Dies to Removal

I posted this deck list on the budget section in the MTG Salvation forum… [deck]23 Creatures 4x Akroan Crusader 3x Tymaret, The Murder King 4x Young Pyromancer 4x Trill-Kill Assassin 4x Xathrid Necromancer 4x Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch 15 Instants and sorceries 2x Read the Bones 2x Dynacharge 3x Coor...

I have given both Exava and Hellriders a try. Early versions of this deck played 3 Hellriders. When he came out, he gave the deck a chance to win by turn 4. But the problem with our deck was that we didn’t have the resiliency that the Zombie decks had and so when the opponent had blockers, we couldn...

How worried are we about Blind Obedience? I have played against it before and it was pretty annoying but mot entirely back breaking. Though the decks that played it were control decks.

First let’s go over Doomblade. After playing last week I realized how good Doomblade would have helped in my matches. Most of the best creatures *the ones that gives us the most problems* in the Standard are non-black creatures. A lot of these creatures come out pretty early and act as annoying road...

Finished 1st again at another FNM. Went 4-0-1 split the last game with my friend. Played for fun and he beat me 2-0. He was playing a new grul aggro deck that I was unfamiliar with. It had Strangleroot, Scavenging Ooze, Flintwood Boars, Hellrider, Domri Rade, Reckoners, and toped out at Hellkites. T...

pretty much feel the same way as everyone regarding the All-In deck. Other decks are already doing it better than ours so no use in trying. So I'm thinking of playing in a PTQ this Saturday. I'm might need some help with the sideboard, maybe need help with making a few adjustments to the main. The d...

As far as the 22 land list goes, i think either Chandra or Hellrider seem like great ideas. Hellrider because there are a lot more early game creatures in the deck. And Chandra because she helps out a bunch with blockers which the deck often has trouble with. It is also worth the shot to try BTE in ...

I know reckoners are no longer in the main but why not just run godless shrine instead of swamp?
We will still need to cast him whenever we side him in.

That situation did come up a couple of times, but not enough to really make that big of a difference. Remember that the old list had both stonewright and reckoner which where good at breaking ground stalemates "long as there wasn't a reckoner on the other side". The mana base was also more...

Long time player of the deck here. I played Redthirst updated version of the deck with the Phoenixes and the Mutavaults. Piloted the deck to a 4-1 finish *very close to winning on my last game* Before that I was playing the list with the reckoners and hellkites and been winning my fnm’s or been clos...