On Theme : Izzet is boring.... needs more BEARDS!!!

So, I lied to the fine readers and listeners of Off Color Cast.  I will not be giving you an Izzet Deck list, because all the Izzet generals are boring as hell, and I am all about fun things that can’t win. So instead we are going to talk about another art related deck.

This one goes out to my Brother, who I convinced to spend money building one of my crazy creations in paper magic, and BeardyPlays on Twitch for giving me something to watch while I am at work.

So, here it comes ladies and gentleman, the manliest of all manly decks, so rugged it will shame a lumberjack.  This is the deck the most interesting man on earth plays, and it was fashioned from the beard hairs of Chuck Norris himself.

The Beard Deck.

First off, we gotta take a look at who is running this show.  Which colors do you build to make the most of awesome manly beard arts?  The answer is found by following dwarves.  Those short guys are always rocking killer beards, and they are in red and black, so who can we get to lead these bearded warriors?  Well how about a guy named Warbeard...
He is a 6/5 for 7, 4 colorless, a black and 2 red.  And that is it.  But who needs fancy abilities when you got a beard like that?

So, we are red / black, and we need art with awesome beards, so we will look at some of the creatures and what kind of face rugs they are wearing.

Balthor the Defiled - Not only is he rocking an awesome red beard, he brings all our scruffy fellows back from the graveyard.

Barbarian Riftcutter, Dwarven Blastminer, Dwarven Miner, Mine Layer, Pardic Miner - If we ever run into a problem land, an Urborg/Cabal Coffers or a Gaea’s Cradle, these fuzz faced guys take care of them.

Bomb Squad, Brimstone Mage, Cinder Seer, Inferno Titan, Kessig Malcontents, Maga, Traitor to Mortals - Some beards just want to watch the world burn.  These guys take the fire to your opponents, and help you keep plays and creatures in check.

Dwarven Recruiter - This guy brings a whole party of beards to the table.

Dwarven Bloodboiler - Makes you some angry dwarves.

There are a few other creatures in the deck, but lets look at some awesome spells that have beards in them. These spells are so manly, they think they are creatures; they are just a step away from growing a power and toughness out of sheer manliness.

Battle Strain, Blood Reckoning, Close Quarters - If your opponent is attacking or blocking, get in there for some extra damage.

Mark of Fury and Warstorm Surge - Why wait a turn to get some damage?  Mark is repeatable haste, and Warstorm just punches people when you drop critters.

Titan's Revenge, Swallowing Plague, Spitting Earth, Blaze, Blood Oath, Sudden Impact, Urza's Rage, Violent Eruption - KILL ALL THE PLAYERS with some damage to the dome.
So here is the full list:

Creature (24)

1x Balthor the Defiled
1x Barbarian Riftcutter
1x Bomb Squad
1x Brimstone Mage
1x Cinder Seer
1x Disciple of Griselbrand
1x Dwarven Blastminer
1x Dwarven Bloodboiler
1x Dwarven Miner
1x Dwarven Recruiter
1x Hammer Mage
1x Hinterland Hermit  Flip
1x Inferno Titan
1x Instigator Gang  Flip
1x Joven
1x Kessig Malcontents
1x Lim-Dul the Necromancer
1x Maga, Traitor to Mortals
1x Magus of the Arena
1x Magus of the Coffers
1x Mine Layer
1x Pardic Collaborator
1x Pardic Miner
1x Uncle Istvan

Land (38)

1x Akoum Refuge
1x Barren Moor
1x Blackcleave Cliffs
1x Blasted Landscape
1x Blood Crypt
1x Bloodstained Mire
1x Bojuka Bog
1x Cabal Coffers
1x Command Tower
1x Dragonskull Summit
1x Dwarven Hold
1x Forgotten Cave
1x Ghitu Encampment
1x Graven Cairns
1x Jund Panorama
1x Kher Keep
1x Lavaclaw Reaches
10x Mountain
10x Swamp
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Enchantment (10)

1x Battle Strain
1x Black Market
1x Blood Reckoning
1x Close Quarters
1x Invasion Plans
1x Mark of Fury
1x Mourning
1x Phyrexian Arena
1x Uphill Battle
1x Warstorm Surge

Sorcery (15)

1x Blaze
1x Browbeat
1x Builder's Bane
1x Choice of Damnations
1x Cruel Tutor
1x Pillage
1x Recoup
1x Relentless Assault
1x Seize the Day
1x Spitting Earth
1x Sunder from Within
1x Swallowing Plague
1x Threaten
1x Titan's Revenge
1x Wake of Destruction

Instant (12)

1x Blind with Anger
1x Blood Oath
1x Brawl
1x Dangerous Wager
1x Demoralize
1x Mages' Contest
1x Murder
1x Simulacrum
1x Sudden Impact
1x Suffer the Past
1x Urza's Rage
1x Violent EruptionNext week we will try and get back on track with our tour of the Ravnica guilds.  Got a pick for next week?  Leave me a comment, or shoot me a twitter message.

As always, if you got any ideas for the deck or any other strange themes you would like to see built, shoot me an email at jmfelber@gmail.com, or hit my twitter @RealFelber.  I am also on the Salvation boards as HatterofMad all the time, and if you wanna check out my experiment in MTG Trading check out The One Red Mountain Project, it is starting to get exciting up to over 30 bucks from trading starting with a single foil mountain.