 Swamp	Sideboard 2 Day of Judgement 2 Timely Reinforcements 2 Spellskite 3 Divine Offering 1 Tribute to Hunger 1 Go for the Throat 3 Nihil Spellbomb

[StyloOTK]

Solar Flare
Fatties 2 Sun Titan 2 Grave Titan 1 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite Utility Creatures 1 Azure Mage 2 Phantasmal Image 2 Snapcaster Mage Planeswalkers 3 Liliana of the Veil 1 Gideon Jura Spells 3 Unburial Rites 2 Dismember 2 Mana Leak 1 Dissipate 4 Forbidden Alchemy 2 Timely Reinforcements 2 Oblivion Ring 3 Day of Judgemend 1 Cackling Counterpart	Land 4 Isolated Chapel 4 Glacial Fortress 4 Drowned Catacomb 1 Nephailia Drownyard 4 Swamp 5 Plains 3 Island	Sideboard 2 Ratchet Bomb 2 Flashfreeze 2 Stony Silence 2 Steel Sabotage 2 Sever the Bloodline 2 Evil Presence 2 Go For The Throat 1 Doom Blade

Won Gameday and a store championship that my store ran with this build.
Not quite got the sideboard nailed down yet but hoping to have it in a better state soon.

[Coma White]

Solar Flare
Land: 26 2 Darkslick Shores 4 Drowned Catacomb 4 Glacial Fortress 4 Isolated Chapel 2 Seachrome Coast 4 Island 3 Plains 3 Swamp Creatures: 9 1 Consecrated Sphinx 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite 1 Grave Titan 1 Phantasmal Image 3 Snapcaster Mage 1 Sun Titan 1 Wurmcoil Engine	Spells: 25 2 Day of Judgment 2 Dissipate 3 Doom Blade 4 Forbidden Alchemy 3 Liliana of the Veil 4 Mana Leak 2 Oblivion Ring 3 Think Twice 2 Unburial Rites	Sideboard 2 Day of Judgment 2 Dissipate 1 Doom Blade 4 Flashfreeze 1 Gideon Jura 1 Oblivion Ring 2 Surgical Extraction 2 Timely Reinforcements