Just looking for some feedback/ideas on how you guys would have built this. Blue and white are completely unplayable so I left those out for simplification, as well as the unplayables in B/R/G.
RED
Shock
Act of Treason x2
Chandra's Outrage
Goblin Shortcutter
Regathan Firecat x2
Marauding Maulhorn
Academy Raider
Dragon Egg
Volcanic Geyser
Chandra's Phoenix
Pitchburn Devils
Wild Guess
BLACK
Festering Newt x2
Lifebane Zombie
Doomblade
Blightcaster
Lithurgy of Blood
Deathgaze Cockatrice
Grim Return
Undead Minotaur
Vampire Warlord
Diabolic Tutor
Quack Sickness
Mind Rot x2
GREEN
Rumbling Baloth
Elvish Mystic x2
Manaweft Sliver
Predatory Sliver
Scavenging Ooze
Trollhide
Plummet
Windstorm
Naturalize
Hunt the Weak
Lay of the Land
Sporemound
Briarpack Alpha
Deadly Recluse
Giant Growth
Ranger's Guile
I don't see the synergy between BR, unless you mean the very mild inclination to run Bubbling Cauldron as an unreliable sac outlet. In addition both B and R are pretty thin on playables.
Green has your best card in Briarpack Alpha, and is also the deepest. I think I'd have run a GR aggro special and seen what happened.
I like this built with one exception: I'd cut the Sporemound (which is arguably a very bad card especially without any draw/16 lands) and play bubbling cauldron. You already have a Dragon Egg to make it somewhat worthwile, it's not a completely dead card unless you're never going to chump/get targeted removal played against you and it'S decent with 2 Act of Treason + Egg, while you also cut a random bad 5 drop which doesn'T fit in a landlight deck.
Granted this might be to cute^^
Also, I'd 99% play the quoted deck with that sinlge difference, so I'd say we*'Re agreeing on the general route of this pool^^
I agree that Sporemound is the most marginal card in the deck, but I think that Bubbling Cauldron would do even less. This is an aggressive deck, and the cauldron is a terrible do-nothing unless we manage to 'live the dream' and draw an Act of Treason. That's way too unreliable for my liking, and aggro decks need to be even more consistent than normal midrange decks.
I think I would MD plummet instead of Sporemound if you really wanted something different.
RED
Shock
Act of Treason x2
Chandra's Outrage
Goblin Shortcutter
Regathan Firecat x2
Marauding Maulhorn
Academy Raider
Dragon Egg
Volcanic Geyser
Chandra's Phoenix
Pitchburn Devils
Wild Guess
BLACK
Festering Newt x2
Lifebane Zombie
Doomblade
Blightcaster
Lithurgy of Blood
Deathgaze Cockatrice
Grim Return
Undead Minotaur
Vampire Warlord
Diabolic Tutor
Quack Sickness
Mind Rot x2
GREEN
Rumbling Baloth
Elvish Mystic x2
Manaweft Sliver
Predatory Sliver
Scavenging Ooze
Trollhide
Plummet
Windstorm
Naturalize
Hunt the Weak
Lay of the Land
Sporemound
Briarpack Alpha
Deadly Recluse
Giant Growth
Ranger's Guile
ARTIFACTS/LAND
Bubbling Cauldron
Shimmering Grotto
I debated between BG and BR and ended up going BR, but think GR is totally viable too (but has a lot less synergy).
Thanks in advance for any feedback you guys can give me, it's much appreciated.
Green has your best card in Briarpack Alpha, and is also the deepest. I think I'd have run a GR aggro special and seen what happened.
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Manaweft Sliver
1 Predatory Sliver
1 Deadly Recluse
1 Goblin Shortcutter
1 Chandra's Phoenix
2 Regathan Firecat
1 Marauding Maulhorn
1 Rumbling Baloth
1 Briarpack Alpha
1 Sporemound
1 Pitchburn Devils
1 Ranger's Guile
1 Shock
1 Trollhide
2 Act of Treason
1 Chandra's Outrage
1 Hunt the Weak
1 Volcanic Geyser
9 Forest
7 Mountain
1 Wild Guess
1 Lay of the Land
1 Academy Raider
1 Dragon Egg
1 Plummet
1 Windstorm
1 Naturalize
Curve
1 ccsss
2 ccccc
3 cccsss
4 cccss
5 ccs
Only 16 lands because the curve is pretty tight, you have 3 mana bugs, plus aggro decks want to get lucky and not flood out.
I agree that Sporemound is the most marginal card in the deck, but I think that Bubbling Cauldron would do even less. This is an aggressive deck, and the cauldron is a terrible do-nothing unless we manage to 'live the dream' and draw an Act of Treason. That's way too unreliable for my liking, and aggro decks need to be even more consistent than normal midrange decks.
I think I would MD plummet instead of Sporemound if you really wanted something different.