Standard Deck Examination: Wolf-Run Red

Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of the emporium, as promised today is a look at one of the newest standard decks to hit the scene since Innistrad's arrival into the constructed format, following the Star City Games open series today's deck is featuring a winning deck which took 1st place at the standard portion of the event by the name of Wolf-Run Red which is a variant of Red/Green Aggro Ramp apparently so let's get started, this list is courtesy of Brian Sondag

Wolf Run Red 1st Place By Brian Sondag - SCG Open Nashville [Standard]


Creatures
1 Acidic Slime
1 Birds of Paradise
3 Primeval Titan
3 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Viridian Emissary
3 Wurmcoil Engine

Spells
4 Beast Within
4 Garruk. Primal Hunter
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Rampant Growth
3 Slagstorm

Lands
4 Copperline Gorge
9 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
2 Kessig Wolf Run
3 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag

Sideboard
4 Ancient Grudge
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Slagstorm
3 Sword of Feast and Famine
3 Thrun, the Last Troll
2 Tree of Redemption
1 Viridian Corrupter

As you can see via the main deck it basically says get out a Primeval Titan or a Wurmcoil Engine and use Kessig Wolf Run's special ability to maximize damage effectively with a bunch of mana dorks to support you such as Birds of Paradise/Solemn Simulacrum/Viridian Emissary and smash for damage unseen basically. Garruk, Primal Hunter is there as a reload of the hand, while giving you extra attackers as well, Beast Within to deal with nasty permanents such as Gideon Jura, etc and of course what ramp deck would be complete without Green Sun's Zenith to fetch your titans/birds/emissary's/slime.

It should be noted since this took first place at a major event it is now the deck to beat, of course that means all the other particular decks will now have sideboards to deal with this plus the usual matchups, this deck is consistently also able to 2-0 each round as seen by the SCG coverage page espically in the top 8 of the event the first 2 matchups were a 2-0 sweep, so i expect to see someone to beat this deck but hell it's sure to be a fun format again, besides this was a rogue deck present at a major tournament event with the likes of Solar Flare/Mono Red/U/W Blade and of course/RUG which are all proven and tested decks by the masters of standard, i should expect to see another run of Wolf-Run Red in the near future probably at worlds and of course other SCG events in the US, anyways that's all the time i have today, join me tommorow when i look at another SCG standard open deck in the form of Solar Flare, this is vergil signing off