Arena Standard - Rakdos Haste Flyer Beatdown (LCI)

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17
20
12
2
26
Aggro
Midrange
  • Deck contains 6 invalid cards for this format: Haunted Ridge (MID), Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasher (MID), Bloodtithe Harvester (VOW), Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (NEO), Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (NEO), Path of Peril (VOW)
Main 60 cards (21 distinct)
Creature (20)
$91.00€66.968.33
$5.20€4.730.19
$8.80€11.21
$0.84€1.330.07
$0.25€0.240.03
$3.20€4.700.38
Instant, Sorcery, Enchantment, Artifact (12)
$1.23€0.900.03
$5.44€3.690.02
$0.54€0.73
$3.87€1.260.26
$0.25€0.09
Planeswalker (2)
$16.37€14.934.36
Land (26)
$0.19
$0.15
$2.20€2.100.64
$2.99€2.190.65
$5.64€5.771.21
$2.10€3.701.58
$6.39€8.600.72
$35.98€37.84
$0.50€0.47
Side 15 cards (9 distinct)
$1.71€1.46
$0.20€0.100.03
$2.13€2.360.02
$2.81€3.437.02
$0.25€0.09
$1.23€0.900.03
$0.69€1.513.53
$1.47€1.805.85
$16.37€14.934.36

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Description

Hasted Flyers for the Win!

Some true werewolf haste action with big fliers!

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Introduction

This is a Rakdos deck utilizing Reckless Stormseeker // Storm-Charged Slasherimage to provide haste to Archfiend of the Drossimage and Bonehoard Dracosaurimage.

Format

  • The deck is for the Standard format with The Lost Caverns of Ixalan being the last legal set.
  • The deck is probably Tier 1.5 or Tier 2 caliber.
  • The deck can be played in both Bo1 and Bo3. The current deck listing is pre-sideboarded towards Bo1 meta. If you play it in Bo3, you need to pre-sideboard it towards Bo3 meta.
  • The deck is pretty fast, and thus it's suitable for quickly grinding a large number of wins in the MTG Arena ladder.

Source

This is my own brew.

New Cards

These are the new cards from The Lost Caverns of Ixalan that I am trying out:

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Strategy

Main Deck Synergies

Reckless Stormseeker with Big Fliers

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Reckless Stormseeker can give haste — and also trample if it is night — to big fliers in the deck, which are Archfiend of the Drossimage and Bonehoard Dracosaurimage. Giving haste to other creatures also does not hurt.

Getting Rid of Archfiend of the Dross

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There are several ways of how to get rid of Archfiend of the Dross, if it is running out of counters:

Mana Base Statistics

  • Total of 26 lands
  • 19 lands produce black mana
  • 17 lands produce red mana
  • 4 lands produce colorless mana (and possibly colored mana)

Starting Hand Probabilities

Bo3 (No Hand Smoothing)

  • At least two lands: 89.55 %
  • 2–5 lands: 87.36 %
  • At least 1 black mana: 94.18 %
  • At least 2 black mana: 72.06 %
  • At least 1 red mana: 91.66 %

Bo1 (Hand Smoothing)

Ranked Queue (Best of 2 Hands)

Hand smoothing in the ranked queue takes the best of 2 different starting hands (of 2 different deck shuffles).

  • 2–5 lands: 98.40 % (approximately)
Play Queue (Best of 3 Hands)

Hand smoothing in the play queue takes the best of 3 different starting hands (of 3 different deck shuffles).

  • 2–5 lands: 99.80 % (approximately)

Land Probabilities

Probabilities are for on the play / on the draw.

Land Count

With Any Starting Hand
  • At least 3 lands by turn 3: 84.63 % / 90.19 %
  • At least 4 lands by turn 4: 71.64 % / 80.17 %
  • At least 5 lands by turn 5: 56.71 % / 67.24 %
With 2-Land Starting Hand
  • At least 3 lands by turn 3: 70.54 % / 84.40 %
  • At least 4 lands by turn 4: 42.81 % / 61.94 %
  • At least 5 lands by turn 5: 23.67 % / 40.86 %
With 3-Land Starting Hand
  • At least 4 lands by turn 4: 82.67 % / 90.64 %
  • At least 5 lands by turn 5: 58.75 % / 73.07 %
With 4-Land Starting Hand
  • At least 5 lands by turn 5: 89.26 % / 94.08 %

Color Count

These probabilities are counted as Cavern of Soulsimage providing colorless mana.

With Any Starting Hand
  • At least 2 black mana by turn 3: 85.35 % / 89.68 %
  • At least 2 black mana by turn 4: 89.68 % / 92.86 %
  • At least 2 red mana by turn 3: 79.51 % / 84.74 %
  • At least 2 red mana by turn 4: 84.74 % / 88.81 %
  • At least 2 red mana by turn 5: 88.81 % / 91.92 %
With 1-Red-Mana Starting Hand
  • At least 2 red mana by turn 3: 51.67 % / 66.83 %
  • At least 2 red mana by turn 4: 66.83 % / 77.45 %
  • At least 2 red mana by turn 5: 77.45 % / 84.81 %
With 1-Black-Mana Starting Hand
  • At least 2 black mana by turn 3: 56.82 % / 72.06 %
  • At least 2 black mana by turn 4: 72.06 % / 82.12 %

 


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