Hey everyone, been having quite a bit of success online with the following Rakdos list, usually going 4-1. Most of my losses have come against RDW (losing record against them - typically goes 3 games, but by the time I stabilize I'm very low on life and lose the topdeck war to haste/burn) and UB/Grixis Scarab God shenanigans (winning record against them but it's still scary). I'm considering splashing green for Vraska/Naturalize to help deal with problematic enchantments, but I'm not good at tweaking manabases.
So after a few more 4-1 leagues with a tweaked version of the list directly above, public enemy #1 is still RDW. No matter what I do, I can’t seem to beat it. 4 Contempt main and 3 Moment of Craving in the board to go along with all the other removal. I realize the Treasure Maps are kinda dead game 1, but they help in other matchups so I deal with it. Any ideas on what I can do to battle red?
I think battle at the bridge will help the red match up. It can remove hazoret or glorybringer with enough mana pumped in plus gain a decent chunk of life. It also works incredibly well with a flipped gateway or map as it can just gain a crazy amount of life and try to put the game out of reach. Gifted aetherborn is another anti aggro card seen in a lot of black sideboards.
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4 Dragonskull Summit
1 Field of Ruin
2 Scavenger Grounds
8 Mountain
6 Swamp
3 Magma Spray
2 Arguel's Blood Fast
4 Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
4 Abrade
2 Harnessed Lightning
4 Doomfall
2 Pia Nalaar
2 Sweltering Suns
2 Vraska's Contempt
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
4 Rekindling Phoenix
4 Glorybringer
3 Chandra's Defeat
2 Dire Fleet Daredevil
2 Lost Legacy
2 Hour of Devastation
2 Angrath, the Flame-Chained
If I were to splash green, should I cut Dragonskull Summit or basics to add Blooming Marsh/Rootbound Crag, and how many?
4 Canyon Slough
1 Cinder Barrens
4 Dragonskull Summit
7 Mountain
3 Swamp
4 Ifnir Deadlands
1 Scavenger Grounds
2 Magma Spray
4 Treasure Map
2 Azor’s Gateway
4 Vraska’s Contempt
4 Abrade
3 Sweltering Suns
1 Cut//Ribbons
1 Unlicensed Disintegration
3 Fatal Push
4 Glorybringer
4 Rekindling Phoenix
1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
4 Duress
3 Hour of Devastation
1 Angrath, the Flame-Chained
1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
1 Arguel’s Blood Fast
2 Moment of Craving
1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
1 Lost Legacy
Not sure about Bolas since I can only cast it by flipping either Treasure Map or Gateway. Might replace with Doomfall.