Aristocrats/Sacrifice (G/B and W/B variants)

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#1 May 29, 2018

How can I improve both decks and which is better?

G/B Sacrifice:

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//Creature (31) 4 Blisterpod 4 Blood Artist 4 Bloodsoaked Champion 4 Catacomb Sifter 3 Grim Haruspex 3 Smothering Abomination 4 Sultai Emissary 1 Varolz, the Scar-Striped 4 Zulaport Cutthroat	//Enchantment (3) 3 Evolutionary Leap //Instant (4) 4 Fatal Push //Land (22) 4 Blooming Marsh 7 Forest 7 Swamp 4 Woodland Cemetery //Maybeboard 3 Abrupt Decay 2 Bone Splinters 2 Bontu the Glorified 4 Carrier Thrall 4 Lead the Stampede 4 Llanowar Wastes 2 Murderous Cut 4 Nantuko Husk

Blisterpod and Bloodsoaked Champion are here as a 1 drop fodders. In 2 cmc I chose Sultai Emissary over Carrier Thrall just because it represents kind of a card advantage. 3 drops are Catacomb Sifter which seems to be very good here and Grim Haruspex which on the other hand I'm not completely sold on. It generates card advantage but cant do it with tokens. Other CA cards I included are Smothering Abomination and Evolutionary Leap but both are also enablers. Varolz, the Scar-Striped is just an alternative to Nantuko Husk and represents other win condition. I use Fatal Push is great in this deck but I consider increasing number of removals to 6(?) and use Abrupt Decay preferably or Murderous Cut/Bone Splinters. I'm still thinking about 1 copy of Westvale Abbey and maybe some Lead the Stampede.

Second deck is W/B aristocrats:

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//Creature (24) 4 Blood Artist 4 Bloodsoaked Champion 4 Cartel Aristocrat 4 Doomed Traveler 4 Zulaport Cutthroat 4 Tidehollow Sculler //Instant (4) 4 Fatal Push //Planeswalker (1) 1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar //Sorcery (7) 4 Lingering Souls 3 Sram's Expertise //Sorcery // Sorcery (2) 2 Dusk // Dawn	//Land (22) 3 Concealed Courtyard 4 Isolated Chapel 7 Plains 7 Swamp 1 Westvale Abbey //Maybeboard 1 Athreos, God of Passage 1 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim 1 Bontu the Glorified 1 Dismember 1 Duress 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer 1 Oketra's Monument 4 Path to Exile 2 Phyrexian Arena 2 Rally the Ancestors 4 Return to the Ranks 1 Secure the Wastes 2 Shambling Vent 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad 1 Sorin, Solemn Visitor 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion 1 Tragic Arrogance 1 Vault of the Archangel 4 Viscera Seer

//Creature (24)
4 Blood Artist
4 Bloodsoaked Champion
4 Cartel Aristocrat
4 Doomed Traveler
4 Zulaport Cutthroat
4 Tidehollow Sculler

//Instant (4)
4 Fatal Push

//Planeswalker (1)
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar

//Sorcery (7)
4 Lingering Souls
3 Sram's Expertise

//Sorcery // Sorcery (2)
2 Dusk // Dawn

I feel like there is more options with this deck and that it is more reliable and a little more resilient. Dont really know if there is something to change/improve in the creature side of the deck. Maybe it is worth to include Bontu the Glorified, Athreos, God of Passage or Liliana, Heretical Healer? Other slot I'm not sure is a copy of Gideon, Ally of Zendikar is Sorin better or should i just completely give up on planeswalkers? Got 2 copies of Dusk // Dawn simply because it doesnt hit our creatures and the 'Dawn' mode is really cool but maybe Return to the Ranks is better or even more combo oriented Rally the Ancestors? Other cards I'm not sure I want to include but looks that they may work are Vault of the Archangel, Teysa, Orzhov Scion, Secure the Wastes, Oketra's Monument, Phyrexian Arena.

So what do you thinks about these two?

#3 Jun 9, 2018

Yeah abzan sounds great but I have problems with mana base (I dont want to spend too much on lands).

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//Creature (25) 4 Blisterpod 4 Blood Artist 4 Cartel Aristocrat 4 Doomed Traveler 4 Satyr Wayfinder 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion 4 Zulaport Cutthroat 4 Tidehollow Sculler	//Enchantment (4) 4 Abzan Ascendancy //Instant (2) 2 Rally the Ancestors //Sorcery (4) 4 Return to the Ranks //Land (21) 4 Blooming Marsh 4 Concealed Courtyard 3 Evolving Wilds 1 Forest 1 Llanowar Wastes 3 Plains 3 Sandsteppe Citadel 2 Swamp

What would you change/upgrade? Also any aid with the mana base would be very helpful. With this deck I dont have any removal (only some disruption with tidehollow sculler) so maybe I should include some path to exile or fatal push? Lingering Souls seems not as cool because of Abzan ascendancy. Is Abzan charm worth maindeck slot? I would love to try Renegade Rallier but how many of these and what to cut? And final question what is better here Cartel aristocrat or Viscera Seer?

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