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I haven't played a B/W deck like this, but overall it looks pretty solid.  The Jotun Grunts seem a little underwhelming and it might be better to run the other two Hymn to Tourachs instead.  Given the generally heavy presence of combo decks, it looks like you should at least have a chance with the Tidehollow Scullers and Inquisition of Kozileks.

It looks like you might be slightly light on land.  You have heavy black requirements and not quite enough land given that the Wastelands don't really count.  I might cut the Jitte and run an extra fetch.

I'm also wondering if running Lingering Souls main over Bitterblossom might be better.  With Lili out you can pitch Lingering Souls and still get value out of it.

What have you plat-tested against and how are the matchups?

Any idea if a private inventory can happen?

People are being scoped out and targeted for theft based on their collections:

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/26 … anged.html

Here's an article from today on StarCity talking about a UR Stuffy Doll deck for Standard:

http://www.starcitygames.com/article/25 … -Doll.html

Maybe this will give you some ideas.

The easiest way to straighten it out is to stick it in a box with a lot of other cards (without sleeves on) and jam them in tightly.  It should be fixed within a week.

Let us know how the deck worked out today.

The revised deck looks a lot better.

Is there a reason that you're not running the fourth Dreadbore instead of one Murder?  My guess is that the second Murder could be something else instead.

What situations do you think that you might bring in Nightbird's Clutches?

Looking at the rulings for Nightveil Specter, I don't think that the card completely works as you would like.  The ability to play the exiled cards is granted by the Nightveil Specter, and it will only apply while it is a still a creature in play.  Additionally, from the ruling on the Gatherer page:

I don't play Standard so I can't comment a lot, but looking at your mana I would definitely replace the Nephalia Drownyards.  Colorless lands in a three-color deck are a big risk unless they are integral to your plan.  Given that these are a backup plan, I would focus on a couple cards in your sideboard for the situations where you would think about using the Nephalia Drownyards.

Regarding the sideboard in general, you should be looking at cards that are great at shoring up your weak matchups.  This generally isn't going to be one-for-one cards like Dispel (unless you're worried about combo) or Essence Scatter.  Focus more on sweepers, such as a couple more Rolling Tremblors or maybe Mutilate.  When building your sideboard, remember that you have to think not only what you want to side in for a particular matchup, but what you are going to remove.  Don't have extra cards in your sideboard for a matchup where you don't have enough cards to side out.  Every sideboard slot is precious.

You might consider running effects that destroy permanents instead of specifically mentioning lands.  If you can clear out someone's creatures then they'll just be left sacrificing land to something like Undercity Plague.  You could consider running Rakdos Keyrune or Dimir Keyrune as insta-creatures that would survive sweepers.  Then you could run Mutilate or something similar and your guys would be safe.  You can cipher cards onto the Keyrunes, and the cipher ability will stick around even when the Keyrune isn't a creature.

I'd also consider Smallpox if you're not constrained to Standard-legal cards.

In a lot of cases a signature does not change the value of a card.  Some artists are difficult to contact or generally don't sign cards, and those cards will get a large premium (e.g. Una Fricker or Gary Leach).  Some people don't like signed cards and will say that it damages the card.  Fine, don't deal with those people.  There are enough people that like signed cards that you can get at least full value out of any signed card, and possibly a premium.

Summer edition was never officially released.  The product was supposed to be destroyed, but a very limited quantity was released in the UK and Texas.  You can identify Summer cards by seeing "Illus. c. 1994 <artist>" all on one line at the bottom of the card.  This was supposed to be a fixed version of Revised, but it had enough errors of its own that it was never released.  It is pretty much not worth checking to see if you have Summer cards.  You won't have any.

Alt. 4th was produced as an attempt to use a new printer, the US Playing Card Company, due to Carta Mundi not being able to keep up with demand for Magic.  Eventually this need was eliminated when Carta Mundi opened up a new plant in Tennessee.  There were several issues with the cards.  The feel of the cards was different due to a different coating, the cards showed wear much more quickly due to use, and there are subtle differences with the back of the card.    You can see some discussion of the differences here:

http://www.magiclibrarities.net/forum/v … php?t=7321

Look for the post by AzureWinter toward the bottom of the page for a helpful image.

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It seems like you have too much land without a way to spend the extra mana on late turns of a game.  I'm also not entirely sold on the green aspect of the deck.

I would cut Slitterhead for three more Pulse Trackers and a Blood Seeker.  Radha seems out of place, but I don't know exactly what to replace her with.  I would cut Jarad's Orders for the two extra Grisly Salvage as the instant speed and lower mana cost should help you find your creatures that you're looking for.  I would look for a couple more cheap vampires for the extra slots that are still open as your mana curve seems a bit lacking on the low end.  It may be worth cutting a Mark of the Vampire or two as you probably don't need to cast more than one during a game.