Dies to Removal

Dreadbore > Doom Blade. Not even really close as far as I'm concerned. Dreadbore hits almost everything in Standard, so it has much broader applications. For those creatures — Blood Baron and Master, are the two most played — there are other answers and other solutions. What of relevance does Dread...

As far as I'm aware the only reason Walter White even existed was to give the deck a chance vs. MonoU and specifically Master of Waves. Well to expand your awareness...no. When there's a 1-mana terminate in Standard, you play it. Did I mention Walter White was built before Blue Devotion became a th...

I've actually found the opposite to be the case with respect to guildgates. With testing I've found that I'd rather run fewer one drops and crowd the two drop spot so I can play t1 guildgate into hasty two drop. It allows me to do the same damage on turn two as I would a one drop, and it makes my t...

Online I'm inclined to agree, but the problem with Doom Blade is that it is absolutely dead vs mono black and Esper whereas Dreadbore is never dead. That's a big deal. In my paper meta there is very little mono blue and a lot of black-based decks. The decision to run Dreadbore there is obvious. I g...

I'm in agreement with MattT - Doom Blade is the Chained to the Rocks substitute, not Dreadbore.

As far as I'm aware the only reason Walter White even existed was to give the deck a chance vs. MonoU and specifically Master of Waves.

Doomblade also kills Pantheon...

Post board you add 2 Mizzium Mortars to give you 8 options that hit Pantheon.

Funny thing that in testing weeks ago the first deck we brought up was a Rakdos aggro deck - very similar to the one posted. The Xathrid's were in the board though. The problem we found was that it lost to RDW/AIR every time, but this version may have a better game Anyone have any insights as to the...

I just created an account to thank you all for this thread and advice given. I recently attended a national competition (South Africa - Premier event) and while my drafting hurt my chances - I finished 5-1 in standard in no small part due to your guys help. The decklist was the MonoR Pyro one, but b...