MTG Salvation

I've been maintaining a foily water-mark collection ever since RTR came, picking up the cards for my favorite guilds (Dimir + Rakdos). After completing my collection I continued to collect and improve the quality of the foils, and have ended up with an overflowing fat-pack of random guild water-mark foil cards that really have no significant value. Instead of selling them for pocket change I've decided to build a casual deck and donate the cards of no significant value to my lgs.

I put together the following deck with cards-on-hand that I felt would represent the Cult Rakdos in a 60-card casual deck;





This is really just an average aggro deck with pretty cards. I'm running random 2-ofs (rakdos guildmagerakdos guildgate/etc) just to show alternative artworks.

It could include two more rakdos cacklers, as an aggro deck with only two maindeck 1-drops is pretty bad. I chose not to although since I wanted to include a few of the less popular low-cmc creatures just to give them some play. This has also been a great excuse to actually see showstopper resolve for the first times in my life, and much to my surprise it can be a pretty neat post-combat creature removal.

So far it has played out fairly well, with some very fun opponent reactions to cute jank like Cryptborn Horror and Dread Slag. When the aggro plan goes in my favor and I can close out most games bleeding/removing with rix maadi guildmage (my wifeyboo in the deck). When the aggro plan fails I can try for rakdos's return or squealing devil on the bloodfray giant or even hellhole flailer.


With the exception of the two shocks and lyzolda the deck is also hyper budget, even being all foil. I plan on switching these three out for non-foils so I can leave it at my work for casual play.



The reason I'm posting this here is to give an idea of the casual meta that I'm exposed to. I've been thinking about doing this same sort of casual brew with the Dimir pile before I donate the box.

I can't make up my mind on developing a semi-aggro/unblockable deck full of cyhpers, or a pseudo-mill midrange deck, and wanted some outside opinions on what "felt" more dimir. I know we are not supposed to speak of the Dimir guild, but outside opinions would be cool.

Aw man, Rakdos Party! My favorite party!

As a Red/Black lady, I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you to try and work a Terminate in there if you can, but I don't think there's any Rakdos flavored one.
But god damn I love this.

Fun enough I could add the textless terminates for what I've done to this.

I chose to re-vamp my list by adding textless cards, giving me some better utility spells and end-game reach with incinerate. These are just the cards I had sitting in a trade binder. Terminates would be a sweet upgrade if I can find someone local willing to trade. Textless Lightning Bolts could be added to a theoretical decklist, but I'm not really wanting to spend any money on this.

I also fiddled with the creatures as well. I loved playing with all of these rarely seen ladies & gents, but many were just too underwhelming. I love rakdos cackler, but he is uniquely dedicated for...not this deck. Here is the current pile;



By adding infest I also nix'ed many of the low-toughness wombats for a semi-favorable boardwipe. The deck feels more mid-range than aggro now, using the flailers self-destruct and trampling bloodfray's to close out games.



Going off my posts initial request for input, I'm still stuck on how to develop a dimir theme deck. The textless cards look nice with all the watermark cards, so I don't mind blending that theme over to whatever the partner deck becomes.