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A rather interesting budget deck, I'm really tempted to play it at my LGS just to hit the combo once.

Just a few personal remarks:

I prefer sign in blood over underworld connections.

Add more vizkopa guildmage as it does the same thing as sanguin bond.

Remove 2 sanguine bonds for 2 exquisite blood.

You have multiple plays that require WW or BB T3-T4. You may want to invest in godless shrines (Isolated Chapels potentially as well). Lands that count as B or W really help prevent being mana screwed.

Remove Angelic Accord In favor of more high preist of penance or vampire nighthawk.

Honestly I don't know if I like Indistructibility. (Seems like good Sideboard if they bring in enchantment hate)

You may want to play xathrid necromancer. You have a humans deck.

Overall Here are my changes:

http://deckbox.org/sets/436550

LMK what you think.

Edit: My suggestions aim to keep your current goal and to restructure it to be more stable and conistent which makes it, in turn, more competitive. That being said, you can scrap the whole list as suggested below and make a RWB Midrange or Junk Combo deck that already exists and be extremely competitive, just depends if you want to throw upwards of $200 (or trades) into making that work.

With the deck I listed the liliana of the veil isn't all too necessary, it's just a phenomenal card and played in countless decks that use black. That being said, even though it is rotating it will not be significantly dropping in price at it is played in multiple modern decks.

As for the win con of the deck itself, the whole point is to utilize the potential of crypt ghast. Currently it's only a $2 card because no one's managed to incorporate it into a tier 1 or 2 deck (this is developing into that and has done decently at competitive FNM's). The deck slows down aggro decks so they dont win on T4-T5 through an early burn followed up by a board wiping mutilate. (So yea, your description is more or less accurate)

Liliana of the Dark Realms and Crypt Ghast help flood your mana pool to make rakdos's return and devil's play an effective T5 or T6 play.

Against control we're working on finalizing the sideboard, basically remove all of the mutilates, doom blades, and burn spells (keep rakdos's return and devil's play), up the planeswalker count, and then add cards like corrupt and duress to the mix.

If you do test it out let me know how it runs. Or if you find suggestions to make for it.

and on TCG voice is going for $36-37...you've gotta be consistent with your pricing (can't say that your card is worth middle price and the cards you want are at low price).

yup, those are still needed

The problem with varolz aggro is that the "nuts" hand is:

T1: Vexing (to the Grave)
T2: Burning Tree into Flinthoof
T3: Varolz
T4: Dreg Mangler+Vexing Scavenge

T1: 4 Damage
T2: 0 Damage
T3: 5 Damage
T4: 14 if you swing out

It's generally too slow because 1 chump blocker takes out dreg or 1 removal spell takes out varolz or dreg or any life gain stalls out this deck. Not to say it isn't good casually, but Midrange is by far a better deck.

In response to Elpablo's recommendation:

currently I'm not a fan of playing 4 varolz due to him being legendary, I'd still rather have a 1 of rakdos's return mainboard as it's rather strong in the meta.

youre curve is:

1 drops: 8
2 drops: 8
3 drops: 11
4 drops
5 drops: 2

since you're not playing any haste creatures besides dreg you're not really going to be an effective aggro deck.

The Changes I'd make to Elpablo's list:

-4 Dreg Mangler
-1 Varolz
-3 Searing Spear
-1 Garruk
-4 slumbering dragons

+2 Arbor Elf
+1 Dreadbore
+2 Abrupt Decay
+3 Vampire Nighthawk
+3 Olivia Voldaren
+1 Kalonian Hydra
+1 Mizzium Mortars

1 drops: 6
2 drops: 8
3 drops: 8
4 drops: 3
5 drops: 3

Those changes tend to balance out the curve better. (You can play thragtusk over hellkite if you want)

Regardless of what you do I'd like to see you keep the hydra in as not many people know how to deal with it at the moment so it could net you some easy wins.

getting close to finishing the deck, still need help tho

bump

I've got quite a few things that you've put on your wish list so send me a trade if youre interested.