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True, sorcery speed is a bit lame, but the ability to set up future draws is huge. Here's what will happen with Read the Bones:

1) Two good cards on top, keep them both.

2) One good one and one bad one, keep the good one, and go one card deeper

3) Two bad cards, lay possible flooding, and you cycle them out to see 4 cards off 3 mana

Setting up your draws is crucial card advantage, arguably more powerful then the draw itself. This card does both. At its worst you see 4 cards, at its best you pick up two more needed spells, and then possibly draw a 3rd your next turn. With the way aggro decks can be lately you can't afford to have too many bad draws

Any chance I can get you some Lifebanes and Desecrations toward that Thune?

20 Creatures

4x Soldier of the Pantheon
2x Akroan Hoplite
2x Truefire Paladin
4x Boros Reckoner
2x Fiendslayer Paladin
2x Heliod, God of the Sun
2x Purphoros, God of the Forge
2x Archangel of Thune

12 Instant and Sorceries

4x Magma Jet
2x Boros Charm
3x Mizzium Mortars
3x Warleader's Helix

6 Other

2x Chained to the Rocks
2x Asemble the Legion
2x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

22 Lands

4x Sacred Foundry
2x Mutavault
4x Temple of Triumph
7x Plains
5x Mountain

SIDEBOARD:

2x Wear//Tear
2x Spear of Heliod
2x Stormbreath Dragon
2x Anger of the Gods
1x Chained to the Rocks
2x Legion Loyalist
2x Boros Charm
2x Celestial Flare

So to replace Pillar of Flame, I was thinking 2 God's Willing in the main, and a single Chained to the Rocks in the board. Thoughts?

Is Read the Bones really that good for the mana? Maybe I'm spoiled from too much Legacy/Modern. Curves are also really different in Standard >_<

Yeah I suppose. Plus at a 3 I might still be able to fit the sweeper below him, and the 3-spot is pretty soft compared to 2 and 4

Do you still see Lifebane as a must 4-of? I've been unsure about that. As you saw, my list has been more committed to the "Nic fit" as I have so named it

No worries, I'm just really open to criticisms and discussion since this will be my first attempts at Type 2 competition. I'm with you on the whip. I don't see the upside at all. As for Erebos I agree underworld is better draw, but possibly in the board to lessen the power of revelation.

Yeah, we do have lots of hard mana coming along. Until we get more soft spells and a complete scry land cycle I suppose things are messy. My ability to speculate Standard is admittedly weak. I was strictly Modern and some Legacy until now. I want to get into tier Standard play because competition is muh more accessible for the format.

What's the thoughts on Hythonia? I know you mentioned he has a nice sweeper that will end games but is that too mana intensive? Also, I'm having a hard time judging Whip of Erebos and Erebos, god of the dead. An indestructible Draw enchantment that kills the gain off S-Rev seems great, but is the draw worth the cost outside of desperate situations? And is the reanimate on on the whip a playable ability at all?

So not even when we have all 10 Scry lands you think we'll see efficient 3-color. That's sad well, I love Nic Fit, and the concept of Nic Gorgons seems interesting enough. Should I perhaps focus on creatures with effective regeneration like Lotleth Troll? And with the fact I can run so much spot removal, is Grim Reaper a possible side-tech?

I wish I was just willing to play aggro. It's just not my nature. Although I'm pissed RDW gets Magma Jet