Boros Midrange Swords (Modern)

<<<Control early board and overwhelm rival using creatures with equipped swords, finishing with direct damage, planeswalkers or baneslayer angels.>>>

Strategy

The main strategy of this deck is to drop some of the 1 mana drops (soldier of the pantheon - figure of destiny) at the first turns to add some pressure on board. It's not worth to try to protect them with brave the elements in case that we have one in hand, beacause these spells are better used on stronger creatures such as boros reckoner, mirran crusader or baneslayer angel.

Early game

We will try to clean early board with lightning bolt and lightning helix to have control of it and we will keep path to exile to deal with late creatures or stop combos.

Midrange

We will drop some of our 3 mana drops, trying to have at least 1 mana open in case that we have any lightning bolt or brave the elements to deal with removal spells or creatures. It's worth to drop Ajani vengeant if our rival has no great pressence on board or if we can protect him with our own creatures. I don't like to drop chandra, pyromaster very early, because it's strenght comes from her ability to make us draw 2 cards per turn, and we can't cast the second one if we have 4 mana already tapped, so it's only worth if it can destroy any creature with her +1 ability, such as birds of paradise or noble hierarch.

Late game

Here we are running out of fuel, so we will rely on dropping a baneslayer angel or have some sword in play at this moment.

Mechanics

This deck has a few interesting mechanics that i'll explain here.

(Brave the elements in hand) Sword of fire and ice or sowrd of war and peace + mirran crusader

As simple as that. 4 colour protected creature, activating ability of swords twice a turn, and you can protect him with a brave the elements anytime. Awesome.

(Turn 1,2) Path to exile + Knight of the white orchid

I've mentioned earlier that it's not worth to waste a path to exile in a 1,2 mana drop, but situation changes if we have a knight of the white orchid in hand, because we can deny the land advantage given by path to exile and we can get closer to our 3, 4 drops in 3 turn, which is sick in this deck.

(5+ mana) Soulfire Grand Master + lightning bolt or path to exile or brave the elements

This is very unlikely to happen, but you will enjoy it. I call this mechanic "lightning party", beacuse with the activated ability of the soulfire grand master and having 5 or more mana we can use our instant spells without loosing them. This is really sick if the game is very advanced and we have a lot of mana. We can protect him with brave the elements or lightning our rivals face once a turn or exile all creatures of our rival. There are a lot of possibilities.

I've been playing a boros deck for a long time, I've changed a lot of things and now I'm really satisfied of the final result, because it's funny to play, it's acceptably competitive and it has some great drops such as mirran crusader, baneslayer angel or boros reckoner.