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How much for
4 Arid Mesas
2 Marsh Flats
4 Remands
?

Id say youu should pick a commander first, I might recommend Grand Arbiter simply because he's gonna slow your opponent down, there's also alot of artifact love in blue and a little in white so he seems pretty reasonible, next you have to decide of you want it to be a good deck or just something to annoy everyone as much as possible, if you just wanna annoy people then you dont really need a win condition, just throw together as many annoying cards to hose as many strageties as possible and make sure you have a way to bring your locks back if they die.

Looking at the results it's good to see everyone agrees eh??

I'd also say that you should use what ever's most fun and if that doesn't work out then FNM might not be a worthwhile use of your time, if it's too competitive then I wouldn't even bother going but that's just me

I think you might mean Dimir

Also I would have to vote Golgari, I havn't seen much that has been impressive in another color, unless you want to go into a color combo you aren't currently running, I do however think any of these has potential if you break down the other ones to pick up the missing pieces for the decks you don't have, IE if you have a Jace AoT that could get you most of the rest of any deck, you have to think about if one card is really worth 40$ to you.

If you're not in a major rush I'd take each of them to a FNM and see if any of them do well and if so how do they do well, can a t2 Lotleth troll win games on its own, or can a Nighthawk threat lock them down, or can you set up the infinite combo without getting killed first, then just smash face.

You could also go for a hybrid deck, Jund has been very very successful near me and I've been looking at Grixis Control as a possibility, which could be a way to expand your Specter deck, hitting them with a Slaughter Games can strip their biggest threat without letting it into their hand.

Good luck!

One thing, I know the gates seem like they're really quite good, the 2 colors in one land, however I like Evolving Wilds much better, why? They thin out the land drops in your deck, you can effectively have a deck with 20-22 lands early game and end up running a deck with more like 16-18 when you really need to avoid topdecking a land

As far as the deck, I didn't see much from Rakdos, the only player I faced at this week's FNM I swept, I was running a mid-range human deck and I found that even a simple fiend hunter t2 absolutely wrecked them, it took out their biggest threat and acted as a wall for their unleashed cackler rendering it useless, and it's inability to block absolutely killed them.

I like the added killing spells, I would say that if you can pick up a dreadbore or two it would be an amazing investment, a Tamiyo or Jace at the wrong time can be absolutely devastating.

I would say shift your curve way way lower, tormented soul is ok but not really worthwhile unless you're running something to pump it up, Diregraf Ghoul seems like the best 1 drop for rakdos, I know that it's garbage as a late-game topdeck since it can't give you the chump block you need but aside from that limited downside it's the unleashed cackler without the downside...

If you're willing to put some value in Vexing Devils would be good in a suicide aggro style, however the way you've got the deck set up it's actually more of a Rakdos Mid-range, you're sacrificing pure aggro cards for cards that will get you into the late game like lifelinkers and cards that slow down your opponent like desecration demon. I think that if you pick one route and stick to it that will help enormously, I'd also say that in aggro more than just about any other strategy consistency is the most important, you've only got a few turns to get it done so you need to make sure that you're getting the cards that get it done in 5-6 turns every game, I ran G/W Human aggro at FNM and I found that you really need to be getting the same couple cards in your opening hand, if I didn't have 2 or 3 of the same 4 cards I wouldn't win the game or even come close, just a thought for you.

My reasoning for green consists of 2 parts, first I have A LOT of 3 drops and getting them t2 would really help me against all the aggro in the format, second instant speed populate is amazing in the deck, as it allows you to copy GoST's angel. Another thing is that while I get my token base set up I dont have very good blockers so mid to late game life gain has been amazing for me in testing.

I 100% agree about intangable virtue, it would be amazing but Im not sure what to take out since slowing down my opponent can be absolutely critical for survival. Im thinking move feeling of dread to sideboard for virtues.

I cut the snapcasters cause I cant afford them and my trade binder has been a bit light of late. I main decked x2 O ring, why o-ring over detention sphere? I have the rings also I want a way to deal with my opponent's spheres and mine wont do very well with that...

I have an extra steam vents interested in working something out for your huntmaster? Ill happily offer over value

Yeah, I'd trade for a foil, shoot me an offer if you'd like

It should be noted that much of this deck is theoretical I only have x2 temple garden and a few of the core set duel colors

First I've got to disagree about think twice over thought scour, two cards in the graveyard are usually better than one in hand later for a total of 4 extra mana.

I'd advise going with UW Delver, it's a bit more pricey but there's a lot more support for it in standard currently, WUR wouldn't be a bad thing either, it's just that burn spells are very limited unless you want to drop some hard core cash on some bonfires, creatures with flash are another strength of Delver, restoration angels are currently one of the best cards in standard for example. Just a thought that if I was going for a delver deck in the current meta I'd go Blue White