The deck functions as you'd expect: Aggressive, small creatures with some utility or evasion to kill the opponent very fast, but being in Black it comes with the benefit of being able to back up your threats with kill spells and discard. While this deck almost definitely took advantage of the expected meta at the event I think the archetype's got real legs with a bit of tweaking. There's a lot of unexplored power in Black with cards like Pale Rider of Trostad and Heir of Falkenrath. I think with a bit of testing this can be the best aggressive deck in the format.
ive been playing the deck online and it most certainly has legs... its very good against other creature decks, the big decks can sometimes be too slow, and even in an attrition matchups it has enough recursion to keep the pedal to the metal. the ground tends to get gummed up in standard, and bone picker is a serious player, turn 1 dread wanderer, turn 2 ballista for 0 play 2 bone pickers is one of my favorite openings. in the sideboard I have ob nixilis, khalitas and mindwrack demons to go over the removal that they are certainly bringing in for game 2
Another card that seems decent for SB is Painful Lesson (the overcosted Sign in Blood) which can help in grindier games or just deal the last points of damage.
Another draw option can be Altar's Reap which can be used with the recursive creatures.
A neat trick in this deck can be to cast Lost Legacy targetting yourself and "draw" all the Eternal Scourge's from the deck.
Anyway, this thing put up results at the SCG tournament a few weeks ago, making Top 8 in a tournament filled with Mardu Vehicles which suggests that the deck's got game against the most played deck in standard right now
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4 Bone Picker
4 Scrapheap Scrounger
4 Walking Ballista
4 Dread Wanderer
4 Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
4 Night Market Lookout
4 Fatal Push
4 Grasp of Darkness
2 Collective Brutality
3 Never
2 Aether Hub
The deck functions as you'd expect: Aggressive, small creatures with some utility or evasion to kill the opponent very fast, but being in Black it comes with the benefit of being able to back up your threats with kill spells and discard. While this deck almost definitely took advantage of the expected meta at the event I think the archetype's got real legs with a bit of tweaking. There's a lot of unexplored power in Black with cards like Pale Rider of Trostad and Heir of Falkenrath. I think with a bit of testing this can be the best aggressive deck in the format.
Glint-Sleeve Siphoner for Asylum Visitor and Night Market Lookout for Reaver Drone.
Walking Ballista seems rather mediocre in this deck (no counters' synergies or mana ramp to abuse it),
I'd rather have something hard to kill like Eternal Scourge which would help support Reaver Drone (another option is the modular Endless One) and also works well with Scrapheap Scrounger.
Gifted Aetherborn also seems too good not to play in the maindeck (over Collective Brutality).
Here is my take on the deck:
4x Reaver Drone
4x Dread Wanderer
4x Scrapheap Scrounger
4x Asylum Visitor
4x Gifted Aetherborn
4x Eternal Scourge
4x Bone Picker
4x Fatal Push
4x Grasp of Darkness
Sorcery (2)
2x Never // Return
Land (22)
20x Swamp
2x Westvale Abbey
2x Aethersphere Harvester
1x Scarab Feast
3x Lay Bare the Heart
3x Transgress the Mind
2x Dispossess
2x Lost Legacy
2x Never // Return
Another card that seems decent for SB is Painful Lesson (the overcosted Sign in Blood) which can help in grindier games or just deal the last points of damage.
Another draw option can be Altar's Reap which can be used with the recursive creatures.
A neat trick in this deck can be to cast Lost Legacy targetting yourself and "draw" all the Eternal Scourge's from the deck.
I wonder if combat tricks like Unnatural Endurance and Supernatural Stamina or a vehicle like Aethersphere Harvester can be good in this deck.
How does is it match-up with the bigger decks in the format in your opinion ?